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If they where in honest business, they would never enter your property. Goes for any public service and Police, if they enter your property without clearly being invited to do so, they are in breach of law, as civilians, as public employees, as retired "army"

Similar guys knock on my front door on occasions, I tell my rottweiler to bark if he hasnt done so already

monks do it all the time , and it is very hard to tell if a real monk or fake one

when there are the yearly floods in Samui, all the beer is nearly gone too ! , reason, no power, stuck in the house, so what elese can you do but drink !

found the picture from 1942

you could always buy a cheap car?

NOTE

I personnaly NEVER drive a scooter, far to dangerous, and no matter how good a driver you are, there are just so many nut cases on the road !, and it is not a question IF but WHEN you will have a crash, or someone crashes into you ( i stopped driving when a taxi hit me !, oh and he never stopped, gave the taxi number to the police and they where not interested at all ! )

i take it this newspaper is the us version of Not The Nation

hope you have a big budget !

does it list Bangkok as number 1 or a least of the ' top 10 ' , with Bangkok just happening to be number 1 in the least? ,

Hi Mike

regardless of what car rental company you go with, most of the insurance is the same from the brand companies, only local companies may have different levels of cover

now Thailand being Thailand, if you are to have a crash, say a drunk Thai Driver crashes into you on his un insuraed Motorbike, depending on the officer on scene, area of thailand you are, you my be liable to PAY for the drunk driver, reason being that he cannot get medical care of YOUR insurance unless you admit fault, plus the BIB might also just see you as a meal ticket..

i had a friend who had the best insurance coverage, a drunk thai pulled out, BANG, but he still had to pay 250,000 THB !, TIT

Be grateful if you can receive government electricity. I cannot get it and I pay 5.7 baht per unit plus VAT from my local developer.

I am lucky - some developers charge LOTS more. (I have heard up to 29 baht per unit in one case!)

heard of this as well, but in some cases, it is not the developer charging, but the person who owns the land/cables that are sending the electric to the development, either way its WAY overpriced

safest option at the moment what you are planning to do

EDIT

Not a bad idea for a pinned thread ' When will you be doing your Visa Run ' , as members could get together to arrange to share the cost, or a ' visa run car pool thread ' and you can post the dates when you plan to do the run and members could link up together? ..... could also work on the penang route as well?

just a thought

You might want to consider donating them to Jesters for their next charity auction. Aussiechick sponsors that booth. I would guess you could drop them off at a number of locations and she would eventually get them?

i think this by far is the best idea, if the are original DVD's, i am sure they could be worth anything from 50THB - 100 THB, give it to charity so they can make a little bit of money

Ok,when does the ski season start?

when hell Samui frezzes over

not on youtube yet

also latestays.com

SCB will do it, more all less all the branches..... also they have the biggest network of ATM machines as well, and always a Branch close by should you need one

Many are blaming the problem on poor refuse collection and street cleaning services which causes drains to become blocked

i am nt to sure if this happens where there was flooding, but i always see thais in bangkok dropping fat, food you name it down the drains, also just leaving rubbish in the middle of the path wating to be picked up, not even put into proper black bags...

i always find in thailand, the blame is always shifted to someone else, and no one will ever claim responsibitly

suprised Jingthing didnt add a poll in?

didnt the nigerians protest outside there embassey?

i think the real crime committed here was the price he paid for the Gun !, only worth 500-1000 THB if that!, i thought they where cracking down on overpriced scams?

Mr. James confessed that the weapon, a BB gun was his gun, that he bought from a Thai guy for 6,000 THB, he thought that it was not dangerous so he just put it at his waist for fun, he also apologized if he made ​​people frightened. The police seized the “BB gun” weapon and let him free.

so they are not the same price everywhere

Same price in North America only

I bought my ipad 2 directly form apple website in May, delivered by post to my Thai home from China.

price in THB?

Being the up market person that I am I prefer the M&S deal for a tenner. This weekends offer looks quite enticing. The fact that the wife works there and gets 20% off makes it even better. Actually they are doing 25% off any 2 cases of wine at the moment + of course an extra 20% for moi !

are they doing these offers in the Thai Marks and sparks ?

there is a program now on UK TV called Cowboy Builders

His name is neil Smart, from Cardiff they mentioned he has ripped off tens of thousands in the uk and now operating in Thailand

anyone come across him?

Sweating on the test results...

No hang on that was at the station cos I thought I missed the last train.

when i first read the MAIN headline i thought .... Big C , what have you been up to this time

if you didnt report to the police , did the owners, ? , who will pay for the window? , you i presume?

anyway, double bolt your doors and welcome to the ghetto

No i havent ........... but i better ask the missus