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I wonder if the "s" in "friends" belongs there... Because if Nai had asked for a 100K loan from someone after the deed, that would be a good indicator he was planning to beat feet out of town and needed some money to disappear. If he had asked the victim for a loan before the deed, that would have a different meaning. That's the way it reads, but I wonder which is accurate?

That's good to know for someone who may have done a border bounce in October and another in December. They can do another in January... Meaning that, with extensions, they can stay 8 months without hopping on a flight (if they time it right). That said, I wonder how the IO's would perceive that.

If that were the case, I don't know why there would be any question, like "Can I still do a 2nd one, for the allowed two a year, or does the January entry count as one" At any rate I think his/her answer is that you can only enter by land 2x in a year on visa exempt? Note the question mark, because I don't know- just going by answers here. Seems that they don't differentiate between a border bounce and an entry out of the blue? (Question mark again...) I guess my question then is whether that's a calendar year, or does the 12 month clock start when you do your first one?

Not diazepam, but I keep a photo copy of my hospital prescriptions on my cell phone. I've never had to pull them up so I don't know if that's adequate. Mostly, I find it disturbing if they're doing random checks on taxi passengers. Witnessed it several times in the Asoke area where I lived and worked, but that was before Covid and the cops in that area were notorious. I'm not sure that's a good way to attract tourists, even the ones that don't do drugs.

So it's not just the sheep running scared? Goats, too?

I thought it was going to be about Anal Retentive Buttwads.

I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that cataract surgery could fix the OP up to better than 20/20. I post that not to suggest that's what he needs, but to give him some optimism to go in and get it checked.

13 Reasons Why Your Ranch Needs a Guard Donkey https://www.helpfulhorsehints.com/reasons-to-get-a-guard-donkey/ And if it doesn't work out, they're real tasty. I didn't know how tasty until I worked in China. Post back with your progress, and your learning lumps. Because I suspect there will be some...

I think that the spirit of that law is that the Thai 51% have a controlling interest and are actually in control. Not passive "nominees" in name only, with the foreigners putting up the money and being in control. Like where the Thai 51% puts up none of the money, have no say in the operation, and reap little or none of the profits. That's what they want to crack down on.

Leaving out the nationalities, this is a good lesson for anyone flying long distance where you may fall asleep. It doesn't matter where you stow your bag if you're asleep when the thief rummages through the bins. Unless, of course, you put the valuables on the floor in front of you, or in a money belt. I'd be curious whether the guy flashed his goodies, or was this just a random bonanza for the thief?

Like several other responders here, my solution was to minimize the use of my US debit cards in Thailand's ATMs. Not because they're any worse, but because of the time lag if something bad happens. I keep my "walking around" money in my K-Bank account, using that ATM/debit card in Thailand. Every few months when I need to top up the account, I use my US bank debit card outside in an ATM outside an open bank branch, suck it up and pay the 220 baht per transaction fee. That has dual purpose. 1) I only pay the 220 baht fee a few times a year and 2) because it's a rare action, it's not too inconvenient to wait for the bank to be open. That way, if the ATM eats my card, I can go inside and ask for help. Of course, that's a luddite solution with no need for WISE or other zoomy solutions, or opening up any additional accounts.

Sadly, the zenith of his comedy career was "Girls jumping on trampolines" It's been downhill since... Fortunately for him, the lefties won't pull up episodes of "The Man Show" to club him with- as long as he toes their line.

Because, without guys like him, the next flight you get on may have even more loose and missing bolts than they already do. https://samchui.com/2022/07/10/how-a-loose-bolt-caused-china-airlines-boeing-737-haul-loss/ https://themalaysianreserve.com/2023/12/30/boeing-warns-airlines-about-potential-loose-bolt-in-737-max-jets/ https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/08/us/what-happened-alaska-airlines-flight-1282/index.html

Good. As an American, I don't want to see another dime of our treasure spent to perpetuate the killing and misery of a war that, by all objective measures has already been lost. I'd support loaning Ukraine the money to rebuild. I'd even support the long term prospect of forgiving the loans if Ukraine met conditions related to corruption and actually using the money for rebuilding. But not another dime to continue the killing. Not another forever war.

No, you gave your opinion. You're not the least bit curious that Alaska left the seats nearest the reported whistling noise empty? Do you really think it was sheer dumb luck?

Homendy also confirmed that the Max 9 door plug had moved during prior flights, citing markings on the door. There were 154 prior flights by the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 before the Jan. 5 flight. “There were very small movements until it eventually came out,” Homendy said, adding that testing showed “you could see a bit of a gap towards the end” but that it was not clear how noticeable it was. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/ntsb-chair-criticizes-boeing-for-lack-of-cooperation-in-737-max-9-probe-.html Citing documents and people familiar with the matter, the newspaper said investigators have contacted some passengers and crew — including pilots and flight attendants — who were on the Jan. 5th flight. https://apnews.com/article/boeing-ntsb-door-plug-emergency-landing-2d23408a25eff999579c88071836dbec You figure they may want to see if Alaska or their employees or their passengers may have noticed the "bit of a gap" any time during the 154 flights, many of them after the decompression alarms? And that maybe there was a reason they didn't want anyone in those 2 seats? Because the DOJ certainly aren't going to be asking the Alaska pilots or passengers what went on at the Boeing plant. And it seems that I'm not the only one asking what Alaska may have known and when. A “whistling sound” was heard on a previous flight of the Boeing 737 Max 9 whose door plug blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight last month, an attorney representing passengers in a lawsuit said in new court documents. According to the complaint, passengers on the earlier flight heard the sound “coming from the vicinity of the door plug.” They brought it to the attention of flight attendants, who then “reportedly informed” a pilot, according to the complaint. After the pilot checked cockpit instruments and found readings to be normal, no further action was taken, the complaint says. Timothy Loranger, an aviation lawyer and licensed pilot who worked as an aircraft mechanic while serving in the Marine Corps, said airplanes are noisy machines and the whistling sound described in the lawsuit may have been unrelated to the door plug. But he also said it was plausible that passengers on previous flights heard such a noise, given its prior pressurization issues. “We know that the bolts were missing. ... So this sound makes sense,” Loranger said. “If they heard that whistling noise, that’s very possible to have been an indication that the aircraft had some small leaks around the seal and that it wasn’t keeping pressure properly.” https://apnews.com/article/boeing-alaska-airlines-door-plug-lawsuit-whistling-484bb238f540e1fa9c7bc84d7fbd2286 With just a 1 in 770 chance that those 2 seats (in the area of the whistling) were empty by random chance, do you figure that maybe Alaska knew not to put anyone there, if only so they wouldn't be bothered by the whistling noise? Or pester the employees by reporting it? I'm certainly curious. Hopefully, the DOJ is talking to those passengers and the employees to whom they claim to have reported the noise... If the NTSB hadn't already.

Technical foul. Victimless. If I ever get so petty as to cheer for the deportation of someone for a WP violation, or because of his/her nationality, please take me out back and put me out of my misery.

Looks like she fessed up and apologized. I always thought she was one of the good 'uns. But I'm a Yank. What do I know? Still... I think highly of her and the hubby. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/11/uk/kate-royal-photo-apology-gbr-intl/index.html

Apparently not. They list 8 fulfillment centers, none of them in Thailand. https://th.iherb.com/info/storage-facilities

Most of us are 100% in favor of immigration. Just not the way it's being done. We (the west, including Europe) can attract the best and the brightest, in whatever numbers we need for our economy. Millions of them would be fine by most of us. Engineers, doctors, nurses, fruit pickers, whatever we're short of. Invite 'em in, streamline the legal visa process and vet them before they start their journey. Instead, we're getting unvetted unknowns who may end up on the dole for decades. Whose very first act is to break our immigration laws. Including gang members, drug mules, human traffickers, names from the terrorist watch list, 5th columnists... We just don't know.

God no. I'm praying he makes it to January. Look at the alternative... That's also why there won't be an impeachment. Choosing her as VP was the best insurance he could buy if he saw all the charges coming at him.

Neither are most of the links posted in the OP. Just "illegal" stuff that apparently puts foreigners at risk of being deported. Along with another half dozen threads just today. Much to the delight of so many posters here. And I don't understand why they're so pleased. They may be next if the authorities change their priorities just a little and start deporting, for example, guys who frequent prostitutes.

Not aimed at you specifically because I don't know you. But be careful what you wish for, lest they start deporting people for paying women for sex and for dodging taxes. Not to mention the guys who have to use visa agents, (not the ones who just choose to use them, the ones that have to). If they enforced those with deportation, the ranks of foreigners would thin quite a bit.

I don't understand all the contempt here for a woman who, by all accounts, has harmed nobody on this forum. In fact, probably nobody in Thailand.

You may get more helpful suggestions if you reveal what you're planning to volunteer for, and whether it's an approved charity, etc.