Jabberwocky

What I don't get is why they don't kill the dog on the spot. If you strangle him already, just finish the job.

Interesting read. Here is what I learned from this thread: You can't snort an emu or an ostrich.

So they came to make money without a work permit, like so many YouTubers?

Go to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital. But they might be busy, too. A friend went to Dental Paragon in Pattaya Klang, they also had a specialist.

I guess you are talking about women advanced in age who do not have too many choices, or in your other example of a rather unattractive one. Anyway, as the above wasn't married, she might have ended up with nothing and was clearly overpaid with a house in Thailand and half a million baht for a 5 year relationship. It would have taken me 10 years to spend such money with young freelancers, just to give a comparison. In your other example you talk about a woman who wouldn't take other customers although she receives only 5000 Baht from a foreigner. Perhaps she is an exception from the rule. I saw dozens in my room in such situations. The 5000 (or even 20.000) were always wasted and they just did what they wanted, f... around and lied to their sponsors on the phone.

Just go to a movie before it starts and watch what's happening. "Family is everything" as long as you pay your share. Family loses interest often enough when s.o. who is supposed to support (e.g. their parents) doesn't do it.

That isn't valid anymore. Look at last election results. Even poor people can sit in front of embassies and stir up media. I personally know of a case where not so poor people just convinced themselves that their daughter was dead, as she had left and never contacted them for 5 years. They never investigated until an NGO convinced her to return. So there is more to it. It's the same characteristic which makes them so disinterested that they rather have dozens of children burned alive in buses that could be secure. They do not value individual life enough.

That's not what I want to know. The question here is only if the accused has worked for 20 years at a Thai university (I.e. until the age of 62). If we know the institution, we can ask there. It was given as an argument for his innocence,and I doubt that it is valid.

Ok, than let me know the university and I check it.

How likely is it that a man just shrugs his shoulders and says: "Ok, she ran away with someone else"? I also doubt that he worked at a Thai university "for 20 years", he might have done that briefly (common retirement age here was 60 until recently). Anyway, the main disappointment seems to be the lack of engagement of her family to push the search from the beginning. This would not be atypical for Thais, in my mind it is some sort of autism. If I'd disappear, my family would most probably stir up a lot of trouble. Thus this may be another example of how low some Thai think of the individual human life.

What does he mean with settling the issue "Iike in Pattaya"? Just yesterday I had to respond to an urgent call while on the street. A group of bikers (in this case foreigners, too) arrived and I couldn't understand a word anymore. Imagine you are in an emergency situation. This is common in Pattaya and also a potential risk, as you can't hear any other vehicles approaching etc. There are several Thais doing it all year round without obviously being bothered much. The police is too lazy and weak in that respect. At traffic lights/crossroads those bikers could easily be fined but when do you see it happening? The policeman will usually not leave his booth for it.

This is an exchange of information of TAX AUTHORITIES. So as I said your bank will not disclose what you took from your account at home to the Thai authority. The Thai tax authority will just check back with your tax authority at home what your ID is and what you have paid etc. This is totally understandable. I attach my tax declaration to my visa application for years now anyway, this is a requirement for the income confirmation by my consulate. But it is never from the recent year because we have other deadlines at home. I see a problem there.

I wonder if a foreign bank, asked to hand out data to Thailand or elsewhere, will not at least need proof of a criminal investigation. Even then I guess they would first check back with their home tax department if the credit card holder has paid his taxes. And if so, why would they comply, knowing of double tax treaties?

When using a professional, we have at least 14 months to file our papers at home (e.g. until February 2026 for the year 2024). In Thailand it is only 3 months. So how could this ever work, as proof of tax paid at home is always a year late? Furthermore: Where exactly is it written (in the Royal Gazette?) that credit card usage counts? This contradicts the "transferring income" wording, as the money is actually taken from a foreign account, not a Thai account. Did anyone ask for proof?

A soldier scamming a policeman? 555. Nowadays it seems to be popular with Thai women to claim relationships with Pattaya police. Psychologically that could be read as an admission of guilt.

You don't even need 30.000 € to bring a corpse home, and any decent insurance would have covered it, as do many credit cards. Sorry for their loss, and sorry for all those cries for financial help.

It happened because the youngsters went to Switzerland and couldn't find the purple cow.

You pay them for sex. You can still get it for 1,000.Baht. If you pay for travel costs and food (which they would have to do themselves after short time), two f...s per day should get you a discount and total costs amount to s.th. like 1,600 USD. But: I bet most customers (considering their average age) do not have 60 f..s per month with the same woman. So it's a bad deal. Not to mention the other amount given in the article.

Who the hell pays 1600 USD to stay with a Thai for a month?