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24 minutes ago, stephenterry said:

I agree, and it's most likely the parents lifestyle that commands respect. However, young peasant girls who don't want to work in the rice fields all their life,  see bar life as a glamorous alternative, and are willing to jump ship. 

 

On the other hand, I've found, on a ratio of about 50-1, that bar girls have been deserted by their husband/ boyfriend, and left with kids to support.  While not forced into the trade,  cleaning or ironing doesn't pay the bills, does it?    

Cleaning and ironing does pay the bills, traditional family life in Thailand is very cheap. I’ve lived in the sticks, I know. But minimal wage jobs don’t allow thai girls to buy the latest phones, bikes, drink/party/smoke or feed a drug habit...I’d have the things I want if I robbed a bank and got away with it, but I choose not to, and make do with what my average salary affords me...Many Thais want it, and they want it now. That’s what motivates many bargirls, not the burden of a peasant family...

5 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Had to put in accident as suicide and natural causes seemed inappropriate for killed by Thai drivers

555 see your point ? but for such accidents, the farang has a heart attack and loses control, or is depressed about his Thai hooker and commits suicide by deliberately crashing his vehicle ?

4 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

sorry, but I feel the police sometimes use a form that only has tick boxes for 1. Suicide. 2. Natural Causes. 3. Accident. 

There’s no number 3. That would require an investigation and a determination of culpability. Too much work...

Was he murdered? This fella gets to 68, presumedly without any major accidents in his life, and a few days out from a divorce hearing he ‘falls’ from a balcony. What do you think?

No autopsy that may have revealed the  cause of death to be poisoning/strangulation/head trauma from blunt object? 

I wouldn’t trust a ‘hooker’ back home, most are scheming thieves....why do so many guys think Thai ‘hookers’ are any different? They are NOT like the average Thai women, despite what they try to convince themselves...

Thai cops would see this as karma. If the OP had left Thailand when supposed to -   passport wouldn’t have been stolen,  wouldn’t have ‘intimidated’ the poor Cambodian lads and made a scene, wouldnt have added another crime statistic that makes Thailand look bad, wouldn’t have annoyed the cops by making them do some worketc etc etc...Thai logic, entirely the OP’s fault...

What a crock. As long as drink drivers can pay off victims and police to avoid jail, nothing will change. More lip service from police and government...

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

"Has a life time of watching your team getting flogged by Australia slightly affected your ability to take an unbiased view? 

 

No I watch the Aussies getting flogged by my team, the All Blacks, regularly as it happens. Don't watch or follow cricket but don't believe that cheating has a place in any game, hence my posting here.

Ah ok, another Kiwi living on the dole in Oz who hasn’t gotten over an incident from 1981? Won’t mention the years of flogging your mob in cricket, league and soccer then, will we? And wasn’t Richie McCae the biggest cheat in rugby history? Talk about glass houses...

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

And a wrong guess............cos I've spent years watching my team dominate the Aussies and at times humiliating them. And that is an unbiased view!!

 

Quote: "Harden up, Precious".............you mean just like the Aussie cricketers have by crying, poor things!!

Then you can’t be a Pom? No 5-0 or 4-0 humiliating wins for your boys I can remember ...and if you are a Pom, you must be very young, as I’d hardly call the most Ashes wins in the period between 2005 and 2016 as one of domination? Especially when there’s been 2 5-0, and 1 4-0 loss in that period? If you want the definition of domination, you might be better served looking at the win/loss ratio between the 2 sides since the 70’s...sorry to say mate, your boys are easily second best...and with a population 4 times the size to boot 555

5 hours ago, xylophone said:

So the "bully boys" are now known to be cheats...........and they cry, poor diddums. Cry because they were found out, and if they hadn't been they would have continued doing it, as they may well have done in the past.

 

Should be banned for life.

Harden up, Precious. All cricket nations play hard/sledge. When they win, it’s called positive cricket, and it’s only when they lose to the Aussies that it becomes ‘bullying’...in the recent series, de Kock has abused Warner’s wife and children, and Rabada has shoulder barged Smith...yet the Aussies are the bullies? Are you so naive to think the yarpies don’t give as good as they get out on the field? At a guess,  has a life time of watching your team getting flogged by Australia slightly affected your ability to take an unbiased view? 

1 minute ago, phantomfiddler said:

But everyone knows Australia is a classless society, no class at all haha !

Too many with English blood...luckily, the good cricketers must have ancestors from the rest of Britain! And better classless than apartheid or snobbish elitism? 

555 nothing like a story on Aussie cricket to bring out the hypocritical/bitter/disgruntled Poms. England’s been the master of cheating going back to Arherton in ‘94, Trescothick in ‘05 and more recently Jimmy Anderson. Not to mention the soon to be criminal Ben Stokes in their ranks...whine all you like poms, won’t change the fact that a nation with a quarter of your population does, and always will, dominate you in cricket...

And as for Warner, he made a mistake in ball tampering. But as for threatening de Kock for abusing his wife/children, any man with a bit of mettle would do the same...then again?? 

3 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

The database the online reporting system uses is one from entries to the country not the one that immigration has access to. In order to do online reporting again you will have to leave and re-enter the country using the new passport.

You will still be able use the slip with the barcode for your next report and they will change local 90 day reporting records.

Good news, if like you say, I can still use the blue form.

Only in Thailand would one organisation (immigration police) run 2 separate databases (arrivals system and online 90 day report system) without linking them...Ludicrous that immigration police at entry points update a database that local immigration offices don't have access to.

Cheers for the reply.

20 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

I means your record could not be found. I always get it due to 2 problems. My last entry was before 2013 and I have gotten a new passport since then.

Check that you complete all the required fields correctly. Did you use the drop down menu for your nationality? Did you enter the entire arrival card number you have to enter the first 2 letters of it.

You only need to complete the fields with a * beside it.

You might want to try again later. That also comes up if the system cannot access the database where the records are stored.

Interesting point you make about getting a new passport since the last 90 day report. I haven't been able to do the online report with my new passport number either. Immigration changed my stamps over to new passport but I guess they haven't entered the new passport on the system. Which means my existing blue form with barcode for previous 90 day report will be null and void? And I'll have to do another TM47?

Cheers

On ‎5‎/‎7‎/‎2017 at 9:17 AM, steven100 said:

yep ... the fat ugly farang just want bom bom, you see it everywhere in Pattaya, many fat farang with a girl 20yr old taking to the room. The farang only go to Pattaya for one thing ? they give them money ... it's like a business deal.

Steven,

I hope your previous 2,000 odd posts have been a bit more enlightening? Or are you one of these fellas sitting behind a keyboard thousand of miles away, who's never been to Thailand? Let alone Pattaya...

2 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

Good thing is that most of these guys will not be coming to Thailand for underage hookers.

 

California just made it legal to be a hooker and underage.

 

The law change in California applies to the underage child working as a prostitute - often victims of human trafficking. Now they cannot be charged, treated as victims and not criminals. Pimps and those using underage prostitutes are still liable, guilty at law, nothing changes...So to suggest that paedophiles will stop coming to Thailand because they can do it without fear of prosecution in California is beyond ludicrous...

5 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

The I.O. In Jomtien was giving people receipts if they were paying a fine for not reporting.

So you think that just because we receive a receipt the money doesn't go to corrupt bosses? Bit naïve aint it? Police corruption in Thailand works on what I like to call a reverse pyramid scheme...the more money the lower level plebs can make for the boss at the top, the more makes its way eventually down to them...army crackdowns on Russian mafia and illegal workers in Pattaya has obviously made a serious dent on Jomtien immigration's bank account...thus the recent need to fine for TM28/30 non-compliance...next year they'll just go back to the 1979 manual and find something else to hit us with... 

In 7 years of marriage visa extensions in 3 different provinces, I have never been asked to produce a TM28 or TM30. This year in Jomtien, my wife was fined 1600 baht, even though I own the residence. Some will say that Jomtien immigration are merely enforcing the law, but after years of ignoring this requirement, I'd suggest that the decision to start imposing fines for this has more to do with the Army's crackdown on police corruption. New fines are required to make up for a lack of the immigration bosses "tea money" funds...

Why did it have to be a speeding charge? Surely there's a "Reckless driving" charge within Thai traffic regulations? And it's easier to prove, with circumstantial evidence such as how far the body was dragged, skid marks on the road, damage to vehicle, eyewitness accounts etc taken into account, with the high speed deemed to be reckless in a built up area with a 60km/h speed limit...in initial reports the witnesses to the excessive speed were other police officers and taxi drivers. But unfortunately once the pressure from above started and the bribes rolled in, their memories failed them...

1 hour ago, joeyg said:

You all think it was quite cute and a display of bravado, boasting about your years of former and current illegal drug use.  Some even promoting it for their children.  Sad bunch here.  How crazy are you?  Take a good long look in the mirror.  Madness, indeed.  If this thread doesn't attract the attention of Law Enforcement to your IP addresses I don't know what will.

 

It's like jumping up and down holding a neon sign saying, "I do illegal drugs and think your laws are bullshit!!!"

 

And you guys are complaining about "Tracking sim cards." This is the result of the drug damaged brain,  Frightening...

Agree with what you say about pathetic statements from some who would be "happy" for their children to do extasy when they are adults...obviously these people have never had to tell parents that their "child" has overdosed on it or literally had their heart explode at the age of 15...MDMA is a synthetic substance concocted from all types of chemicals...the criminals who produce it do not care what effect those chemicals will have on the users, they just want to make it as cheaply as possible. Having seen many MDMA labs first hand, I've no doubt users would be shocked to see what toxic chemicals they are putting into their bodies. Every pill taken, especially in Asia, is like playing Russian roulette in my opinion...sooner or later you'll get a bad one, and that could be fatal. I've seen teenaged kids die from their first ever extasy pill...I'm yet to see a kid die from his first ever beer...If this Aussie DJ sold my kid a pill that proved fatal, no gaol sentence would be enough...just saying.

If you have done nothing wrong, or you don't intend to do anything wrong in the future, you have nothing to fear of the CCTV cameras or feel intimidated by them.

But do you feel any safer knowing on your local street there are CCTV cameras? I'm suggesting it is intimidaating because the state is indirectly sending a message that the people in this area can not be trusted.

Ask any Londoner do they feel any safer because of CCTV. I lived in places with and without secruity cameras installed on the streets and just saying I felt safer for my own and my family's personal safety in the places without street cameras.

I don't follow your logic. Are you saying that the police should take away the CCTV cameras in high crime areas so that you will feel safer walking there? The reason you feel safer in areas without cameras is because they are statistically low crime areas to start with. Despite what the cynics think. the powers that be do not throw darts at a city map when deciding where to install CCTV cameras....

Having served 25 years in policing, I agree with Costas2008 100% regarding the role of CCTV cameras. Those who whinge about police states, breach of civil rights, big brother spying etc etc are the same ones who are quick to condemn governments and Police Forces for a lack of action when crime increases. In most major cities, fit, trained police officers do not sit watching the CCTV screens instead of patrolling the streets. Those who think otherwise are watching too much TV. That role is performed by civilians or police who have been injured and bound to office duties. Fact is, police cannot be everywhere at the same time and some areas do have higher crime incidence than others and CCTVs role is to provide the 24 hour constant coverage that resource stretched police forces cannot. Its a worldwide fact that the use of CCTV cameras in city areas has had a significant impact on malicious damage, vehicle theft, assaults and robberies, many of which are alcohol related and is why you will often see a larger concentration of cameras in the vicinity of licensed premises. They are not to be used alone as a crime reduction strategy, but combined with police presence, they not only act as a deterrent to criminals but provide assistance for investigators in identification and time scale analysis ie. when did the crime occur? The Ko Tao murders and the murdered girl in London park are recent examples of CCTV cameras assisting in identification of suspects and helping to narrow down the times between which a crime was commited. To assume that because an area has CCTV cameras it is unsafe or their will not be police patrols is incorrect. The criminals of this world hate being watched, If you are a law abiding person with nothing to hide, the ones who may be watching via CCTV are, despite what the paranoid amongst us would have us believe, watching us for our own safety. The main reason I doubt that Thailand will install more CCTVs is that they may just reveal too many secrets of the boys in brown.

I am on my fourth extension of stay, based on marriage visa.

My current extension ends on 18th December. Im aware that I can apply for the extension anywhere from 30-45

days before this date. But what is the latest date that an extension can be applied for? For example, must it be 7 days before it expires or something similar? No-one at immigration seems to understand the question.

I am unable to apply now due to commitments and being overseas until 17th December. Will applying for the extension 1 day before the current one expires be a problem?

Any advice/information from personal experience much appreciated...

cheers

Ubonjoe thanks for reply. Yes thats why i was looking for recent confirmation as have also seen reports that jomtien office requires it. I own the condo im living in so could show chanote etc i guess plus bills in my name, although ive tried this before in bkk and they insisted on the affidavit from the embassy even though i was showing them the same documents! Mai pen rai, TIT!

Also, anyone heard of having to get a letter form the previous years' place of extension to show to the new one when you change addresses? The missus rang the jomtien office and they said this was required, even though the location of the last extension issue is plain to see in the passport. Any ideas what letter they are referring to?

Cheers