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14 minutes ago, overherebc said:

I was thinking 'why post that?'

Then I enlarged it.

???

Must get new Gregories.

They got these "road signs" just a few months ago after the road got a new surface.
In front of 4 schools...

4 hours ago, The Deerhunter said:

Yes.  A family member had been communicating with "a US Soldier on leave" coming to Bangkok to meet her and her two children and take them away to a life of luxury in the USA with him.  Somehow,  when he claimed out of the blue, to be stuck at Phuket Immigration, urgently needing  her to deposit money into an account so he could get to Bangkok to be with her, she figured out that he was a con artist still residing in Ghana.  There is a lot of this about!!!   She never sent the money and so had a lucky escape.  Although the Thai police message may have missed something in the translation I feel it is this type of "romantic farang" they refer to.  Not you or me.  Well, not me, at least, anyway!!!!    Our Bar Surfer correspondents in Pattaya are not the romantic Falang the RTP are warning the girlies about.  It is the unverified internet romancer that they are telling you to be careful of.   If she is able to actually meet the  "Hansum Man" personally here and have a beer with him, then he is obviously not some suntanned trickster still in West Africa needing her urgently to send him money.

Another story:
A friend (Thai female) got a message of a guy she was chatting with since a while.
He "sent" gifts for her as 2 Samsung phones, shoes, jewellry and so on. The parcel would contain as well 50000THB in cash.
Now the parcel would stuck at the Thai customs...
As she didn't react on this bullsh*t she got a call from a Thai girl "working" for an agency that now takes care on her case.
Her advice: Send 20000THB to the bank account of the "agency" in BKK to pay for the import fees.
All was confirmed with an airbill of the "sender's" company in UK, sent from his branch in Poland.(!)
She showed me all this nonsense AFTER she sent the money and did not receive anything. OH WONDER! WHY HER GIFTS DID NOT ARRIVE?
True story of a brainless girl who even borrowed the 20000 from her friends and family ...

9 hours ago, mikebell said:

Thai ladies being scammed by farangs?  Well, well, well.

Times are changing... 

9 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

What does this have to do with the tourist Police or tourists? The romance scams are not done by tourists or against tourists. Nothing to do with tourists or the branch of the police that deals with tourists, tourist police dont investigate or prosecute these crimes. If police are trying to get a message out to Thai people why put it on the tourist police facebook page, thats not visited by Thais.

Why is the website of the Thai consulate in Savannaketh in Thai language ?

3 hours ago, hansnl said:

This was just a couple of environmental enthousiasts drawing attention to the sewage pipe running into the sea where families are invited to enjoy the diluted refuse.

It would be better if all those getting angry at the couple were projecting their "anger" at the fact sewage is pumped into the sea thereby destroying the idea these beaches are fit for families.

In real the big pipe was installed there to suck the sewage of bad dirty tourists out of the sea to keep the beaches clean 

4 minutes ago, Zikomat said:

To be legal it should include at least 51% of local participants

Don't forget to carry a receipt for the bar fine

16 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

I don't know which is worse. Having sex on a beach at 8am, or filming people having sex.

or a big waste water pipe straight into the sea at a "quality family resort"

2 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Gee!

 

My life has been extreaordinarily enhanced 

'pon reading this thread..

 

Hasn't yours?

Sh** ! I didn't realise how horrible my life is here, before I did read this post 

24 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

Yup..perfect Victor Meldrew's, all keepimg an eye on,and dobbing in their neighbours whenever [possible

 

After meeting these European

clowns I finally realized that my wife was correct and it wasn't any of my business

Not only EUROPEAN CLOWNS...

8 hours ago, jumbo said:

Nice neighbors...

Probably some of the perfect TV forum members...

8 hours ago, rtr4 said:

One time i was stopped by a foreigner in the police uniform in Chiang mai. It was a regular checkpoint as they had booth for fines just nearby. The guy was having like Australian accent. I was wondering at that time how he can work as a police officer.

He stopped my 83 year old mate one day, acting really harsh...
Wild West Marshal

This can be bought at every hospital for 200THB I guess...

2 hours ago, masuk said:

When is the next training course for agricultural workers in the handling of pesticides and herbicides?

It cannot be assumed that the reading and mathematical skills are there to mix solutions correctly and to use them safely.

I know this sounds condescending, but it is step one in handling such toxic materials.

 

Ever tried to explain things like this to a local ?
Try it and get a laugh about it...

So an additional day to drink AND drive ?

How is this related to RENTING A BIKE IN PATTAYA ?
I see just blind and careless morons like everywhere in LOS... 

Sorry, but for me typically "modern backpacker" feet.
Give a s*** on Thai culture or good behaviour but travel the country to get "inspired".
You can't agree ?
Spend some days in PAI then ...

The girl is 15.
Lock the <deleted> up for 15 years together with the Thai "lady", but don't forget to cut his balls !

Just pay 500baht on arrival ?
Too simple solution for a country full of high tech engineers !

2 minutes ago, Machiavelli said:

Guess Laos is filled to the brim with NES. Lol.

3 minutes ago, Machiavelli said:

Guess Laos is filled to the brim with NES. Lol.

The little kids at a laotian school speak a better English then Thai ...

Just go to a border crossing Thailand - Laos and talk to immigration or custom officers.
Maybe i am wrong, but it seems on the Laotian side they can speak quite better English...
Or walk along a school in Laos when the kids have lunch break...

How can somebody learn more who "KNOW EVERYTHING ALREADY" ?
Better then YOU ! 555

9 hours ago, bornredi said:

thais love to eat these hornets there worth a lot 
i can not believe no one has taken the nest 

A nest is on power pole next to my garden.
Around the same size.
I went to the authorities 4 times already. No reaction - still busy on fb...

Bla Bla ...
Depends on the kind of business the company is set up for.

Just now, pattayadon said:

It's unamimous!  The No's have it.

... for overstayers and people with fake passports ?