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On 1/11/2024 at 6:24 AM, 2baht said:

Will a committee be formed to investigate this debacle in the next month or so???

They will first form a committee to establish the operating procedures of the committee.

19 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Indeed.. watching a foreign movie is undoable by all the blurring.. even a glass wine, beer, a cigarette a bikini everything seems to be  inappropriate in worlds most known sex country 

As bad as watching a movie on Saudi Air in the 90's. By the time it was all censored the whole movie was about 20 minutes long.

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prison is not a place in which to kill or torture convicts

It is here, only it is all kept quiet.

On 1/6/2024 at 1:55 PM, newbee2022 said:

So now it's getting interesting....Do you have personal experience or is it just blowing in the wind from heresy????😳

I personally know at least three people in Hua Hin that paid that amount of cash to make the charge go away. I also know at least three policemen who regularly ride their bikes while being incapable of walking a straight line. The only time people did not get away with it was when they brought the Royal police in from Bangkok to man checkpoints over Songkran before Covidiocy. That weekend there were a considerable number of people appearing in court, fined 6,000 Baht, and ordered to do community service.

Still no change, is there any way to delete the piling pages of notifications?

One for you, two for me, two for you, three for me, three for you, four for me.........

19 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

Sorry to hear that about your son’’s friend, pretty horrendous. As a father, doesn’t bear thinking about. 

Thanks Dave, My Son has a pick up and a bike. He uses the bike around town only, but I do fear for his safety. As I keep telling him, watch out for the idiots on the road.....every single person riding or driving is an idiot. I cannot begin to imagine the torment of a Parent losing a Child, but I also cannot get my head around the blasé respect for life here.

3 hours ago, London Lowf said:

A few years ago I was pulled over at a road block - I would have been a bit over the limit.

 

"You drink?"

"Just some beer"

"You drink whisky?"

"No, just beer"

 

He waved me through.

 

Exactly the same happened to me in Hua Hin. Stopped after a pool match where I had two beers, no problem, only whiskey is bad.

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

They don't need a landing card now - although you still need to complete one if entering by land - but they need a boarding card. Thai logic in action. You need the landing card at x arrival point but not at y arrival point. I'm sure it makes sense to the locals, but we aren't educated enough to understand.

I was referring to Saudi & Bahrain using landing cards...

1 hour ago, MangoKorat said:

There haven't been landing cards for a while.

I was referring to Saudi & Bahrain where they still use them but sometimes ask for boarding pass too.

17 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

1 - Does anyone have any experience of having to show their boarding card to immigration anywhere else in the world?

2 - Do the airlines when preparing to land instruct their passengers to retain their boarding pass and not leave it on the plane?

3 - How does showing your boarding pass 'expedite the immigration process'?

4 - Why do these ''documents' (boarding passes) 'need to be registered by immigration officers'?

Saudi Arabia & Bahrain used to ask for them. Admittedly not every time, but when they did the normal queues used to get horrendous. I agree with point 3, how does this card expedite immigration when you have the landing card and passport......jobs worth maybe.

Is there a Makro near you, they normally stock packs of wrapping paper.

18 hours ago, brianthainess said:

As with mirror, signal, manuver, unlike most drivers here, Manuver, no signal , what is a mirror. 

LOL..........but they do know what a mirror in the car is for........checking your hair, and squashing zits....

10 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Confusing. Did the Ukranian man crash his bike into the taxi, did the bike crash itself into the taxi or did the taxi crash into the bike?

Taxi ran a red light coming from the right. Ukranian never looked, probably watching for the green light, then floored it.

The saddest, heartbreaking part of this thread is the picture of a tiny body on a big stretcher. R.I.P. little one, you deserved better.

16 hours ago, roger101 said:

It is, 3 years if you're rich and 15 years if you're poor.

You forgot to add if you are rich you stay in house arrest while an appeal is heard then upheld, no jail time.