swerver

Interesting all these are from 2013 (6-yrs ago) 

My computer informed me HD getting problems change HD.

Removed problem SECONDARY (E) HD.

Did not do anything with it.

Wattana was not interested trying to recover. 

Continued computer operating with PRIMARY (C) HD in computer.

Anybody around 6-yrs later still having good luck with ComU2 ?

Pls. inform me.

Than you. 

JINGTHING

Interesting reading about your reports covering femtosecond cataract surgery but I notice it all is dater 2012 today we are 2018 and I need my eyes fixed because loosing eye sight.

When living in BKK I always used Rutnin Hospital on Soi Asoke. Years ago for us foreigners we used Dr. Som for Dental - Dr. Rutnin for Eyes - Dr. Elizabeth for General Medical, all off them R.I.P.  I'm octogenarian (89).  Now live 30-km outside Pattaya and use PIH and BHP.  Have consulted BHP the other day regarding cataract surgery and all info lined up with info of MAYO CLINIC but on a few visits to BHP Eye Clinic I never did see any patient going into the Glaucoma / Cataract Room to see the Dr. I wonder how many cataract surgeries BHP is performing???

As for PIH Eye section I do not consider it because there is no comparison with the BHP Eye Clinic. 

Any chance you have more up to date info about BHP Eye Clinic, also does it have the femtosecond first stage equipment? 

20 hours ago, tropo said:

 

If that was an option, but it isn't. I don't have anyone coming over.

 

Theft should not be a problem with FedEx or DHL as the item would be declared to full value. I'm only concerned about how Thai customs handle gold jewelry, and everything with DHL and FedEx goes through customs.

Yes and from experience there is no FedEx or DHL employee to watch the Thai customs. They just wheel the lot over to Thai customs and are called when Thai customs is finished with their rummaging through what was wheeled over to them.

LOL in LOS

3 hours ago, swissbie said:

OP, i'm not sure, why your account got matured (special conditions?), because normally they get rolled over automatically. But ask your bank, maybe you still can get it rolled over. If not, try to explain it at the immigration, if you're lucky they will accept it against the odds. Most IO's will ask for bank guarantee letters from the same day up to two days, some places the bank book has to me updated manually (as at mine in N.Pathom, even if i don't really understand why as fixed deposit accounts are not connected to ATM-cards, however, i do what they ask for), because the machine will only print the date of the last rollover.

Yes it rolls over. But the rollover carries the Savings book interest. Not the expired Fixed Account interest rate. But this has nothing to do with Immigration. Their only concern is that there is 800,000 TB for the past 3-months in the bank.

As for Freddie the Belg stay away from him he makes the rules on the fly. Deal with the REAL Thai Immigration Officers.

19 minutes ago, democratus said:

Yeah..whatever....

I'm with you.

The less you put your name to in Thailand as a foreigner, the better.  For a starter, how do you know it is your name when it is written in the Thai sanscrit style???

My condo has a Bleu book with nobody written in it.

My home has the old and now out of use bedsheet style form registration with nothing written on it.

Both I use over the decades when asked for and always accepted with nothing written in or on it. Except whatever the issuing office wrote on/in it in Thai sanscrit - which I cannot read.

If you have kids born in Thailand let their mother handle the registration, after all its all in Thai Sanskrit anyway, the only language accepted in case of a legal dispute. In case you want them to have dual nationality till 18-years of age register them with your embassy. But at age 18 they must decide with of the two nationalities they want.

4 hours ago, Estrada said:

Several immigration officers have told me that they prefer to see the B800,000 in a time deposit account because it is easier for them to check that the balance has not fallen below the B800,000 in the two to three months waiting period. The problem with the savings account is that if you have a lot of entries and you get the book updated on the day you hand it over, it could be consolidated and not show a possible dip below the magic B800,000 minimum. It actually does make sense that you have this as an emergency fund in addition to your savings account and not to live on.

There is no uniformity in this immigration requirement of Baht 800,000 everyone in every office has its own idea and the worse are the Temp females.

The only one that knows what the immigration SOP says is the Head Honcho of the office and the officers working with the Head Honcho for several years. Unfortunately the ones that accept the paperwork, "are there and gone tomorrow" as I call them Temps, and that is why you see so many different explanations in these Posts.

Best advice based on dealing with them for decades; "KEEP your cool" when dealing with them, they have the stamp that you want in your passport and loosing you cool does not get it in your passport. Never mind what another district immigration office said, do what the immigration office you are in, says.

Has anyone seen what the penalities are for providing false, or maybe even incomplete, information in the social media section? I have a bunch of email accounts currently in use at various times for various reasons. What if I left a few out?

P.S I read somewhere the USA is doing this now as well.

Your P.S.

Now you are talking, it always is the Sheriff of the world that comes up with BS same as the forms the Thai bank shove in front of you to fill in for some unknown reason, just because it was on orders of the Washington fascist clique. Be prepared things are going to get worse when Killary gets to get going next January.

There is no written limit on the number of visa exempt entities you can do over any period of time.

Immigration gets an alert at 6 entries. The officer then should review your history to see if you have been doing in/out visa runs to live here on exempt entries.

Not sure where the office officer came up with the 3 entry limit.

They cannot deny you entry for having to many entries. They can only do it under section 12 of the immigration act. The most common reason is lack of financial proof and/or suspicion of working here. Having the equivalent of 20k baht in cash would take care of the financial proof. Some proof of income from outside the country would help for the other.

Coming in and out the country like a jojo the tax department has a fair idea of working without paying tax. Tax Dept. base that on their years of experience with offshore oil workers working in the Gulf of Siam. There is no immigration rule about the number of times a person can enter and leave Thailand but from time to time the Tax Dept. sends a reminder to Immigration to question the frequent in and out "tourists".

Well now it's official.The best deal on the table for all you overstayers,It's best you see them before they find you.

Please, can anybody explain the RATIONALE of this Overstay behavior???

I have been associated with Thailand for the past 66-years and never have overstayed.

It is like my birthdate I never forget that one either.

So then is it reasonable to accept that all these over-stayers also do not remember their birthdate???

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u reap what u sow Thailand making its own bed to lie in, everywhere else is so much better, social media has shown it as it is, corrupt, life is cheap, who ever u r. i have property in Surin it can rot away 4 all i care. @never going 2 thailand ever again,it`s a pity the thai people cannot see what the rest of the world can,biggest CIRCUS in the world RIP or RTP same same

You seem to misunderstand - both countries will want to see entry/exit stamps. You can enter Cambodia with your Swedish passport fine but you can not then exit using the Thai passport because you would not have a legal entry on it.

You have a new Thai passport, I presume based on the way you talk it was issued in Thailand, so you do not have to do anything until the renewal date arrives to keep it valid for travel outside Thailand.

Also based on the way you talk you are a born in Thailand of ethnic Thai skin color and futures, this makes it simple because you just blend in with the rest of the ethic Thais. There are thousands of Thais like you with a Thai Passport. just for the sake of having a Thai Passport and/or to be a showoff.

As for the other passport, Sweden, Denmark EU, whatever that you entered Thailand on just put it away for some other day when you intend to return to Sweden, Denmark, EU or wherever you came from. Then take it to the respective embassy and tell them you have decided not to stay in Thailand but want to go back to their country. People are allowed to change their mind, it is not poured in concrete. You may tel them, granted the Thai visa is expired and didn't bother to renew because I'm living again home with my family. They will not ask you for a Thai passport because that is none of their concern, and you carefully made sure you left it at home before you departed for the embassy, out of sight out of mind.

Of course you are dealing with the EU which consistently keeps making new laws and change old ones. As happen to me an EU ethic born in Holland of centuries back Dutch ancestry. Holland read this good, did have a centuries old law that an ethic Dutch person could never loose its nationality. Well, a couple years ago without asking (referendum whatever good that does because the citizen NO ed the EU constitution but Brussels went right ahead)) the people of the country the lame heads in Den Haag nikst that law.

So when I came to the embassy I was informed I was stateloos because my expired Dutch passport under the new law could no longer be renew.

So keep this in mind.

For the time bing if I was you I would just put that farang passport away for a rainy day and then hope for the best.

POISON FOOD on SALE

How interesting.

What has happen during the PAST 50-year? NOTHING ABSOLUTE NOTHING

My private archive shows poisoned food for sale fifty (50) years ago, one of the archive info describes selling poison meatball at the school gates to children for their snack. I don’t want to go into all the other poison food for sale because it will not make one iota of a difference with the same happening in Thailand’s follow the leader, US of A.

Just one recent US of A example: April 9, 2012

Big Ag doesn’t advertise the chemicals it stuffs into animals

Two new scientific studies demonstrate that poultry on factory farms are routinely fed Caffeine, active ingredients of Tylenol, Benadryl, Prozac, banned antibiotics and even Arsenic.

“Big Ag doesn’t advertise the chemicals it stuffs into animals, so the scientists conducting these studies figured out a clever way to detect them. Bird feathers, like human fingernails, accumulate chemicals and drugs that an animal is exposed to.”

“It’s unbelievable what we found,” said Keeve E. Nachman, a co-author of both studies and a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future.

“We haven’t found anything that is an immediate health concern,” we are told, but the effects of cumulative exposure are not always “immediate” are they?

Arsenic in Our Chicken?

Really there is no need to search my archive on US of A either.

What's with that weird rule where they can't sell booze between 2 and 5 in the afternoon? What was the logic behind that?

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They were trying to get the police and government officials to go back to work after lunch, instead of drinking all afternoon.

HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD.

Part of the problem is the garbage these financial institutions keep in their system.

I know of an Investment Firm in which the investment account was closed (Totally Emptied) 18-years ago and during this 18-years the guy who did have that account 18-years ago is still receiving a Statement of Accounts each and every month. In the beginning the guy informed the Investment Co. that the account is EMPTY and stop sending statements. NO ACTION. Next the guy sends correspondence including the empty account statements to the CEO of the Investment Co. NO Action.

Another guy I know had a MasterCard with Citi. The card had very little use due to the high foreign exchange rate to US $ in which the Credit Card account was maintained by the bank.

The bank terminated the account and the card holder paid the last Statement. For the past seven years the bank keeps sending statements on an account that has been terminated by them, and paid.

This has been reported from the bottom to the top of the bank but the monthly statement of a non existing credit card keep coming.

The financial outfits are like the Thai Tourist Authority all they are after is chasing numbers and the bigger the numbers the better.

One-way Street

Interesting reading the entire above particular the mentioning life is not a One-way Street.

Well all the above seem to be pretty much One-way Street because not a one of them even touches on the subject of what can happen to the female.

From observations in different countries if the female has relations in Yemen she can put her head between her legs and kiss her ass goodbye.

I will just mention one case and the Yemeni is still on the FBI wanted list.

The spectacle happen in Reedley / Dinuba of the Fresno area in California. The girl was hanging around with non Muslim girls at the college and not being covered as a good Muslim female must and talking to boys (there wasn’t even sex involved) anyhow one of the Yemen relatives who she never knew about or ever had seen because being born in California flow over to California, walked up to her on the street during school lunch hour while she was walking with her non Muslim school friends, he got out a car, pulled a gun, blasted her head off, got in the car, and as it turned out back to Los Angeles, got on a plane back to Yemen, all this while the local police was still in the process of picking up the dead body from the sidewalk.

A couple decades later the FBI is still looking for him.

How does anybody know if the Muslim female has Yemen relative(s) whose honor is being trampled on?????????????

Stay with the religion you were raised with, or if you are Agnostic or Atheist stay with one of the same, no not belief, because Agnostic or Atheist do not belief, they hold an opinion.

Even getting tangled up with the Buddhist philosophy, yes philosophy, Buddhism is not a religion – it has no heaven or hell or hymn singing i.e. the Americanized Buddhism temple on Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA - in the long haul can turn into problems? No need to jump on your high horse, as an Atheist I follow Buddhist philosophy.

SEVEN (7) address changes on his 90-day reporting constitutes a two (2) year period and nothing seems to have been done to investigate this.

This shows this 90-day Reporting is nothing but a farce. Nothing but something to create a job for somebody (many hundreds of somebodies).

Then there is different motor vehicles, did he register these vehicles?

Then there is five (5) motorcycles, did he register these motorcycles?

The further you dig the more it shows the whole tracking system of foreigners in Thailand can easely be circumnavigated, especially by people with a corrupt personality.

I'm not for Thailand creating more rules, I'm for Thailand to take care of the rules there are on the books already. For this to happen I'm not holding my breath because I would turn blue around the gils.

I don't know for sure but ladies don't come to Thailand to find a brothel do they? Isn't some country in Africa the worlds brothel for women? Just trying to be fair.

You are correct, “Ladies do not come to Thailand …”

Check Thai Immigration records and you will see year-after-year-after-year more MALES enter Thailand than Females. The ratio runs ±80:20

Except at the Southern Border crossing where it runs close to 98% MALES.

The 2% Females are Thai and Malay ladies living either side of the border conducting border trade taking advantage of products price difference between Thailand and Malaysia.

LOL with Thailand’s image it has been going on for years (it comes and it goes away and then it comes again and then goes away again). Still remember several years ago the big intergovernmental Thailand/Japan blowup over the Japanese book describing Thai sex tours, including addresses of the places. That was before Mobil Phones, maybe now with all the Posies having a Mobil the book would also list the Mobil number. After all Thailand is the LOS.

Good Luck to the BKK Police/Fire fighters

From past experience training pipeline firefighting ones the genie is out the bottle you cannot get it back in the bottle. In other words, ones the gas has a free flow out of the container there is no way you can stop the fire. In this case either a valve or pipe broke off or ruptured giving the gas a free flow path. In the case of LPG, Butane, Propane all in liquid form for transportation and storage one (1) liter liquid form when released turns into 225 liter gaseous form. When out of control, pouring water on it aggravates the situation because it makes the fire float further and further away from the source. Foam is the only correct way to fight this type fire. Only refineries have large enough supply on hand, next are airport firefighting units. City? – LOL.

The sand plate under Bangkok is on average 27-meter below the surface.

Skytrain and the Belfinger- Berger elevated Chonbury Road just to name two, these pilings stand on the sand plate. That system is Bore Piling which initially was brought to Thailand by Bauer from Germany. One of the first jobs Bauer did was Thai Ping Tower Soi Ekamai. One of their last jobs was Central City Bangna N-S-E Towers and Mall. Now local companies like Monkey see, Monkey do are in the Bore Piling business they bought the machinery from Bauer and Belfinger-Berger when they completed their contract and went back to Germany.

Building in BKK to 11-stories is on piles driven into the ground with a Pile Driver. This system relies on the friction between the pile and the soil and the soil compacted in front of the pile as it is driven into the ground to keep the pile in place. As proven in Holland for centuries if you drive enough piles of the correct lent is does work. Except in the case in Amsterdam Oost (East) were a contractor when WW I was finished tried to make money by driving piles that were too short, by the thirties all these building started to list in all directions of the compass. After WW II was finished all these building were pulled down, I mean whole neighborhoods, not just one or two buildings.

More than 11-stories must be build on Bore Piling which goes all the way down to the sand plate in BKK ±27-meter.

The BKK Subway system lies on the sand plate.

Are there any rail links planned between the two airports?

So what if there are rail links planned, you just snap your finger and there is the rail link?

In Thailand it takes years to build a rail link. Were you not around during the construction of the rail link to Swampy?

Another bullshit story. We are not allowed to own land so all the land 'owned by foreigners' is actually owned by Thais, be it nominees or people like jay and me. The Thais still own it.

The Amity Treaty enables American citizens to own up to 1 rai of land. It has not been modified or annulled to date.

Thanks - I'll have to look that up.

The Amity Treaty enables American citizens to own up to 1 Rai of land [to construct a home on]. As far as known, it has not been modified or annulled to date.

If and American wants to try this Amity Treaty approval for 1 Rai of land he better be of young age because it has to wind its way through the Thai Court system. Sixty-, Seventy-year old retirees better forget about it. Of course also you can forget marry a Thai female, since May 2011 the Thai Law was enacted, Foreigners fifty year of age and older are not allowed to marry Thai females regardless of adult Thai female age. If they defy the Thai Law and marry in a foreign country, the Thai female risks loosing her Thai citizenship entitlements.

This Amity Treaty with America is a left over from WW II when Thailand was a member of the Axis and Churchill was adamant for Thailand to be declared and treated as Enemy of the Allies.

The Seri Thais ( think it was Mr. Sukhumvit) pestered the hell out of FDR to get Churchill to change its mind and for Thailand not to be regarded an Enemy of the Allies. In the end FDR succeeded to change Churchill’s stand. In appreciation for this the young king at the request of the Seri Thai offered America the Amity Treaty including this 1-Rai of land for the construction of a personal residence.

Note: It is not to be used for business purposes and/or commercial agriculture.

Owned OR in the name of …

Let’s get this straight; there is a difference in OWNING and IN THE NAME OF…

What has been going on since the end of WW II is that foreigners - beginning as always with the Yanks - marry a Thai demimondaine (Thai Style or Legal at the Amphon, more recent has to be the Amphon because the now computerized Thai Land Office asks for Thai Marriage Certificate), the foreigner put up the money, the Thai demimondaine put up the name?

Let’s stay close to home, after the end of WW II an US military boob-man picked up a big boob Thai demimondaine whose parent farmed a plot of land in Rayong Province - didn’t own the land, just settled on it and did self-sustaining farming - never paid a copper 25-satang tax because rightfully so they never had any monetary income.

The Yank spotted a hunk of land along Sukhumvit Road in the vicinity of Pattaya, got the money from the US which he gave to the demimondaine - he did stay out of the way, after all Thai women know everything better - the demimondaine bought the land and all Thai Land Office paperwork was registered in HER name.

With the Vietnam War rolling, making money the Yank got some more money from home in the US, gave it to the demimondaine and she built the … Court (sort of an American Motel). When North Vietnam defeated the Americans and all the high rollers went back home to the US the … Court nearly went bankrupt. When the high rolling days in Thailand returned in the seventies the … Court was dozed down and shop-houses in a blind end street was build in its place. When the money really started to roll in the eighties and money was easy to get in Europe some Skandehovian came along with a sack full of it and bought the shopping street.

That was the end of the Yank and his demimondaine in Thailand; they left for the Land of Milk and Honey US of A.

Really it wasn’t the end of the Yank and his Thai demimondaine - good old GREED and Thai demimondaines know best reared its ugly head - he had taken all the loot, changed it in US$ then when Thailand opened up the banking system (as it wants to do again now 2012) with 10 – 15% interest they brought everything back to Thailand and converted it in Thai Baht. When he was told that things could not go on like this in Thailand his demimondaine knew better, so he transferred more US$ for converting to Thai Baht. Then Thailand got monkey face to drive the government bus straight over the cliff into the financial ravine, including the Yank and his money.

But luck was with him, America had made the Shah of Iran the policeman of the Middle East, so he got himself a job in Iran working on the Shah’s projects. And after America had no use for the Shah as a friend any longer, the Yank transferred to Saudi Arabia trying to recover what monkey face had lost for him.

What this all comes down to is that the Thai Internal Revenue Dept. never in all these years and multiple transactions in the Thai Gov. Land Office the demimondaine and her parents who some of the property was in their name ever got questioned; how can people that never before owned a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out off make all these High Stake money transactions? Particularly in the case of her parents who most of their life lived in a “flattened out American GI Coors Beer Can Hut” as squatters in the Rayong Province.

As for Auditor-General Srirachai Charoenpanit, he is barking up the wrong stump. There are very few foreigners who own Thai land in their name by them self. There are a good number of foreigners who own land in condominium so what can the foreigner do with that land. I.e. own a couple properties, each with two other people in condominium, so there is no way in the world 1/3 of that land can be pulled out from under that property. Even one better, a piece of property owned 279 in condominium. Ever tried to get 278 people to agree on something? Again the foreigner cannot do anything with Thai land. As for Thai farm land, there isn’t a foreigner one that owns Thai farm land OUTRIGHT.

You want to learn about Thai shenanigans with Thai farm land go to Rangsit and you will find the biggest shenanigan in Thailand in farm land going all the way back to the nineteenth century days, all you need to start with is the name: Thewetwongsawiwat and The Borisat Co. The foreigner who brought the shenanigans out in the open was thrown out of Thailand persona non grata. His name: Homan van der Heide.

Holy cow !!! The fire department is run by the police / mafia. That simply cannot be a good thing.

The Police Fire Brigade is a subordinate organization of the Royal Police and is under the branches of the Metropolitan Public Bureau.

The PFB is headed by a commander who is appointed by the Commissioner General as the Royal Thai Police with the approval of the Police committee. The commander administers the PFB's operations within the sub-division's defined duties.

Thanks for finding and posting that... Very interesting...

It does address the jurisdiction and management issues for the fire service in BKK...

But it doesn't exactly address the post member Swerver made above that the fire crews sent out in BKK are simply regular policemen doing extra duty for extra pay -- as opposed to perhaps being full-time firemen who just happen to work under the jurisdiction of the police department.

I don't know which is the current situation. But I'd sure like to know.

Needless to say, in other countries and particularly in their large cities like BKK, the fire service is a full time professional job. And when those crews aren't busy putting out actual fires or conducting rescues, they're doing things that appear to be sorely missing here...

Like conducting inspections of high-rise buildings to ensure their fire and life safety systems are working properly and installed to code.... that their fire escapes are installed and configured properly... that their in building fire sprinklers aren't merely empty hardware screwed into the ceiling, and on and on and on... Not to mention actually training and drilling to do things like effectively fight high-rise fires, which is no small task.

Paradise Thailand aficionados have difficult time facing REALITY.

It’s already been explained:

The Police Fire Brigade is a subordinate organization of the Royal Police and is under the branches of the Metropolitan Public Bureau.

The PFB is headed by a commander who is appointed by the Commissioner General as the Royal Thai Police with the approval of the Police committee. The commander administers the PFB's operations within the sub-division's defined duties.

You want Thaksin and/or his sister’s signature to this?

You have been pointed to the On Nut Police Station on Sukhumvit Road to see the chaotic situation how late type and extremely expensive Fire Fighting equipment is parked (that is if you call it parking) different people have different ideas about parking and taking care of CAPITAL equipment. Same as different people, Thai including Farang have their own ideas about driving rules and regulations creating the chaos on the roads in Thailand and so it goes on with safety rules and regulations and the list continues unending.

Firemen are specially trained and continually engaged in refresher / update training.

• Either you are a PROFESSIONAL Policeman or
  
• you are a PROFESSIONAL Fireman.
  What you have in Thailand as outlined above by the MPB amounts to Jack of all trades and Master of none in either of these two professions. Thai Police are not professional trained and Thai Firemen are not professional trained.
  

I place Bangkok with the looks of a “Metropolis” on the same plane as Los Angeles, California, a Metropolis known for its high standard of training fire fighters. None I’m not an American, so hold your horses.

Years ago an acquaintance who was a Fireman in Orange County Forestry Fire Department (a well trained group) applied when there was an opening in the LA Fire Dept. Past all the physical tests and assigned to the LA Fire Dept. couple months rigorous training school. He didn’t even make it halfway in that training. He failed the scaling-ladder multi-story High-rise with a one-story length ladder which the fireman has to hook in the window of the next floor up, climb the ladder, stand in the window opening, pull up the ladder, hook it in the next floor up window. The highest he made it was halfway up the High-rise and froze - could not go any higher and could not come down - so he had to be rescued and was the end of his training. Lucky for him he had not resigned from the Orange Country Forestry Fire Department. If ever there is a person highly respecting Metropolis Firemen, he surely is one of these respecters.

Whichever way you cut it, Bangkok has NO Fire Department, and all it has is a mismatch of a Police Department.

If the Fire Department is pulled out of the Police Department then the Thai Army has an advantage in numbers which in the next coupe could be the deciding number. Thai Army and Thai Police numbers have been kept at equal numbers so one will not overpower the other. Only advantage Thai Army has, it has cannons and Tanks which the Thai Police does not have. But these are in longtime storage so if the Thai Army starts to play around with their storage the police who are watching the Army all the time will notice and take their action to find out what the Army is up to. Thailand has floundered since the start of the thirties from one coupe to the next.

Suttichai disclosed that the BMA might consider buying a 20seat helicopter to boost its fire extinguishing and rescue capabilities.

The BKK Fire Department doesn't have helicopters available to it??? Or operate any of its own choppers?

I'm not sure what kind of "fire extinguishing" role a Fire Department helicopter would serve in a dense urban environment like Bangkok. But a helicopter definitely can/could assist with high-rise building rescue and med-evac operations as well as help with spotting and command and control.

Wait a minute – BKK Fire Department. What BKK Fire Department???

Bangkok has NO Fire Department.

Bangkok has Fire Fighting trucks of many kinds and sorts PARKED at Major Police Stations with Police men in case of a fire acting as Firemen, ha here we go again, if it isn’t sex its money, for which they receive extra pay in addition to their Policeman peanuts salary.

Several years ago it was given a try to build proper Fire Stations with properly trained Firemen. All this came to naught because the Policemen objected to loosing that extra money. That was the end of a metropolis like Bangkok having proper Fire Stations with properly trained Firemen.

Whenever passing On Nut Police station on Sukhumvit in BK take a look at all that late model fire fighting trucks practically stacked one against the other looking like they have been in the Battle of the Bull as filty dirty it all is. Pride, what pride, Thais have no pride in equipment they have to work with. Staying with the police look at the motor cycles of all different kind they ride around on many so filty dirty you can’t even tell the color of it.

Why in hell care, the imbecile sex tourist will still flock to the whorehouse capital of the world to play Russian roulette, at times even with more than one bullet in the cylinder. Talk about Russians, when shopping at Big C in Pattaya you would think you were in Moscow.

Interesting reading but doesn’t say anything constructive.

Under Dr. Anan I suggested to him taxi meters and in less than 3-months all taxis had meters and today years later they still do have meters. This proves things can be done in a constructive manner in Thailand.

In my suggestion for taxi meters was also the suggestion for Taxi Stands. This was also put in working starting at Malls and major office building. But of course with the Seri Thais syndrome that disappeared.

The BKK traffic can be reduced by stopping all the 70,000 taxis cruising around pumping carbon monoxide into the city atmosphere by them having drive to the nearest Taxi Stand after letting off its passenger. It works in Singapore, Seoul Korea, KL Malaysia, Tokyo Japan and the list goes on. But of course with Thais being better than other people maybe some authoritarian government will have to come in to being to knock the Thais in to their place. Don’t look to the Red Shirts because they are the Seri Thai free for all chaos.