stockholm1995

Has Thaivisa.com contacted the TAT, NCPO or RTP about all these incidents?

I remember when the Immigration stopped the visaruns, Thaivisa contacted the immigration for clarification.

Maybe there is a order from higher up.

Maybe there are some rogue cops .

Thonglor is indeed a bad place for Farangs to walk the streets. The BiBs are even getting 'creative', f.i. by removing all existing ashtrays and flowerpots alongside the street, ...to shake 2,000 out of the Farangs (no Thais) getting rid of a cigarette bud (even in a gutterdrain by absence of alternative), while the side of the walkway is carpeted with the rests of Thai rollies, and, mind you, it's very organised, very 'civil', a cop speaking good English sitting under an umbrella behind a table with a few chairs for the 'culprits', with several plainclothed coppers hidden around with talkie-walkies, plus a few 'big guys' in uniform, hidden too, for 'possible incidents'! Just to name one extortion which was new for me... Oh, and as usually it can be 'negotiated', but then no paperwork...

As if the RTP brass doesn't know about Thonglor, and a few other stations, along Sukhumvit... Of course the post's higher officers should be disciplined, but nothing happens, and a group of Sr. Sgts. can make, and keep, a whole station rotten too...

It is ? Are you talking about Sukhumvit Soi 55 aka Thong Lor ?.

Not once was I even approached or harassed by police officers there. Not at the Sukhumvit end, not at the Phetburi end and nowhere in between, which includes the actual Thong Lor Police station which is just past Thong Lor Soi 18.

For the last month, I walked there every single afternoon, from the Sukhumvit end to Thong Lor Soi 16 or a bit further soi 20. Not once was I approached, nor have I seen any other people being approached either.

I did see that most of the waste bins that have been placed there about 1.5 years ago are gone (there are only two or three left, there used to be many more at the right side of the street). But as a smoker, even dropping the stub somewhere has not lead to police harassment.

Let's not get carried away here.

Indeed... In fact last year on New Years Eve I walked from Ladphrao to Sukhumvit 23 - between here and there including passing the Sutthisan police station, no one bothered me. I think this thread is dominated by the "hate Thailand" crowd but who can't make it back in their home countries...

last year on New Years Eve???

People are talking about last weeks and you are talking about you walked last year from Ladphrao to Sukhumvit 23 and police didn´t ass searched you?

Could you please walk around Thong Lor today and tomorrow .

Uppdate us on sunday about your fine experience.

I always carry original and valid id. I don't do drug, prostitute or alcohol. If police want pee test or ass search, I am happy to comply. After all, it is their duty to keep alien safe, and not be drug, rape or murdered like the 2 brits in Koh tao.

Are you for real?

Just because you want the Thai police to ass search you doesn´t mean it is ok for others.

What if they plant a yaba pill in your pocket???

ATTENTION:

We need to brainstorm and find a resolution to stop these harassment from the Thonglor Police! So, what can we do, any suggestions? Does anyone has a connection with CNN, Fox news or Huffpost? We should let the world know about the harassments involving tourists and expats in Bangkok from Thonglor Police Department!

I have sent the link to the article to newspapers in Sweden and will send a email to Thai Embassy and ask them if i should change my next vacation to Vietnam.

If every embassy get 500 emails then they will contact the TAT in Thailand. I am sure they don´t want more bad publicity.

You can send a massage to TAT on facebook https://www.facebook.com/AmazingThailand?ref=ts

I saw somebody wrote a post on TAT´s facebook.

You can send a complaint on http://www.tourismthailand.org/Send-Complaint

And that is what they call THAINESS.

Was just talking to a British educated (Secondary school and tertiary level) Thai and he laughed when I brought it up.

His take was that many Thais (born and raised here) only act to advantage themselves. Which might mean financially or making a social setting easier for themselves by smiling and lying. Even giving - making merit - is to advantage themselves later on.

With many Westerners they will go out of their way to disadvantage themselves for reasons alien to many Thais. Tell the truth when it disadvantages them to do so, give things to people with out any expectations of merit further down the line, hang around the scene of an accident they were involved in, etc etc. Many Thais see this as beyond foolish and is why many consider Westerners to be stupid - They will purposefully disadvantage themselves for no good reason.

That was his take on it.

Owning a Lamborghini and other supersport cars is not a cheap hobby. You have to make sure every customer buy 4-5 drinks, if they don´t , well you all saw what happened to these 2 gentlemen.

While some people doesn´t have money for food, some people are prepared to pay 25 milion for a god damn car number plate

How is that different from the west where people pay 10 times that for some old, useless painting?

No, different at all. I do not compare an idiotic behavior with another idiotic behavior.

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Is he (Thaksin) still talking????

How difficult is it for military junta to "invite" him back to Thailand?

Just keep everybody in his family in custody until he is back on thai soil.

This is the ONLY way to close the case.

Did you ask her why a man answer the phone?

America, where it's easier to get a gun than a girlfriend.

so, why did you post?

So sad, but so true.

In the west we used to say " dont put off until tomorrow what you can do today"
Here in Thailand, "you dont do today, you do when you absolutely have to"

"Where there is a will there is a way" , "There is no will , so there is no way"


I bet many out there can think of similar sayings that are reversed here ?

Yes, if you are a resident farang and are desperate to post on Thai Visa, the saying below can be reversed to:

If you have nothing nice or intelligent to post, write something nasty and belittling about Thailand.

Don´t they have a SWAT team in this country?

That WAS the swat team.. trained by the US. Hence the tan pants (trousers for civilised people)

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They looked like a paintball playing team

Don´t they have a SWAT team in this country?

This will not affect the landlords "Big C, Tesco Lotus and Tops Supermarket". They will get their 30% cut BUT the stallowners will loose money.

I would belive them if they had jumped in the water and took the photo.

Holy crap!

I thought the kickbacks in Thailand was 30% , not 100 %

Thailand in now officially the hub of kickbacks

Asked if her style will be as confrontational as Mr Cunningham, whose reputation was such that police would sometimes ask that a person with a problem not call him, and whose name alone, if mentioned, would often make extortionists back off, she said, “No, not at all. That’s definitely not my style.”

So what is her style? A soft approach to the extortionists?

what is disturbing is that in the photo it looks like they closed the gate when he arrived at hospital

Very sad with the loss of your wife and child Khun Nampon.

May both rest in peace.

What I can't understand is why the hospital took so long to give an explanation to the man?

Thailand is a cast society and a director of a hospital would never explain him/her self to a taxidriver.