With over 120,000 views at the time of writing the news of the arrests of four people in connection with the attempted murder of Hua Hin resident Don Whiting was broken to the English language media on HHAD and Hua Hin Report following its release on the Thai language media website Thairath last Tuesday.

Since then a flurry of armchair detectives, bar stool rumour mongers, and property developer pundits have flooded the board with their own version of events and opinions mostly derived from the writings of a few so called ‘investigators’ on other websites.

The big question is the whereabouts of a Mr Darren Oxley, the owner of the development and farang husband of the woman arrested for the planning and paying for the shooting. UK media have also picked up on this story and have reported on some of Mr Oxley’s not so spotless past just to add a bit of spice to the story.

The attention shown on HHAD from people with otherwise very little interest in Hua Hin has been quite inexplicable. Also strangely baffling are the ludicrous accusations some of them have been making regarding the forum’s involvement in all of this. This comes about from one of the websites advertisers, a real estate agency, that severed ties with the accused in the middle of last year, well before the incident took place.

Some not so bright sparks have even made a fabricated connection between the colour schemes used for the agency and the website which only displays the galloping stupidity of individuals with too much time on their hands. HHAD was established in 2002 and the agency several years later in 2006, these keyboard cops could at least do a little research. They’ll be blaming local weekly paper AWOL next for carrying a HHAD logo on its front page!

Naturally other websites that have nothing to do with Hua Hin will open their doors (or web servers) to all kinds of rumour, hearsay, gossip, scandal and online bitch-fights to bump their own readership up and belittle their competitors who, being based in the town in question, need to show a little more consideration when publishing anything regarding local crimes that could be used in a court of law at a later date.

It is good to see that the police have finally swung into action following directives from the new PM (and three months of thumb twiddling) however as the law dictates everyone should be entitled to a fair trial, guilty or not … whether they show up for that trial remains the hot topic. Find out more: HHAD

A blockade commenced yesterday morning at around 9 a.m. at the mouth of the Pran Buri River in front of the Lawana resort.

Since then, no boats whatever have been permitted to enter or leave Pak Nam Pran. Located 25 km south of Hua Hin, Pak Nam Pran is the biggest and most important fishing port in the area, with over 300 seagoing fishing boats based there.

Up to 4 rows of local small squid boats have cordoned of the estuary to protest at the action of larger boats dredging for shellfish off the coast.

According to the locals, the shellfish boats are not from Pak Nam Pran; rather they come from Cha-am, Petchaburi, Samut Sakhorn, etc.

The locals argue that the shellfish boats tear up the seabed, thus leaving precious little for the squid to feed on and that, for this reason, squid have started to become scarce in the area.

The locals on this side of the river, in particular, live almost exclusively from small-scale squid fishing – hence the banks of green light out at sea at night.

It is said that the shellfish boats are allowed to operate and moor in Pak Nam Pran only because they pay off the local harbour police.

The locals have formed a solidarity committee and have said that they will not lift the blockade until the head of the provincial government in Prachuabkirikhan comes to hear their grievances.

They have two demands:
1. that the shellfish boats may only fish outside a certain limit
2. that the head of the harbour police is transferred out of the area.

The locals, with wives and children, are holding a day and night vigil at the blockade and appear to have the full support of the local community, most of whom are linked in some to the squid-fishing industry.

Meetings are apparently being held this afternoon in an attempt to resolve the dispute.

Reported by Barry Stone, Mermaid Cruises.

Hua Hin…………, what where when why who whom? in Hua Hin …following me.…

Almost all the people in Thailand are interested in Ong Jatukarm Ramadhep”, this name comes from the south and is a very famous name. In Hua Hin District at the famous “Huay Mongkol temple” an Abbot named “Pra-Kru Phairoch” has made Ong Jatukarm Ramadhep (as a Magical Buddhism) so it made the holy Jatukarm a reality, at the present time there are many monasteries required to make “Ong Jatukarm” for sale, they are good for making money.

Wondering of making sacred by some magic, the Ong Jatukarm, I have been in formal procedure all the people just looking at the sky who saw the sun was encircled by a halo, and another day the sun was a Jatukarm as a picture of reality, not only this all the television shown a Jatukarm surprise.

Jatukarm made by the magic soil & some magic praying & banana & flower, this is similar to making the magic Buddha rather strong informed sources, so the price changed very fast and is very expensive, starting from 299 baht to 3,500 baht. This is because the people are taking a lot of interest Jatukarm at the moment.

May I introduce to Dr Chainan Thayawiwacha (pictured), managing director of Hua Hin Hospital. He was worried about the medical equipment, especially since the hospital has no budget, his mission was to try to find someone to donate. Finally he went to meet Pra Kru Phairoch Prapasro, Abbot of Huay Mongkol temple, he needed to have around three hundred thousand Ong Jatukarm Ramdhep images. Out of his kindness the abbot donated 3 million baht to the hospital.

Today Dr Chainan Thayawiwat said …now our hospital has funds of about 90 million baht, we can buy the medical equipment already, he said the committee decides how to take care how to use then money and at the present time we have 25 doctors at Hua Hin Hospital.

Reported by …Tuck Dechapanya……………….