Rob13

A secret spy cam for the staff is OK. A legal one  for CYA purposes, never work

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Some day, an enterprising soul is going to add a $20 internal camera to hotel in-room safes that will discretely record everything that happens to that safe to a hard drive on the hotel network...

 

Whoever does, please send me 1/2 of 1% royalty for the idea...  I'm not greedy.  Hungry, yes.  But not greedy.

A spycam in a hotel room, bad idea

27 minutes ago, Mickster58 said:

Obviously neither of us have stolen the money

Not obvious to the Aussie no doubt. Anybody with access to the room would be the obviuos culprit. And you working illegally doesn't put you in a good light. Believe I'd lay low and let the wife handle things.

Make her pay the Elec. bill next month

Save yourself a trip; iHerb's got them: http://www.iherb.com/p/35669

 Yes, probably best to avoid busses, I've been on a few that were stopped for police checks.

My favorite color in Bolivia  is green; I don't have one for Thailand.

6 minutes ago, Ronuk said:

They need to tighten up on the visa rules and screen people properly to ensure they have enough funds to remain.

You'd still get people running amok. Rich folks loaded with cash make bad decisions too. 

4 minutes ago, Mekong Thunder said:

Surely you know that 'Baht' is a weight of pure Thai Gold as well as a currency?

I didn't know that. How much does a baht weigh?

5 hours ago, pumpjack said:

 

                  she has 25 odd baht worth of gold clearly there in her house for all to see

 

unless you dropped 4 or 5 zeroes there's nothing there to worry about.

1 hour ago, 2fishin2 said:

Its from US not here....

Texas; everything's bigger down there. It could have flown over due to global warming; kinda like those Aussie man of wars in Rayong.

15 minutes ago, nikmar said:

Tarantula hawk wasp.

 

Geezus!!!!

Quote

“There are some vivid descriptions of people getting stung by these things,” says invertebrate biologist Ben Hutchins of Texas Parks and Wildlife, “and their recommendation—and this was actually in a peer-reviewed journal—was to just lie down and start screaming, because few if any people could maintain verbal and physical coordination after getting stung by one of these things. You’re likely to just run off and hurt yourself. So just lie down and start yelling.”

 

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tarantula-hawk/

28 minutes ago, Shot said:

 

I also think he would know if it was a scorpion under normal circumstances. However,  getting stung while riding an mbike, panic sets in and things can look quite different. Just a thought.

Yeah that might do it. It could have been hiding in his bike shorts when he put them on in the morning.

1 hour ago, Shot said:

Scorpion?

That's what I was wondering, pretty sure the OP would know one on sight though. I'd think it'd be a bit  hard to not recognize one.

I'd like to know where he ran into this thing so I can avoid that area.

Maybe one of these:

 Chinese Hornets

34 minutes ago, peter124 said:

with bird like feet and claws

you sure it was an insect??

6 hours ago, Smudge said:

Now, I'm not pissed off that someone hit me, that does not bother

lol

He didn't keep it. Too many people and too much paperwork involved. 

1 hour ago, elviajero said:

Did you get an overstay stamp in your passport and/or a receipt for the fine paid.

Just a regular stamp out, no overstay and they gave me a receipt No attitude at all about the overstay. Much more enjoyable experience than any I've had with the immigration folks in the US

I just flew out today with a 2 day overstay. A non-issue. Paid  1000 baht signed a few papers and was on my way.

DG. The application is here, fill it out and take it to the place on Petchburi Rd with all your papers.

http://www.chinaembassy.or.th/eng/lsfw/qzxk/P020131004561038409241.pdf

4 hours ago, DividendGuy said:

I was also told by my neighbour that I have to make an appointment first before applying for the visa. 

We went last year, there was no appointment necessary then, could have changed since  though

Start by getting the application from the Chinese embassy. There's a bit of paperwork you'll need.; copy of your Thai visa, plane tickets, itenerary etc. You have to go in the morning,afternoon are for picking up passports only. It's pretty straight forward process.

24 minutes ago, ThailandLOS said:

Yes it's a curse. Recommend you to not check your mail box going forward.

What about his mail?