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Sometimes you have to have a little empathy for people who find themselves in this situation. It is not clear if the economic issues were of his doing, or maybe due to Covididiocy. He did realise he was on overstay, and kept his head down in order to stay with his Wife, whom, it states, carried on with the business as best she could. Maybe a better option would have been to go to the airport two years ago, and hand himself in. Then, once back in America, make plans to take his Wife there. An easy thing for someone to say when they are not the one facing the options. I for one wish him luck, and hope he can get his life back on track. There but for the grace of God go I.

All well and good, until you come to the weak link in the chain................Mr. postman. I have lost two visa cards, and two other letters from NS&I in U.K. in the last three months. Went to the post office who say they have not received them. Now, I have no proof they ever got as far as my local office, but I am fairly confident they arrived in Thailand.

My Son bought one a few months ago. very nice looking bike. It took over three months for delivery though. He says it rides well, with enough power to get you out of trouble should the need arise. He paid a few thousand Baht more for the ABS model.

I am not disputing your facts, as I have no knowledge on the subject. However, they did help a beautiful Lady from Burma recently who claimed asylum, and with help ended up in Canada. This Russian Gentleman probably doesn't have the figure for that sort of help......

I wish him all the very best, but hope it does not end up ruining his life. I say this as a very concerned long lost relative twice removed, who lost contact with him in kindergarten school.

You naughty, naughty boy....It is illegal to drink on the street.............100 lashes with a wet lettuce and confined to home for a week............

It is a minefield isn't it. Maybe the selling times depends where you are, if you are a bar in an "entertainment" area, you may be able to open later as opposed to a bar restaurant on a street for example. I believe the vagueness is deliberate to allow the BIB to extort money. In Hua hin before, for a long time, we were only allowed to open until midnight. The BIB came past on motorbikes at 11:45 as a reminder, then again at 12:15. However, certain bars in Soi 80, and Bintabaht were open until 2A.M. and sometimes later.................A free ice cream if you guess who owned those bars.......

I remember a long time ago when I visited regularly, in the early nineties actually. i used to wonder how there were so many young women driving around in high end cars...Mercs, Beemers, etc. then I found out. They would go to a garage, put a deposit down, and drive away, but never make any payments. When it was repossessed they would move onto another garage. This was before computerisation, etc. Since then I believe they have a credit rating rating system now, with a red flag for bad debtors. Still, I bet it was good while it lasted, and the car auctions were awash with these cars.

The fly in the ointment there is that only 6 people will actually finish paying for them, the rest will be repossessed.

There we have it straight from the top.................This only applies to people with a licence......

R.I.P Christine, and thank you for the music. I am sure that everyone on this forum that remembers those times will be playing your music this week......

One down, two thousand nine hundred and seventy nine to go.........................

I do not know about here, but I have used lap belts before in cabs, also in fork lifts. Though, I admit, only in small machines, not large ones. A lap belt does not hinder movement as much.

Sorry Joe, but I for one see it very often here.

Another tragic accident that need not have happened. If a seat belt was fitted, along with a door, and he wore the belt with the door closed..........Easy to say after the event I suppose, probably done it a thousand times before... R.I.P.

That is where the next 700 or so are going.....

No, No, No,...... They put them in at a cant, then get more money to level them up later....

I won't.......................................

Sad, thank you for the music Christine, R.I.P.

May I hazard a guess that a member of the Pattaya administration, the company who built it will get the contract to demolish it, and then build something else in its place.....

To sober up would be one reply.

I definitely would not put smelling right, and Durian in the same sentence.

As Steven pointed out, they build the drain covers first, then make up the road. They di da similar thing a few years ago along the railway line road in Hua Hin. The only fly in the ointment is that the bike riders and cars are going in all directions to avoid them.

This whole fiasco seems to me to be the blind leading the incompetent.

I found the one flaw in your very sound reasoning.................I highlighted it for you...............