Bangkok Barry

So trying to overturn an election result was part of his official responsibilities?

There is a simple solution to these shakedowns. In any conversation with the police Thailand's largest criminal organisation, get your phone out and record the conversation. They once tried it on with me when I was leaving Swampy airport, saying my brand new UK passport was a fake and to follow them into a small room. I got out my phone to record, and suddenly the passport was okay after all, I wasn't worth their trouble when there were plenty of other potential 'customers' coming through. Of course, they might threaten you and it could get nasty, but it's worth a try.

I do not know of any "pay to the police" option in the US that is anything short of illegal. And I don't know of any in the UK.

This post - another history lesson - also has no relevance to his extended hospital stay. Strange that you persist in posting them. Even if what you write is correct, it has no relevance to this thread.

Agreed. But I didn't suggest that only Germany might be at fault in such cases.

The former PM once responded to a tourist being raped by saying that only ugly women should wear a bikini, and when another young tourist was murdered in the Land of Smiles he said her parents could just make another one. So in answer to your question, nothing. Someone has spoken, his job is done, and if nothing happens afterwards he can say that isn't his fault. That's the way it works in Thailand.

The nice welcome to Thailand folk who told him to leave said it is, but that doesn't actually mean that it is. And if it is, why? And what were the 'nearby residents' concerned about?

It didn't happen in Germany. But, from the linked article: However, it is not clear if the German man can be charged or what the nature of the charges may be, given that the age of consent in Germany is 14 and prostitution, which is the context here, is legal. Surely he should be charged with breaking Thai law. But again Germany, unlike many EU countries, the USA and Australia, appears to not care what laws a German breaks as long as it isn't in Germany. That's interesting, and maybe why the accused admitted his actions, knowing he would not be prosecuted back home At the same time, some European and Scandinavian countries, unlike Germany, criminalise all sex tourism activities by their citizens abroad.

None of your post - history lesson - relates to his extended stay in hospital rather than a prison cell.

Just more play acting that fools absolutely no-one. If he is so sick that he has to remain in a special - not prison - hospital then we can expect it to snow in Bangkok on Christmas Day.

There should be a clause that removes those with a UK passport from needing to meet the financial requirement. Otherwise, you are blocked from living there with a wife born overseas while at the same time those with a British wife are allowed to live there with a far lower income. Citizens should never, ever, for any reason be blocked from living in their own country, especially on the flimsiest of reasons that their wife was born outside of the UK so on that basis you must earn more than a reported 75% of those in the UK.

My sister lived in Spain and WAS allowed to vote in local elections. Makes sense, as what happened there affected her as much as the locals.

They are not preventing them from getting married, but they ARE preventing them from living together in the UK if the wife doesn't have a British passport, unless you are one of the minority 25% earning 750 pounds a week (see the linked article, which says that three quarters do not earn that much). Also, not everyone finds a wife in Pattaya. The new rule has nothing at all to do with illegal immigration. It has to do with those coming to live in the UK having a job to come to which pays over 38,000 a year. But what is does at the same time is demand that both foreigners and THOSE MARRIED TO A FOREIGNER must also match that income level. It is meant to prevent abuse of the system which has until now allowed LEGAL immigrants the right to bring several members of their family to join them in the UK. But as well as doing that it will prevent many UK passport holders from living in their own country as they - the 75% - don't meet the financial threshold. Some might not need that level of income if, for example, they don't have to pay for accommodation as they own a property there. It's aimed at Mr Patel not being able to bring half his village with him from India, but people born in the UK with a British passport are caught up in the restrictions too. There needs to be a clause that excludes UK passport holders, but as far as I know there is not.

More of the quality tourists that Thailand believes it can attract?

So, not content with denying many Brits the pension increases that those living in the UK receive - despite them having paid into exactly the same system all their working life - they now deny the right of Brits to live in Britain unless they divorce their foreign, nasty, evil, asylum-seeking spouse. I don't know what it is with British Home Secretaries. Theresa May began this blockade of Brits, then we had Priti Patel and Suella Braverman to complete the coven of witches. And now James Cleverley, ironically himself a descendent of immigrants - like the PM, Patel and Braverman - adds his name to the group. I thought the idea was to crack down on illegal immigrants, not to ban Brits who want to live in the UK from marrying foreigners.

That's rich! It was Theresa May who first introduced the system.

If I wrote what I think of this writer's skill I'd be threatened with 'a holiday' by the mods. But he did tell us what colour shirt the victim was wearing.

Confusion and misunderstanding. Who would have thought that was possible in Thailand? Yet another of the endless examples of things not being thought through. Really, even top executives seem to have the mind of a five year old, totally devoid of logical thinking.

I think if the building starts to collapse before it's even finished, I'd question the word 'luxury'.

You tink too mutt, mista.

I've long thought they should introduce such messages into the nightly dramas that Thais love so much. It might then get through to a few thick heads far better than any advertising would. They could even have Thailand's finest screamers doing their stuff when seeing her dead lover on the road, rather than when she's being beaten by said lover.

I've sent this to an Australian travel writer who I think might want to warn Aussie tourists of what they might expect when they come to Thailand.

Don't worry. As with many of the crackpot ideas dreamed up by the authorities those in charge of the lunatic asylum, nothing will be enforced as, often, it is unenforceable. It's just the usual case of someone 'doing their job' while actually doing nothing. The announcement has been made, job done. Everyone knows it will be ignored, especially by bar owners who might be a little reluctant to get a good thumping by any drunk who objects to being breathalysed and/or illegally detained.

They're there for decoration aren't they? Like those nice black and white stripes across the road. Every time I go out, within minutes I see several people breaking the law in one way or another. Because they can, with impunity, and so people die. I can't imagine how many thousands of people die on Thai roads in a year because there is next to no law enforcement. But nobody cares. Nobody actually cares about anything in Thailand unless it affects them directly.

You didn't take into account that I was referring to a post, as below: No. A Thai Facebook user recently reported that the government was planning to cancel all new year holiday events The government DID urge people to wear masks again, and ikke1959 asked if the former was now fake news. I pointed out that it was ONLY the NY celebrations being cancelled that was the fake news, not the previous day's warning that Covid cases were rising and masks should be worn. I was pointing out the difference. I guess I shouldn't have bothered.