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The most egregious case of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wichian_Klanprasert

TL;DR: Red Bull heir kills a cop with speeding Ferrari and runs from scene. Heir mysteriously avoids all charges and summons with increasingly farcical excuses on both sides, until all charges are mysteriously dropped 10 years later.

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Yeah, that's a good example of how the rich can get away with anything in Thailand. In most places if you kill a cop the cops make sure you get what's coming to you. But here even the cops can't get justice for other cops if the perp is the brat son of the ultra rich.

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