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"Big Joke" is about this case. Inmates are not soft with guys like this. The guy will surely get an "ass" treatment in jail and after that he will be found dead. End of the line for him.

The couple that abused her was NEVER prosecuted. $$$$$$ involved. They live now happy somewhere near Koh Samui. As a respone to some posters in here, the case with the girl was reported to the police by neighbors. She escaped once and went to the police who brought her back to the Thai couple. It was after the police returned her to the couple that the punishment with pouring hot water started.

I was not really "Fired". The company which I was employed had to reduce the staff by 25% and they did it on a "last in, first out" base. Still was the same feeling.

No "Brakes failed"? Strange ....

Not so many times in my life. But I recall very well being said "You are fired" by the company where I was working. It was on a Friday morning. I was very sad because I needed the money as I just buyed a house a year before. That Friday, coming home and telling my girlfriend that I lost my job was a very hard day. We start thinking about how to proceed with my life and we decided that I would setup my own company. Running in the weekend everywhere to buy and setup the legal thinks and make advertisings in the local newspapers, and by Wednesday I had already 4 orders and the money was coming in. About 2 month's later, I received an URGENT message to come back to the company where I was fired to have a chat. Seemed that Hennessy Cognacs did buy an extension to their existing installation but they would sign the contract ONLY if I would do that extension (I assume that Hennessy wasn't aware that I was fired). I accepted the job, but I would do everything by my own company as a subcontractor and billed them about 10 times the cost if I was working there.

First, the OFFICIAL number of death's and injured people is much higher than 39. The forgot as always to count the people that died on the way to the hospital or died a few days later due to the injuries from the accident. Second (and also an answer to a poster in this thread), MOST of the people who get injured or die in a road accident are the innocent ones. The 2 students in a Honda Jazz who were rammed by a speeding Mercedes and went up in flames; The passengers of a minibus which was rammed by the underaged daughter of a moviestar in a Honda while racing on the highway; The innocent people waiting at a bus station and were washed away by the son of a moviestar without brains; Etc. And NONE of them were punished as it should be because they were the son's/daughter's of a HISO Thai or a wealthy businnesman. Third, despite of the many departments setup to tackle the road accidents and make the roads safe for everybody, the numbers are every year the same and mostly increasing. What is the cause of these high numbers? 1. DISRESPECT FOR THE LAW Thailand might think of anything to prevent the high casualties, as long as the people on the road (Thais + foreigners) don't give a flying f??k for the law nothing will change. And YES, for some unknown reason, foreigners who follow strictly the traffic laws in their country seems to forget these laws when arriving in Thailand. The "When in Rome, do as the Romans" Syndrome. 2. DISRESPECT FOR THE OTHERE ROAD USERS Thais + foreigners need to learn to show respect for the other road users the hard way. High fines should be handed over if showing disrespect. Camera's and speed detectors are very cheap and reliable nowadays and mostly are already fitted at crossings or dangerous places. Main problem is to keep them working (mostly disabled by a policeman to earn some extra cash) or to cash the fines. 3. LAZINESS I agree that most students/people in remote areas don't have adequate transport to go to the school or to the market. Although, these remote places tend to get scarser. But that is still no reason to let a 12 years old boy/girl drive on a motorbike to the school (mostly shared with several other passengers) and without decent wear (helmet). Also, many people drive with material which is NOT ROAD WORTHY (specially the trucks with failing brakes and the cars/motorbikes without tail lights) and don't bother to keep the road worthy. 4. EDUCATION People who want to get a driver license should go trough a stringent education before hitting the roads. Not driving 1 time round the block.

He might for a start take a look into naughtythai.com ....

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/travel-only-6-eu-schengen-countries-recognise-chinas-sinovac-vaccine-as-valid-proof-of-immunity/?fbclid=IwAR28JzafcZeLAnMz8P0ifaxyCtzI_g5CKo1CgusuxAgWvmlamnhPAMBYz9c According to a new tool developed by VisaGuide.World, which enables travellers to check the validity of their vaccine when travelling abroad, the following EU/Schengen Area countries accept Sinovac as valid proof of immunity: Austria Finland Greece Iceland Netherlands Spain Sweden Switzerland

From the same file: Dear, The Sinopharm vaccine is not approved by the European ECDC, and therefore not by Belgium. AstraZeneca on the other hand is. Foreign-made vaccines can be registered in Belgium under a number of conditions: -it must be a vaccine approved by the European Medicines Agency (currently: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson) -the person must obtain an official certificate from the local health authorities, the bank card format cards received at the time of vaccination are not sufficient proof -this certificate will allow you to enter Belgium, if the conditions are met (approved vaccine + at least 14 days between the 2nd dose and arrival in Belgium) -once back in Belgium, the person must contact the FPS Public Health (https://www.health.belgium.be/nl/contact) In Belgium, a third shot is offered for people with a higher risk (age, other medical condition...) but not mandatory, and certainly not before your return to Belgium. Regards,

Europe can not make rules/laws. While Europe can RECOMMMEND the member states to ackowledge the vaccins from Thailand or the Thai Vaccination card, it is up to each country if they want to follow this RECOMMANDATION. Translated email from the Belgian Embassy: Mutual Recognition Digital Vaccination Certificates Since December 22, Thai vaccination, recovery and testing certificates via the 'Mor Prom' app have been equated with the EU Digital Covid Certificate. In practice, this means that Mor Prom can be used in Belgium as a Covid Safe Ticket and that the EU certificate must be accepted everywhere in Thailand. In Belgium, however, only vaccines recognized by the European Medicines Agency are taken into account (Pfizer, Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca), Moderna, Janssen and Covishield).

Come on guys. It's December and Xmas. The road was very slippery because of the ice and snow. It was the weather's fault.

Thai children are now consuming a lot of Fast Food, and not the scarse sticky rice and Som Tam they are a few years ago. When I came to Thailand, now more than 2 decades ago, the young people eating at KFC or McDonalds could be count on the fingers of 1 hand. Now, around end of school time, KFC and McDonalds outlets are filled to the brim with young people. 7/11 shops offer a wide variety of Burgers and Fried Chicken too. This consumption of Fast Food, and the lack of consumption of vegetables and fruit are the cause of increasing body weight. Also, the lack of exersize (smartphones, tablets and notebooks) compared to a few years ago, is the leading cause of the increasing of body weight amongst younger people. About a decade ago, the government wanted to tacke this negative development, but someting went wrong ....

It will become even worse when MetaVerse, the Virtual Reality world from Facebook will become wide spread.

Excerpt of an email of one of the "smarter" expats who used his brain and left Thailand for what it really is: "Oviedo is a wonderful city, very nice and clean. The thing that sold us on Gijon was the long beachfront and boardwalk there. At my age it will motivate me to continue to do more walking - another thing that has been great about living here in España!"

I was 3 weeks ago in South Jomtien, near Ban Saray. Hig rise condominiums with price starting at 4 million baht. Prices that are out of the reach of most (s)expats with a pension. And most of these condominiums WERE SOLD OUT!!!! Condominium owners families enjoying a day at the local swimming pool that looked like a swimming pool in Singapore. Very clean and neat. Very few, almost none, Esan hookers around. In the evening, condominium owners started to return home from work in Ferrari's, Porsche's, Lambo's, etc. All cars with price tags starting around 6 million baht. Ordering a dinner at the condominium of a few 10 thousand baht for them and their family. Face it. The days of the (s)expats who came to Thailand to marry a Thai hooker from Pattaya or Phuket, buy a house upcountry in the rice fields of Nakhon Nowhere and going to the Maharat when somethings goes awry are over. Thailand doesn't want you anymore. 1 single of these condominium owners spend more in 1 day in Thailand than a (s)expat and his Esan family in a whole year and they are not whining like you.

Thai road casualties = Thai birth control

Sorry, but I don't get the importance behind all this road casualties. Sure, every year there are a lot of deaths on the Thai roads. But (mostly) a few days after their death, their corpse are burned and forgotten. But nobody seems to care about the 1 million+ of people who are left handicapped for life and/or will need health care for life. Nobody seems to care about the disaster this handicapped people brings to the Thai families and the Thai economy. Most of these victims are not reimbursed by the insurance of the other party (assuming that they had an insurance) or the insurance are waiting for months with the compensation and leaving the hospitals and the families of the victim with the care of these victims. How many people more need to be involved in this game before the as....s in the government will wake up and start to do their job?

Why pretending to be the Holy Spirit? A few houses next to my house is an organised, illegal Casino, which is frequented every Wednesday by the Mair and the local police and everybody in town knows about this place. Same as: "Thailand has no prostitutes" but is full with bars, glassbowl massages and other places where people can have sex.

Where is the picture of the "Miraculous Amulet" that saved the driver's life?

Encounters of the 3rd kind In 2012 I divorced my Thai wife and became "Sod" (Thai for single). I was offically the caretaker of my daughter as my ex-wife didn't want to take care of the child. One day, while having a meeting with other foreigners at the local restaurant, somebody proposed that I would need to look for a wife or a nanny for my child. He was member of Thaifriendly and had already meet a few ladies through that website. The next morning, while drinking my morning coffee, I decided to open an account at that website and test my luck. After a few contacts (a girl of 24 years was not really my taste a woman from Khonbury send me a "Like". According to her profile, she was 45 years; Had no children; Never was married before; Was looking for a relation/marriage and was working as an ironing lady in a laundry shop. She looked very nice on the pictures. She was 1,48m and 45kg, a grown up midget. I decided to answer her and look what happen. We started to chat regularly, send each other "Good morning" and "Good night", and talk about our future. Her dream was to have a relation/marry with a foreigner and starting her own Thai restaurant. A small restaurant where she would get her customers and cook for them. One day, Thursday, my daughter was going on a "Camp trip" with the school for 5 days. This was the right occassion to have a meeting with my "Match". I braught my daughter to the school and returned home where I started to chat with her. I wrote:" "My daughter is on camp for a week, so I am alone. What do you think if we meet and have a lunch or a dinner together and chat about out future? Luckely for me, she had a free weekend and accepted to come to visit me for the weekend. But we would not sleep together. "She was not like that", she said. Early Saturday morning, 9am, I went to pick her up at the busstation. We went to a restaurant to have breakfast and then we drove to my home. I showed her the "Guest Room" where she could sleep, and that was OK for her. We had a little chat and then I went to the garden to spray my garden while she would watch the TV and have a rest. As I was spraying my garden, I hear a loud "BOUM" and the kitchen started to be filled with black smoke. I went immediatly inside my house to see what was happening. The "lady" was a little bit hungry and decided to cook 2 eggs. She had placed 2 raw eggs in the Microwave, turned the dial to full power and put the timer on "30 (minutes)". Result: the eggs had exploded in the microwave. The whole kitchen was stinking as rotten eggs and a black smoke was hanging around. I took the microwave outside and asked her nicely to pack her bags and I would bring her back to the busstation. I hope that she will never start with her own restaurant and keep ironing clothes. The stench of rotten eggs remained in the Microwave and my kitchen for a week.

6. Thai bureaucrazy 2 In 2014, a new law came out in Thailand and children needed to get an Identity Card at the age of 12 years. I was already divorced and a single parent. I went with my daughter to the local city hall to apply for an ID-card for my daughter, but the guy told us that they can not take the applications and we would need to go to the main City hall in Korat. So, the next day we went to the main city hall in Korat to apply for an ID-Card. The lady at the booth was an old, grumpy person (and probably hating every foreigner) and rejected our application with the words: “For the Id-Card application, your daughter needs to be with her Thai mother. Not a foreigner.” I wanted to see her superior, but there was simply no way that I would achieve something positive with her and I left. The next day, I went to the tourist police (I had some good connections there) and I asked them for their help with the ID-Card. I didn’t know of the whereabouts of the mother and I didn’t want to get involved with my ex-wife anymore. The tourist police did a few inquiries, but they could not trace my ex-wife too. So, they suggested that one of them would go together with me and my daughter the next day and see if there was no other solution. The next day we got in a tourist police car with 2 tourist policeman to the City Hall and tried to apply again for an ID-Card. But the old, grumpy lady was at the booth again and she refused again. She showed the tourist policeman the requirements for an ID-Card for children written by some high official and there was clearly marked that the ID-Card application needed to be done by a THAI national. Back to the tourist police station, they discussed the problem, but had no direct answer of how to solution this. They told me to go home and wait a few days to give time to look for a solution. Days went by, but no call. My daughter was already 12 years in the mean time and officials at the school and other places started to ask for her ID-Card. My nerfs were cracking and I decided to join the Thai bureaucrazy. The next day, a Wednesday, I prepared a backpack for my daughter with some clothes and other things and instead of driving to the school, I drove to the tourist police office and dropped my daughter there. “As I am not her father for official documents, I don’t want to be her father to take only financial care of her”, I said and left. A tourist police officer who I knew very well tried to calm me down and offered me a coffee. Drink a coffee and I am going to solution this today. I drink my coffee, in the mean time other police officers came in, and they decided to end this problem. We drove first the local Police station with 2 police officers and their “big boss” and the tourist police boss went for some documents (I had totally no clue of what he was doing). Then we drove to the main City hall again and at the booth, the tourist police boss went to the old, grumpy lady and asked her if she knew what his badge meant. She knodded “Yes”. “Then start to make the application for an ID-Card for this child”, he shouted to her. The old, grumpy lady didn’t want to lose face and showed the police officer the list of requirements. But the police officer showed her the document he had made a few hours ago. According to that document, he would be entitled to sign all documents in name of my ex-wife as she was “Unknown address” and could not be traced. The old, grumpy lady turned from shades of gray to black and started to mane an ID-Card for my daughter. Before midday, we left the City Hall WITH an ID-Card for my daughter in direction of a restaurant where I offered a lunch for everybody.

5. Thai bureaucrazy 1 In May 2002, I was at the hospital where my wife was giving birth to our daughter. Late in the evening our daughter was born and I stayed with my wife that night. The next day, early in the morning, the nurse came into the room and gave me a document. I needed to go the City Hall with that document to declare the birth of our daughter. We ate a quick breakfast and I took a tuk-tuk to the city hall of Korat. Arrived at the city hall, I went to the booth “Births” and gave the lady the document I got from the nurse. She looked very friendly and wished me good luck with my baby. She gave me also a booklet (in Thai language) and a little gift box. She started to type in something in her computer and after a few minutes she asked me how we are going to name our child. According to the tradition of my country, the first born child shall have the name of the last member of the family that passed away. The last member of my family was called “Carmen” and I wanted to name our child the same name. I saw the lady at the booth going trough all shades of Gray and putting a face of despair. Sir, she said, I am deeply sorry to tell this, but there is NO WAY to write “Carmen” in Thai language. I was astonished and answerred her: “You are going to tell me that in a language with 74 consonants and 26 vowel groups you can not write “Carmen””? In the meantime, a bunch of other office clerks had joined the lady and some customers had joined the discussion to find a solution. “We can write “การ์เมน” (Camen) said a clerk”, but then everybody would call her “Camen”. “We can write “การ์ราเมน” said somebody else, but then everybody would call her “Caramen””. “Why don’t you write “การามน”?, said another person. But the everybody would call her “Canmen”. After about 2 hours of doctoring how they would manage to write “Carmen” in Thai and me starting to be sorry to have started all this, I cut the discussion and said: “It doesn’t matter how you are going to spell “Carmen” as nobody is going to call her by her name in Thailand. Everybody will use a nickname. So type the spelling you want and give her the nickname “Samui”. That is something you can type in Thai as I was there 2 weeks ago.” So, the lady went for the real name “การ์ราเมน” and the nickname “Samui”. Thanks to a language with 74 consonants and 26 vowel groups.

4. Driving to the airport February 2016, I was driving my daughter to the airport as she was having a vacation in Finland. I started in Korat about 9pm as the flight was scheduled at 2am. A few kilometres after the market "Save One", the main lane was blocked for a police checkpoint. All the traffic had to go trough the side lane where the police were checking all the cars. As I was queuing, a car behind me came at high speed and wanted to drive into the main lane. Unfortunately, the main lane was blocked and he could not drive forward or backward anymore. A few police officers went directly to that car and took the driver to the check post. The driver was a young guy. I passed the checkpoint and continued my trip to the airport. A few minutes after the checkpoint, I saw a car coming behind me at high speed and flashing with his headlights. It was the same car who was halted at the checkpoint. He started to play a “cat and mouse” game. When I slowed down to let him pass, he was slowing down too. When I was gaining speed, he gain speed too. All this time tailgating me and driving a few meters behind my car. If I would push my brakes, he would have surely crashed in my car. My daughter was in the car, she was 15 year old, and I feared that they were going to harm us. I asked my daughter to take movie clips and pictures of this and try to get a clear picture of their tax number. As I was approaching Saraburi, I had a plan to escape them. I knew that at 90 degree turn from Saraburi to Bangkok, at the Military domain, the were always trucks parked and taking a night rest. As I was approaching the curve, I turned my lights off, drove full speed and parked my car between 2 trucks. This seemed to work as I saw the tailgating car drive slowly in direction of Bangkok, looking where I was. After a few minutes, I didn’t see them anymore and I continued my traject. But at Nava Nakorn, the tailgating car was waiting for me and the “cat & mouse” game resumed. Lucky for me, a few kilometres further we approached the turn to the highway to Suwarnabhumi airport. At the highway booth, I stopped to get a ticket and I asked my daughter to tell the lady that we were harassed by the driver in the car behind me. The lady pushed a button on her desk and almost immediately a police officer came. My daughter explained what was happening and showed the recordings on her phone. The policeman went to the other car, took the driver and his passengers out of the car and told my daughter that everything was OK. The driver was together with 2 other young guys and a young lady. We arrived at Suvarnhabumi safely thanks to that police officer and the lady at the toll boot.

3. Immigration Begin of 2019, I was due for my Visa extension. I prepared every document, together with 3 copies, 3 photo's of myself, etc. A routine I had been doing the past 17 years. Early Tuesday morning, I collected my papers, went to the bank and drove to the Immigration office. I was still not fully recovered from the surgery and I was not sure that I would make it. Arrived at the office, I made the queue for the pre-sorting desk. A desk where everybody needed to show what he/she wanted Immigration to do and if he/she had all the necessary documents. While I was in the queue, I had a blackout and my papers fall to the ground. As I was grabbing up my papers (I had difficulty to bend my upper body), a woman behind me started to shout something in Thai. As I turned myself, it was the head of the Immigration office who was shouting at the boy at the desk why he would not stand up and help me. She helped me to grab my papers and told me to follow her. In her office, I was offered a chair and she asked me what I came for. I told her that I came for a visa extension and showed her all my papers and my passport. 5 minutes later, I was back in my car driving home with a visa extension and a selfie of me and the head of immigration.

The Thai neighbours/neighbors End of 2018, I went to my country to have a very grave surgery. 3 months later, in November, I came back to Thailand but I was still recovering from the surgery. The taxi which would drive me back from Bangkok to Korat arrived at my home (around 3pm) and the taxi driver started to unload my luggage. My neighbour, a Thai man who had converted his pickup to sell fried pork balls on a stick saw me coming home and noticed my condition. He came quickly out of his yard, greeted me friendly and grabbed my bags while helping me to get in my house. He started to chat with me and asked if I was alright, if I needed something, if I had already ate lunch, etc. I told him that I had been travelling 16 hours and only wanted have a rest now. He went back to his house and came a few minutes later with a full Thai/Esan lunch. In the following days, he and my other neighbors came at my house to help me with food and other things (go pay my bills, get my water meter back, bring me every 3 days to the hospital to refresh my dressings, etc.) and invited me regularly to have dinner with their family (I was living alone). I offered them money and wanted to pay them back (I knew that my neighbor was not a rich man and he had a daughter studying at the university) but he didn't want to receive any money. A heart-warming welcome which would never occur in my country.