How about a road block @ Sarasin Bridge and anybody from outside Phuket and unemployed refused entry!

Posted by DD on April 26, 2010 16:47

Crime is increasing all over the world and I don't think it is too difficult to see the link between economic hardship and desperation on the part of some. No, that is not an excuse but it puts this "crime surge" in perspective.

I am still safer on the isle of Phuket than I am in a great many western cities. All that is required is common sense and some modest behavior. Tourists can be targeted because they make themselves a target.

As for the roadblock suggestion, it is discriminatory and downright foolish. Unemployed people are not criminals. If that was the case then large tracts of the EU and North America should be fenced off. With the barricade suggestion, how would families be able to visit each other, patients come to a hospital, commercial enterprises function etc.? Really, the silliness of some people defies understanding.

Posted by Ryan on April 27, 2010 07:33

> The couple's helmet, being well cared for in the basket of the motorcycle, bounced out onto the road.

I love this sentence :-) Thanks for a broad smile in the morning, editor!

Posted by Fritz Pinguin on April 27, 2010 11:52

DD: shut up!!

Posted by another steve on April 27, 2010 11:52

Why should I shut-up. I'm living here since 1997 and have seen changing it. I'm not a dreamer like you guys. There is a lot of crime and a lot of unemployed people from outside Phuket who come here for a quick buck!

Posted by DD on April 27, 2010 14:51

so why shouldn't unemployed people seek work here?
what do you want them to do? starve to death?
is it not a historical fact that people will go where the jobs are?
they have as much right to be here as you do.

if you no longer like living in phuket then leave. or come up with a sensible suggestion. or as i previously suggested...shut up!!

Posted by another steve on April 28, 2010 11:10