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That was no " ... just waving my knife about ... ". It's quite clear in the video that she was carrying the knife in her right hand and, as she passed with the girl on her left, she deliberately turned back and stabbed. That much should be obvious even to the Thai police. Very serious gaol time is called for.

Sounds like the sort of place I'd like.

I was really hoping to see the elephant break free and trample a couple of those cruel ctnus. Maybe in the future, the elephant WILL turn and those injured will wonder why. The answer will be simple - "Thai cruelty caused it".

Thanks Jim.

Can anyone tell me whether overnight parking is available at KK airport, please?

I hadn't used my PayPal account for many years but, having read threads like this, decided to try it on 30th. December to see what happened. I was fully expecting to be blocked. I logged in, made my purchase from a UK supplier, made payment and logged out. Purchase went through perfectly easily. I've lived permanently in Thailand since 2009. The primary address on my account is the Thai address I've used since first registration in 2009. Phone numbers to which SMS verification messages arrive are all the same +66 Thailand mobile number. Only the registered bank and card are UK, not Thailand. I logged in to the account immediately before writing this, to ensure all was still OK. No problem. My experience is the same as SpiderMike's above. No concerns at all with PP, for me. Looks like home country registration is a way around the problem some have.

The Royal Thai Navy’s Vice Admiral Pichai Lorchusaku (said) that there were not enough life vests on board… “but the Styrofoam boxes containing the life vests could be used as floatation devices”. Cupid Stunt and doubly so for being an Admiral. Perhaps he'll never have to go to sea in one of his safety gear deficient ships. I wonder how many more of the Royal Thai Navy's ships fit into that category. A properly designed and fitted life jacket will provide floatation for its wearer whether they're conscious or not. A Styrofoam box is only any good while its user has the strength to hang onto it.

Mrs. L. always puts a few stainless steel spoons into a bowl of infested uncooked dry rice. The bugs certainly leave pretty quickly, I've watched them running. Don't know why it seems to work or whether they'd bug (ger) off quickly from an open bowl anyway, without the spoons. But it certainly seems to do the trick. Maybe I'll do a controlled test one day if there's nothing else to do.

16.57 Thursday 8th. December - attempted log-in with no VPN from Thailand and connected with no problem whatsoever.

Interesting video but I was just as much interested in the subtitles. What language? A Romance language? Much was sort-of familiar from French and Spanish I know but it wasn't either of those. Not Italian. Romanian?

Hardly!! In view of the rampant migration and asylum-seeking around the world, I'd say it's mainly an Asian/African/Latin American concept.

OUTCOME - called the number on the ticket and, basically, told them it wasn't my vehicle. They took the ticket number, presumably did some checking and called back 10 minutes later. "Ticket cancelled. Sorry". No evidence requested to refute it, nothing except to say "It wasn't me, Officer". Cynical me says Fishing for Cash.

Never been involved with on-duty police here in nearly 15 years, apart from the odd road check for licence etc. - almost always on my bike. Never a problem. Plenty of involvement with them off-duty though - 4 family members are serving or retired officers of rank of Colonel or above. Good people.

555 - yes, I remember seeing that one too.

In my case - No.

No doubt whatsoever. Of course it's for me to provide concrete evidence to refute their allegation. In comparing their most detailed photo to photos of my vehicle, taken from a similar angle to theirs - I've picked out 10 clear differences between the vehicles. Anyone with half an eye for detail would come to the same conclusion as me - but is there any incentive for the police to be observant?

Thanks KhunBENQ. The ticket seems very much like that described in the article - Thai and English, barcode, tick boxes, payment options so it looks like KK is one of the areas using the new tickets. Might be an idea to visit the Highway Police on Highway 2 in my town as a first port of call.

^^^^^^^^^^ If it was definitely my vehicle in the photos and I was in the wrong, that might be a possible reaction. But I'm not going to have some future consequence, however minor, hanging over my head for something I definitely haven't done.

Khon Kaen area. I've just received a traffic ticket in the post. The vehicle in the photo seems to have the same NUMBERS on its reg. plate as mine but the letters and province are too blurred to make out. I know I wasn't in that vicinity on the date and time shown. In fact, I'd have been eating breakfast, bleary eyed, at that time. The vehicle is clearly (to my eyes) not mine. Photos of the two vehicles would (IMO) prove my vehicle wasn't the one concerned. Has anyone got experience of contesting a ticket on the grounds of 'wrong vehicle'? What evidence was required? Difficult or easy to contest? I can't phone today - Government holiday - but will call tomorrow. I know there will be local variations but any info. is useful.

I'm sure I've read on some government website that pensions are uplifted to full UK rate if returning to UK permanently from a 'frozen' country - or going to live in an 'unfrozen ' country. If a pensioner subsequently goes to live in a 'frozen' country again, the pension returns to being frozen at the level when first leaving the UK. That is, the pension isn't frozen at the new, uplifted level.

But it WORKS for KK office at this time and for the past 13 years. So I'll continue, thank you very much. We've never been sent home to get new pictures because we've been daft enough to use the same ones year after year.

Maybe I shouldn't respond to this since it relates to CW Immigration but WTH; since it's in the 'Thai Visas .. ' forum rather than BKK, I will ..... Did my marriage extension at Khon Kaen last week. This was our 13th. Photos - 3 to an A4 sheet - showed the two of us:- - at front gate with house address plaque clearly visible, - in our living room, -at the front of the house, - sitting on our electric samlor with 3 of our dogs, - at a family meal with wife's sons, their wives and our grandchildren, - with my 68th. birthday cake, - they had more but 6 was enough. NB no bedroom photo and I've NEVER offered such a photo for any of my extensions. My philosophy has always been to give them photos that show we're together as a couple during the whole year, not just a couple of photos from one day which prove (IMO) very little. In 13 years, that type of photo has been accepted without question by KK Immigration, who are generally excellent, and by the approving office in Korat. We've never had a problem. Your office might have VERY different and more specific requirements.

We had a 400 sq. m. plot, in an area of low-rise residential buildings, on which we were intending to build a small house for rent. A 4 floor hotel building went up only a metre or two from our boundary. No response from local authority (?) despite complaints from us and 3 others already living there. Backhanders maybe? All worked out well for us - not so much for the residents now in shadow. Less than a year later, the hotel wanted our still-vacant plot so we sold it to them - for 2,250,000฿, nearly 4x the price we bought it for 2 years earlier and well above the local price for a plot like that.

Many of us hoped you'd gone from this thread. To quote you " ... Now I am tired with this thread. Bye Bye!". Please don't feel you have to reply. It's OK by us. Wouldn't want you to get even more tired.

In my video, two punches and a half-hearted kick from the Frenchman don't constitute "incredibly beaten up". The Thai bloke fell badly - that's as much his fault as the Frenchman's, maybe more - which was more responsible for his injury than Frenchie's punch. BTW, the news report on Channel 3 showed the Frenchman on the floor at the beginning of the video so it's not as though it was an unmatched fight.