Rapidlaser

I am not sure if you intend to bury the pipe in the concrete oversite, if you are it must be coated,

concrete and copper have a chemical reaction, in the UK they cover the copper pipe with a product called Denso Tape.

I never did meet anyone that had so much dosh he needs to be a tax exile without someone else suffering as a result of his "honest" gains, bet he paid his taxes honestly and correctly before he became a tax exile and never exploited anyone along the way either.

you need to get out more then.

are you accusing me on a public forum of exploitation of others for financial gain , for illegally avoiding paying tax , or for obtaining income in ways other than within the law ,

show me some proof you stupid boy!

on exactly what knowledge of me are you basing these accusations

keep your pathetic sweeping generalisations about others , based on no more than a nickname , to yourself.

empty vessels make the most noise..

you're right about that.

Names! Names! Names! I suggest you take a leaf from your own book

Just because you were lazy doesn't mean everyone else is, you asume that everyone is the same as you, well I got news for you there are many different folk out there with many different reasons for overstaying, wise up an stop tarring all with your brush.

OK, I could do with a good laugh; let's hear these many different reasons, and please also assign how many overstayers fit under each of your reason; then we can have a reasoned debate.

I'll help get you started:

Reason for overstaying plus percentage:

I was too busy either travelling around looking at temples or alternatively shagging whores or smoking pot living life in my Hunter S Thompson impression (90%)

I didn't understand the stamp and date because I am really really bad at reading engrish (5%)

I illegally work here teaching english or some other job, and I can't always get time off to arrange things on the day my visa expires, but I am too tightwad to bother going prior to that date (2%)

I got hit by a bus/hit by a motorcycle/hit by a top 40 and I didn't bother contacting my embassy/my embassy are always closed/I don't know what an embassy is/I am upcountry and therefore could not leave on time OR get in touch with the local police to sort it out for me (<1%)

I don't have any respect for the laws of this country, and I be well into personal freedoms. I live in Montana. (<1%)

I am Australian (<1%)

I am quite good at Mel Gibson impersonations. I like to do Mad Max. That's why I overstay. because it is there. You can talk my passport, but you cannot take my freeeeeddooooommmm (<1%)

I am struggling to get the rest...some help perhaps?

might I suggest you read some of the reasons given previously in this thread,

my reason is none of your business, but it was business related, not everyone goes to thailand for the same reasons you apparantly do, I do believe there is a lot more to thailand than "whores" as you so eloquently put it, get a life! I have no desire to enter a debate with someone who apparantly "knows it all".

I overstayed on my last visit and wondered what the implications were as they stamped my passport,

I only overstayed 9 days on a 30 day tourist visa, stupidly even though it was my second visit I didn't even think about it, I had booked for two months and assumed I could stay that long.

Could this be detrimental to further visits?

I am now going to apply for a longer visa as I am going to explore business opertunities for my company.

I am not sure what category visa I should apply for as I may want to do some work for my

company as a vfx supervisor in a thai company whilst there.

does this mean I need a category A and O?

I am from the UK and would like to visit on several occasions throughout the year.

. . . the maximum fine payable will remain the same, at 20,000 baht . . .

Interesting about this 20,000 THB maximum fine. I guess it wouldn't do to have debtors prison, that is, after all, a bit old fashioned, and usually frowned upon in civilized societies . However, the way the system works now, the 20K becomes "cost effective" very quickly. Theoretically (and assuming that you do not get arrested, imprisoned, deported and blacklisted first ) you could overstay several years and leave via the airport for only 20K. That's a bargain compared to futzing around with visas and annual visa trips in and out of the country!

Aloha,

Rex

Hm Like your style Rex, but I wonder if it would really be that easy, does make you wonder though hehe.

Pure ripoff!

A fine has been increased for illegal activity in Thailand, how's that a rip off?

It's easy not to overstay, so just don't. And before anyone flames me, I'm no angel, I've had plenty of overstay before when the rules were less strict but it was all my own fault, and if I hadn't been so lazy could have not been in that situation at all.

Just because you were lazy doesn't mean everyone else is, you asume that everyone is the same as you, well I got news for you there are many different folk out there with many different reasons for overstaying, wise up an stop tarring all with your brush.

I am amazed after reading this thread how many people on this site are so ready to condem

a man they know little about other than what has been written in the press, whom of course we all know always reports acurately.

I love Thailand too but am not so blind as to think it has any less criminals than any other country

on this planet, in actual fact it has many more forgers of a plethora of products than most.

//personal attack removed - lopburi3//