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it’s the issue isn’t it? Lots of data collection, no meaningful use.

Is it really that hard to identify overstayers? Surely a comparison between those granted 60 day stays, against departures and extensions, will identify those who arrived and didn’t leave. How is a drone 30 feet up in the air going to hunt overstayers? They’re just talking gobbledygook.

Surely this has already backfired. I never knew anything about this and now, because of this law case, I do. So they have promoted publicity over something they didn’t want publicized. I wonder if the Chinese guy is still in Thailand. If he isn’t, it makes the law case more silly Oh well, I doubt we’ll hear any more about it anyway. These things seem to just disappear without any visible conclusion

Very useful heads up. Tyvm

Fortunately I won’t be going underground. I managed to find a wall to which I can fix the charger and then if I use a 10 charging cable, I can reach where the car will be parked. The bad news is that I’ve got about 100 meters to go from the fuse box in the house, around the garden wall, to the fixing point. A guy from BYD came and gabbled on about this and that, not a lot of which made sense to me, but he is going to arrange for the actual installer to come today. so I’ll see what they say, although I have a feeling it will be a Thai and sign language conversation. It’s never a problem if I have some confidence that they won’t be trying to make things more complicated than they need be, just so they can charge more money. Of course I have no comparative quite atm, so I’m nervous. For instance the BYD guy was heavily pushing for me to take a sleek waterproof box for the charger, which cost three times what a “normal” box cost. Since I’m not intending to make the box a focal point of the garden, it seemed unnecessary to me. Anyway, thanks for the info and ‘ll see what they guy says today.

Thanks for the info based on your experience

Well since they were lining up tanks, mobilizing an additional army group and generally massing troops on the border, then yeah, i suppose might as well cancel the bus service. Unless of course all that military hardware on show was the Generals getting all excited about showing off their toys

I’m in the process of buying a BYD sealion 6, so a PHEV. As part of the deal I am being given a free home charger and installation. BUT, the BYD guy says I need a special cable to run from my fuse box to my charger and for a special stand for the charger to fix to. The latter because it won’t be fixed to a wall. So: 1. having googled, it seems that I DO need a special cable to handle the continuous power load. Fair enough. But does anyone know if the BYD people supply said cable at a significant mark up? Or is their pricing pretty competitive? 2. Does anyone know if their special stand is anything, well, special? I haven’t seen one in real life but from the picture it looks like plastic! 3. Just generally, do BYD use the charger installation exercise as a price gouging opportunity? Grateful for any insights on the above

Why aren’t netizens outraged at a foreigner urinating in a public place?

The incident happened in Nong Khai? And don’t be surprised if it was the mother that pimped her out. I doubt the “financial transactions” used to catch this guy involved the victims own bank accounts. Someone else made money off the illegal act and it should be easy for the cops to identify them, assuming they aren’t paid off.

Well, something caused the policeman to take a pretty dangerous evasion maneuver, that’s for sure. Equally certain is that the articulated lorry did try to ram his truck by starting to veer after him, before realizing the cop was actually going to complete the left turn the wrong way up the slip road. The video shows that. What happened before that we don’t know. We have the cops side of the story. But what I see on the video shows cause to charge the truck driver with reckless driving. Whether the cop was justified to complete his dangerous maneuver is subjective. Not sure I want to meet either of them on the road

Maybe one of them transferred the money to the others account. Then showed that payment slip on their phone. Massage people briefly glanced at it, maybe saw amount and not much else because the phone was whisked away. Looking at e transfer slips on mobile phones is like checking signatures on credit cards. Very rarely done properly, if at all.

Well, I applaud the intention to do something to combat crime. But two big questions occur to me: 1. if they know these people use land crossings from Cambodia, why didn’t they previously stop them using those routes to enter? 2. Just how do you identify these people anyway? They are hardly going to honestly answer if asked whether they are connected to a scam call centre. All in all, this sounds like todays crackdown news distributed to try and show that they are contributing to the war effort.

I’m fairly ignorant about military hardware, but isn’t the top picture one of an anti aircraft gun?

They waited a year?

Ok, so that’s this week. But what about next week and the week after that?

Am I the only one to think that someone who has 12million in cash stuffed in a plastic box, might be up to no good? I really can’t think of a good reason for doing that.

My teenager daughter stupidly allowed her WhatsApp account to be cloned. The cloner sent me messages saying he had control of her and asking for money to be sent to a specific bank account, in order to “get her back”. I realized what was happening and called her to delete her account. My Thai wife looked up the account holders name on Facebook, so I had location, photos, name and bank account details of the perpetrator. Police weren’t interested. No money was lost. So I guess the guy just moved on to trying to scam someone else.

Jeez, in Nong Pra Jak park of all places. It’s such a family style place with people doing all sorts of normal activities. And a nice place to take stroll at 9:20 after having dinner. It’s no Bangla road or walking street, nothing like it. Is nowhere safe now?

Thanks for that stunning insight.

Apologies. I read your original post and responded to that. Couldn’t wade through 8 pages of responses

I note that you flew to Manchester, but you don’t really say which specific parts of England you visited. The country is is in danger of becoming a failed state imho, but not really for the reasons you describe. I usually visit Cornwall (where my mother lives) and St Albans ( where my son lives) and visually both are very nice places with none of the slum type conditions you describe. But having said that, it’s clearly evident that most aspects of British life are suffering from systemic overload. NHS, finding a dentist, roads, motorways, airports, passport issuance, every aspect of British life that that I experience is overloaded to the extreme and in danger of breaking down. Delays to achieve virtually anything are very long and getting longer. There is simply no slack in functions of public life and zero planning for the future. Take the NHS, something I know quite well since my mother is elderly and in need of constant care. There are no spare hospital beds in Cornwall and patients, such as my mother, routinely spend nights in an ambulance in the hospital car park. Ok, that’s the current position. So how many new hospitals are being built in Cornwall? Answer: none. Instead they keep trying to squeeze more out of the current situation by not hospitalising people or, simply letting waiting times get longer and longer. So that’s just one example of what I am trying to explain and why I would never live in England and why my sister also left two years ago to live overseas. The country’s infrastructure is slowly breaking down.

To the naked eye, that oil slick looks bigger than my front garden, which is 10 meters by 10 meters.

“What money has she been living on for those 5 years?” Perhaps she has savings from being a London based investment banker? Or has rented her Mayfair flat? Your question is silly because the possibilities are endless.

North Korea would be proud of them