GottMogen

Turbo Tax.....

I have stamps in my passport from all over the world and have never been stopped before usually they just say you sure travel a lot and I just respond with yup got the time too so why not and go on my way. This time however the customs agents were all retards with shaved heads and considered me guilty til innocent. I mean what right do they have to search files on a laptop? Thats like way invasion of privacy...all the reasons I will one day soon leave and never come back....I was held for like 45 minutes and was nervous for no reason and figured next time I will be a pompass ass to them...

I went through MSP (Minneapolis/St. Paul on the flight from Narita)....

I have to say get over it dude. Yes they do have the right, and have had the right to search your laptop and all items you bring into the country. Go ahead and be a pompous ass, it certainly won't speed up the process.

When younger and with a shaggery image I've been stripped and cavity searched at departing as well as recieving airports on the same flight coming from Colombia to the US. Not a big deal, I hadn't anything that would raise stink, except the orifice they were giving an exam.

I've found that simple politeness to any customs official in any country I've entered has always been a way to speed up the process. Smiles rather than attitute works for me.

I did get a bit miffed when after being taken aside to the small room and questioned about why my cat wouldn't drink water that they offered him. I simply replied maybe he doesn't like you. Which was quite true with this animal, as he tolerated no handling by anyone but me, and the vet.

On my return in August from Thailand I tried to pay my taxes on excess purchases being brought into the US, but they were so backed up he just waived me through after one question, which was I bringing any meat into the US. Dried squid and shrimp was what I replied. Welcome back he said

No shaggy image here son. I travel more than most and not on the cheap if thats what your hinting at. And I have had DOD cards and such in my young age, but what bothered me the most was their attitude and treatment. The same could have been polite but instead they were jerks. When ever I have come back before they just ask how I liked it where ever I had gone, but not this time.

I guess we'll see what happens when I return to Thailand in the spring....(I thought about getting a the Shrek T-shirt that says "Donkey Show", with Shrek holding Donkey by a rope).......just to add some fuel to the fire....I never had a bad experiance until this past Sunday and seriously they were just being rude...

I have stamps in my passport from all over the world and have never been stopped before usually they just say you sure travel a lot and I just respond with yup got the time too so why not and go on my way. This time however the customs agents were all retards with shaved heads and considered me guilty til innocent. I mean what right do they have to search files on a laptop? Thats like way invasion of privacy...all the reasons I will one day soon leave and never come back....I was held for like 45 minutes and was nervous for no reason and figured next time I will be a pompass ass to them...

I went through MSP (Minneapolis/St. Paul on the flight from Narita)....

So last week I was in Thailand visiting some friends and when I returned to the US upon going through immigration the agent asked the purpose of my trip and I told him it was a vacation, and told him where I went and he was like where'd you stay, and I responded with my friend, and he goes "Boyfriend or Girlfriend?"....I was like excuse me?? He then asked if I had a laptop and I said yes. So then I got to go stand int he redline, and the next customs agent asked me about my trip and then asked about my laptop, then they took me in the back and started questioning me about my trip to Thailand, then they bust out the "So what kind of pornography are we going to find on your laptop?!"...and lets just say these two guys were being real a-holes. I not having any on said laptop was looking at them with a raised eyebrow and in complete disbelief....I am thinking to myself <deleted>?! are these people insane....So I finally remember I have the Paris Hilton video right and tell them that and then they ask about "Males or Females engaged with animals" and I am like good god no I already told you I don't have any sick or weird stuff on my computer...they then leave the room and tell me to wait...they come back and tell me to leave...so I do...

Can you believe that crap? I was about ready to tell them to if they think they are going to look at my personal files they are going to to have call my attorney who's card I always carry with me...So much for having rights as an American in your own country....

I wish US Customs had better things to do than bother 26yr olds who travel all the time....

e-mail Mr.Toom [[email protected]] - he is reliable and will have a driver meet you at the airport - cost is 1200 Baht inclusive of Tolls.

Thanks I will send him an email

I usually feel pretty good when I leave. When waking up first there's the good bye fvk with

Mrs Meom who always gives it her best effort. Once that's finished it's beer time until we go to the airport. After check in we have a couple of beers more, than a good bye wave and I'm on my way to passport control. Once that's finished it's time to have a few more beers until the plane departs.

In the air I normally switch to whisky until it's time to land. All in all it's ok.

The next day back at work I usually don't feel to good though and need about 2-3 weeks to recover after which the countdown to the next leave starts.

this is pretty much spot on for me too.........

........except the goodbye <deleted> with mrs meom.

..same same...

but without mrs meom....

go to the meter taxi bay

will cost 1200 baht

do not go to aot taxi in arrivals

I regularly (about once per month) take a taxi from the taxi queue on the ground floor and the standard rate to Pattaya is B1500, including tolls. They have a printed sheet with fares listed for destinations outside Bangkok, and it says B1500. I did the trip as recently as last Sunday.

Also, it is not unusual to have to make a pit stop at a gas station to top up the tank as most drivers don't usually have enough gas for the trip to Pattaya.

Cool so the price is about the same as the old airport then. I usually make the driver stop so I can get a drink for the long haul...I just hope the passport people are fast so I don't get screwed into standing in line for an hour....

Can I get a number for a taxi service from the airport to Pattaya for a late night arrival? I haven't been to the new airport yet and will be arriving on NWA from Tokyo. Don't want to go through the whole haggling trying not to get ripped off ordeal as the old airport. I don't like taking a bus so I will pay for the taxi.

Went to visit a buddy I worked with in the Middle East. Came for a week, then came two months later for 3 weeks, than came 5 months later for spring break from Grad school, and now come to visit twice a year, now done with graduate School and selling everything I own over the next year (###### slow real estate market, timing was not in tune with my plans apparently) to move their full time and figure out the next chapter in my life, of course after the sex, alcohol, sex, and other stupid things we all do in Thailand lose their allure and reality sets in. So only a visitor for now but this has to have been the best thread to read on this board for a while....

Troll here,

Anyway. I am involved in private loan business and anyone who ever tries to skip town has always been found to repay their debts. It may take longer to receive the amount owed than anticipated but the genuine effort to repay is always considered the right thing to do. This is what is wrong with the world we live today. People & organizations borrow money with little to no intentions of repaying the debt and then when things get tough and they can no longer pay the minimum payments they split town or declare bk. I personally don't care if you declare BK I will get my money eventually. Been doing this a long time and have had all loans repayed.

If I were you I would call my creditors and negotiate down. If your creditors are like me than I don't care and won't take less than what is owed including interest. So I feel no sympathy for you but all I can say is pick up eventually and work it out with your creditors.

3 series is the poor mans bimmer. A 5 or 7 its worth it, but I have a new GS stateside and love the car more than a bimmer drove both. rides nicer and get more for the dollar.

In thailand the bimmer will resale better I would gather. anywhere else I would buy the lexus

try www.rcweb.net or one of the performance car dealers like Buddy or Infinity on Petchaburi Rd.

Another option would be to go to Khlong 5 dragstrip on a saturday night and talk to some of the Supra owners there.

Good luck,

Sky.

hey thanks...

I am in debate over what to get this summer, really want a Supra...just gotta find the right one...

Was wondering if anyone knew of any for sale or where i could find one? Or if you know someone who owns one that may know where I can get one?

-Thanks

If you already have a foreign company in say the US and were wanting to relocate to thailand in the next year and work via the internet with your company in US would this be easily attainable and would I have to set up a Thai business if all my work was done via Voip phone and internet?