Stone throwing attack kills 13 year old Thailand.

This is a sad story involving stone throwing that I have reported on before and seems to be picking up popularity here in Thailand.

Boy killed by stone-throwing attack.

Anupong Saipetch, 13, succumbed to serious head injuries early Sunday after an unknown teenager threw a stone into his father's moving truck.

The incident took place on Phet Kasem Road in Phetchaburi.

Police are now investigating the case in a bid to nail down Anupong's attackers.

Anupong's father said the person riding pillion on a motorcycle was the one who made the deadly threw.

These fools are either doing this for the thrill or to rob people. There have been many innocent people seriously injured in these mindless attacks. You take two vehicles moving in opposite directions at speed and you can only imagine the force of a projectile such as a heavy rock and the damage it could do.

I hope they catch the killer who threw the rock and also the accomplice riding the motorbike and no matter the age of these perpetrators they are jailed for a long, long time.

I feel incredibly safe here in Isaan Thailand but when I travel out of the area I do worry a little about safety. I don’t know the areas that well and there are desperate people. Don’t get me wrong; there aren’t robberies happening all over the place but they do happen.

I carry my little diary holder with me on any trip that is well out of the area and onto places and stretches of road where you don’t see a lot of people.

It contains a Clint Eastwood that was picked up from a friend of mine who wears one of Thailand’s tight brown outfits. It was an extra or he must have updated. I hope that I never have to pull it out or ever use it but would without hesitation if I felt threatened or my Thai family was in danger.

This story carried the heading of:

More than half of Thais are against the legalisation of casinos.

A majority of Thais were against a plan to legalise casinos, according to a survey by the Assumption University.

The survey showed that 56.4 per cent of all respondents gave the firm "no" to Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's controversial idea that Thailand should finally hosts casinos.

Taking his office early this year, Samak has vowed to materialise this idea if his government lasts four years as scheduled.

Conducted March 3 and March, the survey covered 2,726 people in 18 provinces nationwide.

Only 2,726 people out of a population of 60 million plus and how many of these people are over the age of 18 and could vote on such a referendum, is not in a ripple in the ocean. Why not conduct a serious survey over a few weeks and survey in many different demographic areas.

This survey has no weight to it, that’s what I believe.
Brunty.