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observer90210

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  1. Had a similar issue during a visit to Hua Hin last year. In a hired chauffeur driven car.

     

    After driving say 45 minutes on direction to BKK, get stopped on a long stretch road.

     

    The cops look at me, see I am a tourist, a cop rudely asks from where I come and then stops asking questions me.

     

    They ask my driver to step out, go behind a sort of a construction or a booth that was on the side of the road.

     

    The poor driver came back, took a pouch from the car and went back.

     

    Few minutes later came back in the car and drove on. When I asked him, he was a bit embarassed...and plainly said something like "well, this is Thailand and it's like that with the Police"......also remember a restaurant owner in HuaHin mentioning something like THB 5'000,- that was required to be paid to the police per week or per month.

     

    Not to mention this guy who was drunk..I mean real dead drunk in a party in BKK. I told him to be careful and take a taxi insted...but of course he left apparently on his bike....when I saw him few days later he admitted having being stopped at a Thai Police checkpoint and made his way thru with a bribe of THB 500,-- ....

     

    Such incidents are a disgrace to the whole country.

  2. All very cosmetic....some people have been diagnosed with the virus with absolutely no symptoms....and the poor chaps wearing their green paper masks are totally at risk as these masks do not prevent the wearer from catching the virus...and what about glasses if one really want's to protect their health screening staff....such a lack of basic know how is scary and disgraceful.

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  3. Before bragging for the airport, how about putting proper pedestrian crossing lights (that work) ?

     

    Crossing the roads in HH, mainly in downtown in the Burger King, Clock Tower etc area is a deadly game and I always wondered how the elderly who cannot run for it, manage ?

     

    And how about offering a bhat bus route that runs from downtown to the other areas westbound ?

  4. Thank you for the warning.

     

    But the biggest scammers are those with who one needs to enter in any business dealings.

     

    Mainly the real estate developpers who are the biggest cheats in Hua Hin and that will be all honey and nice until they get your money.... like many other places obviously....nothing new unfortunately.

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