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no sympathy ..just another idiot who think driving at high speed has no impact on others

Oh do you have some FACTs regarding this mishap.....? Geez ! Could have been a medical issue fool.

One thing I learnt from attending a similar ceremony was close to the end the new monks change their clothing from white pyjama style clothes to their orange robes in private in the company of senior monks and after that they will line up with those large donation bowls, they carry around ( i dont know the name of them ) and everyone files past and puts money in.

You are expected to give money to all the new monks equally not just to your friends son. It might seem obvious, but just in case you don't know

That seems very odd, isn't one of the Buddhist precepts a vow of poverty? I thought monks weren't supposed to even handle money, let alone take up a collection of it when entering the monk hood!

Yeah ask the one who built the golden statue whle flying around the world in a private jet. Are monks real??? My wifes uncle is a monk and he flits from being a monk to a street clothe wearing drunk back to robes and he also is a land speculator. With monks being caught in sex parties and drug orgies I must say painting the whole lot with the same brush is not that far fetched. I see it as a bunch of losers who were to scared to try and make a go of it in real life.

"found themselves added to a nations such as Iran, North Korea and Syria"

Really?

You are actually rolling on the floor and laughing because of that?

How old are you?

You don't have to be very old to know and laugh at the thought the U.S. are fools to be suggesting a box around any country for anything when they should judge themselves or better still another watchdog agency check on the U.S. Abuses of their own people. Does Mexico come to mind and the Rio Grande. Quite a good match for the so called slaves coming into Thailand. Quite laughable REALLY.

The holier than thou U.S.Of A the worlds policeman has spoken and totally swept their own crimes against humanity worldwide under the carpet and left their own countries poverty hunger and homelessness in the closet. Who gives a darn what the U.S. Says about anything.

Or like some western mothers have done pulled the if I can't have them no one can.

Bupa won't even lete fill in their form online as I am over 65. I have no choice but high price or Thai insurer.

Thais are the only nationality I have never really had a meaningful conversation with.....then why every other nationality in the world seems to trust me but not Thai's? No logic in your argument.

Could be the glasses....

Interesting and open article and very true.

The old Thai way of coups being the alternative to elections needs to change.

What elected government , whoever they may be, wants to be constantly looking over their shoulder if some people with excessive influence don't like the way things are going and simply go the coup route. 19? times now, ridiculous!

As long as it always seems to be about the haves and the have nots with the have nots controlling the massive amount of the voting block we will always have the promised gifts from the politico's garnering the most votes and thereby the office. The coup structure is already growing the day after the vote counts are in and there goes the yellow shirt intellectual rich against the red shirt workers farmers uneducated debates demonstrations and coups inevitably.

Personally, if you want to be a law enforcement volunteer to assist the police, you should have had a career in law enforcement, armed forces, corrections, customs to name a few. Some guy who worked at Walmart and decides to come over to be a FPV is doing the community and themselves a disservice.

Being a police officer is not being an enforcer. It is someone who has to have a VERY good knowledge of laws, the rights of citizens and the ever changing policies and procedures that arise. The agency I work for and have participated in the interview process of volunteers who become sworn peace officers that are allowed to enforce the national and provincial laws have to take extensive training (at least a year, two or three evenings a week) and commit to providing a minimum of 20 hours per month (most put in 40 ish, and some as high as 100). These people are well trained in use of force using pepper spray, a defensive baton, handcuffs, police driving, and the handling of firearms. They do not carry firearms, but are trained to use them in case of their partner becoming incapacitated and having to defend against deadly threats.

Those people who don a uniform to inflate their heads are an absolute joke. I have come across some of them in action and witnessed their skills, and they would be lucky to be hired as a security guard protecting a house being built from copper wire thieves. They do not have the skills that are designed to interact and react to the situation they are in. We use a model of interaction with subjects that is a dynamic wheel to determine the threat posed to us. It is ever changing and provides guidelines on what interaction and intervention is appropriate. Without extensive training in this model, you are more of a liability to the police, and become a laughing stock of the public.

Upon my retirement I will look into the system as I possess a "very special set of skills" to quote Nic Cage in Taken, which I would love to pass on to the Thai Police. I teach classes to junior police officers (and some senior ones) and enjoy it. As I stated before, possessing policing skills and providing these skills along side the local police can often be a great asset. I don't have any interest in being a "volunteer accountant / doctor / lifeguard" as I have no actually experience of skills in those careers.

All in all, better screening of applicants who bring some law enforcement experience to the table would be the right choice.

Nic Cage in Taken. Hmmmm. Do you teach observation skills?

Wow What country is the above long winded writer referring too????? This thread is about Thai police auxiliary. OH I see on re-read the writer is beating his own drum or??????

The comment below shows how out of touch the writer really is. First of all security is an illusion and secondly of all a security guard has to do is call 911 Security guards are trained not to engage perpetrators of crime. The bottom line is the guard has to note the criminal description, time, location and the direction the criminal took. Mostly security guard are known as the after the fact crime scene respondents. Wonder what the writer would do as a retired aged security guard for minimum wage Rambo?."Those people who don a uniform to inflate their heads are an absolute joke. I have come across some of them in action and witnessed their skills, and they would be lucky to be hired as a security guard protecting a house being built from copper wire thieves. They do not have the skills that are designed to interact and react to the situation they are in. We use a model of interaction with subjects that is a dynamic wheel to determine the threat posed to us. It is ever changing and provides guidelines on what interaction and intervention is appropriate. Without extensive training in this model, you are more of a liability to the police, and become a laughing stock of the public."

Personally, if you want to be a law enforcement volunteer to assist the police, you should have had a career in law enforcement, armed forces, corrections, customs to name a few. Some guy who worked at Walmart and decides to come over to be a FPV is doing the community and themselves a disservice.

Being a police officer is not being an enforcer. It is someone who has to have a VERY good knowledge of laws, the rights of citizens and the ever changing policies and procedures that arise. The agency I work for and have participated in the interview process of volunteers who become sworn peace officers that are allowed to enforce the national and provincial laws have to take extensive training (at least a year, two or three evenings a week) and commit to providing a minimum of 20 hours per month (most put in 40 ish, and some as high as 100). These people are well trained in use of force using pepper spray, a defensive baton, handcuffs, police driving, and the handling of firearms. They do not carry firearms, but are trained to use them in case of their partner becoming incapacitated and having to defend against deadly threats.

Those people who don a uniform to inflate their heads are an absolute joke. I have come across some of them in action and witnessed their skills, and they would be lucky to be hired as a security guard protecting a house being built from copper wire thieves. They do not have the skills that are designed to interact and react to the situation they are in. We use a model of interaction with subjects that is a dynamic wheel to determine the threat posed to us. It is ever changing and provides guidelines on what interaction and intervention is appropriate. Without extensive training in this model, you are more of a liability to the police, and become a laughing stock of the public.

Upon my retirement I will look into the system as I possess a "very special set of skills" to quote Nic Cage in Taken, which I would love to pass on to the Thai Police. I teach classes to junior police officers (and some senior ones) and enjoy it. As I stated before, possessing policing skills and providing these skills along side the local police can often be a great asset. I don't have any interest in being a "volunteer accountant / doctor / lifeguard" as I have no actually experience of skills in those careers.

All in all, better screening of applicants who bring some law enforcement experience to the table would be the right choice.

Nic Cage in Taken. Hmmmm. Do you teach observation skills?

Wow What country is the above long winded writer referring too????? This thread is about Thai police auxiliary. OH I see on re-read the writer is beating his own drum or??????

One primary difference is that many diesel trucks in Thailand do not have a (PM) or Particulate Matter Filter.

This is how trucks operated in the Us until a couple decades ago.

Every process on a vehicle is a compromise of several factors. Example, an improvement in emissions results in a loss of something else--typically fuel economy and performance. An obstruction to a vehicle exhaust cuts down on Maximum engine performance (HP & Torque). PM Filters are located in the exhaust system.

Well, truckers want Torque so they remove all the obstructions to their exhaust.

Note: The older trucks did not have these filters to begin with.

Thats also why engines sound louder than back in the US. We have noise ordinances that must be met so our trucks have big mufflers. Big mufflers create an obstruction in the exhaust so in Thailand and other countries with lax regulations or enforcement, they remove these noise dampening mufflers and replace them with minimal equipment.

Although the exhaust of a diesel was always full of visible black soot, it was much lower in the carbon monoxide produced as a byproduct in gasoline engines so diesels "looked" worse for the environment but it was gas engines that had the invisible deadly gasses in abundance.

Now diesel fuel has even been modified to burn cleaner by the removal of sulfur from the fuel--called Low Sulfur diesel fuel in the US. For every action there is a reaction, though, and sulfur was a lubricant so LSD does not contribute to long engine life.

Thank you for taking the time to explain that. Makes perfect sense.

Do they simply not sell the PM Filters on new trucks here, or does the owner have them remove it?

The simple answer is in the above quote. The drivers are also to blame here by being in the wrong gear and putting their foot into it and the fuel is way to rich and the lugging from to high a gear causes the black smoke IE: half burnt

He is referred to as a police assistant and not a part of either the tourist police or region 8 police volunteers.

Police volunteers in Thailand, whether Thai or foreign, posses the same authority as the officers directly supervising them. You're right, he's not a real policeman, but he is also right that you are required to show him your tax disc, DL etc. if he was instructed by the police to do so, and sounds like he was, although sounds as though he may have been a dick about it which certainly doesn't help the image of the foreign volunteers.

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Your explanation of the distinctions amongst different enforcement agencies is enlightening.

Thanks.

WRONG no authority

Nationalities list at U.S. first and Canada not mentioned. LOL. Must be because yanks are so embarrassed to have to wear Canadian flags on their collars and backpack to get accepted in most European countries. If a Canadian is asked if he is an American the fight is on.

Hong Kong to Canada and Canada a small population for 2nd largest country in the world? How does this relate to the Burmese immigration topic? BTW the Hong Kong migration to Vancouver caused the bidding up of for sale houses and now Vancouver is one of the 3 most expensive cities in the world. It did not work well for Canada and now the gov has made it harder to immigrate there.

Would like to hear from any and all who have pacemakers and have their check ups in the Chaing Mai area. I live just outside of Lampang city.

Curious about which hospitals check them, costs and cardiologists who govern the clinic there. My installation hospital in Canada wants to check every 6 months on the function so rather than fly back thought I would see if there are others in this area of need.

You could join an internet forum, stay at home and complain about all things Thai every waking hour.

Seems to work for many Farangs here on TV.

Start a gang.

How many kids does she have? Her first marriage? Don't expect a lot of helpful, polite responses from this bunch. There would still need to be some money shown at the wedding or it would be total loss of face for the Thai family to let their daughter marry a farang. There's millions of them out there, who are only 20 years younger, who wouldn't expect a Baht, and have the wherewithall to not be reliant on foreign bankbook.

Buy a condo in your name; let her stay in it for free, unless she would rather stay with her parents or rent her own place. If she stays with you until death, leave it to her.

DOWRY! Are you in India? What year are you living in? Do you have a backbone?

From the Thaivisa link: http://www.thaivisa.com/extensionsextension-based-on-support-of-a-child.html

It appears that from the information that one cannot get an extension based on support of a Thai child, but if 50 years old or older, one can get an extension based on Thai child supporting parent. Indeed, I know of one Farang in Korat who has been getting his extension this way for several years.

That ThaiVisa link is just ridiculous bullshit, I have a daughter born after October 2006 and no wife. Since her birth I applied for extension of visa based on father supporting child and so I did for the 6th time just last month in BKK.

The fact that this idiocy is reported by ThaiVisa downgrades the respectability of this website. I suggest the moderator of this forum to investigate and correct this misleading information.

You are way off base sir. Read the heading of this topic again and read this quote from the OP "Basically, what was said was that instead of her being my dependent, to apply to be her dependent." Your rant is in no way applicable to this topic.

Sounds like the pigs have their snouts in the trough and are not going to be driven away easily

Ha ha ha. Funny! Only loss of ink and a piece of a spreadsheet when a # is moved from one column to another.

What are the prospering countries now that were colonized before, by the West?

Panama, Porto Rico and US.Virgin Island are examples.:-)

You mean , lets turn the east into the west, no thanks.

It already is by virtue of the western neon jungle that is here KFC McDonalds Starbucks Movies fashion Lets all be white Thais oh and Guns and bombs and murders the USA has arrived. Ha ha ha

If guilty, he would deserve to be drawn and quartered. I sure am disgusted to see a suspect of such a crime wearing a shirt depicting Canada's name on it. Happy the media clearly states his nationality as an American.

Not sure they save fuel but its cheaper to fill than petrol/benzene/gasoline.

I wouldn't use an aftermarket kit, only from the manufacturer if I went that route.

Lots of stations around with it.

Had it on my Van in Canada and it was a clean burn with pretty much zero carbon deposits and the mileage was about 90% of of regular fuel. The tank took a direct hit from a rear ender accident and never dented. The offending car was folded up like an accordion.