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Applied successfully on Monday morning for new Car & Motorcycle 5 year driving licences.

Much information is documented about this, but would like to add the following points.

Medical cert - you need one, photocopy it and sign the second

Passport - many farang in the queue had copied the entry stamp, but not the original 1 year visa stamp

International Driving Licence & UK photocard - take the originals with you, but signed photocopies i took with me were returned to me, unneeded

once they confirmed paperwork was in order, no additional tests were needed, sit for a digital photo, and 960 baht lighter walked away with 2 five year licences.

I arrived 9-30 but there was already a long queue, and NO AIR CONDITIONING in the building.

Can you confirm that you need an international driving permit and medical certificate? It seems from the pinned item post 2 that these are not required for the 5 year licence.

My opinion is that sex with children is ALWAYS wrong, no matter what the country. If the child comes on for sex, then that just proves they're been exposed to poor influences, it doesn't justify the adult taking advantage of that. The age thing is obviously arbitrary whether its 16 or 18 or what.

This teacher abused her responsibility to this boy. She should have counselled him, or got him counselling, not taken advantage of his accelerated interest in sex. Teachers, males or female, should never have sex with their students. That's my opinion, anyway.

Absolutely!!!!!

The ignorance here is unbelievable but sadly a fair reflection of farangs in Thailand

So it's 'every' school boys fantasy, there fore it should be considered OK.

There can't be any negative psychological effects because he consented and he is a male!!!!

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I am a teacher and I know it is many a 13 year old girls fantasy to consensually bed a handsome teacher.

Girls are more mature than boys at that age so she should be able to handle it better.

So therefore based on the THAI VISA LOGIC displayed here, a male, 28, who beds a 13 year old girl (as long as she consented to it,hel_l she might have even initiated it) should be applauded.

Of course not. That would be attacked as he would be some kind of perverted nonce.

Any abnormal sexual experience at such a tender age has the very real potential to cause trauma regardless of the sex of the young person....... And having sex with your 28 year old private language teacher can hardly be considered normal!! Except on this board and the Garry Glitter Appreciation Council.

Yes the boy probably enjoyed it... but ( inhales deeply) I could pretty much guarantee a generally pleasurable experience for virtually any woman who found me attractive.

IT WOULD STILL BE WRONG.

I agree with much of what you say. However, I am curious. You say you are a teacher and you know about 13 year old girls fantasies. How? Do you discuss these fantasies with them?

The lad might or might not cope well with his experience. That is not really the point. There has to be certain standards. One is that when parents hand over their kids to a teacher they can do so with the confidence that the teacher will, at all times, behave with professionalism and propriety.

The important thing here is not that an older woman had sex with a minor, even though that may be a bad thing in itself. What is the issue is that she was his teacher. It hould never have happened and she should suffer the consequences.

It would be interesting to see how many people who think this was a bad thing are parents and how many who think the contrary are not.

Wow! One of the fastest moving threads ever - even faster than a change in immigration rules - every time I turn the page another one is open. Not surprising given what is most important to Thai Visa members - me too I suppose.

I am a bit surprised at how little comment has been made on the basic relationship - teacher/student. Laws have to protect the majoity. Arguing a year or two on exact age, people reliving their juvenile fanticies (I had plenty as well) does not alter the fact that this woman was in a position of authority (which she failed to handle). If she was being pestered she should have complained to paents, head teacher etc.

She failed.

The traumatic effect on this boy is important, but the potential effect on other cases is more so.

Wow! One of the fastest moving threads ever - even faster than a change in immigration rules - every time I turn the page another one is open. Not surprising given what is most important to Thai Visa members - me too I suppose.

I am a bit surprised at how little comment has been made on the basic relationship - teacher/student. Laws have to protect the majoity. Arguing a year or two on exact age, people reliving their juvenile fanticies (I had plenty as well) does not alter the fact that this woman was in a position of authority (which she failed to handle). If she was being pestered she should have complained to paents, head teacher etc.

She failed.

The traumatic effect on this boy is important, but the potential effect on other cases is more so.

A proprty tax, if not too onerous, cannot be complained about. Most cuntries have one of one sort or another.

How will this be applied to condos.

Thanks Kerryd. I check out Big C.

The "gone tomorrow" when I go to collect my phone the day after is one of my concerns. Cloning and other fiddles is another. I am sure many of the dealers are OK, but I prefer, as far as possible, not to find out the hard way.

Thanks again.

Does anyone know if there is a Motorola shop in Pattaya? I need a repair to my mobile and I do not trust the sharks in Tuc Com.

Thanks in advance.

Nice to know the police officers will be dismissed if they have broken the law. How about sending them to prison?

Me zum smell a Troll ?

Think your right Skippy. No one could be such a cretin - could they?

This has gone quiet for a long time. Has the Rayong Court issued it's final verdict yet? If so what was it?

Section 67 of the Condo Act No 2 as amended by Condo Act No4 seems to make it illegal for anyone to have ownership of a condo on behalf of a foreigner. Presumably this would make company ownership of a condo unlawful. Unfortunately translations I have seen are not very clear.

Anyone know the position?

Au contraire.

Apparently they abolished the day counting rule, so from the point of view of people doing visa runs BY AIR for which you get THIRTY DAYS, they have LIBERALIZED their policies on visa runners.

Buy shares in AirAsia; they are going to make a fortune.

Whether she is a fugative or not depends on the conditions of her bail. Anyone know what they are?

I have said it before and I will say it again; this is the result of people abusing the 30 day visa exempt entry to stay in Thailand on a long term basis and thus making life difficult for a lot of inocent people, especially genuine tourists.

The answer is simple. Get a visa appropriate to your stay. This is all the Thai Government has requested and it is not at all unreasonable.

Agreed!

What they have in fact done is created long term damage to Thailand, its reputation and its economy and short term benefit to an overwhelmingly small but loud minority.

I'm very glad that my/my wife's family and friends are the "uneducated masses" in the country. You can take your educated elite and shove them up your departure lounge.

Fully agree with you Lockstock. Apart from that, your last sentence makes this the funniest post I have seen in ages.

Happy Birthday Your Majesty!!! And many more of them!!!!

Work has stopped. Check out this thread; same company same problem.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Park-Trouble-t220028.html

To the OP - CANT YOU READ!!!!!. If you could you would know that most posters do this already.

Whoops! I forgot to copy all the other post on this thread. Sorry.

Why should PM resign and give in to a bunch of thugs? If he does, every time there is a PM that someone doesn't like they will take over the airport until they get what they want. What would have happened by now if the PAD or whoever took over the airport in Singapore. Or JFK or Heathrow or anywhere but here? The PAD has practically destroyed this country and even some of them are starting to realize it. There is only one way to deal with this situation and people will probably get hurt. But it won't be the PAD leaders, only the poor ignorant half-wits they got to do their dirty work.

Exactly!

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Yes people keep saying this however I doubt this kind of stuff puts people off coming to Thailand. It's stuff like sleeping tourists on a bus getting all their stuff stolen which stops tourism.

Edit: Anyway I don't think you'd have to worry about the "main tourists" avoiding Thailand, I.E. Dirty old men looking for a piece of ass.

Haven't seen that one on BBC, CNN or Bloomberg, but PAD are all over the international channels.

As if the Thai economy isn’t suffering enough from the world recession, the PAD morons are trying to destroy it completely. Just look at CNN, BBC Bloomberg etc for all the pad press. No wonder tourists are staying away in huge numbers. Who would invest in Thailand with all this going on?

Soon people will start wondering if it wouldn’t be better to have Thaksin back, corrupt criminal though he is. For whatever reason Thailand was booming when he was in power and that fact will not be lost on many. They are playing into his hands.

Thaksin back – no way!! Err let me think about that!!!

I thought he had quit. Check out this thread:-

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Thai-PM-Thak...ui-t104517.html

In the quoted article in that thread, when asked if he would return to politics, he said,

”Right after I was ousted by the coup, I had mixed feelings. The negative feeling was that this was unfortunate for Thailand and its democracy, that the confidence I tried very hard to restore after the 1997 financial crisis would be lost. The positive part was, oh, I can retire now, I can have time for myself, for my family, I can meet friends and relax. Life is not that long, so if you can bring some happiness to yourself and your family, that's good ... I'm quite confident that if I ran [for election] today, I would win, [but] I have no political ambitions. I am calling it quits.”

I must confess that when Thaksin came to power I thought that he would be good for Thailand. I expect that some of the posters on this thread, who currently want him garroted, disemboweled and castrated, felt, to some degree at least, the same.

Indeed at first he did quite a bit of good. He did a lot for the rural poor and for Thailand’s economy in general. That is why he remains hugely popular with a lot of people, especially that large number of poor people (who collectively have a lot of votes).

But, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. He decided to fill his boots and those of his family and cronies by illegal means. This is in no way justified by the good he did and he should suffer the appropriate punishment under the law. This process is under way. Where it will end who knows. (I say this on the basis that the evidence substantiates the charges and with limited knowledge of Thai law. I have not seen the evidence and nor, I suspect, have any of the posters in this thread.) There should be no more place in Thai politics for Thaksin. Unless he comes back to do his time he should stay away.

Having said that is he any worse than many of the other politicians, from whatever party, who have run this country? Not that that is an excuse either.

As has been pointed out elsewhere this does not imply support for PAD. They are in no way democratic. They are just a bunch of hooligans who want power for themselves not democracy. They are as bad, if not worse, than Thaksin.

Over a year ago when I started this thread I expressed surprise that they were stll marketing this project. That they continue to do so leave me speachless. There should be a police investigation into what they are up to. Then perhaps the truth will out.