Well, It Could Have Been Worse

By Jim Hagarty
2017
So you are considering setting up a ponzi scheme in Thailand. Suit yourself but if I was your life coach, I would probably advise you against it. A Thai court has sentenced a fraudster to more than 13,000 years in prison. Pudit Kittithradilok, 34, took about 40,000 people to the cleaners, making off with $160 million. He is now looking at a prison sentence of 13,275 years. On the upside, because he co-operated with authorities, his sentence has been cut in half and now he is staring only 6,637 years. Whew! Close call, Pudit. You were looking at some serious time there buddy. But please don’t feel too badly for this stinker. He should be out in about 20 years.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.