BangkokHank

As a regular bus rider, my experience is the same as yours. Once recently I was standing at the bus stop as one of those Thai Smile buses was approaching. Because there was another bus stopped at the bus stop, the Thai Smile bus stopped just before reaching the bus stop. When the other bus left, the logical thing for the Thai Smile bus to have done was to just edge up to the bus stop where I was standing with my hand out indicating that I wanted to board the bus. But he just kept going without picking me up. It was extremely frustrating given that I had waited a half an hour for the bus already, and the next one wouldn't be around for at least another half an hour. Like you, I wanted to report this behavior to someone but didn't know where to report him.

Well, which one was it? Teh? Or Chiwa? It matters, you know.

A DNA test would solve the mystery.

So you're saying that he was conducting espionage and blackmail for himself?

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Check the exact wording. Maybe you bought a "Moron" blood pressure monitor rather than an "Omron"? Ha.

I used to know a boiler room swindler in Bangkok many years ago. After he finished swindling as many people as he could, including "friends", this is the excuse that he used: "Hey, I was duped too - so we all lost our money. Sorry." That's what allowed him to get away with his crime without having the crap beaten out of him by the people he swindled.

With 40 million baht, he didn't need ANY return on his money to live comfortably for the rest of his life in Thailand. So what was the point of risking it like that?

Thanks. That's very clear. So I wonder why that article whose link I provided said that it was possible. And I wonder about the other countries on the list. By the way, I live in Thailand on a retirement extension. But I was thinking of moving to Vietnam and dropping my retirement visa, and just visiting Thailand a few times a year. But if I cannot enter Thailand with my US tourist visa, then this would not work, as I wouldn't want to apply for a visa every time I visited Thailand. So I'll just keep the Thai retirement visa and visit Vietnam on tourist visas.

You've totally missed the point. I am not a US citizen. I am a citizen of a country whose citizens need a visa to enter Thailand. I happen to have a valid tourist visa for the US. Some countries (listed on the website for which I provided the link) allow people to enter without a visa (when they otherwise would need one) IF they happen to have a valid US tourist visa. (This is because they trust the strict US vetting system.) So to repeat my question in a slightly different way: Has anyone who needs a visa for Thailand been able to enter Thailand without a visa by using their valid US tourist visa? Thanks.

I read on this website (scroll down to country number 16 on the list): https://voyeglobal.com/visa-free-countries-with-us-tourist-visa/ that it is possible for people who need a visa for Thailand to enter the country visa-free if they have a valid US tourist visa. Can anybody confirm this? Has anybody tried it? Thanks.

That's something that I'll never have to worry about being.

I came to Thailand for a great job 30 years ago. When the job ended, I stayed, mostly for the women, but also for the relatively low-cost, comfortable lifestyle. I am able to get a lot of bang for my buck here, in both senses of the word.

Of course the whole point of this is to be able to switch off the passports of people who engage in wrongthink/wrongspeak/wrongwrite.

Yes it does. Freedom of speech means freedom of speech, including speech that YOU deem to be hate speech. I suppose you would approve of hate speech against Kanye?