Old Croc

21 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

I have never had to provide my passport at any hospital. 

 

Is this a new law? 

Taking a copy of a patients ID at a hospital would be very unlikely to be enacted into law.

I'm sure Thais show their ID cards when registering for treatment.

Having been a patient at both a major private hospital and and also at a minor public hospital, copies of my PP ID formed the first part of my files.

8 hours ago, zmisha said:

3 years ago in Laos I met a guy who overstayed for many years. Professional sound engineer. He said that he paid about 70k for a visa agency to solve the problem. And got a passport full of stamps without any overstay history.

Modern countries have all your visa and movement records on computor. Bogus stamps in a passport would only get you past a police officer or such checking you on the street.

8 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:

 

I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess she didn't have cash or a card that worked.

From the link I  published earlier:

"A staff member accompanied her to an ATM, but once they arrived, she said she didn't bring her ATM card.' Staff accompanied the woman to her hotel to retrieve her card, but when she tried to withdraw money, there was only 100 baht in her account. She allegedly claimed 'the stock market had crashed' and continued to offer various excuses before being dragged back to the bar to explain herself."

South African. Drinking tequilas, not eating.

Tourist rants at police after 'refusing to pay drinks bill in Phuket' | Watch

20 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Still, a higher level than you’ll ever attain.

You got one thing right.

I attended twice, then told my mother I wasn't going again, it was rubbish,

Later the same priest started bible classes at my primary school telling the same old stories about slingshots and jawbones of asses.  I again pulled out and was forced to always spend that period sitting quietly on a bench.

I assessed and rejected your gods and the idiotic stories before I reached double figures in age.

20 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Still, a higher level than you’ll ever attain.

20 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Another delusional Trump hater.

 

Making excuses for their bent ideology.

 

Your people (nutters) like and uncensored.

 

 

 

I rest my case.

10 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Nothing logical or truthful about his post.

 

Hence my sarcasm.

 

Used all three of your words in my post.

Congratulations little Monte, you'll soon move up to the next level in Sunday School.

The guy apparently assaulted someone and hoped to get out of the country before facing the consequences.

It seems the police had his name in the alert system which was triggered when he went through outwards immigration. He was then arrested in the departure lounge and transferred back to the Province where the offence was comitted. Not unusual circumstances in most countries. The use of half a dozen officers and the term "sting" is part of local culture.

His immigration status will not affect the charges and possible punishment apart from enforced departure on conclusion.. This is not Gulag America.

16 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

you just <deleted> on the sidewalk then ?

Probably in basements of multi story car parks

Have to be unlucky.

On monday I was sitting outside on the veranda watching the rain when lightning struck the road about 20- 30 meters away. The noise and shock was massive  and my body was tingling and shaking for some seconds  afterwards.

We had a violent storm the day before which damaged buildings, flattened crops, brought down trees and snapped off 2 concrete  electricity poles near our property.

Loei Province.

16 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

1 hour already - how have the Brit-bashers not jumped all over this already... 

 

They would usually be all over this like an 'Auntie' at an all you can eat shrimp buffet... 

 

... bet they'll pee a little when they read the headline... 

It's hard to keep up, there's a backlog of incidents that need highlighting.

One of the consequences of a country invading,conquering and plundering other weaker nations in the past is the intergration of those peoples into their citizenry in modern times, There's something like 5m French citizens and residents with origins in North Africa. 

Not all from the colonies are beautiful maidens from Reunion Island. 

On 4/11/2025 at 11:54 AM, Patong2021 said:

In 2024, Florida saw a net influx of more than 77,000 new retirees.

What a difference a year makes. (And a change of government?)

Number of Americans Moving to Florida Collapses - Newsweek

17 hours ago, baansgr said:

Another Muay Thai student on a temporary DTV..the sooner they stop this mad visa idea, the sooner the violence will stop

Hahaha.  If he's training in martial arts his gym needs to be converted to a yoga and wellness center for their gross incompentence. 

1 hour ago, jts-khorat said:

 

I have told many people -- like you -- that found their new and exciting retirement in Thailand quickly boring and depressing: you stay in your own head, in the end, it is you who comes with you.

 

If you cannot find something that motivates you, fills your time and makes living worthwhile, then even a place like Thailand will not help you overcome your internal issues. But, I am saddened to say, there is a big likelihood that you also will not be happy in most other places on the planet.

 

Find a way to be happy, then choose the proper surrounding to live it out. Not the other way round. Just my 2c.

Great advice for normal thinking people considering retirement in  a country other than their own.

Completely wasted on idiots who can't even remember the name of their hotel and think their workplace and other people should be their personal entertainment venues and directors.

Felt it near Dan Sai. Loei.

Had just sat down in a lazyboy and it kept rocking and shaking in weird directions.  My wife didn't feel a thing.

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Used to take allipurinol (zyloprim), but still had attacks which I countered by increasing colchocin until it caused the runs, which stopped attacks.  

As stated in Thailand everyone has a tendancy to flap their wings when they find out you have gout, but chicken is no higher in purines than most other meats  Lists are available on line giving purine levels for most types of food. Avoid the high level ones.

My Uric acid level was 9 when I started taking febuxostat (Uloric) it nows sits around 4.  Much more expensive than alipuinol, but for many considerably better.

3 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

Less of the silly old farts I’ve been here 20 years never ever in trouble and I’m a young 74 years of age it’s time that age discrimination was made an offence one day if the man upstairs likes you he might allow you a long extended life I hope you don’t end up being called a S.O.F 

I've lived here for 15 years, never started a fight in my life. I am a month shy of my 77th birthday. 

However, I can recognise there are many silly old farts here without identifying myself,or you, as one.

In my experience people nearly always exaggerate (or downplay) their version of an event particularly when talking with the media.

There is much more to this than the Brits have revealed in their sympathy seeking interviews. 

I don't know what happened or who started the physicality, although it's clear how it ended. You don't have to look far into Pattaya or Patong news videos to find silly old farts starting fights with bouncers or whatever. It rarely ends well.

There's no doubt the other couple went way too far in the altercation. They admitted blame and paid compensation. They didn't mention it, but presumably the old couple accepted some payment after the police took their cut.

The Thai legal system is based on English Common Law but with their own versions built in.  Many crimes and disputes are settled with agreed compensation without resorting to charges and courts. It generally works well for both parties.  That charges were leveled at the old couple suggests they were more involved in the initial dispute than they admit. It doesn't indicate a corrupt breakdown of the Thai legal system.  The couple were never going to be jailed, that was part of their sympathy seeking version.

The Thai supreme court recently ruled that leases can only be for a 30 year period, any extension has to be renogotiated after that time. This will have upset  many people all over Thailand particularly so in the HH region where many developers have been hawking 90 year leases.