Liverpool Lou

Gawd...

No. It's been explained in the thread.

And "they all" got it wrong.

"...leaping to wrong conclusions..." Par for the (AN) course!

Why were the motorcyclists on the motorway?

Who said that the general population will have three weeks off?

Just the same as your own country's agenda.

I doubt that they thought this out for even 3 seconds... Clearly, they thought about it much longer than you did!

"The official national days will remain April 13th to the 15th, with public holidays running to the 16th. Pattaya, as usual, will likely run from the 12th to about the 19th. In terms of the 21 days, the thought process behind this is NOT 21 days of water throwing. Instead, it’s best to think about it like Christmas, in which decorations, music, cultural presentations, etc. will take place for the entire month. The idea for Songkran is similar, with events proposed across Thailand from April 1st to the 21st, almost all of them focused on religious, cultural, and traditional heritage aspects. Yes, there will still be water play, but according to Thai officials it will be limited to the official days and not the whole three week period. So, for now, readers can rest easy that this doesn’t mean 21 days of water throwing across Thailand". https://thepattayanews.com/2024/02/08/thailand-to-celebrate-21-days-of-songkran-in-april-really/

No.

No. No, I wonder if you read the thread?

As has been reported, very clearly, in this thread there will not be three weeks of water throwing, neither will there be a three weeks national holiday... " The official national days, by the way, will remain April 13th to the 15th, with public holidays running to the 16th. Pattaya, as usual, will likely run from the 12th to about the 19th. In terms of the 21 days, the thought process behind this is NOT 21 days of water throwing. Instead, it’s best to think about it like Christmas, in which decorations, music, cultural presentations, etc. will take place for the entire month. The idea for Songkran is similar, with events proposed across Thailand from April 1st to the 21st, almost all of them focused on religious, cultural, and traditional heritage aspects. Yes, there will still be water play, but according to Thai officials it will be limited to the official days and not the whole three week period. So, for now, readers can rest easy that this doesn’t mean 21 days of water throwing across Thailand". Government offices will be closed for the official three (four?) day Songkran holiday.

Queue the standard posters trying to be clever and funny.........! On cue, all the usual suspects queuing up to try to be funny.

Typical, hit the keyboard then read the articles later, there is not going to be three weeks of water throwing as seven posts (and an hour) before yours confirmed.

Only one "Show me the money" Exactly the same as yours, and every other, government.

No. If you read the reports about it, you'd know what the plans are.

Id call it education I'd call it a stupid, retaliatory move.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/british-backpacker-almost-bleeds-death-32058642 So the discussion is academic if that's what you're now going with as to what happened. Paying compensation in return for not being prosecuted is not illegal. If he did receive bona fide compensation with the agreement of all parties, and it can be evidenced as such, it does not matter how the person paying the compensation obtained the money. That would be a different investigation between the police and whoever paid if the RTP suspected that something illegal had happened in the procurement of that money.

WHAT doing Thais are SEE such DAY EACH !!! That's better.

Hear, hear! Can't find anything to dispute there!

But only three official days for the water fights.

Why would you have to be off work for three weeks?

No one has suggested that it is a 3-week holiday for Thais.

No ads on mine Mine neither! Must be something wrong with my laptop.

Whatever you want to call it, it is compensation but, even if it called "hush money" (your words, no one else's), it would be money obtained legally and publicly and its source would be established easily. Customs are only concerned that large amounts of cash have been obtained legally, that is not part of a money laundering exercise and that any necessary tax has been paid. But he probably would not be carrying that amount of cash, anyway.