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I wonder how many other people they have forgotten to send the tax contributions in for.

I've used Bangkok storage when I was in Saudi. Stored a whole house full of furniture and a motorcycle. Nice guy from England runs it. http://www.bangkokselfstorage.com/

The other place I know of is Bangkok scooter. He has a room in his shop house that he was trying to use as storage rental space. Nice guy from the USA.

http://www.bangkokscooterrental.com/directions

I've had True in two places, and have since switched to 3BB. True, truly lies, their product is not reliable and they cheat people. 3BB has worked perfectly for me for 2.5 years.

So you simply automatically believe what you read on the internet?

I have always given you more credit than that.

My bad.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/november/crime-statistics-for-2013-released/crime-statistics-for-2013-released

I do when it comes from your own government, instead of users like you

You're better off trusting a regular person than the government, especially the FBI.

"You know, I was not thinking a lot when I got in", needs to be replaced with; "I thought I could get away with it, like so many other things'.

Whoever handles the media for the police is doing a disastrous job of getting credible facts to the public. These people are simply pitiful!

WRONG, they're being internally terrorized by the ruling authorities AND the influential RTP chiefs to force feed the public with quick-fix sugar coated information. If the media refuses, they would make those people in power lose face, and could face serious defamation accusation against them....

If the media refuses to comment on a topic, how is that grounds for defamation charges, even in this backwater swamp?

If I got prosecuted for the thoughts that I never voiced, I'd need a time machine to make the parole date.

She should get a ghost, like I did...

The shit went through the floor?

The shit went through the roof, as the saying goes.

This old stupid dinosaur should have his licensed revoked, sacked from his job with no compensation and benefits and thrown into jail. All his assets should be consficated by invoking article 44 and sold and used to help certain student's foundations.

And don't forget to burn his house down and cut off his hand.

And his little peepee!

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I was trying to cross to enter a business in the other side of a two lane road. Traffic was backed up to some lights, so quite unusually a car backed up so I could cross over. As I slowly moved forward a motorbike came racing up on the inside hard shoulder and slammed straight into the front of my car (which is fitted with bull bars). The male rider was uninjured, but his female pillion had a leg injury. The bike was bent too, but no damage to my car. The police arrived, and an ambulance, and we all made statements and produced our documents. The bike was uninsured, and tax out of date, and they were not wearing helmets. All my papers were good, but I didn't have comprehensive insurance. In the end, I was blamed and made to pay for the bike damage, her hospital bills and her loss of income..! We later found out that she wasn't working where she said she was, and we stopped all further payments. The police thought it was funny that I objected to the way they handled the case. I was later stopped and threatened with jail, if I didn't pay a substantial bribe. My opinion of the Thai Police was changed forever after..

You're not alone in your experience.

There was a young vacationing couple in Phuket a few years back. They had a rented scooter and went out for dinner, where he popped the big Q. On the way back to their hotel, they were rear-ended by a Thai on a scooter. The woman ends up dying. She was a sports newscaster from NZ.

The police arrested the husband, took his passport, threw him in jail for about a week and told him if he didn't come up 35K in dollars he would be in prison for a long time.

When he was able to come up with the video of the Thai running into him, they told him to sign a paper saying he didn't want to press charges.

Imagine the scenario; The love of your young life, whom you just asked to marry, gets killed by a reckless driver, you get thrown in jail and your freedom is threatened, while you are grieving over your loss.

Where's the compassion? Where's the empathy? Where's the Buddhist principles? Where's the moral turpitude? They're not present. Dare I say; 'Thainess' was.

The couple was from Australia.

Apparently the guy rode recklessly but the guy who rear-ended him was still mostly at fault.

Don't want to get into the specifics as I don't actually know what they are anyway, but most accidents here end up without much trouble - it's mostly those that are uninsured or underinsured that run into problems. The rest of us, in the rare case we have been involved in accidents haven't experienced any major issues whatsoever.

I watched the video, which I can't find now. From memory, he slowed to make a right turn w/ his signal on. The Thai ran into the back of him just as he started to turn. There was plenty of lane for the Thai to pass him on the left, thereby avoiding a collision.

It's been a few years so I misquoted a few of the details. She was from Australia and it happened in Samui, but that doesn't change what happened.

http://www.thephuketnews.com/australian-samui-crash-case-reopened-35153.php

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I was trying to cross to enter a business in the other side of a two lane road. Traffic was backed up to some lights, so quite unusually a car backed up so I could cross over. As I slowly moved forward a motorbike came racing up on the inside hard shoulder and slammed straight into the front of my car (which is fitted with bull bars). The male rider was uninjured, but his female pillion had a leg injury. The bike was bent too, but no damage to my car. The police arrived, and an ambulance, and we all made statements and produced our documents. The bike was uninsured, and tax out of date, and they were not wearing helmets. All my papers were good, but I didn't have comprehensive insurance. In the end, I was blamed and made to pay for the bike damage, her hospital bills and her loss of income..! We later found out that she wasn't working where she said she was, and we stopped all further payments. The police thought it was funny that I objected to the way they handled the case. I was later stopped and threatened with jail, if I didn't pay a substantial bribe. My opinion of the Thai Police was changed forever after..

You're not alone in your experience.

There was a young vacationing couple in Phuket a few years back. They had a rented scooter and went out for dinner, where he popped the big Q. On the way back to their hotel, they were rear-ended by a Thai on a scooter. The woman ends up dying. She was a sports newscaster from NZ.

The police arrested the husband, took his passport, threw him in jail for about a week and told him if he didn't come up 35K in dollars he would be in prison for a long time.

When he was able to come up with the video of the Thai running into him, they told him to sign a paper saying he didn't want to press charges.

Imagine the scenario; The love of your young life, whom you just asked to marry, gets killed by a reckless driver, you get thrown in jail and your freedom is threatened, while you are grieving over your loss.

Where's the compassion? Where's the empathy? Where's the Buddhist principles? Where's the moral turpitude? They're not present. Dare I say; 'Thainess' was.

I've heard this kind of thing before. Essentially, Farang has money. Depends on your insurance agent and the attitude of the police. You'll possibly end up paying ฿20 000.- even though your insurance is paying.

You'll only end up paying 20,000, if you're a fool. The more you resist this kind of thing, and expose it, the less they will try to pull it.

"I stand up for principles'. Lawyers love that, you are forgetting that TIT and in some cases you just can't win. I know a very hard headed guy that decided that just paying out was the easier solution.

As a critical thinker, I can appreciate your principles, and those of the hard head, too.

However, I'm sticking with my game plan on this, because it's smells like a scam.

If you keep giving them the 'I don't have any money' routine, they will, hopefully, crawl back under the rock from which they came.

After all, he's doing everything that the law requires him to do, the m/c rider doesn't have the money to file a claim and the claim wouldn't hold water, since it's civil, if the insurance company has already paid out.

As an aside; as long as the Thai people are going through changes to better their lives, shouldn't we, the long term expats, also implement some of our own demands? Just a thought..

Another scam, report them to 1515, make copies of the phone call or have a witness, put videos on social media.

People in Thailand are no longer sheep, report everything, get involved.

Once "they" see people won't pay or cower to thier threats they will go away.

Yes probably a new scam, so adapt and take back the "Kingdom of Thailand".

What's 1515, please? If it's the scam report hotline, maybe there is a God! I'd be on that mofo all day long.

I've heard there are sharks in those waters. He might want to be careful.

It's okay. Biden couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat.

I needed to find a bathroom yesterday at about 10:30, so I walked in the back door of a mall, signed the book just like the other employees entering the mall, and found a toilet. They didn't ask me <deleted>.

Even in the midst of what looks to be an elongated economic depression, there is no hope.

I went from store to store yesterday, (2 Makro's, 2 Powerbuys', 2 homepro's and a Thaiwasado) with 30k in my pocket, trying to buy an air-conditioner.

I couldn't find one single salesman that knew the product, didn't talk out both sides of their mouth, or wasn't on facebook.

Considering the state of the educational 'system' in the land of scams, Somyot has little room to criticize anyone.

Try Bang Sue, in Nonthaburi.

If it were me, I'd a let my johnson get a bit if fresh air while I walked around.

I've heard this kind of thing before. Essentially, Farang has money. Depends on your insurance agent and the attitude of the police. You'll possibly end up paying ฿20 000.- even though your insurance is paying.

You'll only end up paying 20,000, if you're a fool. The more you resist this kind of thing, and expose it, the less they will try to pull it.

Note to self; Do not gamble here, buy land here, or go into business with a Thai.

We have similar situations. I too am a single guy, w/ TGF, and would like to avoid the hassle of res cert. ect., every time I want to do something.

It seems a Yellow Tam baan is the book that will take of the res cert problem, but are they available for us? Anyone know?

If I could lock in my cheap rent (7200) , a thirty year lease or Usefruct and the yellow book, that would be the <deleted>.

I recently did this but only paying the 3 month subscription, nothing at all for the "number"

Also an amount for call credit (at start) which obviously reduces as you use it etc., have you set the "auto re-charge ? that recharges your credit when it falls below a certain level. Could that be what you are paying ?

I didn't see anything like that. It was supposed to be a flat rate for unlimited international calling.

The change in the level of corruption will change when, among other things, the defamation laws are changed. You need to be able to expose a rat!