Kerryd

Yes, the owner(s) of the TQ made a big deal crying about how they were going to have to close forever. I noted at the time that it was doubtful they'd be closed for long (after the covid restrictions were lifted) and gee, what a surprise, they did open again. Shocker. And the most amazing thing, so far, is that this thread had gone for 5 pages and for maybe the only time in TV/AseanNow history, there hasn't been 5 pages of people defending this guy's actions or trying to blame them on someone else or claiming he was "set up". You can bet that the guy was soused, stripped off his clothes thinking "he's a tourist and can get away with it because big bwana is keeping bars like this open" and then someone made a comment about how little charles must be in hiding or something. Drunk Brits. Drunk Americans. Drunk Indians/Arabs/Australians/Norwegians/etc, etc. It's not limited to any one nationality. And you can bet, if they are a <deleted> back home, they'll be an even bigger <deleted> here. For some reason a lot of people seem to think they can get away with things when they are overseas that they know they'd get busted for "back home". But that often goes back to the "big bwana" mindset where a certain class of people tend to look down on others and think of them as a subspecies that exists only to serve their "superiors". You see a lot of that attitude on this (and other) forums as well.

Well, I'm a Canadian "tourist" living in a house - as far as the Thai police are concerned. Unless you are a citizen or have Permanent Residence, you are considered a "tourist". Even if you have a wife, children, house, 2 cars, 2 motorcycles, 3 cats, 2 dogs and 12 cows, you are still classed as a "tourist".

Accident stats worldwide are usually calculated using "per capita" stats. As in "50 deaths per 100,000 population". Easier than trying to calculate exact numbers based on different population numbers like 22,900 deaths out of 70,285,074 people. (Thailand's stats.) For years, Thailand has ranked #1 or 2 in the world in number of traffic accidents (per capita) and number of deaths. But the numbers lie. If they were honest, Thailand would rank so far ahead of everyone else they'd be in their own separate category. For example, Thailand only counts "deaths" if they happen at the scene. If a person dies in the ambulance on the way to the hospital or at the hospital or a week later, it doesn't count against the accident stats. And keep in mind that in many cases, the police don't even attend an accident so it's likely that a lot of people die and it's not reported until later (like when the victim arrives at the hospital or a relative informs the police). Meanwhile, in Canada for example, anyone injured in a traffic accident that dies within 30 days (of accident-related injuries) counts towards the accident stats. Now compare Thailand with an average of 60 deaths (at the scene) per day (22,900 per year) compared to Canada where 1,768 traffic fatalities in total were recorded in 2021, up from 1,745 in 2020. An average of about 5 per day. Thailand has about twice as many people in Canada, condensed into a much smaller area. Huge number of motorcycles compared to Canada as well. Thailand's lack of traffic enforcement is largely to blame for the stats. If they did their job properly, they'd cut those stats dramatically in a very short time. Just like nowadays you see the majority of people riding on scooters (on the main roads and side roads) wearing helmets. It wasn't that many years ago that no one wore helmets anywhere. Until the police started enforcing the law and fining people for not wearing them. Eventually almost everyone just started putting them on as soon as they got on their scooter. It's not 100% but it's significantly better than before. They announced a seatbelt law not long ago as well. Everyone in a car/truck is supposed to use a seatbelt now. Again, unless they start enforcing it and fining people, no one pays attention to the law. But once they do start enforcing it and people start having to pay fines, you can bet they'll be buckling up every time they get into a vehicle. Same for drunk driving. And running red lights at intersections. And speeding down roads at 40+ km/hr over the speed limit. All of which contribute to those accident stats and all of which would be cut down if the Traffic Police just started enforcing the traffic laws.

Sheesh, a 10 year, 34 page Canadian passport is only about 3,100 baht ($120 Cdn) and you have to go to Bangkok as well. Did my last one in 2020. Dropped off the paperwork and spoke to the Thai woman at the Embassy (because Canada doesn't like using Canadians to decide who should get Canadian passports or Visas) and then went back 10 days later to collect my shiny new passport (and then back to Jomtien to get all my stamps transferred of course).

It's probably not just Brits being targeted. The scammers are no doubt running the same scam on others, like those who can't get into Thailand (or the UK) normally. And if they did investigate it, you'd probably find that it's some Nigerians in Bangkok running the scam. Many years ago I had a scammer try to con me into thinking I'd won a huge Hungarian "cellphone" lottery and, naturally, I need to pay the transfer and "insurance" fees in order to collect. I strung him along for awhile and figured out he was a Nigerian. We had a Nigerian working in our Admin office, which is how the scammer knew I was in Afghanistan even though I'd been telling him I was in Pattaya. He kept telling me to let him know when I arrived in Thailand and he'd meet me at the airport to "collect the fees". Yeah right. I told him to give me the address of his office in Bangkok and I'd drive up from Pattaya - but he knew I wasn't in country. He then tried to get me to send the money by Western Express. I was able to find out which W.E. outlet he was planning on using and then I sent him a final email letting him know that I knew he was a scammer and that I'd alerted the Thai Police and forwarded his emails, complete with the headers that they could use to track his IP, as well as notifying the FBI. I said the FBI because when I was trying to track this guy down, I found he was also running a "Green Card" scam where people were being offered American "green cards" that would allow them to move to the US and bring as many family members as they wanted with them. I ended the email by telling him to expect the police to be arriving soon and then said "Wait, was that a knock on your door ? Have they arrived already ?" I had a chuckle as I imagined him diving out the window every time he heard a knock on a door for days afterwards. Needless to say, not only did he not reply but suddenly our Nigerian worker decided he didn't like the large salary he was earning and went home. I suspect he had been feeding the names of other employees (we had Indians, Nepalese, Filipinos, Canadians, Brits and Americans working in Afghanistan at the time) to the same scammer (or groups of them) and maybe was worried he'd get burned if his friend did get arrested.

READ the original story (linked in the OP). It says the accident happened in BANGKOK. Period. He left "in the middle of the night" to get food. It says the insurers believe he was riding without a helmet. Here's a clue - if this is true to begin with - the insurers would have the medical reports from the hospital which would be viewed by qualified people (i.e. doctors) working for the insurers. It wouldn't be hard for them to see what the injuries were and deduce how they happened. There could be a police report as well, which, for some reason, the RTP didn't flag and post on this site immediately after the accident. Funny that eh ? It says he has had TWO operations and that IF the second one was unsuccessful and he had to travel home, it would cost £168,000. What part of "IF" is so hard to understand ? The whole story reeks from the beginning. Here's why. Note. The story is in the Mirror. For starters, the Mirror pays people for their "horror vacation" stories and the more horror the better. They then "fluff" the stories to gain more sympathy. Note. The accident happened "in February" and "in Bangkok". NO details. Why ? Because details can be checked and verified. Was he in a hotel (CCTV cameras). Rented scooter ? How long was he in Thailand for ? Note: They don't say WHO the "insurers" are or what kind of insurance he had. Are they trying to use his NHS coverage ? Did he have travel insurance ? Or local motorcycle (mandatory gov't) insurance ? Again, can't have details that can be checked. Note. Like most of these types of stories, it came out AFTER they had set up a GoFundMe. Note: The "family" apparently has all flown here to be with him. So the money they are looking for is to pay for his operations, their holiday and "maybe" to fly him home. Assuming there is even a "he" to begin with. I've helped debunk a dozen fake GoFundMe scams over the last couple of years and they all have certain things in common. Like complete lack of details to prevent people from checking them. Like no hotel (or hospital) name, no exact dates, no exact location. Remember the Brit couple that claimed they came to Thailand for their anniversary and were "beaten and robbed at gunpoint" on their first night here ? They too had a GoFundMe set up almost immediately but when the police saw the CCTV film from a hotel far away from where the couple were staying, showing the man trying to break into hotel rooms and jumping off a 1st floor balcony to escape detection, they went to the hospital and found the couple had already snuck out and flew to Dubai. (Without paying the hospital bill of course.) Then there was the Canadian "model" who claimed a friend of hers had been in a motorcycle accident "in Phuket" and she need to raise funds to go there and bring her home. No details on the hospital, or the accident, or even her friend's name. The local newspaper had no report of a foreign woman in an accident. I tried telling the woman behind the GoFundMe that I was in Phuket and would go check on the fellow Canadian at the hospital. No response of course. And then the friend posted a bunch of photos on her Facebook. Of the beach. And the pool. And the hotel. Not one of her friend. The two Irish guys who claimed they'd been drugged and raped in Thailand and that their insurance company had refused to pay for AIDS tests. They got home, made up the rape story, sold it to the Mirror then used the "rape" claim to get free AIDs testing. Turns out they'd been drinking and partying in Thailand and having "risky" sex with various gay men. They went to a local hospital to get AIDS testing and tried to use their UK (NHS) insurance, which was refused. The three Australian women who spend a couple weeks at a hotel, then snuck out on their last day and flew out without paying their bill. When they were back in Oz they sold their story (sensing a trend here ?) and claimed that one of the women had been raped in her room and that is why they decided to sneak out and leave without paying their bill. However, hotel security cameras showed one woman bringing two men back to her room (willingly) and a couple hours later they left and she stood at the door waving good-bye to them. A couple hours later the three of them were seen sneaking out of the hotel. They made up the story so they wouldn't have to pay their hotel bill when their vacation was over. (Funny how they told the story to the Mirror but never went to the police. Same as the Irish guys.) Then there was the Canadian guy arrested in Bangkok. His friends set up a GoFundMe and then found a gullible reporter and told her that their friend had flown to Thailand and a group of men "dressed like police" had kidnapped him, took him to a "basement" and were holding him for ransom. They claimed that when the kidnappers found out he was Canadian they supposedly raised the ransom amount. Turns out, the guy had arrived in Bangkok and three days (!!!) later was arrested for trying to sell drugs to an undercover cop ! He was busted in an area known to be a hot spot for "African" drug dealers. (He was "black" as well.) The "men dressed as police" were actually police and they took him to their station and told him how much his BAIL would be (in US dollars). I'm guessing when they found out he was Canadian they amended the amount due to the exchange rate so that it still came out to ($5,000) US. I explained that to the reporter (on her Twitter account) but being stupid she wouldn't accept it. Until I found the news about what had really happened. She says she tried to contact his "friends" that had contacted her but they wouldn't return her calls. Shocker. (Can't figure out why a guy would fly from Canada to Thailand to sell drugs, unless he was one of those "I'm a Canadian just until I get the magic get out of jail free passport and then I'll go back to being a criminal drug pusher" types.) Remember the American Youtube "Fitness Star" that died (motorcycle accident ?) in Thailand and his family wanted some outrageous amount ($50,000 US or more) to fly over here and collect the body and fly it home. All first class of course. And all without having to use any of their own money of course. Whenever you see a tear jerker story full of generalities, usually with a GoFundMe already set up, be wary. GoFundMe is the platform of choice for the amateur scammer. (The pros do BitCoin scams.)

Lol - you just have to read this thread to realize that most of the people whining are not tourists but people trying to scam the system by staying for years without having the proper visa. Reminds me of all those barstool geniuses who whine every time the bars are closed for a day because of an election or Buddhist holiday and they run to Thail Visa to announce that this (the lastest of the many closures that happen every, single year) will be the "straw that breaks the camel's back" of tourism and then predict all manner of doom and gloom, claiming Euro tourists will flock to other locations where the bars apparently stay open 24/7, 365 days a year. (Makes you wonder why those people don't move there if it's so great, doesn't it ?) Thailand was doing just fine before covid when the arrival stamp was only 30 days. It will not affect (real) tourists at all as most of those arriving without a Visa will already know how long they can stay when they bought their plane tickets. And the vast majority of those (real) tourists will stay from 10-14 days and then go home. What was the (pre-covid) stat for Chinese tourists ? 5-8 day stays or something ? And people from India have to get a Visa on Arrival which is back to 15 days max now as well. (According to the Immigration Bureau and Ministry of Foreign Affairs websites as of a minute ago.) So I don't think this is going to adversely affect tourism in Thailand at all. Might make some faux tourists have to scramble and go back to whatever they were doing prior to this time last year.

No, they say she was arrested "in a similar case" as in, she too didn't have any documents and they don't know how she entered Thailand either. One possible explanation could be that they sold their passports to extend their stay and then tried to fly out of the country, not realizing that they'd be stopped at Immigration. Most people claim their passport was "stolen" and get emergency travel docs from their embassy before trying to leave the country. As for this guy, the "yakuza" tats should be a hint. Why you would go to an airport dressed like that is beyond me. I recall travelling to Thailand one year on Japan Airlines and had to sit next to a guy that had been refused entry to the US. He'd tried to be sneaky by flying from Australia to Japan, changing airlines, flying to Canada, changing airlines again and then trying to fly into the US. He didn't realize that there is a US Customs and Immigration checkpoint inside the Vancouver airport. As he was walking down the hall towards the (USA) departure gates, he took off his jacket and all his biker tats were visible. It seems they took one look at him and then hauled him off to the side for questioning. Turns out he didn't have a Visa to enter the US. He tried to claim that his girlfriend in Seattle had it and was meeting him at the airport. (Lol - like they were going to believe that line of bull.) Because he was refused entry to the US and still in the Departure area, he was held in custody until he could be flown back to his last airport of departure, which was Japan. No idea what happened to him after that. (Didn't ask, didn't care.)

No more coup - unless we lose the election. (Or if Thaksin or one of his relatives somehow bribes their way into power. Again.)

Want to bet that if he's identified as a "Brit" suddenly all the comments will be about how he was framed or someone must have slipped him a "mickey" or spiked his "sports water" (or a dozen other excuses to try and exonerate him).

The Hub of Bridge Boinking !

Fortuantely, I haven't noticed a drastic increase in the number of double-decker tour buses blocking main roads again. Yet. (I think a lot of them are still parked in various fields as the owners have been living in them and can't afford to fix and clean them.) Lots of traffic though. I miss the "covid days" when the streets and intersections had a quarter of the traffic they do now. And many of the tourists are "looky-lou's". Walkers and gawkers. Hordes of people meandering along the streets giggling and taking photos and buying - nothing. Take a gander at the bars and restaurants (and malls) around the city and you'll notice that they are population almost exclusively by one demographic. Plenty of others on the streets, but not spending money in the businesses along those streets. Just like it was before.

It was to pay for a ride on a baht bus (5 baht for Thais). Used to be quite common in Pattaya to see girls (and some guys) with a coin in their ear but like many other fads and fashions, it faded away over time.

Thailand Statue of Limitations (Prescriptions): "Twenty years in case of offences punishable with death, imprisonment for life or imprisonment of twenty years;" As his offenses took place in the 70s, it's unlikely that Thailand will try to extradite him. And even if they did, France would probably deny the extradition due to his age and health and the fact he'd face the death penalty - even though it's highly unlikely they'd ever carry out the sentence. Death penalty sentences for foreigners are usually commuted to life sentences either at trial or upon the next "royal pardon".

It's not just Pit Bulls. Many soi dogs will act very aggressively as well, especially when in a pack. When I go on my morning walk around the neighbourhood, I've encountered viscious dogs that came at me simply because I was walking down "their" street. There is one soi I walk down that has 3 different groups (4 now) of dogs along the way. Earlier this year as I was walking along, the "alpha" of one pack started tailing me and trying to bite my Achilles tendon (the back side of your ankle - a favoured tactic of canine species as it is meant to cripple the victim, making it easier for the pack to take down). His tail went between his legs in a hurry when I turned and launched a kick at his head. His pack mates were all barking and he was still snarling and I had to chase him into a grassy field before he finally gave up. The rest of the pack slunk off in different directions. A couple days later I walked down the same road and didn't see any of that pack around. I'm guessing someone "took care" of them. A couple months ago I was walking along a soi past a condo parking area. I saw something out of the corner of my eye, looked back just in time to see a soi dog trying to bite me (again going for the Achilles tendon). It caught a piece of my sweat pants and let go the instant I stopped and turned towards it. Chased it into the condo car park until it crawled under a car. A couple weeks later, as I was approaching the same spot, I saw the same dog charge at at Thai guy who was entering the parking area. As I got closer it came at me instead. My timing was off though. I must have tried 4 times to kick it in the head and missed by "that much" each time and once again I had to chase it until it slunk under a car to hide. Pretty sure if I nailed the mutt it would end up in the news as "foreign guy stomps poor soi dog to death for no reason" though. People think they are earning merit by dumping left over food on the side of the sois for the dogs. All they are doing is increasing the population of them. I can only imagine what might happen if those dogs went after someone who was scared of them and less able to defend themselves.

That plantation owner will be flooded with people looking for lucky numbers when the next batch comes out. They scored on two numbers (14 and 855) which is pretty amazing considered it's usually a total bust.

Look at how poorly literally everything is maintained here. Looks great when it's new, and then not a baht put into maintenance after that until it's completely fallen apart. And then it's a series of shoddy makeshift repairs designed to do just enough to keep it running for the least amount of cost. Look at the roads and sidewalks. The ongoing saga that is Beach Road every rainy season. All those "improvements to remove cables". (Have they actually removed any ?) I see large stacks of (8"/20cm) water pipes stacked alongside the railway bypass road so I'm guessing they'll be digging that up again in a project that should take a couple weeks but will still be ongoing 2 years later. And remember the public bus system that was supposed to be the answer to everything ? How's that working out ? I still chuckle every time I ride over a painted "bus stop" on the road. When the baht bus mafia started blocking the buses and parking in the bus stops, the authorities should have started arresting them and taking their trucks off the road. Instead they caved in and took the buses off the road instead. Can't see anyone seriously thinking a ludicrious cable car in the sky system would even get past the proposal stage. Nevermind what condition those "cars" would be in within weeks of going into operation. Unless they were being cleaned 8 times a day (555555555) they'd be full of used condoms, dirty needles, cigarette butts and empty food packages in no time. And stuck full of people everytime the power goes out during a storm. Yeah, that will really help Pattaya's image !

Imagine the uproar and howls of protest if something like this happened to a Thai national in (insert your home country here) ! In some countries (like Canada) - within days the gov't would be profusely apologizing and trying to make things right. There'd be zero talk of deportation and certainly nothing about black-listing. Sheesh, he/she/it would probably even be able to get a lawyer to fight the gov't and the gov't would pay for it ! We've had major criminals fight deportation orders for a decade. We've had illegal immigrants and fake asylum seekers living in 4 star hotels and suing the gov't to avoid being sent home - all paid for by the taxpayers. Some years ago (over 20 years now) it was noted in the (Canadian) news that they thought (they couldn't come up with an accurate number) that there were over 50,000 "illegal immigrants" in the country facing deportation orders - but they had no clue where they were ! Apparently their "plan" was to simply wait and hope that some of them got arrested for some minor infraction or got into an accident or something. I think they are scared to go after them because they know what the "left" and all the bleeding hearts will do if they were to start cracking down on them.

Or when you are carrying a knife and hoping the others don't have guns.

What it rally means is that Iran will not directly target Israelis themselves. They will simply "sub-contract" the job to locals using an intermediary so they can claim their hands are clean. It's the same thing the PLO did in Palestine when they decided to go the "political" route as they weren't making any ground in wiping out Israel via the terrorist route. They claimed to have given up terrorism but in reality just handed off the dirty work to groups led by young idealists eager to prove themselves. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is the same thing. Terrorists dating back to the late 1920s. They too decided to go "political" and hand off the terrorism work to "third party" groups so they could pretend to be non-violent. (And as it is World Cup time and it's being hosted in Qatar it's worth noting that Qatar was/is a major sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the branches that are still "terrorist". But they also host a large US military contingent so people look the other way. Just like they did during the Arab Spring when Saudi Arabia, Bahrain (with Saudi assistance), the UAE and others violently put an end to the protests in their countries.) Note that Iran (at least the religious whackos) refuses to disavow their pledge to annihilate Isreal. And here's a hint. It has absolutely nothing at all to do with Palestine. Iran doesn't give a toss about them. It's all about loathing the idea of a non-Muslim democracy in the middle of the "Muslim" empire.

It is almost routine that when the police raid a club - anywhere, at any time - they do urine tests on everyone. And I mean everyone. If your test comes out purple (indicating drug use) it's off to the station with you. (You may want to call your lawyer before you get there.) I remember when they were doing some crack-downs on Walking Street a few years ago. It made the news when they raided Lucifers and a number of (locals) broke through the police lines and ran off down the street. There's basically one way in and out of Lucifers and (the last time I was there) it was down a hallway behind another bar. When the cops raided the place, there was a rush for the door and a couple dozen people apparently were able to push their way through and escape. Everyone else, foreigner and Thai, had to do a p-test. They nabbed a few people and found some discarded drugs in the club (probably dropped by the people who ran for the door). I recall one night coming back from the bars on the Harley. The girl I was bringing home was following on her scooter. We ran into a police check on the railway bypass road just before the Boonsamphan intersection. I pulled up, cop looks at me and waves me through. I carry on but the girl got stopped. She showed up nearly 30 minutes later because they decided she had to do a p-test, right there on the side of the road. Luckily she was clean. Had her test been purple they would have tossed her in the police wagon they had waiting and eventually take her to soi 9. She would have been stuck there for hours waiting for an official report to be drawn up and then had to pay a large fine. (1,000 baht or so.) I think that was about the standard fine they were handing out back then as long as you didn't have any drugs on you. And no, they don't need your permission and you don't have a "right" to say no. Same for the breathalyzer test. If you refuse to blow, that's a crime and they can (and will) haul you to the closest hospital and have them draw a blood sample and test it. Which they will also do if you've been in an accident. And you can't say no to that either. You're not in (insert liberal Western country that is soft on drugs and criminals here) anymore Toto !

Umm no. He kept 1 mil and put 5 mil in her account. Supposedly they know (somehow) that she took 2 mil out, leaving HER with another 3 mil that HE can't touch !

I've had vendors ask me to cancel orders because they realized they vastly underpriced something and would lose money if they completed the order. No sweat. Lazada asks why you are cancelling and there's an option for "vendor requested" (or similar wording). I've had numerous vendors ship things using non-Lazada transport without issue. Considering that a lot of vendors sell a lot of large, heavy stuff, I'd have to wonder why one wouldn't want to. It's possible they don't actually have the item and are hoping you'll go to their shop and they might be able to sell you something else. I wouldn't take cash. If they won't do a bank transfer or a debit card scanner, I'd look elsewhere. What I often do is, when I find an item I like, I copy the first few words of the description for it, open a new (duplicate) window and paste the words into the search bar. Then use the "Low to High" filter and scroll through to see how many other vendors may be selling the same thing - sometimes at much lower prices. But if you see numerous vendors with almost exactly the same item, description and price, it's probably the same guy. A lot of them will have multiple "store fronts" and list the same things on them with maybe a tiny difference in price. Also watch for the latest scam where vendors show a picture of an item with a really good price and when you click on the link you go to their storefront, but if you "add" the item to the cart it turns out to be something completely different. Like you see a high back chair for 300 baht, click on it, go to the page, see the chair and price, "Add" it to your cart, go to your cart and see it's now a plastic stool. And when you click on the item you thought you had selected, it turns out to be a much higher price. Look at the other items offered and see a bunch more high priced chairs and a couple low priced stools. It isn't a bug and it's been happening across a range of vendors and different kinds of items. I noticed they are doing it on AliExpress too so it seems to be a fairly organized scam. I almost got caught a couple weeks ago when I was going to order an air mattress for a friend. I found the one I had ordered months ago and clicked on it. It took me to the vendors page, showed the air mattress, storage bag and inflator bag (with a "+" sign between them). Clicked to "Add" to cart. Realized it was the wrong colour. Clicked on a different colour and the price was nearly double ! Checked a couple others and the same thing. Went to my cart and saw that instead of a mattress, bag and inflator bag, all that was there was the inflator ! Went back to the vendors site and sure enough, the inflator bag could be purchased separately - for the price I'd previously paid for the whole kit. It's like a "bait and switch" scam and I'm kind of surprised Lazada (and AliExpress) are letting them get away with it (as I'm sure they must know about by now as it's been going on for quite awhile).

Yeah, you're pretty much screwed. I know a guy who did the same thing. Just forgot to get a re-entry permit before going home. Came back - so sorry, 30 day stamp for you ! (Yeah I know it's 45 days - now - but wasn't - then.) Had to literally start the process all over again from scratch with the only plus being he already had the finance part ready. Then again, the same guy was also denied an Extension one year because he was one of those guys that was transferring almost exactly the minimum amount needed for the monthly transfer method - and did'nt watch the exchange rates. When he went to renew, it was declined because (he says) one month the amount was 20 baht under the minimum. My understanding is that there are quite a few who do that, transfer the bare minimum with almost no wriggle room at all to account for exchange rate changes or banking delays or transfer fee changes. When your entire Extension rides on you having to have that minimum amount being transferred each month, you'd think they'd err on the side of caution but no, that might cost them the equivalent of a quarter of a glass of (warm) draft beer each month and who wants to risk that !

Did you try to have the stamps transferred to your other passport ? I've done it twice with no problems, though both times the passports were from the same country. But if you fill out the form (to have your stamps transferred) and tell the IO a story about why you are switching passports, they may do it without problem. Line 21: https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/downloads_en/