SABloke

Love when articles raise more questions than answers. For those of us that don't know, can someone please explain what "the incident" was - the only allusion in this article is "This incident, which involves a young man from this family driving a costly sedan with little regard for road safety," 🧐

Every time I think Thai laws/mandates can't become more ridiculous, the officials go ahead and prove me wrong. How the hell is this supposed to work/be enforced? I have spent countless hours snorkeling - sometimes the depth is less than 2m (I assume, since I don't take a depth gauge with me as I trundle out of my hotel room down to the sea). I don't damage any coral - I love and respect nature. But now I also have to take a bloody life-vest?? For what? I'm not taking one in my suitcase and I assume most hotels don't carry a ton of spare ones (if any at all). Also, this ministerial order claims that I need a life-vest when snorkelling (to prevent drowing?), but if I'm not snorkelling, I can swim freely (no diving course required) and splash away and run along the coral at depths of less than 2m I assume 🙄

Surely you cannot be guilty of tampering with evidence without some incentive being given to you to tamper. So, I assume the court knows who bribed these guys (otherwise they wouldn't be able to prove tampering and rather just negligence of duty). Therefore, why isn't anyone else being charged in this case i.e. the people that paid the bribes/"requested" the tampering with evidence?

1.4 Million beef farming households in Thailand? Total BS (unless they are including every household that has a cow - my neighbours have two, but they are not "farming" cattle. 🙄

How did you try it already if the system only goes live on 28th?

I agree, but this will cause so many problems since I suspect many travellers (new and returning ones) will not know about this QR code until check-in. Then they will be like "Can I do it now quickly please?" "No, sorry, you were supposed to do it 3 days ago" totally FUBAR.

Will there be a paper option on arrival for people that aren't aware of this requirement? When one travels to a visa exempt country, one generally doesn't do as much searching online as when one is going to a place that has visa requirements etc. For example, the first time I flew to Thailand I had not heard of the TM6 until the air hostess gave it to me - had I been required to print out and bring my own (equavalent of doing the digital one now) I would've been screwed.

I apologise - I misread your post 🙃

Suppose? It literally did - what you on about? Have you looked at a map recently? Chiang Mai was hit before Bangkok since it's closer to the epicentre.

Edit as misread response

If true - why though? Tackle that issue then as a nation. There are many poor people in Africa, South America and Europe, and those people manage to vote in countries requiring ID. Also, why poor AND ethnic minorities - aren't Americans with Indian heritage like the richest group of people in the USA? Or do you just think poor that ethnic minorities can't find their ID's and/or remember their SS numbers?

I'm just here to see who comes up with the first "original" Tuk-tuk, somtam cart, Win rider, wrong way comment 🤪

Pepsi and Est Cola are "visually similar" too - nobody crying foul there. If they have a different name, taste different, and look different, they are not "counterfeit" adjective counterfeit (adjective) made in exact imitation of something valuable with the intention to deceive or defraud: "counterfeit £10 notes"

However, had the same survey listed Thailand as No.1 in the world, these officials would be clamouring for photo ops and taking all the credit 🙄

Didn't know they had a street circuit. Just looked it up - seems like a decent track. I would agree with you then - good location (better than Burieam or downtown bangkok)