Dogmatix

There have been a lot of crimes committed by cosplay criminals wearing fake police uniforms. The BTS is right to demand their firearms licenses, although cops don't need a carry license. The husband of the missus' friend is a cop in Koh Samui and he once had an embarrassing experience being denied boarding a Bkk Airway flight back to Samui from Bkk because he didn't have the original of his gun license. He had to get someone to send it to him by courier and cool his heels in Bkk until it arrived. Again totally right in my opinion. With the original he was able to check his gun in under the proper procedure where they check it in at a special location to make sure it is unloaded and you pick it up in the same sort of way at the other end. I know non-cops who have carried their legal firearms on domestic flights the same way and even taken their guns to Laos to compete in a shooting match but in that case all the Thai group's guns were transported together in a truck. Met an Aussie once who had legally imported his pistol and ammo from Australia to compete in a match in Thailand and been issued a temporary Thai firearms license, all organised by the the Thai shooting association affiliated with the Sports Ministry. There is a right way and a wrong way to travel with firearms.

I just heard about someone who went to a weed shop in Ayudhya expecting to be told he had to get a prescription from some kind of medical practitioner on or off premises. The shop owner told him he could sell him as much as he wanted without prescription. He said the cops came by after the latest muddled government announcements and set a new protection rate. It allows the shop to sell whatever it likes without needing to comply with the new rules. The cops told him they didn't care where he hired a doctor or only dispensed with prescriptions from somewhere else or not because they are charging the same squeeze to all shops in their precinct whether they comply with the rules or not. They obviously have an income target given to them by their bosses based on the number of shops and that is all they care about. An another tack, I always drive past a tiny weed shop near my house which is just a counter in a small open air motorbike repair shop with an illuminated sign. It seems unlikely that the owner will be able to hire a doctor to work in such unhealthy open air premises with traffic buzzing by all day. It also seems unlikely that they will stop selling weed, unless arrested, since they obviously have a regular customer base of motor cycle taxi drivers who rely on the weed to kill the boredom of waiting for fat farang and other customers to come their queue. The motor cycle taxistas are also unlikely to go to a doctor and pay for a prescription, since there will be plenty of weed available for sale without it. The new system will just mean that the government will not be able to earn any tax revenue and can tell anally retentive governments in the region that don't approve of their citizens having fun on holiday in in the LOS and sadistically enjoy flogging and executing people for drugs like China, Singapore and Malaysia, that there is no longer any risk that their citizens will be exposed to the dreaded reefer madness in Thailand. however, this may not be true in Ayudhya.

If they clear that stretch of vendors, where will people buy Kamagra?

TISI charges horrendus fees for license exemptions for electrical products where a Thai importer has already got approval for the model. I payed THB 2,500 for an exemption for an electronic drum module. If there is not existing approval for the product, you have to pay for the testing yourself which could run to THB 100,000. However, AFAIK this is no likely to happen with something valued at under THB 40,000 which involves a more detailed customs clearance procedure with the buyer having to register with customs as an importer for some reason.

I received an empty cardboard box when I ordered a product from Ali Express. I did manage to get a refund though.

There are plenty more fish in the Ocean. Move on and find another, if a hooker says no. It's true he doesn't sound like a yank and whoever he was talking to on the phone obviously had trouble understanding his appalling accent as he had to keep repeating himself before the security subdued him from behind and everyone out of their misery including the person at the other end of his phone call.

You are wrong. In 1977 General Chalard Hiranyasiri was executed without trial after leading a failed coup against the military government. In the old days military coups were often staged against military governments to put a new bunch of boys in green at the trough. This one was unsuccessful and Chalard pulled his gun on another officer and shot him dead for allegedly reneging on his promise to join the coup after he saw it was not going well.

When is Hun Sen coming to testify about Thaksin calling for props such as a neck brace for a photo op with Hun Sen to fake illness?

They are really going after the big fish now. Seven officers in the picture to get a gram of dope or 145 mg each. They deserve special police medals. Elon Musk is walking around with a lot more ketamine than that in his bloodstream at any given moment.

How many Burmese and other foreign migrant labourers have it unreported and not receiving any medication.

Although he was promoted like Trump as a businessman who understands economic management, it has become very apparent this time that he either no longer understands anything about economics, or that he never did but had much better advisors to cover up his ignorance in the past. His economic policies including handouts, land bridges and other utter nonsense have all turned out to be total flops.

This government had plenty of opportunities to introduce regulation for the cannabis industry but did nothing until they felt the need to get revenge on Anutin. Taking down a 40 billion baht industry, causing huge losses to those who have made legal investments is pointless. People lose jobs. Farmers lose livelihoods and the government loses tax revenue from a business that was paying VAT and other taxes. Now it all goes underground. Regulation yes but destruction motivated by political spite no. It all shows how pathetic this Thaksin government is.

Thaksin getting desperate seeing his power and influence crumbling away again. His much vaunted 'signature policy" of hand outs was a complete failure along with his land bridge, casinos and oil and gas deal with Hun Sen. His half half travel hand out has collapsed too. Now he wants to re-run his war against drugs that played well a quarter of a century ago. That was all for show, as police just murdered small dealers from drug gangs in competition with the police and many complete innocents. Drugs didn't go away because they protected all the big fish.

See gangs of subcontinental men on Walking Street bargaining the price with katoeys. Most just laugh at them and don't do a deal but some do.

How to be vigilant, other than avoiding Thailand?