Liverpool Lou

Well done on finding something so seriously wrong and worthy of criticism as that. What the OP reported was factually accurate (obviously at this time) while your critique was based on "probables" and "most likelies" and contained no verifiable facts.

That's true. But that doesn't excuse his defense of the purchase. In fact, by defending it, he took responsibility for it. If you say so.

Yet he managed to defend the purchase of them and their effectiveness. He or his government did not buy them, as some poster claimed, that is what I was saying.

There isn't.

There is no restriction on the amount of Thai currency in cash that can be brought into the country.

Or he could use one of their many shops, not booths, where $27k, or it's THB equivalent, would raise no eyebrows whatsoever.

But not mandatory especially when the process has been pointed out already by others, many times. If you still don't know how to go about it start a thread, I'm sure someone will come to your rescue.

You missed the point of the comments but I guess that was over your head No, I didn't and no, it wasn't.

Hhhmmn..It might depend on the IO. They set the agenda and maybe its the nearest bank to the office! You could be right but I'm sticking with it being up to the agent. Being located near to the IO doesn't fit as the bank was nowhere near it.

Depends on the currency, but USD or EUR, in your pockets, how else?

But he was in charge of the military when the fake bomb detectors were bought? He wasn't appointed army chief until 2010, two years after the purchases of the detectors ended (2006-2008).

That's not accurate, according to the 2020 stats there were 360,000 active duty members of the Thai armed forces and 200,000 reserves. In 2018 there were 60,000 slots for conscripts, 77,000 in 2017 so the majority are not unwilling conscripts.

Only the subs, his government didn't buy the fake bomb detectors.

"...there has to be a Sunday question of import". Good idea, could you come up with one for a change, then?

The bank letter is not the same as 12 months' bank statements

I think it must depend on the agent. Several years ago I used an agent in Hua Hin and had to open a KTB account even though I had an existing account at BBL.

What a terrible inconvenience when you only have twelve months to prepare for that, eh?

Completely false, you can use any Thai bank

In the northern hemisphere, the south-facing part of a house is usually considered to get the most sun.

I thought that it always rose in the east and tracked to set in the west? It does over my house, all year. What other tracks do you see it following?

Let's not be dense. Of course bicycles without motor are not illegal. Yes, let's not be "dense" (your word), nor resort to a personal attack or insult, you said that the Act states "No person shall use an unregistered vehicle.". My ever-so-slightly-tongue-in-cheek comment pointed out that a bicycle is a type of vehicle so your claim was false, bicycles can be used legally without registration.

"just puzzled why they say he was a father". Drawing empathy, emphasising the heinousness of the crime leaving children without their father. It's obvious why. "I'd be equally puzzled if they said "A Sydney man who wasn't a father..." Well, obviously. His not being a father would be completely irrelevant to the depiction of the crime if that had been the situation.

Maybe you "should get the facts right and stay out of it" , the land the OP referred to is not all private land.

No, they were members of an illegal logging gang and just claimed to picking mushrooms with with axes, machetes and chainsaws but they were released after a comparatively brief incarceration.

Perhaps you have to go to the (traffic) police.