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Or at least, this thread should be moved to The Market.

Thanks. Unless Jacko or Big D want to clarify further . . .

Sigh, you do know what Amazon is?

Hint, it's not about about where you would buy a helmet in Pattaya.

An attempt to yank Big D's chain. Instead ...

Other than for the dirty bomb component, the best chance of flying the plane into the KL twin towers would have been that night. The Malaysians actually do have an air defense capability. After what has transpired, I suspect they may be paying real time attention to unidentified radar tracks, unlike the night it flew across the country without a squawk.

777 capable runway with no authorities or complicit authorities and a hangar in which you could hide a 777? Best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go awry. I've also heard the suggestion of pilot suicide. If it flew for another five hours, it looks like the area where it could have ended up would have a diameter of about 5,000 miles. As opposed to incomplete morons? EDIT NYTimes article with additional info and thoughts about what may have happened. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-military-radar.html?hp&_r=0&referrer=

Reuters story on indications that the plane was flying west following established airways but with the transponder turned off. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA2D0DG20140314?utm_source=Sailthru&irpc=932.

Welcome. Wish you the best. Hope you can bring some order to an establishment that had lost its way.

Now it's getting really weird. The Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579434653903086282?mod=WSJAsia_hpp_LEFTTopStories&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304914904579434653903086282.html%3Fmod%3DWSJAsia_hpp_LEFTTopStories is now reporting that rather vague U.S. sources think there is the possibility the plane flew for another four hours after the last contact with controllers. I won't attempt to paraphrase the basis for that. They even float the possibility the plane was "diverted."

The traditional reason would be that Iranians need visas to get on a plane for Europe and the two guys didn't have those visas. EU passports could solve that problem.

BBC was saying the Malaysian military thinks they tracked it flying across the peninsula and over the Straits of Malacca.

Only from Hat Yai.

If I might ask, what kind of rent are you paying?

It worries me that I should even open this thread but I can understand Shilo's thinking. Am I correct that it is the front brake which does most of the stopping? I certainly grasp that if you don't apply the rear brake as well, you won't like the results. Seems like dual breaking would be the thing for a newbie. Finally, is their anyplace around Pattaya to get some instruction in a relatively safe environment? Working it all out for the first time on Thapprya would not seem conducive to a long happy retirement.

And charge you 180 baht.

Well, if you're going to do something like that, you would want to be noticed.

Not a matter of sympathy, but it's hard to shake the thought that if a significant amount of spending goes away, we may not like all of the consequences. No, I can't give any specific examples, just a suspicion we may be missing something.

Perhaps, this is why Thailand has so readily embraced direct bank transfers. Do it electronically rather than by snail mail. That being said, I seem to remember mailing things to Thailand from the U.S. and having them get there, consistently, in a couple of weeks.

Very short.

Good advice. You need to convince someone that a really novel foul-up occurred and that you are a nice guy who merits the extra effort required to remedy the situation. If the person you end up talking to doesn't know how to do it, he has to be in a good enough mood to go down the hall to the old guy who knows everything or to the young chick who knows the computer system inside and out, or possibly both of them. This would be true in most of the rest of the world as well as in Thailand.

And you would not run the very small risk of it being seized by customs when you got home.

You could likely get by with two but you're only talking about a few baht. Get four.

Nothing amiss at the airport this afternoon, 3pm, not busy in domestic.

Just a layman's view but the shoulder x-ray was sharp enough for me to see the crack in the bone. Anyway, if it's still an issue in six weeks, I suspect a new one would be needed in any event. The MRI certainly looked sharp enough and I could see what the doctor was pointing to as not being mint condition.