lostsoul49

That will teach you to buy a Thai a beer. Buy one, you have to buy many more.

Never had this problem with any other Thai.

In my experience, its always best to let Thai people deal with Thai's.

The best person if he is available would be your wifes father, age and position gives him the upper hand to start with. He would be able to sort it out quickly and easily.

If you really feel in danger, make sure it is logged with the local Police, but only as a last resort.

As a lawyer here once advised me, its not just him, its his family and whoever else he knows, as a foriegner you are somewhat vulnerable, try to stay back and let a Thai deal with it.

Thank you... a good reply.

I will get my wife to ask her dad to intervene and have a word and tell this guy I am not a rich man and only earn the same as a Thai.

Maybe he will offer to buy ME a beer.

Poor tv red shirts - loving every minute of their crocodile tears. While they get off to pictures of their patron high lord of corruption and nepotism - Thaksin

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Corruption, corruption, corruption - how awful it is I couldn't agree more.

But ... the latest PT government just had their assets checked, and were found to be not unusually richer after their term in office. Some were poorer. Even Yingluck herself gained financially only from the appreciation in the value of stocks that she already held. Capital gains - nothing illegal or corrupt there ....

Regardless, they were kicked out by the army on the basis of corruption - all sounds a bit like the fabled WMD in Iraq - a pretext to invade.

So where is this corruption smoking gun that all the propaganda keeps talking about? I've got it - corruption in Thailand didn't exist before Thaksin's lot, so they must have invented it, right?

Looks more like a bunch of sore losers who can't win democratic election usurping a civilian government under the barrel of a gun. Or it's a double standard, as they are all corrupt, right?

Do you seriously think that their 'declared assets' include money stolen???........ hahaha

You must be so naive to think that they are declaring all their stolen money to the EC and NACC.

It is all in names well away from their own personal Thai bank accounts. Try looking in offshore accounts in the names of their family and friends.

Investigations into the conduits that eroded a trillion baht from the coffers is where the true 'declarations' are going to come from. The government ministers will be pointed out one by one in good time,and made to say where all the money is actually hiding, especially when they are stripped of everything and thrown into a prison cell until they tell the authorities where the money is.

Give them life in prison to be commuted once they cough up the cash.... you will be surprised how quickly they will give it up.

It all started about 2 years ago.

We were in our very local Thai eatery (1 minute walk from our house) when this Thai guy walked in and ordered a cheap meal and a beer. He was a uniformed postman and was clearly on duty as he had mail with him on his bike, he seemed to have already been drinking but I just dismissed it.

He struck up a conversation with us as he recognized us as being on his rounds. The guy seemed quite friendly and I bought him a drink as he said he was finished working for the day. This was a massive mistake.... As I left the restaurant, he asked me to leave some money fora couple more beers,of course I said no. I don't mind buying the occasional drink for people, it is part of my culture to offer a drink to people who I am talking/drinking with at the time...in my country it is almost always offered back. There was no way I was leaving money for someone I hardly know so they can drink for free.

Anyway, about a week later, it was mid afternoon and the postman came to deliver a registered letter that my wife had to sign for, the letter also had her phone number on it. At the gate she signed for the letter, and the postman proceeded to ask her where I was, and she told him I was indoors working, he asked for us to come to the restaurant with him and buy him some beer. My wife told him I was busy working on the internet...I had things to do then she walked indoors and he followed her to our front door.

The guy was visibly pissed up to the point he was slurring and swaying. He stood at our door peering in at me and trying to cajole me into coming to the restaurant to buy him two beers,I said no repeatedly, and told him I had to work.. The guy was very persistent and would not take no for an answer from either of us... In the end I had to literally throw him out of the garden.

After that we got into the habit of keeping our gate locked and the curtains drawn to avoid this guy when delivering mail, and also tracking parcels we were expecting and picking them up from the depot instead... but one day he called my wife on her mobile asking if I was going to the restaurant... It seems he had lifted her mobile number off the registered letter from a while before. Obviously she said no and that was that... but again she said he seemed very drunk.

Anyway.. The wife noticed we had a new postman,and she asked where the other guy was and he told her the guy had been moved because of complaints. Whew... what a relief. However, yesterday the guy called the wife again totally pissed asking if I would go round to the restaurant and buy him two beers, the wife said no... Then he said 'OK..only one beer then'... The wife refused and told him to stop calling her. Then 20 minutes later she gets a call from the waiter from the restaurant asking if we had authorized this guy to drink beer there and we would pay for it?.. The postman hadn't reckoned on the waiter having my wife's number because she calls every other day to order food and we pick it up to avoid this very same guy.

This guy has taken this to new limits.... I have never met anyone in Thailand like him.

I am now needing to get something done about this, but to be honest I am wondering what I can actually do that won't culminate into problems later on. Don't get me wrong, I am anything but a coward, and normally I would just shout this guy down, but I have to be realistic that he knows where we live, and he is not exactly what I would call mentally stable. So approaching the post off ice or the police may not be the wisest thing and to top it all off, he has been put back on our round, so now we are back to hiding from him.

I think I am just going to have to have it out with him and finally get it sorted there and then.

What do you reckon chaps?.... The last thing I am doing is to move... You can't sell a used house where I live and I can't afford the loss of money.