Dogmatix

It's possible. I think the Astra 5.35 25A went out of production in the late 60s. So perhaps he bought it here new and has had it ever since. But I couldn't see a Thai serial number on it and the writing on the slide is wrong for the original Spanish made Astras. Might even be a blank gun.

I remember Patong in the early 80s when there were just a few friendly bars along dirt streets and duck walks were put down in the rainy season to avoid the mud. I went back 10 years ago and found it was totally unrecognisable - a totally hideous and nightmarish place.

Another idea might be to use it for collateral with a gold shop or someone and let them foreclose and deal with it themselves.

Been involved with 2 encroachment cases. In the first one a family known to the missus built part of their house on a part of our land. They came up with many excuses over two years not to negotiate. Eventually the missus shocked them with a court summons. They showed up and mediation was ordered by the court. We offered to sell them the whole piece of land they had encroached part of. If not, the court would issue an order to evacuate our land, involving demolition of part of their house. Eventually they agreed to buy our plot for about 50% more than we paid for it. We gave some time to pay and a daughter was able to borrow from a bank to pay. So it was relatively easily solved once we took them to court. They still talk to the MIL in the village which is a surprisingly positive bonus. The second one is much nastier and involves a 20 odd rai plot acquired through sale with the right of redemption. The owners borrowed money to do funny business in local elections, as learned later, expecting to get a relative elected and be able pay back the debt with corruption money but were outbid in the election and have never been able to pay back all the money they borrowed or redeem sales with right of redemption. Our sale or redemption contract was for only one year and they never paid any agreed interest but asked for it to be extended which the missus for a year out of kindness, even without any payment. They kept saying they were just about to get the money to redeem but never did and came out with tricks like please transfer the title before payment because the bank will only lend after transfer 555. They asked to rent the plot and signed an agreement and paid the rent for one or two years. But then stopped paying and squatted on the land. After a couple of years of them squatting, the missus hired someone to plant trees on it but they wouldn't let him on to our land. We sued for eviction and the case is ongoing. The missus has to fly up for the court hearings and they usually send a lawyer to say they can't make it to waste her time and money. But now the court has ordered that they can't delay any longer and, if they can't agree to buy the land at market price acceptable to the missus or enter into a new rental contract, an eviction order will issued. Since it is a Nor Sor Sam Kor green title deed, their plan was obviously to claim squatters rights after using the land for 10 years claiming the owner had abandoned it. However, the court case frustrates that because it is evidence that the owner wanted the land back and they were squatting illegally with no rights to claim the land in future. We will take it to the village headman to persuade them to leave the land and let our guy work on it, if we get an eviction notice. If we can plant timber trees there, it will be useless for their rice growing and timber trees will make it look like it is in constant use by the owner. Then we can sell it and get out of the situation. But at least we hope to get a court order to frustrate their squatter rights. We have incurred about 100k in lawyer fees so far but the market value of the land is over 3m today which we don't want to write off. In the OP's case, with a 80k investment and 30k in lawyer fees that could rise higher, I would suggest it is better to put it down to experience.

Thai sister-in-law signs. She is a company director. Signs with the company stamp.

The gun in the plastic envelope posted above is the one found at Phuket. The slide is a genuine Astra slide made in Spain. The one found by cops has the wrong writing on it. Looks like something inn Russian. Maybe a BB gun or a fake.

You have to look at what are most likely the original Thai sources for these stories before thay are put through the AI blender to understand what happened. Arrested at Phuket Airport, Swiss man hid gun in bag, preparing to board a plane, denied having bullets, did not think it would be a crime. On October 8, Pol. Col. Salan Tantisankun, Superintendent of Sakoo Police Station, revealed that Sakoo Police Station arrested an 82-year-old foreign suspect. Pol. Lt. Kornphumphon Phongpaiboon, Deputy Chief of Investigation, Sakoo Police Station, Phuket Province, was notified by Ms. Phakhanat Dumlak, who was on duty as a search officer for 4 INLINE team leaders at the check-in baggage room at Gate 81, International Passenger Terminal, Phuket International Airport, Village 6, Tambon Mai Khao, Amphoe Thalang, Phuket Province, that On the night of October 7, while on duty, Ms. Ainah Pang-nga, an OSR image analyzer, was notified that while she was sitting watching the screen analyzing the passenger's baggage X-ray images, she noticed an object that looked like a handgun, so she informed him. and sent the baggage to the baggage registration room at Gate 81, International Passenger Terminal, to search the baggage. It was later discovered that it belonged to Mr. Kurt Fritz Loliger, 82 years old, from Switzerland. The officers therefore searched the bag to examine it. From a detailed search of the suitcase, they found a handgun, ASTRA-CAL 6.35mm. The arresting officers were then notified to arrest Mr. Kurt Fritz Loliger along with the firearm and charged him with possession of a firearm without permission, in order to proceed with legal action. From questioning the foreigner, he did not provide any information, only saying that carrying a firearm without bullets or magazines was allowed on the plane and that he would bring it back to his country. He did not think it was illegal. Not mentioned where he obtained the gun.

That is the smell of corruption.

It will be interesting to see, if vendors of canes for child discipline will disappear from Shopee. I don't it.

Because it was banned in the early 90s.

Should be on a reciprocal basis like in South Korea and Turkey . If your country allows Thais to own property, you can own property in Thailand. That would still rule out the Chinese and the Ruskies.

How are the Venezuelan chicas there?

Prachai Leophairat, CEO of TPI Polene Public Company Limited was the biggest non-performing debtor in the Tom Yam Kung crisis because the baht declined so much that he couldn't service the foreign currency debt he had foolishly taken on. Now he is whining about a rising baht.

Interestingly, motorcycle hire-purchase loans have bucked the trend, with their NPL ratio dropping from 4.08% to 3.61%, thanks to increased write-offs leading to a lower loan loss provision ratio. Didn't buck the trend. They were actually much worse than the trend, forcing the lenders to make greater write-offs. Numb skulled writer or AI.

People put out this kind of nonsense all the time but, if not supported by any legislation, it is not true.

My father used to say he was beaten a lot at home and at school and it never did him any harm. I would argue with that, as it seemed to turn him into a vicious fagellator who enjoyed making his own weapons out of thick electrical cable, lovingly looping the cable into a handle with cord wrapped around for maximum grip. I refused to cry or show any pain under vicious beatings with these implements, no matter how much it hurt. It was a point of pride for me to keep my dignity and not give him the satisfaction of knowing he had hurt me. This made him more angry, so he would beat me harder. At that point, I had trained myself to switch off like I wasn't there which numbed the pain and made it seem like it was someone else being beaten, until my mother or siblings pleaded with him to stop. At my first boarding school the headmaster was an extreme sexual pervert who loved caning little boys, particularly through thin pajamas or on bare bottoms, his absolute favorite. Boys would return from his study with blood trickling down the legs of their short trousers and scabs and bruises on their bottoms and thighs that lasted for weeks. Corporal punishment was not reserved for serious offences only but was meted out for things like running in the corridors, failing tests etc. Boys who were disliked by certain teachers were often framed for something they hadn't done and sent to the headmaster for a flogging. Teary protestations of innocence just earned the victims additional strokes for "telling tales". At my senior school things went from bad to worse, as prefects were allowed to cane in addition to housemasters and the headmaster. Prefects caned boys for offences such as not calling them sir or being late out of house to breakfast three times in a week. There were also house beatings where a boy had his head pushed out of a dormitory window with the dormer window held down on his shoulders by a prefect, so he couldn't move. Then each house prefect, and there could be 15 of them, took a stroke after a run up. One well built boy wasn't having this and struggled free from the window when the head of house was doing his run up and turned round with a cut throat razor in his hand. The head of house, not so brave on the receiving end of violence, squealed like a pig when he was slashed and the whole bunch of prefects were needed to disarm the boy. The boy was expelled that night and news went around the school dining hall at breakfast like wild fire. The boys were jubilant that someone had stood up to the system and most were sorry the head of house, who was widely disliked, had not received more severe injuries or even been killed. The cheering and thumping on the table that spread around the dining hall was very loud and the headmaster, who couldn't control the situation looked scared and fled the room, as if he thought he might be hanged from a cross beam by the mob. The headmaster who succeeded him was an alcoholic who had to be fired by the board of governors because there were too many reports of bare bottom beatings, often of the wrong culprit and sometimes with fiddling of the boy's naughty bits which the headmaster overtly offered as a lighter alternative to a full on trousers down flogging that drew copious amounts of blood. That school is still paying damages to boys that were abused in the 1970s and recently paid a 400,000 sterling settlement with more cases pending in the Scottish courts. In addition to the flagellation there was wide spread sexual abuse of younger boys by teachers and prefects and at least one documented homosexual rape of a boy by a teacher who lured him into his classroom under some pretext and locked the door. That is my personal experience of corporal punishment at home and school. It is clear that flogging can easily develop into a sexual vice. It is a complete lie to say it never did anyone any harm and those who push this line are complicit in child abuse. I refuse to hit my son.

You say you were a customs officer but you talk as if you were a medical man and social worker combined, not merely someone who applies whatever tariffs and import prohibitions happen to be applied by the government.

Absolutely no justification for the state to insert itself into the transactions or for the Finance Ministry to get involved. Just amend the Land Code to allow the maximum lease to be 99 years. Then the land reverts to the original owner or heirs However, without more detailed leasing law, this will still not work very well. Lessees need the right to transfer the lease to buyers or leave it heirs which is not automatically possible without the freeholder's consent. Since a Thai lease is just a legal agreement between two parties, it is not binding on anyone else, including new owners of the freehold. That should be tidied up. 99 year leases are also of interest to Thais for land that the owners want to keep permanently in the estate but this obviously will not help them,

" Mrs. Kiatkanok expressed her distress, stating that she could no longer manage the aggressive dog and wished to hand it over to an animal protection group." Jeez. She has just caused an innocent person an excruciating death and she wants someone to take care of her lovely mutt. A bullet n the head for both would be more appropriate. In countries with rule of law euthanasia would be mandatory.

The UK should legalise too and put an end to this type of crime.

This sounds Anutin’s bill that passed its first reading in early 2023 but was shot down by the Democrats in the second reading because they were upset that Anutin had been sending people to campaign aggressively in the South which used to be the Dems’ stronghold.

These are really serious crimes.