softgeorge

Israel has to back off.

All I can say about some of the comments on this site is they need to go back to the hell they came from and take their sorry attitudes with them. You are a guest in this country what gives you the right to pass judgement on anyone here especially the ladies. Anyone who knows anything about Thai ladies know they do not consider themselves prosties and most of the bar girls work there out of desperate need, for their family etc. So if you don"t like leave, you will do us all a favor by doing so. I was married to a western wife for years and hated most of it, I lived with a white woman for a while, I lived with a spanish woman for a while, I lived with a korean woman for a while and a philippina and all had the sorry western woman attitude. I have been with my Thai bar girl now for 7 years and have loved every minute of it. So western attitude be damned. Don't get me wrong I love my western country, now love Thailand,

No offence meant. Did you read the OP about the worthy gentleman, a Pheu Thai MP, who spoke about 'horizontal studying' and 'marry a farang for easy life'. There are a few pointers to the original clip hidden in the 400+ replies to this topic. From female colleagues here in Bangkok I understood they were not impressed at all.

He must have skipped that part or he is in the wrong forum.

Just anoter one with "You are a guest here" and "If you dont like it here, leave" buttons on the keyboard.

The standard "Pack your bags and leave" response is standard for those who have a different point of view and some of those who are offended by lifes little truths. Sort of like the child who grabs his bat and runs home to mum because the other children would not play his way.

Bah I wimped out

Went two times recently to do my 90 day report

& the place was so packed both before & after lunch

I just left. Maybe just bad timing?

The once a year deal with the online appointment system

I will continue to do myself same as the last one.

For 90 day reports I decided to just go with the paid service route.

I just figured for approximately $7.50 each time I rather

just pay the Visa service to go ahead on my behalf. It is worth

$7.50 to me not to have to set foot in there. IMHO

Once a year to the zoo instead of five times?

Sounds good to me.

I know it can be interesting people watching experience etc.

But I can get that in many comfortable places of my choosing

Maybe next year I will go postal route but there again

How much less than 250 baht + time & worry is it ultimately?

The 1000 baht a year & never have to go to either the visa service office nor

immigration sounded pretty good to me.

You just go into teh Visa service one time to let them make copies of your passport.

Sign four TM47's & done. Took all of 5-10 minutes.

They do the rest & email you your slip

which you print & put in your passport.

I got my first one back later the same day I signed up.

I do not foresee any problems

With the barcode attached to the back of your passport it is a breeze, went in yesterday at 10.30 a.m and was our at 10.40. They just scan the barcode and sign your receipt. Don't need photocopies of documents that have to be checked. It is getting easier and quicker every time.

Looks like they went the whole 9 mm's

Maybe they are counting on the farang lands to buy the rice at the inflated prices and bail them out of thier mess.

* "what", not "wot" - Or am I missing something , like some witty hidden meaning for the (non)word "wot"

World English Dictionary wot (wɒt) — vb (used with I, she, he, it, or a singular noun ) archaic , dialect or a form of the present tense (indicative mood) of wit

The wheel fell off . Amazing. When I 1st joined this forum a couple of yrs ago I would read a story such as this and think <deleted>, now it is just ho hum another day in Thailand.

Whats worse drugs or murder, dealing drugs carries the death penalty.

Maybe because the drugs they are pedling are killing numerous people.

A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the cancellation of the relevant penalty; it is usually granted by a head of state or by acts of a parliament or a religious authority.

Does this mean that his conviction is squashed also? I hope he still doesn't have plans to make his way to Australia as we already have our quota of murderers and other associated scum bags.

This thread is meaningless without more photos - i did a quick google nad must say the resulting photos left me wondering 'what' she was modelling - shes butt ugly in most of the google images!

She was very appealing in the photo I posted earlier this morning in the thread.

Probably being tooooo appealing (or revealing) led to its deletion.

Admittedly, it was likely from several years past but nevermind, to each his own.

It's staggering the number of posters who see Yingluck as a hottie.

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Yingluk is Far better looking than this woman. This one is skin and bones. Bones petruding through the skin and she looks sick. Yep give me yingluk anyday and she is fairer skinned.

"Practical regulations include easy visa procedures, promotions of new tourism sites and measures to address inconveniences faced by foreign visitors."

No wait....

It's quite annoying when you can't find the wallet deposit box. Maybe the immigration could have a drop box at the counter, drop off your wallet and get stamped in and out all in one go.

This thread is meaningless without more photos - i did a quick google nad must say the resulting photos left me wondering 'what' she was modelling - shes butt ugly in most of the google images!

Quite true she is not attractive.

A few years in the hilton with the death penalty hanging over her head will sort her out.

Firstly, had the police just applied the law correctly in this case and come down hard on the rapist they wouldn't have to worry about taking measures to stem the flow of money out of tourism. They wouldn't have to contend with viral videos and trying to block them. It would be costing them significantly less Baht in lost tourism revenue than it is now and considerably less time and effort. So very much som nam naa that they are allegedly hemorrhaging money now (which I don't believe).

Banging the guy up and dealing with him properly isn't going to cost them millions of Baht. The Thai police and gov't acting mindlessly, failing to apply the law, spouting dangerous drivel about buying a woman dinner before you savagely beat her and rape her, forcing enraged fathers to create viral videos and then having to deal with the fallout of that - THAT will cost you millions of Baht. All to prevent the loss of one scummy rapist's face. It really beggars belief.

And... block the video? ... It constantly amazes me how incredibly naive and stupid Thais in government and/or authority can be about the internet. The MICT internet blocking controls they have in place right now are literally the most laughable government control I've ever seen. It's like them trying to stem the flow of Niagara falls with one bucket that is mostly full of holes. The Great Firewall of China? .... The Ricidulous Rickety Bamboo Firewall of Thailand. Watching them try will be entertaining though.

Tell you what, just block Youtube arbitrarily again for 9 months. Just to abet one rapist and prevent the tiny dent in profits the country will make through tourism this year. That does actually sound like something the gov't/MICT/TAT would do now that I think about it.

Also, would the same Thai officials be brushing off the beating and rape of a lady if the perpetrator had been a foreigner and the victim a Thai? If the victim had been one of their family members or friends?

No chance in hell. It'd be headline news and the manipulated Thai media circus would demonize and tar every foreigner with the same brush.

They'd parade Johnny Foreigner around the streets and through press and photo ops like an animal, they'd turn up mob-handed to the re-enactment of the crime baying for the foreigner's blood. He'd be lucky to survive custody without some form of retribution for him daring to even touch a Thai and his life in prison after that would be a fate worse than death.

It's a tough scenario to imagine as from my memory foreigners raping Thais is a virtually non-existant problem here. Thais raping/attacking foreigners (or attempting to) is dramatically on the increase.

It's always been one rule for them and sub-human rules for us. That does not surprise me in the slightest.

If you're lucky enough to have to influential Thai friends/family or have a lot of money, you might be able to change the status quo, I'd imagine there's very few people that fall into this category.

There's nothing you can do to change the system. You either have to leave or put up with the fact there's going to be severe injustices around you, happening regularly. Viral video or no viral video, Thailand's revenue generated through tourism increases every year. I like what the Dutch father has tried to do, but it'll be out of the spotlight soon and people have extremely short memories.

What particularly galls me about this is that a Thai in position of power is basically explaining to would-be rapists how to ensure your bail and release. Buy them a meal first. This gives you carte blanche to severely beat someone and force yourself upon them.

Until a foreigner commits a crime like this on a Thai lady. Then everything changes and the country goes ape-shit.

Thais, in general, do have a very different and definitely backward view about rape. The amount of Thai women who've told me (via my wife or directly) that as a teenager they were forced upon by some boy(s) and this was their first sexual experience is very shocking.

Thai men are incredibly repressed about sex all of their lives and I've always maintained that this is a large part of the problem. Nearly all of Thailand's holiday resorts are highly sexualized in one form or another. Their TV ads, TV shows, films, magazines are all getting much much more sexualized, yet the overall culture towards sex and nudity in general is extremely repressed. When you have that extreme dichotomy, I personally think it makes the men in that place, generally, much more predisposed to committing acts of sexual violence. I digress, that's a whole other debate.

A "Yeah, but she was asking for it" culture still exists within a lot of foregin countries, for women who get drunk, act dubiously and then cry wolf after the sex took place through a feeling of guilt or not wanting to get in trouble for cheating on someone.

I know for a fact in the UK, unless you've specifically asked for consent from the person you're trying to have sex with, the woman can technically report you for rape and there are women who do use the law to get innocent men into trouble.

Never have I seen or heard anyone in authority (or not) condoning extreme physical violence and violent rape of a woman. That really leaves me open-mouthed.

That's where Thailand differs and shows the extreme stupidity of its leadership on a regular basis.

None of this is in the least bit surprising, nothing will be done about it other than measures to prevent a loss of money and year on year tourism revenue increases. The loss of money may affect the immediate area, but the overall countrywide total will continue to increase for the forseeable future.

Another day in paradise.

"but it'll be out of the spotlight soon and people have extremely short memories"

Not that short when thais celebrate such a thing. News from australia today

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2012/11/12/15/45/why-thai-ambulance-workers-take-trophy-shots

Wonder what's going to happen at Psys concert on 28 Nov in Bangkok.

The O.K Corral comes to mind

Lets blame someone or something else again, Thai style. Sorry, but PSY has played zero part in this.

those dam_n Koreans

The way that Thais totally disrepect farang victims is making news in Australia at the moment. A lot of condemnation of Thailand Police and emergency workers about how they pose for trophy shots with the bodies of farangs. Not doing Thailand any favours at all.

"Thai 'trophy shots' the ultimate culture shock"

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2012/11/12/15/45/why-thai-ambulance-workers-take-trophy-shots#gigyaComments

I'm afraid that rape is rape is rape.

To try and bring culture into it is not only repulsive but is morally wrong.

If a lady says "no" in any language or culture, then "no" is should be....

Agree. I also didn't know it was part of the Thai culture to rape foreign women or part of the dutch culture for women to be raped by Thai men.

Here in Chiang Mai we felt another quake around 5 this afternoon. It was much smaller. I am on the 17th floor and the light only swung about 4 inches each way.

That's two I missed in Chiangmai didn't feel a thing in Sansai.

What are you all doing up at 8:30 on a Sunday?

God who is still in bed after 4.30 a.m on a Sunday, the wife has me up cleaning by then.

felt for a full minute or more, here in Sansai noi, near RuamChoke....slow and rolling

I am in Sansai, Sansai Noi area and didn't feel a thing.

Nice work AFP.

---------- What about giving some cdedit to the Thai police for their part

What did the Thai Police do? It was handed to them on a plate and served with a nice glass of 51 Vintage Grange Hermitage.

Where is this link? Are the Thai papers just regurgitating the original Aussie paper that was reporting that?

http://www.abc.net.a...bangkok/4364584

A Sydney man has been arrested in Bangkok and charged with sexually abusing a seven-year-old Thai boy.

Police allege he abused the boy while he was staying at the child's uncle's home in the eastern city of Chantaburi.

Yeah I'm aware of the English language stories saying that, the OP has a link to one, but they seem to have switched to a 15 year old in later stories. Buchholz said a Thai article said 7 years old too, and I'm wondering if they just copied the Australian article or if they actually have more information.

What language story do you want? He is an Australian and the link I provided was from Australian ABC News (Updated Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:09am AEDT). Did it ever occur to you that it is the police's job to gather evidence for the prosecutor to use and court and their job is not to compromise the case by giving details out to the press? How about the fact that the most logical explination is there are nude pictures of him with a 15-year old as well as accusations he molested a 7-year old during his stay in Thailand?

I am sorry Nisa but I do not think that it is yet a fact that there are nude photo's of him with a 15 yr old. He has apparently emailed some photos home which were intercepted in Australia but the exact nature of these pics have not been revealed by Australian Authorities. His home was raided and computers confiscated for examination but nothing more is known on that as yet. I would pressume if it was anything major on the Australian end then the AFP would not have called Somchia to detain him at the airport. The AFP would have simply kept quite and arrested him when he arrived back at the Sydney airport (no complicated extradition hearings) Somchai apparently knew nothing of this guy until the AFP called, no victims or allegation in Thailand. These have only just come up.

Don't get me wrong I despise rock spiders as much as the next person but this person has not yet been formally classified as a rock spider as if he is by the court then there is no punishment great enough.

Police intelligence units in Australia had allegedly uncovered the photos on the internet and the information was passed on to the AFP, who then contacted Thai authorities.

Potterton denies the charges.

"I'm disgusted with the Australian Federal Police's sending of photos of a non-sexual nature regarding my time in Thailand and letting the Thai police (know) that they should possibly act on this," Potterton told AAP at the police headquarters.

"It is reprehensible behaviour by the Australian Federal Police."

http://news.ninemsn....dophile-charges

Would someone care to explain what is going on? Perhaps one of the hang em high brigade knows everything. I am getting confused. In the article above, the Thai police say the charges relate to a photograph at a public waterfall in which some kids are nude, primarily a 15 year old boy. What is the story about the Australian in the OP supposedly raping a 7 year old boy? (for which many people on here want to immediately chop his balls off) None of that is mentioned in the linked news article from Chooka.

Might have something to do with Australian media V's Thai Media. Agree the only ones mentioning a 7 yr old are the Thais.

Something doesn't sound right - he's just returning home now after 2 weeks in Thailand, yet, they seized material (presumably with evidence) in Australia two weeks ago, presumably before the alleged offence had taken place. Thy guy was stupid enough to leave evidence of his planned activities? Thanks for stitching yourself up

Based on your post, I can't help wondering what kind of monitoring the AFP is doing on individuals. Was he individually targeted for some reason or was he part of a general monitoring effort? Can any of you Aussies comment on the state of the police state in, pardon the expression, down under?

The police had already executed a warrant on his home in Australia and located evidence. As he was in Thailand they called the thai authorities to grab him. I don't know why as they could have nabbed him when he got off his flight in Sydney. The AFP seem to like letting other countries grab and prosecute the crooks saves money and time.