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Ten Years in Thai Jail

 
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hubba bubba



Joined: 24 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:37 am    Post subject: Ten Years in Thai Jail Reply with quote

So, I just saw on CNN that a man just got ten years for spray painting over a picture of the thai king. I can't find the link, but here's the backstory...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070312/wl_asia_afp/thailandswitzerlandroyalscrime_070312083745
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leebumlik69



Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: DiRectly above you. Pissing Down

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:41 am    Post subject: Re: Ten Years in Thai Jail Reply with quote

hubba bubba wrote:
So, I just saw on CNN that a man just got ten years for spray painting over a picture of the thai king. I can't find the link, but here's the backstory...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070312/wl_asia_afp/thailandswitzerlandroyalscrime_070312083745

In other news:
"World shocked as smartest man dethroned"
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Yaya



Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's better than if he was running narcotics, as the book 4,000 Days aka The Damage Done written by an Aussie man who spent 12 years in a Thai prison will attest to.
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laogaiguk



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I started a thread about the same thing over in off topic
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MANDRL



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ten years in a Thai jail will give you such a crick in the neck, or is that in a bottle, or am I supposed to be a genie...sorry.
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Matt_22



Joined: 22 Nov 2006

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yaya wrote:
It's better than if he was running narcotics, as the book 4,000 Days aka The Damage Done written by an Aussie man who spent 12 years in a Thai prison will attest to.


i read that book during my first trip to bangkok. scary as hell.
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marcel



Joined: 26 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Damage Done is a hellavu good read.

I love the prison books, when my life feels tough or I get down I read one of these and kablamo no more desire to bitch and I realize how good I have it. if your into prison litt. there are some gems out there

the classic of all classic prison books

Papillon by Henri Charriere. Good movie, amazing book.

Go Boy by Roger Caron. Canadian classic.

Jack Rabbit Parole by Stephen Reid another Canadian classic.

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Nobel prize, Though I would get the abridged 700page version.

Memoirs from the House of the Dead by Dostoevsky, believe it or not this is his easiest and most cheerful read

The aquariums fo Pyongyang by Kang Cheol Hwang. quite interesting people livin' here

and I'll be picking this one up soon
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/books/28grim.html


Any other I should be reading?
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seoulsucker



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

marcel wrote:
when my life feels tough or I get down


I'm just gonna look at your avatar for a few hours the next time that happens.

God bless Reon Kadena and her sweater meat. Very Happy
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