Scouse123

So in your words, 5% is decent safe return. It's also widely and fairly easily achievable. In your words,' an awful lot of free money' based on 1,000,000 GBP. So the man with 800K GBP could get in interest alone he would have in the region of 136,000 baht a month without touching his capital. He can well afford his 30K condo rent a month in his mid-fifties age bracket plus his 2 massage women a week and have plenty left over to put aside. You have killed your own argument. What was your degree in? I don't think it was mathematics.

I think you talk nonsense and are full of it

Yeah, yeah, It's an anonymous forum, you can be anything you want to be. I'm a Nigerian Prince this week. You are actually trying to say, with or without a bloody degree, (which is completely irrelevant), that 800K GBP cash savings in a bank, no house equity involved, plus he'll have other income, is a paltry sum? Bloody nonsense!

Safe to say? Many don't have 800K THB for their extension of stay. Stupid question anyway from the OP, I have seen this asked here so often. Also, another' asking for a friend' post. It depends on lifestyle, does he drink and smoke, does he want nice cars, Health insurances, does he like trips back home, chances of getting stung in a relationship. A ridiculous amount of variables to form a realistic opinion or give a figure. And to give the impression somebody is going to bum along in life having sex twice a week, cooking their own breakfast in a condo, blah blah blah. What a mundane existence. It smacks of being in God's waiting room. Next he'll be joining those having beer for breakfast. And to cap another poster, 800K GBP is a tidy amount to have saved in their fifties in cash and anybody saying different, is talking out of their ASEAN NOW ass. How many times do we hear and get questions from guys surviving on pensions from many countries and nationalities? I'm 61 and have a number of UK properties and a substantial house here. I will continue along the path of semi retirement in Thailand whilst buying and selling properties in the UK, until it's time for me to leave this Earth. @advancebooking have you got 35 million stashed?.............

Plonker!.....

Email Cigna or speak to a different agent and do some more research regards Cigna and your policy online. It appears the representative you are speaking to isn't trying very hard to look for alternatives to your plight.

That would take thinking and planning.

Pattaya Prison had a separate room for them in the medical wing, years ago. There were only four, if memory serves, that were out-and-out lady boys. In Chonburi, they used to keep them altogether in one room/cell with the older and sick prisoners, basically, a larger prison so there were more of them. Most of them were in for drugs, theft or dishonesty. The authorities didn't want them sleeping in the same rooms as standard prisoners. Lady boys can cause havoc in mainstream prisons. They still sold their services at weekends in the yard, when the work factories were closed. Times may have changed.

Good job you aren't running the judiciary, then.

You interested in requesting visiting rights?

The kid was Russian according to reports. 16/17 is not a child.

To the posters saying they would like to hear his side of the coin, fair enough. However, he seems to have also done this behaviour state side as well with both a Filipina and a Chinese woman. It is alleged there are more witnesses coming forward that he has done this type of behaviour in SE Asia. It seems a pattern is forming, and he appears to be some kind of sociopath and then taking it a step further using violence in at least a couple of cases. This has all the hallmarks of a very dangerous individual. He then attempts to blame it on PTSD. Well, if he actually did ever serve in the Armed Forces, he should be getting the necessary help in his own country, not globe-trotting, terrorizing and stalking women. To then send sexual activity videos of his victims to their friends, work colleagues and families is vile behaviour, and is indefensible. This guy has major psychological problems.

16/17-year-olds can travel without parents. From the airlines website:- Some airlines permit this for kids as young as 12. When a child has reached this minimum age for traveling alone without unaccompanied-minor procedures, the airline does not require evidence of parental permission to travel alone. If the child has a passport, he or she can even travel internationally.

So now you are taking the initiative and attacking other Western posters, just in case, heaven forbid, they might put a post up that could be considered American bashing? Not me, I am a Brit, but I identify as a Nigerian Prince, you might have seen emails from me. Actually, I am Ex Military but only qualified as a Leading Weapons Engineering mechanic (posh for electrician) I quit when they told me I had no chance of the Admirals job. Harsh, but true. And it seems quite a few putting it out in the hope of the American dream. It doesn't however, excuse this piece of human excrement for his lowlife and disgusting behaviour. He really is the bottom of the barrel. However, filthy behaviour has no borders or nationalities nor religions. This makes the Brits vs South Africans look like a Sunday school misunderstanding.

Only us Brits!

A Russian leaving with a Russian minor? 16/17?, I doubt they would look twice, let alone want to get involved.

Up here as well, where I live.

No shortage of kids up here in the sticks! How useful this lot is in the workforce or for a labour shortage, however, is debatable.

It looks like the bloody stock exchange, if it wasn't for the tables in the foreground, (unless that's a generic photo and there's a damn sight more than 1,000 people in that photo.

I agree, it would be very strange but not unheard of to take a random 16/17-year-old to the airport. Poor journalism with scant details, and they mention he was stopped at arrivals when one would have thought departures, so does that have any relevance? OK, I accept it wouldn't take you long to get from arrivals to departures.

I find it an obscure law in Thailand where they accuse somebody of taking away somebody between 15-18 even with parental permission. I see girls having kids and living with very young boyfriends up in Isaarn at not more than 14 years old.

I would think there is definitely a family/parental connection to this story by the Russian man.

In a case such as this one, it certainly would be no business of the Thai police or immigration.

And what has a working father done wrong?, he has stood up to his parental responsibilities, gone to work and sent 500 baht per day to look after his son. Sounds like a Dad doing his best to me. It is the adoptive parents. Bruises and bite marks? It can only be child abuse.

Sad at 30 years old. RIP.