greenmonkey

is it standard practice these days for the Thai Post Office to ask what the letter is about? Nothing would surprise me these days but surely that cannot be standard procedure can it? Can someone confirm?

racist... i'm undecided but probably not. Rude and insensitive.... most definitely!!! Sounds like a bit of an idiot to me.

Quote: The mother also said that the motorist offered an apology for “causing a waste of time” to the students and their parents, but did not ask about their condition when they met at the police station.

I think I would have knocked the guy out if that is what he'd said to me.

Disgusting disgusting disgusting behaviour... maybe not in this case but often the drivers are at schools to pick up their own kids and still drive like this (maybe not as bad but will drive with very little regard to the childrens safety).

A few years back I had to jump off the footpath because a driver didn't want to queue at the crossing behind cars, and so drove at the very edge of the road and on the walking path to bypass the cars that were waiting. I had to jump off the road to avoid being hit. I couldn't believe it. Seen countless cars driving at speed in busy school areas. I just don't get this mindset... i really don't. It's like, 'I only care about my kids and couldn't care less about anyone elses'.

1 hour ago, warrima said:

CW. My non o extension is based on family (Thai Child) - not marriage. In this case a kid changes quite a bit in a year so they can easily tell old photos. Actually for my first extension my daughter was at pre school - and its name in thai was really long and so therefore was the sign. It was near on impossible to take the photo and get everything in focus. I think on that occasion we went back maybe 3 times with them complaining on each occasion. in the end i had to edit it in PS to get it to pass muster. 

 

• A copy of the letter from your child’s school confirming their enrolment
• A clear colour photograph of the father and child together at the school with the name of the school is clearly visible
• A photo of the school name
• Three pictures taken within the school grounds, for example, in a classroom, of the playing fields and any dining rooms/canteen

geez, and i thought we had to jump thru hoops for the marriage visa!

1 hour ago, dayo202 said:

Few years ago my photos was rejected because all the photos was taken on the same day as we had the same clothes on for all of the photos ( Pathum Thani )

ha! I was worried about this happening to me so I always make sure to change my shirt for every pic (but still take on the same day).

7 hours ago, warrima said:

I had all new photos for my family extension except the one with me and my daughter in front of the school sign. Thought id get away with just using last years and save me a trip to the school. They picked up on it and made me return next day with a new one. 

 

Actually twice. When i returned the next day with the new photo - she claimed that she couldn't read the schools name as i was standing slightly in front of the first letter. Bear in mind we also supply a letter from the schools headteacher confirming attendance at said school. 

you have got to be kidding!!! Firstly, having a photo outside your kids school is a new one on me... i never had to do this... and to send you away for the sign not being legible is absolutely taking the p%ss!!! Please tell me what office are you using?? I'm sure this is not standard (pic outside your child's school).

yeah its happened to me before... people in front decide to stand at the top of the exculator so I had to shout and shove them out of the way... brain dead some of these people. I am guessing that in this instance the people coming up and seeing their paths blocked were too 'polite' or stupid to shove them out of the way.

no doubt this guy has done wrong but I do not like the way he is being treated whilst the captain of the boat is barely even mentioned. It is outright xenophobia. Maybe I should post the video I took a couple years back of a boat load of Thai tourists being taken out into a protected marine park, music blaring, everyone jumping into the sea standing on and trampling all over the corals. See if that gets the same kinda reaction!

it must be tough for the OP to see this guy's children being swindled out of their inheritance. I can understand why it would make him so upset. Whatever you decide to do OP i wish you good luck!

They all deserve to get into trouble but personally i think the captain of the boat should shoulder the majority of the blame. He is in charge of that boat and should know the laws of the land/sea. Surely he should have told the guy immediately that he could not catch those fish. Do we know where the farang guy got the spear gun from? Would be interesting to know...

Getting lazy to travel into town and back for a game of pool... is there anywhere to play pool in Nonthaburi? So far I have only come across snooker halls... you would think that some of them might stick one pool table in the corner but no... only snooker!

is he handing the compensation to the families in the form of big oversized cheques in front of camera's or would that be crass, insensitive and inappropiate?

...she waited for the ex-boyfriend to finish donating food to the monks before murdering him. It's not looking good for this lady I have to say!

9 minutes ago, Eaglekott said:

AKA He was driving to fast for the road conditions at that time.

its amazing how many drivers here do not change their driving to match the conditions on the road.

15 hours ago, NE1 said:

What has that got to do with it ?

... i had exactly the same thought as you.... i think they were stressing how bad the rainfall was as if this is to be blamed rather than the driver of the truck.

The owner said that he advised the group that the dishes would be expensive and that they insisted on ordering... at this point did it not occur to either party to talk numbers or at least get a rough idea of prices? Have to say... sounds very odd!

hmmnn i think people here are too quick to commend the lady for her actions,and also too quick to label the ex-boyfriend a wife beater. i don't agree with any form of violence against women or anyone else for that matter. But i think there is more to this story... she admits that the guy asked her to leave the house and live somewhere else... and she went to this guys place of work with a weapon and shot him 4 times. How do we not know that this guy is perfectly innocent and had had enough of this lady's <deleted> and threw her out!? All's I am saying is maybe people should not be too quick to judge...

8 hours ago, starky said:

Ganja isn't the glaringly obvious problem in this story.

"The parent was told by a relative of her husband that the child had ate the ganja brownie."

So family then. Lol. 

 The mother also warned others to take care of their kids.

 ???????????????? couldn't make this <deleted> up. How about you take CARE of your own child in the first instance pillock? 

...exactly! What's even more worrying about this story is the fact that the husband's relative and/or the husband knew that the kid had eaten the hash brownie and chose not to say anything at first allowing the kid to go to school... unbelievable! No wonder the mother is worried about receiving bad press over this!

3 hours ago, VincentRJ said:

What I find amazing is that the USA is the third worst. South Africa is the worst. Thailand is the 2nd worst and the USA is the third worst. Crikey!

yeah that surprised me too. People say that Thailand's roads are so dangerous because the police not policing and yet in the USA the police are 'policing' (or so I am guessing) and still many accidents. Any Americans here that can shed some light on why/how the USA got third? Be interested to know...