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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.

I doubt it's anything as straightforward. It is as long as Customs officers are happy with the explanation. There are no restrictions on carrying of legal cash into the UK.

Declare it as what? Payoff money? Declare it as the compensation for injuries because that's what it would be and there is proof.

If it is cash he declares it as he has evidence of its source. Easy.

You think that you're entitled to free entertainment at the expense of others?

Is there any country in which money is not a requirement for bail?

Can happen in most judicial jurisdictions, it is not peculiar to Thailand.

Complain to The Thaiger, not AN.

Why do your posts seem to always be there to put down the foreigner? Instead of being about the OP? That's just your interpretation of my comments...an inaccurate interpretation. This is a forum, I can comment about whatever I want in whichever manner I want to and do not have to justify it to any other posters who do not approve of my observations or opinions.

..of their illegal, unlicenced service in Thailand, as it was at the time.

Really? My not being familiar the ride hailing apps (as the normal Bangkok taxis are more than good enough on most occasions), if that is the case, how are they able to quote a fare (that the customer has to agree to to make the booking) if the destination is not known? Are you saying that the drivers never know the destination of the fare that they are accepting?

Well said.

Only the rented ones.

"...Knowing the mentality of Taxi drivers...". Knowing the mentality of "some foreigners", that you specifically described very knowledgeably, you seem to play a game of booking a taxi knowing that they will want to cancel and then not taking it when it does turn up.

Why? Why would you wait for the taxi you booked to turn up for you, watch it waiting and not use it? Surely you're abusing the system (unless you didn't describe the circumstances accurately)?

"...rarely anyone using a meter...". Completely false, taxis using meters are the norm across the capital, those not using them in very specific areas/times are the minority. I used four taxis yesterday in Bangkok, as I do regularly, two from lower Sukhumvit, with no suggestion that the meters wouldn't be used.