seabass69

I think the Envoys should be warning visitors about: the airport tout scams, duty free shoplifting scam, Thong Lor police random searches yanking tourists out of taxies, the cigarette butt police entrapment scam, the 10 baht TukTuk scam, scammers posing as taxi drivers parked in front of every hotel, the gem scam, Grand Palace closed scam, jet ski scam, violent Phuket Tuk Tuks, Pattaya taxi meter scam, overloading tourists boats, drugging and robberies, random violence, ladyboy pickpockets, double pricing, and allot more.

Agreed?

You forgot 'checking your change at 7Eleven'. That can add up to quite a lot over a two week holiday.

Can't really see any offence being committed. Irresponsible but not illegal.

Isn't it illegal to help someone break the law? By helping drivers evade checkpoints, don't they aid them in their drunk driving?

But are they breaking the law? I know in Australia the offence of drink driving is not committed until the actual evidentiary breathe test/blood test has been completed and the person is deemed to be in excess of the prescribed limit. The charge then shows the date and time of test and not the time of driving. (Test must be conducted within 4 hours of driving) We don't even have a power of arrest and persons do not have to submit to a test. Can be charged with refuse if they don't but can't be forced.

Have had quite a few stop and change drivers when approaching a booze bus site but nothing we could charge the new driver with. Still breath test and charge the original driver tho.

Thailand may be completely different and I have never been stopped for a breath test in Thailand.

So you're only committing an offence if you're caught? Yep, sounds like Thailand to me.

whats the thai word for responsibility?

or the thai word for integrity?

Mai bpen rai.

Maybe they could see how it's done in other countries. Pull them over whilst they're driving, wait in unmarked cars outside clubs.

I don't know about most countries but you only see checkpoints in the UK for large trucks so they can get them off the road but they can still be pulled over anywhere if needed.

I have noticed in my area a policeman stood a few 100 metres before bike checkpoints to catch those who u turn.

Didn't someone go on an expensive trip to South Korea and say they wanted to copy them. How do they deal with this

Used regularly in the US country wide to nab drunks and other law breakers. Check point set up after 11pm on roads or streets that are known for there entertainment establishments. These check points have been determined to be very effective form of law enforcement

They have also been determined to be illegal.

A redbull, two hamburgers and a flight to Malaysia for me.

AND can I pay for them separate please cause they are for 4 different people, will visa be OK. Do you understand, and will you please put down your mobile when I speak to you. I am a tourist do you understand ??? why don't you know where Khon Khen is. DOH.

Yes, you pointed to the most important thing in the case.

They don't speak in English so this service for local people.

And how may I book, how may I browse the flight? Do they make a counter machine there or I have to use the 7Eleven's staff who get 300 B / day ?

Nice plan.

The staff will choose your flight for you.

If offical duty must carry some guns if not don't try to catch as they have noting to lose boats will confisicate and will trown into jail . Do or die situation as sea have not law, ask for back up by radio coast guard don't be hero as hero die young.

I thought we were only allowed to reply in English...?

Bandit...

They should have just painted it away.

Should've used bamboo instead of that farang metal stuff.

Excuses, excuses, heard all these reasons before. I've lived in Thailand since 2001 and in Phuket 7 years, rarely ever see a police officer giving out speeding tickets, no tickets for drivers with no helmets on motorcycles (except farangs), etc., etc. It mostly has to do with saving face in Thailand, even if a truck driver flees and accident, the police wait for him to turn himself in, accountability is next to nothing here. SO I drive my car between 40 to 50 at all times in the slow lane as 99% of everyone else zips around me.

Thailand: The hub of 'doing anything to save face no matter how stupid it makes me look'.

"red card/yellow card" . . . what a joke . . . ban them for life . . .

Yes! where else but in Thailand

Brazil?

One option may be to fly to Udonthani for a day trip. We went to the passport office there on Tuesday for a new passport for my daughter...in and out within half an hour.

I'm from Australia and I'm Australian. So if you're from the USA, I guess that makes you USAlian.

Let me see if I have got this right.

This man completed post graduate studies in the area of law, was awarded a degree and passed the bar exam, but he is so stupid that he can't even do a little research to learn that US $10,000 bills are not put into circulation, and he couldn't figure out that trying to exchange so many would sound a big alarm anyway?

He is a shining example of Thai education. I have often thought that a Thai university BA is equivalent to a general high school graduate in Western countries, but now I must downgrade that. This guy isn't even as smart as high school student in the civilized world, and he's a lawyer.

He used $10,000 bills to pay for his degree, so he thought they were still legal tender.

Yeah, we don't know what happened for sure from the news story.

However, it does sound off to both be carrying a passport AND only 29 baht.

Foreigners carrying passports are usually on some kind of task unless in transit somewhere.

It's also a fair bet 99 percent of foreign tourists are carrying more than 29 baht on them.

Neither fact (if true) means much, but together are clues.

But if he carrying his passport for posthumous I.D. purposes, why not also carry a note?

It does sound "off". However, there may be a perfectly reasonable explanation. Tonight, for example, before I went up the road to 7 Eleven for some beers, I threw on a pair of shorts and grabbed a couple of 100 baht notes. When I got home and emptied my pockets, I realised that my passport was still in the sneaky side pocket and there was 14 baht in the other pockets...thankfully I didn't die.

They had to fine him because his case couldn't be heard in court

Oh, grow up Thailand you silly little country. How old are you now?

She just told him that they're having Songkran early this year to get him to go outside.

What's an air ticket?

Thanks for the replies, folks. I just had it in my head for some reason that I had a year once I arrived. I guess they can't make it any clearer than "Enter Before"

Does this visa expire on the "enter before" date, or is it 12 months from date of first use?

My case specifically: Date of Issue: 4 March 2013

Enter Before: 3 March 2014

I arrived first time on 10 June 2013. Basically, I need to know if I will have to enter for the last time on 2nd March, or 9th June?

Cheers, thanks for any help

33 students, 1 teacher, 1 driver....samlor schoolbus?

I didn't know there were any Thai experts on road safety.

That's why they called in the Director-General of The Department of Disease Control as the main speaker!