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18 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Please tell me where you gleaned that bit of knowledge. No-one else seems to know of this method.

The requirements on the application for a visa, state the monthly deposit method above. 

16 hours ago, John Answer said:

What are you afraid of? 20k is not a lot of money in Thailand. 

No but getting robbed is his fear. You may like to give your money away but some don't have enough to throw it away

On 8/14/2018 at 12:01 PM, colinchaffers said:

I live in a village in Prachiburi, about two months ago I went to empty some rubbish in a bin opposite my house and a "immigration police" truck went past and stoped, four uniformed guys got house and asked to see my passport. I took them to the house and my wife's father came out. They explained they thought I was wondering in the village and just wanted to check me. They were very nice and took the usual pictures and went on there way. I think it was a chance encounter.
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I also live in a Prachinburi village but my only visits have been as part of my Thai extensions

20 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Yes, I know it's nuts. 1600 Baht for nothing.

 

Basically, for reasons of self-interest, you need to think when entering the country, "Am I going to have to interact with an immigration office during this stay?" If the answer is "Yes" then better to do a TM30, if "No" then maybe don't bother.

 

Reasons for going to (Pattaya) immigration include

Visa extension

New driver's licence

Buying and registering a vehicle

New passport and transfer of stamp

90 days' notification

 

There are other reasons.

I  know I will appear stupid but why do you have to go to immigration to renew your License. I went the first time since then I just go to the local amper government office . Do a reaction test foor red and grreen lights hand in my doctors letter to prove  I'm able  (to pay 200bt)Sit through a boring video and pick up my new licence pay 500bt for a five year license finished. The most painful bit is sitting through an hour and a half thai language video

21 hours ago, soistalker said:

In my condo, they seem to prefer balconies where the tenants are away. When they do come to my balcony, I scream loudly and go onto the deck and scream more as they fly away.  It seems to deter them from coming back for a while. 

The thing about pigeons is they are territorial. If you shoot one another will come to take the vacant area. That is why in town centres etc in the UK you see spikes on or wires on the areas they try to sit, thy cannot land or take off safely.  What I have done is placed taut fishing line about three inches above the perch areas. If the area is a wide sill you may have to put two along the whole length. I don't have pigeons they stay next door my favourite hate was the indian miner birds which used to sh.. every where so I have a couple of strands running across between posts on the lebiang (sorry don' t know how to spell. The Thai  word for a covered balocny outdide the house) they  no longer fly through leaving doppings on the table

Possibly the most arrogant  and ignorant post I ever seen on this forum. A drunkard who  has money and thinks he  important, but shows how ugly he is inside. Pattaya isn't my scene but he is stretching its reputation even lower. He has no human decency

17 hours ago, robblok said:

A bit of jail time.. I hope that he sees at least some jailtime. Use all the drugs you want alcohol and others (i dont care their body).. just don't operate a vehicle while under the influence. Those who drink and drive especially those who kill someone should really face jail-time.

 

Seems perfectly normal for some people to drink and drive here. 

They don't do it in UK because they WILL be caught but here if you don't have an accident you are home free . The difference is the police doing their job enforcing the law not hanging around just for pocket money. But a 79 yr old child is a bit totally bonkers

5 hours ago, YetAnother said:

fatty, watch general doesnt know this and doesnt know that and dismisses the fact that he Should know; incompetent and the wrong man for the job

Nice.a lo of trouble over the government money. Didn't see al these RTP chase off to the UK to bring back the Red Bull heir for the murder of An RTP

14 hours ago, happy chappie said:

what is even more sad is how the father has been left to beg for money to bring him back to Scotland and bury him because he was happy go lucky and never had £30-40 travel insurance.over £9000 has already been raised  and what's wrong with a cremation in Thailand and ashes posted back.myself I'm getting a bit fed up with these stories of no insurance.

But then you have wonderful hind sight, plenty of money no empathy for those who are running their lives on a shoestring, and without the latter maybe you lack some basic humanity for others and  you just plain smug and arrogant maybe you have been in Thailand too long and caught the me me me syndrome which in English  translates to f....k you Jack I'm alright

4 hours ago, jmacken306 said:

Why do people buy something on the sidewalk or the nearby store Big C? on my daily walk to the little mall building and I see drinks (one sipp gone), pork or chicken sticks and bags, sitting on the wall or near an ATM? One you are correct LAZY, never taught, don't care or another you can't find any trash cans on the sidewalks in this area/Town.

You could go on about it all day the facts have already been made clear (not clean),but it only appears to annoy farangs. The problem is, no collection ,no pride and no idea. The answer lays somewhere in, loss of face, education and for us expats

Its just following the age old rule of, when in Rome do as the Romans do or in other words do as our hosts do. There you are the perfect solution and not a Thai basher in sight. Its their country ,their tourist industry, there economy, and ends up as their problem for the future.

1 hour ago, CanterbrigianBangkoker said:

Seems to me that, like most are pointing out, the pick up driver was (as per usual) speeding and had he been traveling at a more conservative and appropriate speed then this would have most likely not been a fatal accident. We must remember that a huge proportion of drivers on the roads in Thailand simply have 0 skill behind the wheel and don't give a flying <deleted> about anyone outside of their own car - the highly praised Buddhist mentality we all hear about, at work ? .

 

A sad and totally avoidable waste of life, probably somewhere around # 300 or 400 already this month, I'd wager.

 

And - whoever produced this woeful piece of s**t  attempt at a news program should be s**t-canned tout-suite and never allowed to work in TV again. The hosts should hang their heads in shame too. Just more evidence that a large percentage of the Thai public seemingly occupy a rung on the scale of human evolution many gradations lower than most! Warped.

Religion its ok to die, reincarnation will maybe bring a better life and he  will be higher up towards nivana

10 hours ago, maraudingscot said:

Won't be the flag in the photo then!!

?

I know of an Aussie super fit bloke who insists on super man sheets,?????

10 minutes ago, Lupatria said:

Reads like you never heard the notorious answer to any proposed solution: "yeah, well, but this is Thailand- it won't work here."

I live in a vilage where the loca government does not collect the garbage, their collection area is just about 20 radius of the Amper town , being Nadi in Chanwat Prachinburi . Most of the moo bans are in the little area between the two National Parks, Khao yai and Thaplan as a consequence the local ditches and streams are used to dump household waste this is all dumped in plastic bags . So yes Like the current garbage collection I do believe that it won't work here. Any money provided to stop pollution will be siphoned, off for something else. Lip service only please we don' t want real answers, they will require effort. Sorry don' t like Thai bashing but some areas really need a clean up (no pun intended). Next time you pay double to go in a national park look at the areas just outside. I t may not be the ocean but it is a sea of waste 

Did my own electrics to the British Standard (unfortunately had to use Thai spec sockets and switches). But we have the whole system earthed and a fuse board with the earth leakage trips . 1. Trip for each shower. 1 for lights down stairs and another for upstairs have repeated this for sockets up and down stairs with a separate trip for the Kitchen sockets. A double socket in each corner of each room plus extras in the kitchen as its a heavy use area, been living in the house for 10 years without any problems If you have any doubts you can read the whole process on the net . The lot come to less than  B40,000 only problem was I had to DIY as the local Thais didn't understand   the earth safety  wire system!!!!!! in fact the guy who built the house wanned me do his house as his wife was getting shocks off the  floor kitchen when she used the washing machine- -- not earthed?? Water on the floor ????

I agree with all of the above there is no enforcement therefore there is no law. Time Thailand had an Elliot Ness to get rid of the current brown envelope collectors. It may not be Al Capone but its the same lawlessness.

Just never realised how many perfect people make comments on this forum. Regardless of how  imperfect the drivers accident avoidance was . The total idiot on the wrong carriageway was 100 per cent to blame. Maybe one day something will totally shock some of the posters then they will be able to see how Perfect they are in an emergency. But we won't know because they will catch the Asian loss of face problem.

And if you believe it will make one iota of a change in what we go through to do our yearly renewal .welcome to lala land after just 10 years I know there will be no change for at lest the rest of my life, we all know that any change will be down to the local officer's  view and the flattened state of his wallet,of before the real facts of are considered which are not to be confused with the governments  intentions

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Three injured in series of bomb attacks in Pattani, Yala, Songkhla

By The Nation

 

Muslim insurgents carried out more than ten simultaneous bomb attacks in the southern border provinces of Pattani and Yala Sunday evening, injuring three civilians. Two other attacks happened at the same time on ATMs in Songkhla province.

 

Pattani police chief Pol Maj Gen Piyawat Chalermsri said seven attacks were carried out in four districts in Pattani, all at about 7pm.

 

Two women were injured in the blast at an ATM machine in front of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) in Muang district.

 

They were named as Sompit Sakonwichit, a chief physical therapist at Pattani Hospital, and Somjit Srisombat, a traditional medicine practitioner at the same hospital. They were slightly injured.

 

A man, Somkid Sakulwijit was also injured when a bomb shrapnel hit his left eye after a blast at an ATM in front of Kasikorn Bank on Yarang Prong road in Muang district.

 

Two other explosions in Muang district were also launched on ATMs. No one was injured at the Islamic Bank on Yarang road in Muang district or at the Government Savings Bank in front of Pattani Technical College.

 

There were no injuries in three other bomb attacks.

 

In Nong Chik district, an ATM at the BAAC bank was damaged, the second took place near a police station in Tambon Khao Toom, Yarang district and the third happened in front of Satsana Sueksa School in Sai Buri district.

 

The Pattani police chief said security cameras around the districts detected several insurgents riding motorcycles to plant the homemade bombs, the insurgents apparently trying to cause damage to the local economy.

 

Meanwhile in Yala, homemade bombs damaged ATMs in front of five banks in Bannang Sata district at about 7.20pm.

 

Another explosion damaged an ATM at Krung Thai Bank in Yala’s Kabang distirct at nearly at the same time but no injuries were reported.

 

Police said insurgents also fired an M79 grenade at an Army post in Yala's Than To district. No troops were injured.

 

In Yala's Yaha district, bomb disposal officers defused a bomb left in front of a convenient store opposite the district hospital.

 

Meanwhile, two ATMs in Songkhla province’s Thepha and Sabayoi districts were damaged in bomb blasts that happened at about the same time as those in Pattani and Yala.

 

One was at a PTT petrol station on the Hat Yai-Pattani road in Ban Sawan village, Tambon Sakom, in Thepha, while in Sabayoi, the other ATM to be damaged was at the Government Savings Bank in Ban Huay Bon village, Tambon Ban Node.

 

No one was injured in the two Songkhla explosions.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30345895

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-21

Those Muslims Terrorists in the South are wasting their time a drunken driver in Kolat got 13 injured he didnt have a bomb just too much to drink and a set of car keys

Have a heart, he was pissed as a newt. May be next time ( there will be a next time), he can try harder to kill someone!!?

18 hours ago, 473geo said:

Then we saw today a video of a 50+ year old adult pulling out in front of a truck and dying, his passenger also survived, no helmets - so is age as relevant as some would have us believe?

The problem is caused by an refusal to abide by the Law and a total lack of enforcement by an ineffective inefficient force which people believe are actually policemen. In Pattaya I believe the saying is no money no honey!  On the roads its no money! no money for me!? Why stop them

5 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

I bet the Wife would spot those quick enough....................

Thanks I will try to find bigC at Marina Hall don' t know where that is, Soi Bakao , Friendship  Dolphin, round a bout,big C formerly Carrifore, is my limited navigation aids . But by the sound of the  big cocks maybe I should travel alone don't' want the wife to get any ideas!!!!!!

PeterB

several years ago when I was a new expat,  a very long ago a friend took me to a "dirty crockery shop" in Pattaya the wife declares they are the best knives she has owned we also got some good quality crockery. I would like to go back for more but I don't  know where it is I just know it was on a main road in big and  rough building  like a huge shed. Any ideas that may help me find it. I live out in Prachin buri and do not know Pattaya very well . Help