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20 hours ago, JackThompson said:

If entering Visa Exempt, you may be asked to show 10K Baht worth of cash or travelers checks, plus a hotel-booking**, plus a flight-out leaving within 30-days.

** (maybe a letter from a Thai where you are staying - but I'd make a free booking)

 

  If entering with a Visa, you may need to show 20K Baht worth of cash or travelers checks.

Do you think that they would check to see if you had a hotel booking? I doubt it. I'm sure if you just give the name of a hotel you would be OK, but as you say, a booking costs nothing. 

Get a new Irish passport.

10 hours ago, TSF said:

I was on a bus a couple years ago heading to the Thai-Lao border on way to having a little holiday at Pakse. Bus was stopped by police and he asked to see all foreingers passports. When he saw my UK passport he told me to follow him into the police station. I was starting to get worried why, but everything was in order regarding my visa. In the police station I was taken into a large meeting room where there were about 30-40 unimformed police officers and I was taken to a lectern and handed a microphone and told to give an English lesson to the police.

 

So seems they were having this meeting and someone decided at the last minute it'd be good to have a native speaker give an English lesson, so they pulled one (me) off the next bus to the border.

Were they more informed after your English lesson?

Only two and a half hours? You were lucky. We had to queue up half an hour before we went to bed. 

3 minutes ago, sanemax said:

 

   These are prostitutes, right ?

A guy who has to go to the third world and pay people to be with him , for the sole reason that its cheaper than paying someone to be with him back home, is hardly one of lifes "winners"

I have one word for you.

Hypergamy

Wanting to find a girlfriend / wife is not a good life plan. Work on improving yourself and your current situation. And start reading.

This would be a good place for you to start.

really not much of anything and not reliable as a source because lot of the information is supplied by the university/college. Besides most of them don't even join in the survey or don't recognize it. More here https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/30/mixed-opinions-european-union-funded-ranking-effort-enters-second-year

A recent European University Association survey of its members’ experiences of using U-Multirank found that the initiative struggles with the same challenges as traditional rankings do in regards to the comparability of data: “Whether a university took part in [u-Multirank] or not, all expressed major concerns regarding the interpretation of the [u-Multirank] indicators across different institutions and countries and thus the validity of the data provided,” the E.U.A.’s survey report concluded.

I think the csi reference to nomsod was after the police had already said they were looking for a guy in Bkk. At that initial stage , when mon was arrested nomsod name had not been published. It was a few days after mon arrest that nomsod name was released.

Again my question.

What caused the police to initialy suspect nomsod.

They said they had CCTV evidence.

Yes, they sure did.

http://www.chiangrai...on-the-run.html

Pol Lt Gen Panya said a second suspect, who fled the resort island to Bangkok, will likely be taken into custody soon.

He said both suspects were captured by CCTV cameras and the police have gathered enough evidence to implicate them in the murders.

Was the 'reason' for the specific body placement another one of Mr. Terry's FACTS?

The staging was factual. The interpretation is best suited to a criminal psychologist, who could also suggest that Berybert's surmise (and mine) is within the realms of possible motives. Hopefully, the defence have that one covered.

The data indicate that sexual

posing is a highly personal action on the part of the offender, which oftentimes involves extreme

emotion, anger and rage. The most prevalent motive is fantasy driven behavior (71%). In these

instances the offender subconsciously acted-out a sexually significant behavioral pattern to

obtain sexual satisfaction. The second most frequent motivation was anger/retaliation (22%). In

those cases the offender uses sex as a weapon to punish and degrade the victim; the body is

posed out of anger, to retaliate against the victim for some real or apparent slight of the offender.

It is fortunate that the least often seen offender motivation for sexual posing is to misdirect the

investigation, occurring in 7% of the cases. The rarity of such events, of course, does not suggest

that they deserve any less attention in the training regimen of investigators.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.practicalhomicide.com%2FResearch%2FISJjuly2010.pdf&ei=P7y0VMaXEND8ugSdnoDABQ&usg=AFQjCNH1B2cnPbGwnnviXCXtuR4Jmo5MwQ&bvm=bv.83339334,d.c2E

I know it's late in the day to be asking this.

I understand why mon was accused by police. Because shaun fingered him so naturally the police investigated him.

2 questions.

Why did they not investigate the cop as well.

How did nomsod name ever come into it.

What is the reason the police began mentioning him in Bkk since shaun had not said anything about him.

Be grateful for an answer.

As far as I can tell, he came into it after people in CSI LA pointed a finger at him based on this:

"Well, the reason is because "Nom Sod" and his friends had posted comments on CSI during the time that Sean leaked out a statement that he was being threatened and bullied by the mafia. In many ways, this allowed Admin and people on CSI LA page to see the suspicious behavior and we were able to recognize the close similarity in the physical features of the suspect betweem the CCTV video and "Nom Sod"

They didn't like the things he said about the issue and decided that it was him on the CCTV video even though no facial features are visible.

In short, vindictive rumor mongering.

I think the csi reference to nomsod was after the police had already said they were looking for a guy in Bkk. At that initial stage , when mon was arrested nomsod name had not been published. It was a few days after mon arrest that nomsod name was released.

Again my question.

What caused the police to initialy suspect nomsod.

Pol Lt Gen Panya said a second suspect, who fled the resort island to Bangkok, will likely be taken into custody soon.

He said both suspects were captured by CCTV cameras and the police have gathered enough evidence to implicate them in the murders.

http://www.chiangraitimes.com/koh-tao-murder-suspect-arrested-another-on-the-run.html

24th September.

FACT: The father’s statement originally was that Nomsod had to hurry back to Uni in Bangkok for exams. A week later, when they were put under further scrutiny his statement changed to: ‘He hasn’t been home (to Koh Tao) for a few months, I haven’t seen him’. This was untrue however as he had been photographed on the island a month earlier.

FACT: On September 24th it was announced that Nomsod was a person of interest. A press conference was quickly launched at his embassy where his lawyer (a close family friend) brought out CCTV stills of Nomsod at his university residence. The timestamp was 09:16 sept 15th. Early flights from Koh Samui and Surat Thani would have given him enough time to get back to BKK and jump in a taxi. Logic dictates that if he had been at his residence the previous night there would also have been footage to prove that. Recently doubt has been cast on the authenticity of the time stamps, as furniture seen in the residence had been moved a few months before hand yet was back in it’s old position in these cctv captures.

"Early flights from Koh Samui and Surat Thani would have given him enough time to get back to BKK and jump in a taxi."

That is not a "FACT", it's unsupported speculation. What would make it a fact would be a passenger list with his name, CCTV of him at either airports, witnesses testimony placing him there, etc...

In any case, which one is it? He murdered the two Britons, jumped into a waiting boat that nobody saw (strangely, the idea of using the boat to dispose of the bodies at sea didn't occur to anyone), full throttle to Samui (boat and driver unknown), went to the airport and straight into a flight (at least half an hour before the gates closed) flew back to BKK, took a taxi back to his apartment (somewhere in between all that had time for a haircut and put on his university clothes), all this leaving absolutely no trace whatsoever, and then just walked casually in because he knew that there was this CCTV camera that would record his entry... or, they just faked the CCTV footage; and if they faked the CCTV footage why not fake it to be at, let's say, 4AM on the 15th of September?

It has to be one or the other.

It's all baloney, desperately looking for something that can be construed into a marginally possible scenario that falls apart as soon as the mere minimum of examination is applied, for example the fact that the CCTV footage of him at the lobby was not the only alibi presented.

Here's a screen capture from another CCTV camera:

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"Logic dictates that if he had been at his residence the previous night there would also have been footage to prove that."

Well, proven, what now? Call it all fake with no evidence to substantiate the claim?

The month in the time stamp in that screen capture has obviously been changed. There is no proof that Nomsod was in Bangkok at the time of the murders. None whatsoever.

Why do you feel the need to defend this guy?

Nom has proof that he was in Bangkok at the time of the crime. Well not at the time of the crime but there or there abouts.

Why has nobody come forward to say that Now wasn't at the uni at the time of the crime, well there or there abouts.

Nom has a guy who is paid lord knows how much to say he was at school( His solicitor). Now forget all that, how many of Noms class mates have said he was in school the day after the murder ?

I can not recall any of them saying that. Can you ?

AleG/jdinasia you defend Nom 24/7 whilst telling us you don't even know the guy. Why are you so passionate about him ?

Even if Nomsod was in Bangkok after 9 am on Monday, that doesn't preclude him from being at the island 4+ hours earlier. If a desperate person with money and connections wanted to get to Bangkok from the island as quick as possible, how long would it take? More than 4 to 5 hours in the early morning? Perhaps someone in that region could do that experiment. And even if it were proved that Nomsod was on the island at the time of the crime (by witnesses and/or DNA and/or CCTV...), RTP echoers would say that doesn't implicate him. Even if it were shown to the small % of those who doubt he's 'running man' that he was indeed running man, RTP echoers could still claim that doesn't implicate him - it only shows that he was jogging around in light colored shorts on that walkway near the crime scene. I admit, there needs to be firmer evidence for Nomsod to be nailed. Unfortunately, RTP, by all appearances (Since the 2nd week of the investigation), seem fixated on trying to shield Nomsod and Mon from any further scrutiny. Why would that be? Most of us don't need to stretch too far to find answers to 'why Nomsod and Mon were dropped so suddenly and thoroughly from being prime suspects.' The writing is on the wall, in large luminous font.

Not exactly the same, but I know someone who has done Bangkok to Nakhon Sri Thammarat and vice versa (800km) in under 5 hours on more than one occasion. He made that trip in the small hours of the morning when there is the least traffic. That's an average speed of 160km an hour.

Chumphon is a lot closer - less than 500km, but 6am to 9am on a Monday there would be more traffic.

If you were to get a speedboat from Koh Tao at 5am to Chumphon (say an hour) (6am) and then drove at 160km / hour, it is theoretically possible to be in Bangkok at 9am.

Of course, if you had money and connections, you might be able to do the trip faster, or take a different route.

jd doesn't believe there was a 3rd Burmese. He did once upon a long ago. But since the RTP were unable to find a third goat they along with jd have forgotten about any 3rd Burmese.

This is what happens when you are dealing with single cell creatures. They fail to realize not everyone is a total idiot.

They did have a third goat - Maung Maung. The problem was that he didn't play along.

FYI from Twitter:

Mar 15

To: @Atomicalandy Have you been given access to the DNA evidence against them? I don't see you having a case without the ability to defend this.

From: Andy Hall ‏@Atomicalandy Mar 16

the lawyers have prosecution file now (doesn't mean all evidence, some don't get until trial), including some DNA evidence

But apparently not willing to divulge for those folks on here.

We don't expect defense or prosecution to divulge their plans, data or strategies to us concerned observers. Some of the hundreds of posts herein may influence some thoughts by either defense or prosecution, ...or maybe not. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they're keeping an ear out for what others are saying. Ten thousand minds are better than five.

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From the above: However, I wouldn't be surprised if they're keeping an ear out for what others are saying. And I, however, wouldn't be surprised, given the defense's limited staff and resources, that defense staff has been told that, even if we might glean a tidbit here and there from the ThaiVisa postings, we don't have the time and resources to sift through all that verbiage which does not help us to get to those possible morsels that might.

don't have the time and resources to sift through all that verbiage which does not help us to get to those possible morsels that might.

And that's why there are some posters on here trying to derail and clog up every thread with their crap, or even better, get every thread about this subject shut down.

You know who you are.

Hindus this time, not Muslims.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11485958/Solar-eclipse-schoolchildren-banned-from-watching-on-religious-and-cultural-grounds.html

Sometimes known as Little India, Southall is a diverse community in west London with a large Hindi population.

Although headteacher Ivor Johnstone would not comment on what the ‘religious and cultural’ reasons were, some Hindu scriptures say that an eclipse makes believers impure.

And fundamentalists believe that they need to bathe immediately after an eclipse and chant the name of God to overcome the forces of darkness.

"We have now confirmed that the killing weapon is not only a hoe found stained with blood, but also a wooden club. This made us believe that there are at least two attackers," he said.

Deputy national police chief Pol Gen Somyot Pumpanmuang said on 23rd September.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Koh-Tao-police-fail-another-day-30243890.html

Pol Maj Gen Kittipong Kaosam-ang, a Surat Thani police commander

revealed that Thais may have been involved in the murders and had tried to destroy evidence linking them to the attacks. Some people on Koh Tao had given false information to police in a bid to divert attention.

There was evidence linking Thais to the attacks. i.e. not evidence linking the Burmese two to the attacks.

Who are these Thais who had tried to destroy evidence linking them to the attacks? Where is this evidence? What is this evidence? This evidence wouldn't happen to be CCTV footage, would it?

Why is there no mention of this evidence in the prosecution case?