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39 minutes ago, bkkcanuck8 said:

Kicking is criminal assault... and you should be deported if you commit a crime when here... period.  They can decide whether to prosecute a crime before deporting, or just deporting... but he should be deported.   This has been so public that I do expect him to be deported, but if he has the money to smooth it over the best as possible - he might only be given a 1 year ban instead of what should happen for crimes which is a lifetime ban... (the only for 1 year would not be mentioned in the press though).   The moral of the story when visiting as a guest in another country (and we are all just guests as all visas including non-immigrant retirement and marriage visas are temporary -- hence non-immigrant) is be on your best behaviour and do not commit crimes while visiting.

Is speeding a crime? Not wearing a helmet when riding a motorcycle? Littering?

crime is a crime, right? So be careful what you wish for.

Wow, a minor assault charge, to background check on all foreigners in Phuket. That escalated fast.

i wonder where the issue of gangsters in Phuket came up? Afaik, there has been no suggestion that the badly behaved Swiss man is a gangster.

But in Thailand big announcements rarely lead to any action. And if it did, you can bet your bottom dollar that honest expats will be put through a ton of hoops, while the gangsters just pay their way out of any check.

In a Western country it’s a case of assault and would be dealt with in a minor court without much fuss and bother. A fine, suspended sentence maybe. Over and done with.

here it’s a national incident, partly because these days Thailand is ruled by “netizens” and viral videos. If there is a viral video, the bib and various other authorities are on the case. No viral video, not interested.

This guy was a jerk and should pay a price. National incident requiring 24/7 news coverage? Nah, not really.

They suddenly realized the issues at the airport? We have suffered for years.

To be fair, most airports in the UK are the same, but Singapore is not. Compare yourself with the best, not the worst, as my mother used to say.

the sad thing is, we all know that after the hoopla dies down, everything will drift back to the same as before as attention switches elsewhere and machines break down through lack of maintenance or some harebrained decision is taken that negates any benefits gained.

I’d wager that in a years time the same issues will be back. It’s quite depressing really. 

16 minutes ago, Falcon said:

And what questions are the Thais asked when they go to other countries like the UK, us, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc? They have to first fight for a visa and the are subjected to all of the questions you have just complained about Thailand asking. If it was as easy for the Thais to travel to other countries and stay for immeasurable time as we foreigners can do here  in Thailand, I’m sure that everyone would be happy.

Stay for immeasurable time?

pretty sure that most foreigners have to go through visa hoops to do that. You know, the ones where you have to hold a cash deposit in a thai bank, take photos of yourself in your own home, photocopy quite a few documents and THEN, even when you have a visa to stay, not immeasurable time but 1 year, report to immigration every three months to report your whereabouts, or report to immigration if you spend even one night outside of your own home.

you know, those kind of hoops.

8 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Explains a lot as to why the USA is pretty much down the toilet.

Why down the toilet? Do you have some metrics that support that comment?

leaving aside the carnage caused by rampant gun ownership, the obvious racism evident in some states, the damage to democracy caused by the electoral college system of voting; a number of the usual metrics utilized to rank a country actually make the United States seem to be doing rather well.  Perhaps that’s why the stock market is at record levels (if stock investing is a barometer of economic metrics)

A mysterious suitcase?

curiouser and curiouser.

2 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

Lock him up and throw away the keys.

Better yet, throw him in a jail house full of Katheoy's and let them do jailhouse justice to him.

It's predators like him that make a bad name for good foreigner teachers....

 

 

Should there be a trial first? And then if there is a guilty verdict, mete out your punishment?

it’s sort of the process many civilized countries follow. 

4 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Quite so, is they just said we are not paying and walked off, fair enough!

Had the guys been sitting there foe some time, when the were asked for money???

Who knows, who cares. Arguments over a few hundred baht isn’t really big enough news to get me working out the ins and outs of the details.

14 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

I understand what you are saying, but......

 

I certainly wouldn't realise that to be the case based on this post....????

 

It just tells me to have a driving license .

Can’t see how a drivers licence or pink id card will help catch overstayers, but oh well.