Eric Bahrt’s usual slavering, over-the-top grandstanding shows yet again that he can be selective when it suits. Now he rolls the pages back over a year to chase what he may call “facts” without attempting to clarify. “Gotcha”? Get a life, more like.

In scenes straight out of an action movie, an 18-wheel truck ploughed through police checkpoints on Thursday evening and led pursuers on a 70-kilometre chase through three districts of Phitsanulok, sometimes at high speed.