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Without meaning to sound cynical, many Thai girls come with a set of obstacles. Following are a dozen of the common ones. Most of them have some and hard to find one without any of them. It’s a matter of figuring out which ones they have (hopefully they don’t have too many) and then deciding if you can live with the issues they have or not. Nobody is perfect or expected to be, and we certainly aren’t either, but some come with too many issues for things to work out well. 

1 - Financial problems

2 - Emotional immaturity

3 - Inability to be honest

4 - Family pressures

5 - Don’t like western food/culture

6 - Unintellectual 

7 - Superficial

8 - Act on superstitions

9 - Lazy

10 - Unfaithful/Unreliable 

11 - Don’t like to communicate openly

12 - Drug/Alcohol problems

The freezer M.O. is becoming a repeating theme. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/24/man-with-uk-passport-charged-in-thailand-after-body-found-in-freezer

https://news.sky.com/story/dismembered-body-hidden-in-bangkok-freezer-for-three-years-10595100

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

The freezing is the strange part of this story......Why the heck would anyone want to freeze a body?

Presumably as a means of storage until investigations and searches have subsided and then to quietly dispose of it later. Seems like the only logical reason, but I could be wrong. 

1 hour ago, Pharoticus said:

I've said this before: if you stay within the law in Thailand and avoid bargirls and others foreigners, you should be safe. 

 

When meeting foreigners, be VERY cautious. Many or most of them are liars, crooks, scammers, perverts, mentally disturbed, psychopaths / sociopaths, drug addicts, etc. 

 

Never believe what foreigners tell you. Play it cool. If the foreigner is telling you the truth about his current or former career, it'll become evident soon enough. Don't rush into new friendships or stupid business deals. 

 

In almost all cases, avoid business deals with Thais. Keep yourself to yourself and you won't go wrong. 

 

Be happy! Enjoy Thailand.  

So to summarize, your suggesting not to have contact (more or less) with anyone other than maybe some necessary food vendors, otherwise just keep yourself to yourself for general safety reasons, and then you should be happy, thus leading to lots of enjoyment in LOS?

On 7/3/2023 at 11:50 PM, geisha said:

Walked down a Soi and wondered if I’d been transported to Africa !  Not much used to Sukhumvit apart from an occasional visit to terminal 21 or a nice meal in the Pullman, I was a bit shocked to be offered drugs, and I also came across some sort of clothes market where it was full of African clothes market  vendors. Not to my taste. Probably the police too afraid to go there ! 

Chances are the drugs they are offering are fake and just another West African scam. Another reason it makes it harder for law enforcement to catch them breaking the law. 

When a bank starts pulling out ATMs in high traffic areas it’s definitely an inconvenience. Yes, so many transactions are now done via digital payment platforms and via online banking apps, but there are times we still need some cash and SCB has definitely made it more difficult if you bank with them. Luckily you can still use other bank ATMs so that fills in the gaps. 
 

I’ve noticed in one major area though that SCB used to have an ATM at the 7-11 next to the BTS station, then another one up on the BTS platform itself, a third one on the other side of the road in the shopping center next to the BTS station, and a fourth one inside the super market within the shopping center. Now 3 out of the 4 SCB ATMs are gone in this location and only the one at the 7-11 remains. Perhaps that one will eventually go too. And this is a highly foot trafficked area. I guess the real message is that many people don’t really need access to physical cash anymore. 
 

I don’t use much cash anyway, I’m practically all digital since 2020, so not really an issue for me, but I’ve started withdrawing larger cash sums now from the ATM and keeping a bit of cash on hand. Then the cash usually lasts me quite a while and I rarely ever need an ATM anymore. Adaptation. 

This is probably more of an issue of SCB in cost cutting mode than a trend across the Thai banking industry. 
 

For example, SCB is the only major Thai bank to have closed their branch in the large government building where the CW immigration office is. Meanwhile, there are close to 10 bank branches on that floor, including many banks smaller than SCB. And I think SCB closed that branch 3-4 years ago. So this cost cutting policy has been going on for a while. 

3 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Very difficult, or nearly impossible given biometrics and fingerprinting used now. 

The fake passports are likely real and government issued, only the alias is fake. Also, presumably the system doesn’t do an automatic search to match every newly entered face or set of fingerprints against an entire existing database to look for duplicates. That would require too much processing power and put a constant heavy load on the system when there are up to 50,000 new entries per day and an existing database in the millions. So duplicates might only be discovered (if at all) under a manual search when someone is arrested. 

2 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

 

 

In a word, networks.

 

The large numbers of West Africans on that part of Sukhumvit must have a network that is well connected. That is the only possible explanation for the way in which they have been able to operate so blatantly for, what, the last ten years? That network presumably pays handsomely for their apparent immunity. After all, it is not just the guys hustling on the streets, someone has to be bringing the stuff into the country and distributing it to the hustlers. It is entirely left alone by the police. There will be a lot, probably an eye watering, amount of money involved.

 

Some may be protected in some way. But the reality is that most or all come in on fake passports showing they are from South Africa or an East African country, thus the government doesn’t know they are West African. So when they eventually do get deported and black listed for overstay, they just come right back in under a new fake alias. That’s why they never seem to make much progress in getting rid of them. What’s worse about them though is that their scam offers to sell illicit drugs are often used as a means of starting a conversation with an unsuspecting tourist which then might lead to a larger scam involving black money, Bitcoin investment, or one of their other common street scams. 

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1 hour ago, DudleySquat said:

Not if it is your pussy.  

Unless it’s Chuwit Kamolvisit approved. 

Seems like the number of places where you can pay to touch a vagina in the “land of vertical smiles” is always increasing. 

The majority of people already get a bottle of their favorite slip and slide and worship their own genitalia at home daily. Now that’s no longer good enough?