Liverpool Lou

No, the police do not "always say" that.

...including the Swede who started the shlt show by, allegedly, nicking the very pricey Celine bag and stashing its contents in his backpack!

Perhaps his lawyer hasn't been appointed to the case for the entire three months?

They do? Doubtless you can give an example?

Western child in its disciplinary cage...

That will be a very hard job ..... "...the father shared the CCTV footage on social media to initiate legal action against the young mother, reported Pattaya Mail". Wasn't difficult for him to give his attention.

"You were on your way to the beer garden...". Dreadful, dreadful place, would never drink there. It's only saving grace was the pork chops and mashed spuds on a couple of very hungry occasions and then a rapid dart out back to New Wave.

No, that can't be the one, he used to read The Bangkok Post.

So that would exclude Lou then You got something right, for once! I'd qualify it, though, by adding that I'm selectively (anti) social.

That bar ("Thaivisa Lounge") was the second iteration of the infamous New Wave, Soi 7, after the land on the corner was sold to be redeveloped and was owned by the successful 'Frenchman', 'Patrick', it was not owned by Thaivisa. Thaivisa put a bit of money in it and used it temporarily, putting their name on the alley side of New Wave's frontage.

I know personally of a case where a motorbike rider fully insured was taken to hospital after an accident. I would never doubt the veracity of your posts but that is just one case out of millions of claims and, from your description, it appears to be one in which the terms of the policy were contravened. Voiding a policy with a specific contravention does not put the insurer at fault or in a position to be unfairly criticised or condemned.

Soi 11 is what is going on...late.

A lot of the clubs, bars or whatevers in Soi 11 are open, surreptitiously, until stupid o'clock. They all already have "the attention" of the authorities!

The Prosecutor's office doesn't decide on guilt of innocence, it only decides which cases have enough merit to justify taking it to court.

There's a big difference between that intended officially sanctioned policy between the two countries' police forces that went tits up and the Chinese authorities unilaterally operating surreptitiously here.

Thai citizenship costs 5,000 baht application fee and 500 baht for the fingerprints. The ID card comes free I think. Ok, now I understand, you applied for and were granted Thai citizenship after the normal procedure, you did not just "buy it" for B5,500 as he ridiculously suggested. Appreciate the clarification.

What???? Don't believe that for a minute. I bet you either work or used to work in insurance. You're right, as I have posted previously, part of my career was in insurance, for a large insurer and as an untied broker, that's how I know what I am talking about. The figures that I quote are accurate; insurance claims statistics are widely available for those who care to look (most don't want to) but it's funny how all those who dispute the available statistics can't ever come up with opposing statistics to back their cynicism - hearsay and anecdotal tales are not stats representative of the whole industry. If the figures were the other way around, 90% denied and 10% paid, as most AN poster like to fantasise, there would, obviously, be no insurance industry as no one would ever buy any policy.

Hardly surprising that that some of that minority 10% or so requested investigations. The other 90% obviously would have no reason to request investigations!

What does that mean? Why would any country want to buy anything that has the least availability of spare parts?

I do try but I just can't help myself.

Excuse me. What do you mean with this post. I just posted my opinion. If you agree you can say that. No need to sound like I want everyone to listen and heed. Even if English isn't your first language I'm sure that you know how to search the meaning of "Hear, hear!" on the internet. There's no need for you to give me instructions on how to respond to your posts that are based on your misunderstanding of the usage of a very common English language expression.

Of course, there are other things needed like passing a Thai culture test. I was just saying that as someone said I bought it, this is the fee. You've got me...what exactly was it that you got for B5,500 that included a Thai ID card to which BenStark initially referenced?

Not with SCB I assure you What are you "assuring" me of? SCB has a fee of "50 baht/month upon no account movement for 12 consecutive months and account balance ≤ 2,000 baht". https://www.scb.co.th/en/personal-banking/faq/deposit-faq.html#:~:text=How much are account maintenance,account balance ≤ 2%2C000 baht

Who said he was? The certain amount of delight and sarcasm suggested that implication.

Never mind. All PayPal and eBay and ... are beautiful. There you go, I didn't think that you'd have anything about eBay.