NanaSomchai

1 hour ago, moontang said:

Booze is cheap in Thailand?  By what metric?  And they've proven they can't be trusted on the pour, or the contents of the bottle.  A friend bought some kind of flavored Absolut and it was easily identifiable as counterfeit...bought at Makro, HH, no less.  The counterfeiting, recapping, refilling of bottles is endemic.

Yet another blatant obvious scam!

Thailand, the Land of Scams.

17 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Probably best just to focus on farang perverts if Big Jobbie wants to stay employed and have a car with less ventilation in it ????

ACAB.

38 minutes ago, DjSilver said:

Is anyone surprised? It's the land of scames.

Indeed it is.

/thread

5 hours ago, aussienam said:

Pure evil, yet again certain Thai women showing their true despicable, evil, heartless ways. And a nurse in a position of trust and with a duty of care.

This is Thailand, trust is a non-existent word in this country.

5 hours ago, aussienam said:

It isn't just the bar girls where stealing, frauds like romance scams and other scams and crimes flourish.

Yet the current self-elected junta government insists on pointing fingers at foreigners, while in fact Thailand is world beknown for it's rampant prostitution (including child trafficking by own family members), scams, romance scams, jetski scams, real estate scams, refurbished cars scams, RTP shakedowns, brown envelopes required at local land office scams... and now we have hospitals scams too.

5 hours ago, aussienam said:

It feels like an international sport on fleecing foreigners and in this report, even when on your deathbed you are not safe.

Yeap. You nailed it on the head, I personally have sold everything, recouped my losses as much as I could and hit the road for good, I encourage anyone to do just about the same.

Just now, ThLT said:

You'll be waiting two years... or ten.

Three seems more realistic.

7 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Yet they didn't report this story and the original  reporters got the information  wrong but the DM got it right.

They didn't report the story because this is a "non story". These sort of crimes happen everyday.

The only reason why the Daily Mail reported it is because if fits their racist agenda narrative, sensationalism towards an "asian criminal being banged in Asia", they are a fear mongering tabloid.

Looking at the article in itself, let's have a quick peek, shall we? Emphasis in bold and underline below are mine:

A notorious gangster been found dead after being repeatedly shot outside a luxury villa in Thailand. 

Singh, who was allegedly part of a Canadian gang, was six years ago deported for 'serious criminality' from Vancouver, British Colombia, before fleeing to the popular holiday island of Phuket.

Mandeep Singh, 30, was six years ago deported for 'serious criminality' from Vancouver, British Colombia, before fleeing to the popular holiday island of Phuket. Pictured, police at the scene 

They hid behind another vehicle parked in the driveway before pouncing on the gangster and opening fire, unloading at least 18 rounds into his body while he was on the ground.

Nineteen torn 9mm and .830 bullets, some cash and marijuana were found when the vehicle and crime scene were investigated

Police said that Singh arrived in Thailand on January 27 on a tourist visa and that the gangster also allegedly had a home in Dubai, around six hours away by plane.

The police chief added: 'Officers examined CCTV footage at the scene of the crime and found that on February 4, at around 10.30pm, the deceased arrived in a red MG vehicle.

'In front of the villa at the scene while getting out of the car to enter the villa, there were two or three male assailants running in from a dark corner using firearms to fire until Mr Singh fell to his death, with the assailant taking only 10 seconds to commit the crime. They then ran back in the original direction.

Nineteen torn 9mm and .830 bullets, some cash and marijuana were found when the vehicle and crime scene were investigated.  

The gangster was known as Slice, due to a big scar on his right cheek, the Vancouver Sun reported.  

So what do we have here?

A right wing biased article that mentions 4 times the word gangster, gangster, gangster, gangster followed suit by the words crime/criminal/criminality being used no less than 6 times, criminality, criminality, crime, crime, crime, crime.

Meanwhile the word victim was used only once.

If after that you still can't read between the lines, I'm sorry I can't be of further assistance to you.

Edit: Oh and before I forget, "congratulations" to the Daily Mail for fully publishing and disclosing in the article his full Passport details page, his full Canadian driving license page along with a full copy of one of his debit/credit cards (all we're missing is the CCV at the back). Very smart "journalism" right there. This is NOT proper journalism. Muppets.

2 hours ago, Tonypandy said:

It's all about threats of fines and imprisonment in Thailand. A great place for a vacation

Police State Thailand 4.0.

/thread.

On 2/4/2022 at 11:11 AM, steven100 said:

don't bring too many ....  because we want you to buy them here at a higher price

Welcome to Scamland!

/thread.

Smokers are a plague worse than COVID-19, a swarm, a locust...

4 hours ago, Dukeleto said:

Stop coming and it will happen much quicker. Keep coming and they will keep it running.

Indeed. Vote with your wallet. Go elsewhere until they are forced to drop this entire scamming and skimming operation.

16 minutes ago, RandiRona said:

They are waiting for their masters CCP to copy the ingredients and create Sinoxolovid to place that order.

This, 300%.

4 hours ago, natway09 said:

Better,  being a hothead that you contact a good agent & have minimal contact with Immigration in person. Your attitude as on here could lock doors for good.

Totally this. Fighting the system is a guaranteed lose, don't fight the system, play along with it instead.

12 hours ago, Fert said:

I would be grateful if someone could help draft a statement or a lawsuit against the government. I don't speak English very well and use a translator. The basis is the actual deprivation of a Thai child of an official parent on the basis of conditions that were created by the government this month.. The actual obstruction of the extension of the conditions on the basis of which the child was born and is still growing. The child was born in an official marriage, the parents are officially recorded in the birth certificate. There were no requirements for owning 400,000 baht on the account. Due to the fact that the borders were closed, the movement between the countries has sharply risen in price, the requirements for updating visas every 3 months have become financially impossible. I demand either to return the previous conditions for the child, or to recognize such a category of children as illegitimate, to invalidate the birth certificate, since financial evidence of 400,000 was not provided. And to introduce this requirement for the birth of children in Thailand with one foreign parent. To recognize that without 400,000 baht in the account, a foreign parent will not be considered a parent. This requirement should be introduced simultaneously with the termination of extensions of covid visas for this category of people and will continue until the next changes. To make everything clear and understandable. In general terms, the meaning is clear, if they do something that is recognized as illegal, then those laws that allowed them to do it legally should be repealed. And they will have to break their heads how they are going to retroactively cancel the birth of children and the duties of parents.

I quoted your entire post but I stopped reading at the bolded and underlined part.

You need to adjust your attitude. This is Thailand.

There is no such thing as "I demand". There is no demanding on your part, no matter how right you think you are or how entitled you think you are, you have to see it through the eyes of a Thai, to them (specially the immigration officers), they are doing you a FAVOR by letting you live/work/abode/study on Thai soil.

You have absolutely zero rights to them (until/unless you possess the Thai citizenship).

Going the legal conflicting route, refusing to heed their repeated advices, refusing to listen to other posters on this forum and generally speaking trying to "defeat" the system rather than playing along is going to accomplish nothing but anger them off in the end, which is presumably not what you want to achieve.

Let me be the one breaking it down to you; I understand your frustration, hell, being a father of 2 Thai children myself I could argue that we are on the same boat, however unlike you after my first child was born I quickly understood and caught up early on that again this is Thailand; Being a foreign father of a Thai child does not grant you any special rights or treatments.

TL;DR: You need to do what the others have suggested in this thread; Leave Thailand, return ASAP with the right visa and at least 400k THB stashed in a Thai bank account. And in case this isn't perfectly clear to you, you shouldn't be the one to complain as a retirement visa would require one to have 800k THB stashed in a Thai bank. Instead, consider yourself lucky and grateful you most likely can get away with it with "only" 400k THB as a financial requirement as you could have had it way worse.

Change your attitude, this is Thailand, there is no such thing as "I demand", again you need to always at all times keep in mind that by letting you stay in the Kingdom, they are doing you a FAVOR.

Good luck.

1 minute ago, JustAnotherHun said:

You think, some retirees in Isaan living on more or less small pensions are a golden goose? Honestly? 

You're not looking at the bigger picture.