darksidedog

I have friends in Myanmar and they tell me life is an absolute misery right now and extremely dangerous. I can't blame people for running for their lives, though I would like more information on what the Thai authorities are doing with those who have fled. What with the covid threat and the normal uncaring attitude to their neighbours at the best of times, you have to hope they will not force-ably repatriate them.

I don't think we need this, so closed.

Governments, especially this one like things not calm. It gives them an opportunity to limit personal freedoms.

As for banning flights from Africa, given it is already present all over the world, not sure how that will help.

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said that he was confident that it would have no effect.

I can confidently say he is an idiot.

5 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The alleged fraud by the insured that is causing the problem is just as absolutely shameful, surely?

Think about that for a moment. The girl on the bike was killed by the driver. To make a realistic case for fraud, you would have to somehow believe the driver connived with the girls parents to have her murdered for the insurance money.

If there isn't serious evidence of such, which I very much doubt, the only other conclusion is that the insurance company are trying to muscle small people so as to not pay out a valid court ordered claim, hidden behind defamation laws that ensure their other customers don't know.

I know which I think is more probable.

Absolutely shameful by the insurance company, though the ridiculous defamation laws preventing them from being named and shamed is the worst disgrace of all.

22 minutes ago, webfact said:

Pipat Ratchakitprakan admitted to Thai media yesterday that he hadn't any idea why the country bans drinking from 2 pm to 5 pm in the afternoon. 

Wow! An honest Thai politician. Now we just need the rest of them to admit they have no idea about many of their other policies either.

9 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

The put it in layman's terms, they have completely lost the plot.

That is assuming they had any actual plot to follow in the first place.

The continuous change of stance and incompetence makes you feel a blind man being assisted by Marcel Marceau could have performed better.

21 minutes ago, webfact said:

Officers told Mr. Sanya Nilsuphan, a Palang Parcharath Party MP, budget restraints had meant that Thai police had been unable to send a team to track the suspect down in Austria.

Given the entire reputation of the country is on the line, budget should be the least of the issues, if of course they were in any way serious about bringing him back.

Oh! Silly me.

Faint sparks of understanding of reality and common sense starting to poke their way towards the surface it seems.

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

There was however no evidence of this either from the minister or in the body of their report.

 

Anutin doesn't need evidence before opening his mouth and allowing rubbish to spew forth. The booze with food thing is ridiculous. I have seen many eateries absolutely rammed with people, yet this is OK, while a beer or wine with a meal in a quiet restaurant is not.

It's not just Thailand but a wonderful snub to multiple autocracies and dictatorships out there that try to pretend they are a democracy. They might fool the locals, but not the world.

Is it any wonder that things are in such disarray when you have an egocentric moron, dislocating his shoulder to pat himself on the back, when in truth all he has brought about is disaster?

To answer those above questioning this, every transaction went to one of numerous overseas accounts.

8 hours ago, dj230 said:

Kind of interesting that the friend says he regularly withdraws 40k baht a day once a month, what a coincidence for the fraudulent activity to be just about the same amount as the amount he's been withdrawing regularly. 

Not sure what you are on about. He takes out 40K once a month. 500,000 went missing, not the same amounts at all.

8 hours ago, couchpotato said:

Sorry this is a fabricated story or the guy is lying.

I am a moderator, I do not print fabricated stories. I have seen the bank book. Once a month for years 2 X 20K cash withdrawn, nothing else. Then a few weeks back hundreds of payments to foreign accounts which continued until the account was empty.

My mate is a lovely guy and honest as the day is long, though not smart enough to commit cyber crime.

My biggest concern is the attitude of the bank. Really couldn't care less. Didn't spot unusual activity, which would have has a UK account frozen in no time.

46 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

OP give us a clue which bank and where

Tough that given the defamation laws.

But Pattaya. Soi Kaonoi, not far from the railway and one you would expect to have very high standards.

So its not the Government savings bank which is the first after the railway.

Blue could be a clue.

There have been quite a lot of reports of late of banking problems where accounts are cleaned out by multiple small deductions and the banks are supposed to be aware of the danger and on high alert.

A very good friend of mine I have known here over a dozen years has just had around 500,000 cleared out of his account in such a manner over a two week period. The individual amounts were insufficient to send him an sms each time but accumulated. Lots of them.

He gets an army pension once a month, and withdraws 40K a month at ATM on a single day and has done so for as long as I have known him. Only account activity.

The bank did not seem to notice any of the multiple occasions of suspicious activity, even though "on alert for fraud" and allowed him to be cleaned out, through the very process plaguing the country of late, and for which they were supposed to be looking for.

His branch unfortunately is the same branch where I hold my account with my immigration 800k.

The staff have been apathetic as to giving any information, help or reassurance.

On Friday when after 3 weeks of asking when he was getting his money back without any explanation was going on, which he publicly proclaimed in the bank in pretty much perfect Thai was a disgrace, they responded by having him arrested and threatened with criminal defamation.

Not reassuring to hear as a fellow customer, who but there but for the grace of God go I.

I know lots of Thais have been caught up and seem to largely be being refunded where the activity is obviously fraudulent.

I am interested to know the experiences of other farang who have had anything similar happen and the response they have had.

It really is comical that the "Health Minister" of a country gets denied as his personal efforts at being safe are considered short of the acceptable mark.

Given his foul mouthed racist tirades since this started he truly does deserve the laughter and embarrassment this has caused.

11 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Error in translation?

 

Error in headline. Big difference between "solves", which implies done already and "ready to start" which is where we are truly right now, and which also means of course that nothing has actually been done yet. No surprise there though.

1 hour ago, Chris.B said:

Now is a good time to book Moderna for your loved ones if, like mine, they won't have the Chinese vaccines. ????

 

 

 

Good luck with that. I believe several million doses (probably way more than are actually coming), have been paid for in advance some months back, so getting at the front of a very long and painfully slow queue could be harder than convincing your close ones to get a vaccine at all, if they are that way inclined.

Mate of mines girlfriend won't touch anything as she is more scared of the vaccine needle than Covid, even though that is way more likely to kill her. Not saying she is at risk from being overweight (ahem), just stupid. Sadly she is not alone, though she does cover a greater land mass than many of her compatriots.