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Right. Mob rule is the best way to go. It’s why most countries don’t bother with a police force to enforce laws. 🙄 Instead of cheering on the vigilantes, how about calling for the rule of law supported by effective enforcement by the police? Do you think these images are going to encourage law abiding quality tourists to visit Thailand any time soon?

They have people at Suvarnabhumi who will help you. It means you will have a delay prior to passing through immigration, but that’s a price you pay for your circumstances. Do you not know ANYONE in Spain with access to the internet? TDAC doesn’t need to be completed on your own phone. Someone else can do it for you so, long as you supply the information. Unless you are actively looking for reasons why you can’t do it…..

Happy hours end at 18:30?

Well, visa length I can understand. But the online TDAC is a piece of cake. It’s required in Singapore and is to be introduced in Schengen countries and the UK. Literally, it’s less than 5 minutes done in the comfort of your own home whilst sipping a glass of wine. God knows I complain about a ton of things in this country that drive me bonkers, but TDAC, it’s a non issue

You took him to walking street? Theres your problem right there

The evidence e seems pretty thin. How to prove that the cash in the guys bra is the actual cash the tourist “thinks” he may have lost?

Wondering how he gained access to the rooftop in the first place. Shouldn’t access be restricted?

I’m not sure you are even reading my posts before replying to me. Which makes any further discourse pointless.

Who said I don’t wear a helmet? Certainly I made no mention of such a thing. So I’m not sure why you felt the need to lecture me on the issue.

That’s a straw man’s argument. A helmet isn’t designed to make people RIDE more safely, it’s designed to reduce head injuries in the event of a crash. And sorry, I can’t help but laugh at your assertion that wearing a helmet makes people ride a motorbike more recklessly. That one is a bit of a stretch.

The cynic in me says that this is about increasing police revenue. Why? Because after paying the fine they let people ride off without a helmet! If it was about road safety, they wouldn’t do that.

TDAC is a non issue. It’s a simple process used by many countries. There are far more important issues than this non issue

I wonder how many officials will be making the trek to Monaco to study their racetrack and organization. Not the worst place for a boondoggle

The things you have to do to get the police to take action. Without the online campaign to cause embarrassment, the police would have done nothing

Hmm, why those 15 and not the other 5,000?

“The tragedy isn't isolated. Rebecca’s untimely demise echoes previous losses, like the case last year in Laos, where six tourists perished from methanol-poisoned vodka.” Sorry I don’t see the the similarities. In one some friends were legally drinking alcohol at a licensed establishment, that unbeknownst to them served them poisoned drink. In this latest one the two people engaged privately in illegal drug use. Chalk and cheese in my eyes

Soviet Union? What’s that?

I somehow doubt that he intended to bring down the financial system of Thailand. Doing that one atm at a time would take a lifetime. Seems to me he just wanted atm machines to dispense boatloads of cash to him and his mates.

But now they are examining cc tv to try and find the lady boy…..after allowing her to escape 😂😂

Evidently you don’t know irony

In some kind of alternative reality, I guess what you say makes sense. But in actual reality, guns breed gun crime, gun deaths both accidental and deliberate and proliferate yet more guns. It’s a downward spiral ending in chaos. Just examine other countries, those that have very strict gun controls and those that do not. The results are self evident.

I think a number of Thai banks offer FCY fixed deposit accounts. I don’t know about current or savings accounts. But the tricky bit is remitting said FCY out of the country. I think that may be pretty difficult and even if possible, require a lot of paperwork. Not sure what your circumstances are but I think the important thing is to not bring FCY into the country in the first place. DBS in Singapore has an account called “my account” which can be opened in 15 different currencies (not Thai baht) and a debit card can be linked to any of them. Not sure if that is any good to you.

What you say is true. Pre 2024 was nirvana for basically everyone because the tax on income remitted in the year it was earned, was never enforced anyway. But I think the proposed situation, if it ever comes into being, is at least better than the current one. At the moment overseas income is taxed when brought into the country, whatever the year it was earned.

Unbeknownst to me, when my child was 4/5 her teacher used to hit the kids toes with a ruler if the didn’t lie down and be quiet for their afternoon sleep. I only found out when my daughter was 14 and recounted how it used to terrify her when she was at that school. The teacher was a young late twenties, good looking and very friendly person. Had I known what she was doing my daughter would have been out from that school the next day and never gone back. It clearly traumatized her as she remembered it 10 years later as a very bad experience from her childhood. A friend of mine tells me that the teacher in question now seeks coffee from a coffee stall. What the career change happened I don’t know, but I could hazard a guess.

A friend of mine had to dump a girlfriend. He worked on oil rigs. Every time he went on a contract, when he got back, something had been “stolen”. Motorbike, jewelry, gold.