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Could it have been all the passengers standing to grab their cabin luggage from the overhead lockers before anybody else that caused a shift of weight which in turn caused the hard landing?

Chinese organised crime.

Use the airfare comparison websites to gain information and then book the ticket on the website of the airline itself.

Upon arriving at the house, what exactly did the police "check"? Did they interrogate you? Did they search the property for armaments? Did they take away your phone and computer? Or was it just a totally pointless box-ticking exercise that has been filtered down through several layers of bureaucracy until any possible benefit, if any ever existed, has long since been discarded and now the only purpose is the photo which will be passed back up the chain as proof the American has been "checked" and the order has been followed.

Apparently it's the kites and Chinese New Year.

I did say Euros. That would be around 730,000 Baht.

That is not the goal of the police here. They pay to join, pay a lot more to join as a commissioned officer, pay for promotions, pay for postings, need to funnel money upwards each month. All opportunities are monetised. A foreigner killing a foreigner is often a superb opportunity. There is no local family to put pressure on the police. Of course, I could answer in response to your question the stress of the uncertainty of the situation, the being locked up for a few weeks on remand whilst the financial pressure is imposed and the cost of, say, 20,000 Euros is a deterrent but clearly it is not justice.

That is so strange it sounds like deliberate obstructing of the process. I suspect they would like you to use one of their preferred agents. The fact that others were rejected may provide some evidence supporting this idea. However I would add the balance failure was not surprising, that is a black and white rule. Surprises 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8 sound deliberately designed to make the process more difficult.

The probable outcome is that in under 6 months, this thug will be back in Sweden or Turkey or anywhere but a jail in Thailand. There are various ways the police can put the fix in but they all involve money. Look at the similar killing of Benjamin Robb in Pattaya in 2018. The killer, Jose Manuel Polanco Jr., 43, was allowed to leave Thailand.

The killer will pay his way out within 6 months. I don't think it will get to trial. If it does, it will be far more difficult at that point for the Turkish-Swede to buy his way out. It will never get that far. There was a similar case of an American who killed an Aussie on Soi 6 in Pattaya and paid his way out. These cases are pay days for the police.

No, but the Western Complex is the nearest and frankly probably only feasible area a tiger could migrate from and find itself in Doi Inthanon National Park. There are wild tigers in Thailand but they have been poached or hunted for a long time, their prey is much reduced and their habitat is highly fragmented. This means viable populations find it very hard to survive. (One or two tigers in a forest is not a viable gene pool!) Tigers in the wild are now missing from the majority of Thailand's National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries.

Safe entry with DTV? That does not bode well for DTV holders like myself.

I am not sure why you have introduced "the bottom of Thailand" into the conversation. There are wild tiger populations in the Western region, Tak, Kamphaeng Phet, Mae Hong Son and probably over the border in Myanmar. Perhaps you could clarify what you meant.

This is very strange. Tigers do migrate in search of territory and prey but I feel this is much more likely to be an unauthorised release as the article seems to hint at. The level of habitat fragmentation and the nearest viable population would suggest it was.

Nowhere in the story does it say they escaped China because it is not a free country. The MO for Chinese working in Cambodian scam compounds seems to be to enter Thailand illegally from Myanmar or Laos and then to exit Thailand illegally into Cambodia and then at some point do the same journey in reverse. Not sure why they do this.

I believe Health Land is a reasonably large firm. They would definitely want the police to exonerate them of any wrongdoing.

Over the last 12 months, my experience is that the TM30 desk and the TM47 (90-day) desk at Jomtien appear to have switched from stapling to using paper clips. Yippee. Previous passports were full of staple holes from Sri Racha and Jomtien and even Suan Phlu going back. A new passport damage threat appears to be the Siam Commercial Bank. The clerk there blanked out "unnecessary" information using low-adhesive sticky tape before taking photos and then removing the tape. There was the possibility he would take half the page with it (which didn't happen thankfully). I warned him not to damage the passport when I saw the sticky tape get stuck to the page. He seemed very confident there would be no damage. I was not so confident.

Charming. It is not a case of "I am wrong". It is a fact. The world of banking security is moving. You want to continue to do your banking from your laptop and with many banks you can but with some Thai banks you can't. That's a fact. Even if you don't want it to be true, it's a fact. Many features of internet banking are only available if you have mobile banking. That's a fact. You have misunderstood the 2 out of 3 security protocol. With regards to online banking, you can log in on ANY laptop. The same is not true of mobile banking. Yes, your laptop has a camera but it is not used for online banking. Again you have misunderstood. So with online banking you only have 1 out of 3. There is the world that you wish for and there is the world the way it actually is. Denying facts may make you feel good and may make you feel you have "won". But it won't change the world. I am not arguing with you, I am simply telling you why you may need to move to mobile banking even though you clearly do not want to. I too was inconvenienced when SCB shut down their online banking. Here is some reading for you. To help you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication

You seem to be under the impression that this is an allowance or a right. In fact you actually use the word "allowance"! It is not. It is a maximum. It is not an allowance. If you can show me a current Thai government source stating it is an allowance, I would be very happy to admit I was wrong. I can read Thai so any language would be fine. (You won't find one.)

If the evisa was issued on Jan 4 and you were in Thailand on Jan 4, that potentially might be flagged up. Or Immigration may not care. I don't know how clever their systems are. Alternatively it may just be the date of application that counts when you were presumably in Vietnam. Given your history, and your idea to bounce on the same day, and entering Phuket, I would definitely go with a safe entry service.

Not named anywhere yet? The first thing that jumps out is that an American was living in the same building as Burmese scrap yard workers. Typically they might be living in 1000 Baht / month rooms with flimsy partitions and shared bathrooms.

It is the "2 out of 3" security protocol. Something you know Something you own Something you are With mobile banking, no. 1 is a password, no. 2 is the phone, no. 3 is potentially a fingerprint or eye scan. So, potentially, you have all 3. With online banking you only have no. 1.

SCB have long since ceased their online banking.

I know this is obvious and I know it concerns the wildlife trade but not one of these species is native to Thailand, extant or extinct. (However, over 10,000 years ago, orangutans or their direct ancestors may have inhabited what is now Thailand.) Does this mean Thailand is an illegal wildlife trade hub?

It is very unlikely anybody from Immigration will ever know.