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axa has personal insurance.  If you check out my post history you will see that I have already posted the details in another thread.

14 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Nope.... I had around 2 metres removed from my front fence and had a wider gate fitted, it allows you to drive your car in on an angle. 

 

I've never had an issue since gate was installed. 

 

PROBLEM SOLVED 

 

They were not parking across the road from my driveway.  They were parking in front of my driveway.

15 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

It would appear that this is the first time this has happened and the area is not that busy. 

 

Op has already pointed out that he'll put 'tyres' down as a 'pls do not park here' measure, which is what others in the neighbourhood have done.

 

Op hasn't answered if there is space outside the car owners house to park, or if the car can be pushed forwards 3-4m whether or not that would solve the issue.

 

 

When are you planning your first trip to Thailand?

I am speaking from experience here.  I had a three story house in the heart of Phuket old town many years ago.  I owned the lot next door also and built a double carport there.  Across the narrow road was a snooker hall in which the local police gathered to divide up their tea money. I erected three signs/barriers (one on the roadside and one on the road at each side of my driveway) written in Thai asking please not to park and block my driveway.  Thais would just move the signs and park there anyway.

I had six bikes when I lived in that house and so when some *ick parked there I would just park two of my older bikes with the steering locked infront and behind the vehicle.  Three or four of the guys burred up at me and then I would just point to the signs and to my CCTV camera.  All of them had to get other Thais to help them drag my bikes out of the way.

My solution was to sell the house as it is an unsolvable problem.  Nothing will change the self entitled, selfish and lazy nature of Thai men.  Nothing.

On 2/1/2024 at 6:36 PM, charleskerins said:

His driveway is on the other side and it's a narrow street ?

OP does not own the road.  The car is not parked across the front of his driveway.  It is parked on the road.  If the *ickhead with the spoiler on his car moves it.  Someone else will just park there.  Unsolvable problem.  

1 minute ago, KhunHeineken said:

I could see some years ago policy was pushing Australia into the extended family model like Europe and Asia.  Basically, no chance to own your own home, so you and your wife / husband live with parents / in laws, and inherit a house. 

 

So much land in Australia, yet, there is a housing crisis.  We are a laughing stock of the world.  It's a man made disgrace. 

Absolutely entirely engineered problem.  I am amazed how gullible and politically naive the Australian public are.  Banks and politicians have raped and utterly destroyed a once good place to live.

How is it blocking your driveway.  It is parked in front of a tree?

Abundant nature...LOL...Thai fisheries have well and truly collapsed.  The last domino to fall are these pelagic species that enter Thai waters from other jurisdictions.

15 minutes ago, In Full Agreement said:

 

 

Will you volunteer to help pay his medical bills?

 

Sigh...  When are you planning your first trip to Thailand?

10 minutes ago, KhunHeineken said:

Are they brave enough to revisit the inequity of the negative gearing policy? 

 

Stage 3 tax cuts: Allegra Spender, Bill Kelty call to overhaul system beyond income tax cuts (smh.com.au)

No longer matters what they do.  Damage to the societal fabric of Australia is beyond repair now.  Young Australians cannot afford to buy or rent a house and so no children or families for them.  And so the Government, Liberal or Labor is filling the taxable workers void with immigrants.  It used to be a fun country to live in.  Now it is a *hithole.  Plain and simple.

It is not rocket science.  Standard charge for this letter is 100 baht.  I got another just last week to do my extension.

I hold fund in an FCD so my letter all includes conversion of my balance into THB.  But I assume you are using a THB account.

Also don't forget that you nee 12 month bank statement for that account also. And your bank book.

Totally understandable.

It is dreadful how hungry one can get after a big night on the turps.

On 1/31/2024 at 6:25 PM, Jumbo1968 said:

Tried that, handbrake on and it’s in park.

Is it rear wheel drive or front wheel drive?

If rear wheel drive just put trolley jack under the diff and move it.

If it is front wheel drive you will need two trolley jacks.

Go to the local mechanic and pay one of the lads to come to your house with the trolley jacks to help you.

Shouldn't cost you more than 500 baht to solve the problem.

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19 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Really?  How much did he pay for the elephant trousers and where are all these bargain 2nd hand shops where he "could of" [sic] got a complete outfit?

Thousands of them throughout Thailand.  Five in my village alone.  Where do you think the Burmese buy their clothes?  Shirts 50 baht each, pant 60 to 80 baht.

When are you planning your first trip to Thailand?

Waste of time.  I will be doing nothing different from what i have been doing until someone (in a position of authority) tells me otherwise.  I have put off all major land and vehicle purchases and will live off the funds I currently have in Thailand with no further remittances from abroad.

Only intereaction I have with government year in year out is at immigration.  I just did my extension absolutely nothing changed from the previous year.

I am a self funded retiree.  But I also have no family back home whatsoever and a chronic genetic blood disease.

I would never cast the first stone at this lad, because it could easily be me sitting behind that cardboard sign.

That said, why the *uck would you wear elephant pants?

He could of purchased a half decent looking outfit at one of the second hand shops, and for less than he paid for the elephant pants.

If he was not dressed like a drug addict from Pai his chances of donations from both expats and Thais would of increased significantly.  Probably also treated better by Thai authorities.

10 hours ago, ignore it said:

The most amusing scam that I fell victim to was named the "Mary S" scam. AKA wife #2.  Amusing now  30 years later.  Doctor,  just beginning. Blond, blue eyes, very hot bod, beautiful, western girl, family ranch in Montana, but alas,  an alcoholic.  It weren't 24 months from my saying "Hi honey, what's your name? " to my saying after divorce final "if you call me again, I'll get restraining order and you'll never practice medicine again".  Now 30 years on  the story is amusing back then not amusing.

Was she a Dutton?

Oh....I forgot...this is Thai Visa cum Aseannow isn't it.

So, therefore, I have to ask...did his Thai wife pack his parachute?

14 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Darwin was right. The theory of natural selection, means we all have to exhibit certain survival skills, to thrive in this world. Self protection is just one of those skills. Some have it, some do not.

 

I kind of understand thrill seekers and their mentality, but some ideas are risky and then some ideas are just absolutely dumb to an astonishing extent. Base jumping like this is crazy dangerous, I don't think a quick cheap thrill is worth sacrificing your life for. 

Fortunately you don't get to decide what someone else does with their life.

Governments do however and that is why many of us moved away from our Nanny States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTPZmj2lX90

I take 4mg of Doxasozin morning and night.  Box of 100 pills lasts 25 days and costs me 125 baht.

I was on blood pressure meds also...loszartan.

But now I just take the Doxa and that helps me with both my urine flow and my blood pressure.

Cheap solution as it kills two birds with one stone.

If you get out my posts you will find a photo of the brand (box) that I use.

Why did the IJC not just nip this whole thing in the bud and send in Zohan?

Does is have a greenbook?

Where are you located?

How much?

7 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

2 more stories about motorcycle accidents this week on AN. 

Your biggest scam is thinking riding a Harley makes you cool. 

Stupid motorcycles. 

 

I had ridden motorbikes my whole life from the age of 5.  Never owned a Harley but I had just sold my business, retired early, and was living the dream.  I had six other motorbikes and two trucks at the time if that makes you happy.

The Harley sucked.  It was a heavy pig of a thing to ride and always a drama if you got a flat tire or needed a spare part.

I have multiple stories of incompetent mechanics working on it.  Not scamming, just no *ucking idea what they were doing.

As I have already posted on another thread I was riding this bike when I was hit by a out of control minivan on a wet road at the top of the mountain on the road from Surin to Kamala. I landed against the mountainside in the drain and broke two of my ribs (at the back) against a rock.  I was lying in the drain all banged up and the bike on top of me.  Van driver made eye contact with me and then speed off.  Never caught the *rick because it was one of those cookie cutter white Toyota vans everyone drove back then and I could not get his licence plate number.

Yes bikes are dangerous...and especially so in Phuket.  Thepkrasattri Rd is literally the most deadly strip of tarmac on the planet if you look at bike deaths as a per capita statistic.