richard_smith237

No it isn't. Erm... it is and it isn’t.... The vast majority of Police may want to be there to help people, but they are also embedded in a corrupt system which takes advantage of people.

Why not? Indeed.... that should be your ‘go to step’ if you suspect they are ‘fake police’ that have stopped. Additionally, even if they are police, they won’t want the added hassle.

Renewing your driving licence is one of the easiest of the bureaucratic tasks in Thailand. I think you will also need a medical certificate (which you can get at most local clinics - tell them its for a driving licence and they’ll know what you need... it usually costs about 100 to 200 baht). Just turn up to the local DLT office (I’m not sure which your one is) and they’ll just shunt you around to wherever you need to go in that typical non-communicative Thai manner which leaves you guessing but always works out in the end !!!...

Perhaps tourists leaving stuff in a taxi is a rare event in itself. hmm..... the ‘Quantum Mechanics approach’ to the discussion.... .... Until a bag is lost and found it exists in a state of both not being lost and not being found until it is lost, then found and reported on !!

No... you project that ‘almost everyone’ is the same as you, thus you think ‘almost’ everyone has had a marriage failure.... the divorce rate in the UK is 42%.... so thats 4 out 10... So.. ‘Almost everyone’ is incorrect... Many or under half... would be correct. Completely understandable... ] But assuming everyone else is in the same position isn’t. Neither is assuming everyone else’s relationships are doomed to the same issues and failure. Isn't the rule of thumb... never less than half your age + 7 years... i.e 40 year olds -->> not less than 27 yrs old ?.... 50 year olds -->> not less than 32 yrs old ?.... 60 year olds -->> not less than 37 yrs old ?.... 70 year olds -->> not less than 42 yrs old ?.... I don’t know how effective this is, but as a general rule it doesn’t seem ’too far off’... I also agree,..... a guy who believes a woman half his age is ‘into him’ is most likely a fool pulling the wool over his own eyes....

Just like maids are now called... ‘domestic engineers’... we could perhaps become more politically correct and call these ladies ‘Andrological Therapists’ !!! ????

Isn't that what homosexuals call ‘docking’ ???? ????

Just because you know how to pay a girl for sex doesn't make you a genius. But he thinks it makes him 19% or 25% smarter than the average Westerner.... !!! With his self proclaimed excess of intelligence he’s been able to project that women don’t want men unless its for money... Those who think like this are quite correct of course, but that is in their individual world. They have not yet worked out that there is no one size fits all relationship and the generalisation that those who try to shoe horn their failures and disappointments into are not representative of the spectrum....

I seem to recall it being reported as being on Instagram, I don't know, I don't have Instagram. The Nation reported that she ‘will raise the issue with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol)’ as stated on her instagram page.... (I didn’t see her instagram page). I didn’t read anywhere that she ‘has spoken to interpol’... I think that may be another mistranslation or some elaboration that one or another media or social media ran with. So there is some clear misinformation here... but some people have called her a liar because of this, they may well have fallen foul of believing poor reporting.

Your favourite expression! Is that your opinion or an accusation!? You were slow to understand, either deliberately so in a flawed attempt to point score with your 'what are international police?’ comment.... or because you failed to understand the point I was making about how information and statements can become distorted though translation. So... Part fact, part opinion.... The fact is you were obtuse, the opinion part is I gave you the benefit of doubt and suspected you were being deliberately slow to understand rather than being stupid.

Where did she ‘say’ (or state) interpol ??? (on her twitter or Facebook page etc)... You may be correct that she specified ‘interpol’ in one of her social media posts - but I have not seen that. I have only read a media article which mentions what she stated - this is where there may be a mistranslation of her wording. You are being deliberately obtuse... ‘international police’ is one of the possible ‘translations’ IF the lady had mentioned that she spoke with police from overseas. I think you should know how translations work, partially when handled poorly with the use of google translate etc and can be misleading and can distort specifics as per the example I provided.

I remember a news article which stated she had said she had spoken to interpol. I have not seen any of her social media posts where she stated exactly that.... In this topic there has been a lot of interpretation and elaboration of what she has written on her social medial pages. ... She could very well have posted something along the lines of ‘She has spoken with police from overseas’.... translated as ‘she has spoken with international police’..... then some media site takes this comment and writes ‘the actress states she spoke with interpol’.... Now... I’m not sure if this actually happened, but the example above highlights how easily it is for the context and information to become distorted.... Yet some people are quoting those statements as fact. Of course, its also entirely possible that Interpol Thailand caller her up and spoke with her... There has been no clarification on this point whatsoever - I wouldn’t be so quick to accuse her of stating an outright lie in this point - not just yet anyway. When it comes to her specific statements the waters have become extremely muddied.

Thats my assertion !! ????

Hmm.... never thought of that Its lucky these guys aren’t smart and don’t call us on different number each time !!

Yep... its got to be the same guy... I imagine many on this forum have been exposed to him... And yes... he used my name a lot... they obviously got my name and details off some list. For years I never gave my number out anywhere and was successful in avoiding all the BS cold calls... but, its slipped through a net somewhere (someone obviously sold the details).... It must work on some people... But, it must also be an extremely degrading and depressing job to be told to pi$$-off all the time, just simply cut off... I try to be polite and just say “I’m not interested” and then hangup... But sometimes I’m in another country, in other timezone... and thats jeffing irritating.

....Got the pizza’s in... the boys probably had serious munchies !!!

With the amount of pickups that are in this country the ‘Fifth Wheel’ type travel trailers would seem to be the best way to go. It wouldn’t take much to covert the flat bed to ‘take’ the tow hitch for the fifth-wheel trailer and then people would also have mobility when at their destination. It kind of surprises me that these types have not taken off in Europe more so than the standard RV. .... and if you wanted something really fugly !!!

I suspect one would need to be less than 5ft tall to take any enjoyment out of living in that !! I’d also worry about hitting the brakes too hard and it doing a forward roll !!!!.....

Is this the infamous "guilty until proven innocent"? Liverpool Lou sometimes forgets he’s on a forum and seems to believe he’s in a courtroom and that we can only discuss proven facts and notarised statements... Opinions based on experience and interpretation of reports should not be presented because they can’t be backed up with evidence. As such we see that LL rarely discusses the actual events or topic at hand but instead seems to police the forum and tell posters that their opinion is wrong because they have no evidence or actual proof !!... Sometimes he is right of-course and he calls out posters with ridiculous and outrageous claims. Other times he’s almost deliberately obtuse and operates outside of the grey-area in which most events and discussions take place. This grey area seems completely elude him. We’ve seen a perfect example of this in this topic when to many of us it was inconceivable that the Police were not lying... but without any clear evidence LL repeatedly suggested that as our opinions could not be backed up with proven facts we were incorrect to present them. It turns out the cynicism and opinion many of us presented couldn’t have been more true - a discussion forum, not a court-room !!!

I hope the BiB don’t read this... You have just given them an excellent idea to turn this around. “after carrying out a full investigation we found our offices to have performed a search at a police checkpoint. Upon finding illegal vaping paraphernalia the subject was fined 2,700 baht - however, due to language difficulties the subject paid too much, they departed the scene before we could provide them with a receipt of their fine” !!!! (satire). The point must also be noted that the Police have announced that this check-point was not in fact a legal check-point and had been set up without the correct authorisation. I wonder how many check-points are set up around the city on a whim of the local boys in brown to try and raise revenue....

Being extorted is not the same as ‘offering a bribe’.... she was the victim not the instigator.

You forgot a point She was heavily drunk ! Have you ever seen anyone like that, being rational or capable to say or do anything? Who said she was ‘heavily drunk’ ???? It is stated that the GrabDriver reported that she was drunk and loud in the GrabCar (before they were stopped). It has since been suggested that he was ‘coerced’ in to stating that. This was one of the many of the points used by the police to muddy the waters in their smear campaign to tarnish the reputation of this lady in a very poorly executed attempt to ‘save face’ and protect themselves.

Reckon the driver recently had a new nipple ring he was trying to show off ??? ????

Its not this then (pic below).... ???? - but that camper van is pretty much all style over purpose. but, it looks great !I (I think is extortionately priced in the UK (at £60-76,000) I do agree... there’s hardly a viable market here for camper-vans... or camper vans. Its just so easy to rock up in any town or even quietest small village and find an ‘adequate’ room for the night which has AC, private bathroom etc... Yet, at the right time of year in the right area... Camping could be great fun. I’ve never tried it here, but still want to - the problem is, the camp-grounds I’ve seen pack in the tents like a music-festival.

And yes.... Add on this site... its getting worse.. having to close the ‘new letter’ pop up and then close pop up adds etc... I need a decent add blocker, but that slows Safari down..