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Also suggesting that the check if the right body is going out is just skin colour. Wow.

PTSD from military/war events has existed forever and will continue forever, but it's wasn't propery diagnosed/understood until well after WW2. Many soldiers came home from WW1, WW2, the Korean conflict and more with PTSD but nobody knew they had this condition and they didn't speak up (partly because it wasn't yet recognized by the military/governments/the medical profession). I've talked to Australian soliers who saw severe active conflict service in Afghanistan where the conflict environment is diferent (all wars have different conflict environments).These guys have severe PTSD. I was part of a team to talk to/counsel the Afghanistan returnees who were more willing to talk to vets who were also experiencing PTSD (mostly VN vets). Luckily the Afghanistan vets are getting the recognition that their PTSD issues are real and severe. But unfortunately there is no cure for PTSD and probably there never will be.

But plenty of wealthy hi-so men pay the rent for their 'on the side' girl. Could be that her status is not acceptable to the boys family, or it could be he's married to a hi-so woman and lives with her. The exact opposite can also be found, wealthy hi-so women/girls paying the rent and a salary and a gift of expensive motor cycle etc., to a hot boy, expected to be 'at home and ready' whenever she arrives. But he'll never see her family, because he's 'low class'. (What a horrid term!)

Exactly, I've been in that situation on active service in Vietnam. Comes back again and again over 50 years later. Other debilitating experience makes me panic when I can't quickly find my grandchildren in the supermarket, a form of PTSD. Worst exerience of all, in Vietnam supervising the very detailed search of a village proven to be aiding the communist VietCong army. Purpose was to find and destroy any food, ammunition etc and then ensure there were no people, any age, still in the village, then blow up the village. I gave the order to blow up that village. The blown up village then searched again for anything that might aid the enemy. We found the remains of 2 toddlers who had been blown to pieces. How can that situation not create severe trauma and recurring very disturbing graphic memories for the rest of life - PTSD. Nothing whatever to do with being weak, which could be true but that's not PTSD.

Learned a long time ago when a 'very good/very close friend' stole my expensive camera. I didn't suspect him at all but I knew he was the only person who had been in my room. I asked 'did you see my camera?' He acted confused and said no' but with no emotion at all. A day later I accidently bumped into him and his gf in a big store. She had my camera around her neck. I asked to have a look at the 'nice camera', sure enough I identified it was mine because of a scratch. To the side I showed the scratch to my friend and mentioned that I had a photo at home (taken for insurance), showing the same scratch. Later the same evening he came to my room and returned the camera with many apologies. Friendship finished. Since then I have been very careful to ensure all money and valuables are locked away in a safe at all times and ensure nobody even knew that I had a safe, only small amounts of cash in my wallet and never open my wallet in front of friends or anybody in any situation and never share a hotel room.

What about 'slightly pregnant'?

Slowly please... can d jr read and write?

He became a billionaire on the back of rampant capitalism. Now he wants more than capitalism.

More and more he's declining, becoming even more boring and irelevant. With a bit of luck the speed of the decline will accelerate and confine him to the storeroom where the documents he stole are located.

Examples?

It could be that to be acceptable to prove ID the item must have an embedded photo. Tabien Baan books don't include photos.

My red police book does show my full address and when I moved to the current location the polite pleasant and organized policeman (spoke enough English) asked me to complete a 'personal profile sheet' in English, including full address, then asked my Thai son to add the same details in Thai. No interview or similar, all very mechanical. He then started a new folder and sticky taped the 'profile' to the front of the folder then when all complete into a hanging file in his filing cabinet. Then said to my adult Thai son in Thai 'don't forget please, come back in 5 years and bring a new photo'.

All meaning that such subjects should be taught by visiting well trained teachers who teach the lesson then leave the school. In some states there's mixed classes (for this subject) then there's separated classes and most of the lesson is on video with the teacher answering very specific questions with facts but the teacher not allowed to give opinions. I'm vote my kids/grandkids being properly educated in these subjects. Thailand still has a big teen pregnancy problem, plenty of evidence that teenage kids involved are totally uninformed about where babies come from or have been told stupid mythical/totally wrong stories which leave them thinking that having sex on 'tuesdays' or somehting equally as dumb is where babies come from. Properly informed must be the way to do this. And yes that means well trained teachers with good videos and handouts, and special teacher leaves the school until next visit maybe 6 months/12months later. And 'normal' teachers not allowed in the room and not allowed to comment.

Both 45 and 47 are too short for jail numbers.

... or conman.

He's already mentioned his/family circumstances have changed and they need to move on. Maybe he/they have an even better opportunity to move to! If so, good luck to them. Who knows, and they don't need to explain.

Well that's a big assumption on your part and you're way off the truth.

Comments seem to show opposite views; left <> right .... right <> left, confusing.

Prefer a specific answer to my question.

Why do you mention left wing in this case?

Very true. It's also true the police were doing their job and the person involved not cooperating and has some history. The police cannot ignore the overstay, they were doing their job.

Was it ever published in the Royal Gazzette? Or was it another attempt by property developers? Is anybody surprised it got a very luke warm reception?

Maybe he's from the 'nobody tells me what to do' group.

"This happened in Thailand." ...where overstay is serious, there's been many thousands of cases in Thailand where foreigners have been searched out / or picked up through other circumstances and it's taken seriously. They pretty much all get fined (not cheap) and go into immigration detention and quickly deported. Most cannot return to Thailand for quite a few years up to cannot return for decades. As said 'in Thailand overstay is serious'. The government keeps control, in terms of foreigners being in Thailand with appropriate permission to be in Thailand.

Probably same as in most countries, the press hang out around police stations / police haunts etc., and tag alon when there's something that might provide good photos, copy etc.