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3 minutes ago, edwardflory said:

I have heard of a person who spends 11 months a year here, only 1 month a year IN his country, this is a total abuse of the system - why immigration has not caught him is a mystery

   The reason why immigration hasnt caught him, is because he has done nothing wrong .

   Many people have stayed in Thailand on VES ,tourist visa  for years and never leaving the Country, apart from going to get new visas in neighboring countries

2 hours ago, DavidVincent said:

The main point is : this guy served a VERY light sentence for a rape

   Serving five years of a seven year sentence isnt "very light" .its quite consistent with many other Countries

1 hour ago, finy said:

I used to get the bus to Mai Sai every 2 weeks (4 when G7 thing changed) and it would take 6/7 times before they told me to get TV.

 

Even before military took over I was under impression border runs were banned.

 

Turns out I was wrong.

    Border runs to get VES were indeed banned at Mae Sai . It began in about 2012 when they set a limit of four VES , they then banned them completely in about 2014 at Mae Sai , although you could still get VES at other border crossings

The same thing happened to a friend of mine .

The Lawyer made a mistake and accidentally put himself as the sole beneficiary .

On the way to the Lawyers office , my friend got got caught up an armed robbery, got caught in the cross fire and got shot in the head, died instantly

22 minutes ago, malt25 said:

Me thinks this topic will branch out 

   Probably will, but I'm going for rest

I was out for a drink with a thai lady and we had about six large beers between us , she asked for the bill and it was about 600 Baht . I gave my friend six hundred Baht to pay  , she walked across the road to 7/11, bought six large beers for 300 Baht , walked back into the bar and gave them "back" to the bar owner and kept the other 300 Baht .

  She told the bar owner that she had only "borrowed" the beers and she was now giving them back

1 minute ago, malt25 said:

Oh, leaf it alone !

  Fir what its was worth, I thought that it was a vine idea , Oak a

7 minutes ago, Ulysses G. said:

 

I am old and really into music. However, It sounds like they were a lot more famous in the UK than the US. That would make sense.

   A bit like the Grateful Dead, big in the USA , but quite unheard of in the U.K

1 hour ago, kbelyeu said:

 

He has already extended.  So he could cross and return the same day with now issues?

 

Thanks.

   Yes he could .

But he may as well go to the Thai Consulate in Savanakhet and get a free 60 day tourist visa , if he wants to stay for more than 30 more days on a VES

7 minutes ago, Grubster said:

I said unknown to the public, are you sure that I don't know?  

if you are a member of the public, then you cannot know .

Anyway, I will ask you .

Do you know ?

3 minutes ago, Grubster said:

And I stand by what I said 100% and you cannot prove me wrong unless you think the government of any country would publicly show the conditions that elite prisoners have, go visit one if you can even get that info out of them.

   Ha ha, you have just proved yourself wrong by stating that no Government would publicly show the jail conditions of so called elite prisoners .

  If the public do not know what the conditions are like, then that proves that you are just guessing /making your claims up .

    You sentence is quite contradictory, you stated that the jail conditions are unknown and you also claimed that you know what the jail conditions are like .

   They are either known or unknown, they cannot be both known and unknown

Just now, Grubster said:

 You believe what you want and I will to.  You do not and will not  know how nice he had it as it is not public knowledge. 

   How did you find out about about his jail conditions, if it isnt public knowledge ?

8 minutes ago, Grubster said:

I do have a good idea and if you don't like it then up to you, if you think he had it hard then I say you are a fool.

   I didnt say that he "had it hard"

I disagreed with you when you said that he stayed in a plush apartment with no bars .You said that he had it easy , I didnt say that he had it hard .

Get an ATM card for the Thai account and withdraw the money in the UK with that card

So, you told a few Thai people and some believed you and now Thai people now generally believe the moon landing was a hoax , all 70 million of them?

36 minutes ago, deathmule said:

 

The one story I personally know is of a Danish guy who came here, became broke and was sleeping in the Beach Road of Jomtien.

 

He would sleep in the beach and every morning and evening an old Thai lady would bring him food. Nobody ratted him and therefore he didn't go to jail

 

Now he has a job as a teacher and he's loving life.

 

Notably this old lady lent him 3000THB so he could buy some new clothes for his job and could afford to buy a bus ticket

   Did that guy have a working Visa and a degree ?

And you may wonder what a dozen pretty girls are all doing hanging around a bar . They are all cashiers  , all twelve of them work as cashiers and they only started working there two days ago

12 minutes ago, Gary A said:

It is often worth the small investment from a wealthy guy to send the girl a little money once in awhile to meet him at the airport on one of his trips.

    Are you talking about 100 Baht for the tuk tuk to the airport ?

If you are talking about fully supporting her, you are talking about 20 000 Baht + per month

4 minutes ago, dbrenn said:

and that his only option was to shut up shop and deprive his family of an income. Just like a lot of other nasty and vitriolic 'capo' mentality types who blight the expat community here - sneering at and denigrating their fellows here and pretending that they are perfect when very often they are the opposite.

My suggestion was only that perhaps a solution could be negotiated,

    Peoples advice was the close the school down, people didnt give that advice to be nasty , they really thought that that was the best option .

   Do get a grip , people generally were not "sneering at him " or "denigrating him "

If the authorities do investigate him, they will uncover 16 years of illegal activity and tax evasion and he could end up in serious trouble, probably jail , deported, blacklisted and could even have his house taken from him, so, it would be best to close the school and hope that the authorities do not pursue the case any further .

   Trying to get a "solution" from the authorities carries a huge risk , he would have to admit to all of his previous crimes and to try to convince then to allow him to carry on breaking the law, which is very unlikely to happen .

   Yes, it would be better if he could have an off the reord discussion with the authorities , but you can hardly say to them "Look, Ive been breaking the law for 16 years .............and do you mind telling me whether you are going to arrest me anytime soon " 

    Closing the school down and pretending nothing happened is the safest option for him

4 minutes ago, joeyg said:

Your right my X was only interested for 8 years...

  I did mean most girls and most men .

I can see from your posts that ,many females absolutely adore you and you are very popular with the ladies and you always have such high class adorable pretty ladies on your arm, I was talking about the rest of us who are not quite as lucky as you are

15 minutes ago, kevozman1 said:

Personally I think it is better to look for a woman who is in a stable job and/or education than to get involved with a woman who is working as a prostitute. 

   We need to face reality . Most educated girls with a job and future have no interest in relationships with felangs .

Just now, Falcon said:

No, not possible. If you don't react to the atm's request within a few seconds, it slides your card back in to the machine and you'd then need to go in to the bank for it. Same with the money, if you don't take it quickly it takes it back!!

  Im sure that it must be  longer than just a few seconds .

4 minutes ago, joeyg said:

One never knows.  One thing is people are quite brave behind the keyboards.  You would not insult me in person like this.  Have your fun.  This is making me kind of sick now.

   Why is that an insult ?

Its a true statement .

Why do you find the truth to be an insult ? 

7 minutes ago, joeyg said:

Actually were not together right now.

   Isnt it the German guys turn now ?

When is the Italian guy due over and when will it be your turn next ?

6 minutes ago, darrendsd said:

 

If you get a new PP whilst you are in Thailand and got to a Immigration Office they then transfer your recent stamps over to your new PP

 

As for the letter this is not a new requirement they have asked for this for years

   Well, you dont go to any immigration office , you go to a border immigration office when leaving a Country, it cannot be done at an internal IO

   Letters of transfer were not required in 2012, when I did a PP renewal, although a letter was needed when I last did a PP renewal a few months ago