richard_smith237

A separate issue from ownership but valid nevertheless. IF the OP has either of the following he’s good to drive / ride in Thailand. - Driving Licence in English with motorcycle endorsement. - Motorcycle licence in English language. - Motorcycle licence in non-English language accompanied with an IDP - Not on a Non-Immigrant Visa (i.e. on tourist visa or visa exempt). IF the OP is on a Non-Immigrant Visa, its considered he’s on a resident visa and as a resident should be driving / riding on a Thai Licence, in which case. - He can get a Thai Motorcycle licence with his Driving Licence in English with motorcycle endorsement. - He can get a Thai Motorcycle licence with his Driving Licence in English with motorcycle endorsement.

Or... you can only bang the Aussie half of her..

Anyone with any sense knows what to keep out of reach of children without need for labels. We’ve become accustomed to labels simply because of the spread of US ’suing culture’). A label isn’t going to stop a 3 year old... and if a parent needs a label to know that something is harmful to a child then maybe they really shouldn’t be parents - part of the issue is that any idiot can become a parent !!! Any parents that leaves their medication out where a 3 year old could consume it is wholly negligent. The issue is the absence of basic levels parental supervision and awareness of basic child safety.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14470540/teen-mum-pretty-little-thing-baby-die/ And hundreds more stories like this suggesting you just seem to have an obsession with making critical generalisations about Thailand without context being blind to the faults of your own country. Quoting that ‘it happens elsewhere’ (and a british tabloid story) does not invalidate the comment that the general attitudes towards safety in Thailand and the general attitudes towards child safety in Thailand is poor when compared to our home countries (i.e the UK). Look at drownings and other accidents... IF you think Thailand is safer for children and there a fewer easily avoidable child deaths (per 100,000 of population) then you would be quite wrong.... This is not a ’turd that can be polished or rolled in glitter’ because it hurts your sensitivities and you think its a Thai-bash... Any (educated) Thai person would make the same observation. Read Pantip forum and you will see that many of the criticisms levied against Thailand by Westerners are also the exactly same criticisms levied against Thailand by Thai’s.... Thai’s don’t need your 'gone native’ defence to brush reality under the carpet. Identifying real issues is not a Thai-bash....

Well technically they are correct... As with Covid, IF caught outside of Thailand and brought in there is some blame which can be directed towards foreigners... even if a Thai caught it overseas and carried it into Thailand. But... Your point remains valid, there is a strong element of xenophobia and the ‘avoid sexual contact with foreigners’ comment.... IF THAT COMMENT IS TRANSLATED CORRECTLY !!!!! Yes, that statement need capitals... because a coupe of years back the vast majority of foreigners in Thailand who read it took sleight when it was reported (translated) that Anutin stated “Dirty Foreigners.....”... which is not exactly what he said... the comment was deliberately transliterated by the media into click-bait gold !!!... All of that said - the comment itself is still extremely clumsy and unprofessional from someone in public office..... “be careful......” etc etc should be the statement as the statement in its current guise could be more damaging as there is an implication that Thais would not carry the virus !

A Thai Immigration officer refused to allow a Thai national entry with a valid Thai Passport ?.... Interesting... That said: Thai Immigration officers can’t legally reject Thai Nationals because they don’t like that the Thai holds dual nationality. There is always more to the story when something seemingly so strange happens. Perhaps the Thai Passport had expired and you didn’t get the complete story from your ’Thai Lady Friend’.. ? We (Wife, Son and I) travel in and out regularly, I’ve never once considered hiding my Son’s British Passport because a Thai Immigration officer may not like the idea he has dual nationality. ... In the scenario you mention, IF the Immi officer didn’t like it, there is nothing he can do about it at all anyway. But... IF it makes someone more comfortable, sure.. go ahead and hide it, no real harm in that either... It just seems a little ‘paranoid’ to me.

An equal argument, there is no proof that the cookie the child ate didn’t contain marijuana. Clearly there were 'marijuana laced cookies’ in the house. Thus, with access to such cookies it was a possibility the child ate one, given the child's symptoms, that possibility becomes a probability.

Its valid criticism of the attitudes towards safety and the absence of responsibility of those tasked with providing primary care to children... Very warranted... based on frequent and utterly avoidable deaths of children in Thailand... drownings in village ponds, in khlongs and rivers, children unrestrained in cars, on motorcycles without helmets.. the list goes on.... So you were partially correct, my comment was criticism of Thailands attitudes towards safety, but that criticism is very far from being unjustified - it is wholly justified. An absence of adequate supervision is the very reason this news story exists. And yes, parental irresponsibility exists elsewhere and it deserves criticism wherever it exists... But just read a lot more of it here than I do in the UK news for example.

To buy and own - you need just your money. Perhaps your passport as ID. To register the motorcycle in your name you will need proof of address... i.e. a Certificate of Address (from Immigration) or an Affirmation of Residence (letter from Embassy / Consulate).

Unfortunately its true... but not 100%... In Government Hospitals, charing non-Thai’s more is now state-sanctioned - there are even notices stating such. In private hospitals there is also a double-charging system. My wife had a minor procedure last year... Cost was approximately 65,000 baht (one night spent in hospice). Initially she was quoted that the charge would be +/- 40,000 baht.... When she provided her international Insurance card the price increased. She was told that the initial price was for self pay or Thai Insurance.

Don’t be ridiculous...

Yes... Its really very very simple indeed... A dual citizen Child (Thai / USA) with bothPassports Departing Thailand: At Airline Check-In - Show Childs USA Passport (for proof of permission to enter USA). At Immigration - Exit Thailand with the Childs Thai Passport. Arriving in USA: At Immigration - Child enters under USA Passport. Departing USA: At Airline Check-In - Show Childs Thai Passport (for proof of permission to enter Thailand). At Immigration - Exit USA with the Childs USA Passport. Arriving Thailand: At Immigration - Child enters under their Thai Passport.

My Mates wife is respectable lady, caring and loyal, an accountant.... But she’s also as dumb as a post, the worst part is, she has no idea she’s dumb... So she comes out with the outrageously stupid facts and ’things' that she hears from her friends or grew up believing from her mum and tries to pass these tidbits off as real.... She never questions her thoughts or what her friends tell her, but seems to have this underling distrust of men that we are trying to ‘put one over on her’ all the time... its only when we highlight the flaw in her comments that she (sometimes) recognises her friends or mother were well wide of the mark !!!... No ulterior motive, no need to reassess relationships etc... but she’s just naive and dumb without having any idea she’s naive and dumb !!!! The Ops Wife could simply be believing what her friends tell her.... if she trusts her husband once he’s corrected her, then there is no issue. If she doesn’t and trusts her friends more than her husband then of course there is an issue... It all of course depends whether there is any motive for the ‘misinformation’ innocent ignorance or greed.

That purely depends on the individual with whom our life is being shared. There is a whole spectrum of attitudes out there from the money-grabbers, to the security-seekers to those who genuinely have no ulterior motive other than genuine care, respect, love etc... Personally, I have no issues with both the house and car in my Wife’s name, its just easier that way. While both my Wife and I had cars, my car was in my name, her’s in her name - it was easier that way. But, IF someone’s Wife is quoting incorrect regulations or reasons that her friends have told her I’d wonder why she is discussing such things with her friends in the first place. I’d wonder what the motive is of her friends to provide her with obviously wrong advice, unless they to have been told such news incorrectly and its become ‘urban myth’ among their individual community (as things sometimes are on this forum).

Valid points... however, there have already been plenty of news reports of people, including adults unwitting consuming marijuana in food (in restaurant and home). It [Marijuana] had either been put in there secretly or simply clumsily without advertising the fact... (special secret ingredient to bring he customers back, anyone ?).... As you mentioned - whether deliberate or not is somewhat moot in this case, the outstanding issue is the absence of care and supervision provided for a 3 year old... it could have been a bottle of bleach the child drank etc... Its easy to Monday-morning quarterback this... but many of us already have dealt with such potential issues before they could ever exist... so this just comes down to ’sh!tty supervision’... (or non existent which is often the case here). --------- Our son is simply not allowed inside the kitchen without our supervision (because of the risk of hot things cooking etc)... Now he’s slightly older he can ask to go in and get something. He’s not permitted just go and get food (chocolate, biscuits etc), he has to ask, then he can go get what he wants. We have the same rule for our balcony (his room on the 3rd floor) he’s simply not allowed on the balcony and the doors to his balcony are locked (key remains in his draw though).

Read the article... Secretly or otherwise.... leaving dope laced cookies around where children have access to them is outrageously negligent.... as is leaving a 3 year old unattended to get what they want from the kitchen etc....

What we love about Thailand is also what we hate about Thailand. People are innocent and direct almost naive.... but then we encounter public statements such as this which could be construed as ‘innocent, direct and naive’... but coming from a public figure the statement is instead ‘xenophobic and clumsy’.... but, its not wholly inaccurate. Perhaps a better statement would have been 'All people in Thailand are advised to be careful with whom them make physical contact’..... Again, the innocent, direct, naive, clumsiness.... Does this imply hotels are not normally cleaned to international standards ??? A recognition that international standards are somehow better than Thai cleaning standards ?

Oh no..... either the Wife is being greedy or she’s gullible and believes everything her friends tell her. At least you are sensible enough to ask on here rather than rely on the information from the wife’s friend.... Your wife will have to learn not to believe the stupid BS coming from her friends who are obviously uneducated and just make stuff up...

Families stupid enough to put marijuana in cookies and leave them where children can get access to them are also the families whose children grow up with elevated risks... i.e. these are the families we read about who have lost children, drowned in a nearby pond... these are the families to take children on motorcycles without helmets etc... A 3 year old left completely unsupervised..... Sadly, it seems par for the course in many areas of Thailand (and not only Thailand). The Marijuana hysteria is also getting ridiculous... People ’secretly’ putting it in food is outrageous and dangerous - those who do this should be dealt with legally.

America is not #3 in most dangers road status.... The article has completely mislead its readers. In the article itself, of the 56 countries listed there are 21 other countries with higher deaths per 100,000 of population.

Wonder if she (Bob's bar-girl squeeze) hasn’t threatened Bob again with her brothers kicking the living $#it out of him if he doesn’t pay her...

And the sheer number of motorcyclists many of whom are not wearing helmets. 75% of road fatalities in Thailand are motorcyclists. Thus: IF Thailand had a better handle on training and education of motorcyclists inroads could be made. The US has it right with driver education in schools. In our schools we are taught so many different subjects, yet key life skills are not taught. Subjects such water safety, life saving and first aid skills are not taught. Pretty much everyone will grow up to drive a car or ride a motorcycle... Adding road safety to a national syllabus could make a significant benefit to Thailands road safety stats, but not only Thailand else where in many of our home countries too. IF helmet laws were taken seriously (as seriously as the mask regulations !) and were effectively policed, the stats would be brought down significantly. As an estimate I would guess that at least 1/3rd of motorcycle accidents result in avoidable death simply through the lack of wearing proper-helmet (not a plastic big-c jobby which should be banned). Ultimately until road safety is taken seriously by those in positions of decision making and policy impacting power nothing will be done... And by 'policy impacting power’, I mean the power to impact policy within police forces forcing them to effectively police their road using population. When was the last time we saw a police bike or car pull over a motorcyclist for not wearing a helmet, jumping a light, riding dangerously etc etc... (not road blocks).... Perhaps ultimately, those in positions of power don’t care because those at greatest risk are those poor feckless souls occupying the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder - a sad blight on the mindset of the nation.

There is something odd about the way they work out the score. On that list alone there are 17 countries with a higher road fatality numbers (per 100,000 people) than the USA. On that list there are also only 3 other countries with fewer road fatality numbers (per 100,000 people) than the UK which according to the list comes in at 24th safest country. The weighting given to other facets of road safety clearly alters generates a misleading result as far as the USA, UK and other countries are concerned. That said, on the list provided, Thailand does have the highest number of road fatalities (per 100,000 people) which remains a damning stat for anyone in a position of decision making and policy impacting power who actually cares. This map shows the road fatalities per 100,000 people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

What history or recent news has there been of women being trafficked to the UK under false pretences ??? Where as there is news of women being duped into travelling to the middle east under false pretences.

I would agree.. but not everyone carries the same degree of discretion and some people are just outright selfish or so stupid they are unaware of the risks they place others in. For example, those who may park on or close to a pedestrian crossing, or a junction etc.... While you may exercise intelligent discretion, others will not, the rules exist to protect other because of the most selfish, stupid, inconsiderate and dangerous lowest common denominator. That said: Yes, in the UK parking rules are a money making scam - The build shopping centres, want people to go there, then charge them for parking !!!.. its ridiculous. They charge people parking at hospitals which is outrageous.... So, I do like and in most cases prefer the ‘Thailand approach’... but its certainly not perfect and with the anything goes approach there are many negatives....