BritScot

Back in about 2003 I met a British lad who was working for Thai traffic control who told me that they had an upto date computerised predictive traffic control system and the police cut the cables reasonbeing: 1. They new better than the computer and 2. Scared it would cost them their jobs.

Your right. However I read it was only 25,000baht in cash and a good watch brand not even "Mr Watch Man" expensive.

Very well put.

Have you ever dived on a dive site in Thailand? Regardless of mooring lines thai boats especially long tails and speed boats drop anchor as they please and often will go straight over marked divers. Having a propellor churning lethally a couple of inches above your head is an experience never forgotten.

The whole island's construction is illegal right from its birth with illegal occupation by several families (who run the island). Pull them all down, rip up those hideous concrete streets. What a paradise it was before greed destroyed its charm and beauty. Memories of walking on sand streets, from restaurant to restaurant. I was there when they started building the cement brick resorts and pouring cement roads. Broke my hart, left and never went back. Thankfully I have the memories of what it was like living and working there.

I don't think Thailand could come close to Singapore but it most certainly had the chance of being like Japan or South Korea. So much western money pumped in over the past 70 years.

A good documentary and he seems a very humble man of good character. Life ruined by thai elite civil servants (police, military, government).

Auto correct but obviously you know that but being so pedantic you must be a hoot on a night out with all your friends: me, myself and I!

The wording limited edition and the number made is key here. Some Louise Vuitton are well over £150,000 "crazy". They have a very good resale value and some of the rare bags go up in value. My wife had to wait 18 years for her first Louise Vuitton (she now has 2). It was easier to buy knowing it had a resale value...lol

Why the racist comment? And yes "farang" is very racist and derogatory!!! What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Are you sure? I just read (dated November 2022): this is from the airport: 500baht a day, this goes to a maximum of 20,000 Baht for overstays of 40 days or longer. The good news is that if you pay the fine and then leave the country then you won't have any problem returning to Thailand at a future date.

Making sure the road is open for him/them should he/they have to leave Thailand quick with their loot!!@!!. Just a though actually was my first thought.

I found out that a teacher at my sons private school in Thailand was bullying him! My wife wisely kept it from me till we left Thailand as I would have gone through the teacher and quite possibly had my own article/thread here on Thai visa "British Parent derating, humiliating and beating Thai teacher to a pulp for bullying his 9 year old son!!!" I've always hated bullies!

No flies on them! Only been known for at least 12,000 years "Göbekli Tepe" and just up the road in China 2400 years ago ish they were recording astronomical events.

Or thought he was above board by using an agent then decided to do it himself. This would not be the first time this has happened. If he went to immigration then isn't it something like a 25k fine then all is OK?

Really? The uk has just had and is continuing to have beautiful weather.

So will the man in charge who stole the country at the end of a gun now face the same justice as the duly elected lady PM who had to/told to leave Thailand?

More than likely drinks were added to his bill that he didn't order.

Am I the only person who wonders why these so called "master mind" scammers all seem not to have a pot to "PP" in yet they are supposed to have taken millions?

Not quite, they need a boat that can take them a few miles off the coast of France (helped by the French) then our treasonous political elite have them picked up and taken to the UK, put up in 5 star hotels even having their own doctors and dentists then given pocket money along with free meals.

It's only 4,000 baht. For a man of his stature very insignificant. He should of immediately given the 4,000baht to charity and then it would grow in significantly in worth.

Technically an American can (enough to build a nice house on) the big However, is as far as I'm aware no land department in Thailand has ever granted a grain of Thai soil to an American.

Obviously the gentleman has far more humanity that the scum who desiccated the poor baby and possibly murdered her. Hart breaks.

Not at all! Kow tao is spelt many different ways like many Thai words including places. Khow Taow etc. I speak very little Thai for two simple reasons: first when I was teaching I witnessed foreign teachers using their class who they were meant to be teaching English practicing their Thai which I felt was very wrong. Second my children are bilingual as I have only spoken English to them and their mother speaks Thai to them (even now living in the uk). I also found when living in Bangkok there is enough English words now in Thai vocabulary than understanding conversations is easy.

Now they are and have been for a few years. Have some advice for you which I was given as a newbie in Thailand "Never invest more in Thailand than you can comfortably just walk away from".