Lee4Life

You fared better than my wife and niece, they were driving along a downtown street in NongKhai on our motorbike a couple of years ago and a pickup coming out of a side street failed to stop. It hit them and left them laying in the street. Bystanders drug them off of the road and somebody called the rescue service. The wife received lots of really bad bruises and couldn't walk for several days, she also required physical therapy once we returned to the states. The niece received stitches in her chin and also lots of bruises. Nobody followed the vehicle or got the plate number even though it was a busy street with lots of vendors.

   The police were polite but said there was not much they could do because there were no CCTV cameras in the area of the accident.  We are thankful for the rescue crew and the people who drug them from the street...but the rest of it will forever leave a bad taste.  

I applied for the O/A at the LA consulate last year. My permanent residence State provides an online application process which provides a notarized criminal background check, I believe it was 15$ extra for the notary and took about one week to receive. 

19 hours ago, neeray said:

Loose lips sink ships. 

exactly...how else could the thugs know they even had bitcoin?

3 hours ago, Suradit69 said:

On the arrival card you should put the re-entry permit number in the space for visa number and, as you say, direct the officer's attention to the permit.

While I am not the OP, I thank you for your answer...I am outside the country and have a multiple re-entry permit I purchased before leaving. I was wondering what to put on the arrival card for the visa number.

Thanks for all the good answers....I had the same question but never asked, just assumed tracking wasn't possible once it hit the other country 

16 hours ago, Fore Man said:

I’ve always carried a length of 1” diameter bamboo made into a hiking staff...so it’s light in weight and can inflict considerable pain. Certain dogs get surly with me but one menacing look and a couple of whoosh swings with that staff and they always back down. The one sure thing that frightens them is when I turn and pursue them. They always turn tail. The only thing a dog understands is strength and audacity. But having said that, I’ve also befriended dogs by handing out treats and gradually conditioning them to accept me as being no threat. The one cardinal rule here is...do not ever get bitten by a Thai dog as very few have had rabies shots. 

I tried your method in our neighborhood, the first time I raised the stick to ward off a mean dog, he just got meaner and still came after me, not only that but every other dog in the neighborhood heard the commotion and started after me as well. There was no way I could defend myself from all sides...it was scary. I have found that rocks are better, and sometimes all it takes is to bend over and act like I am picking up rocks. 

Who waits the extra five seconds? Unless it is an intersection that has a red-light camera everyone where we are just watches the other traffic lights and goes as soon as they turn red (or even before).

would have to be someone who has the pin number and a cloned card or a replacement card wouldn't it? can skimmers clone chipped cards now?

18 hours ago, trd said:

She looks nothing like Yingluck.

That's kind of what I thought too.

If you are travelling by plane another consideration would be that automotive, motorcycle and atv parts that have or did have oil in them are prohibited in all luggage. A friend of mine tried to bring a brand new small engine which he had drained all of the oil out of, it was confiscated from his checked baggage at the airport upon departure.

On ‎12‎/‎19‎/‎2017 at 7:42 PM, LazySlipper said:

No one deserves a beating. Losing one's cool is just a symptom of inferior genetics. However, when I move into a neighborhood I usually make sure that it meets my standards of living. 

 

Point 1: If this guy moved in before the bar ever opened up, then he should have known better. (still doesn't deserve a beating)

 

Point 2: If the bar opened after he moved in then he is in another predicament. And, could he have called on the BIB's for help?

 

I think, as others pointed out, that he should have sent his fairer sexed partner.

 

Seems Norwegians are getting in all sorts of problems over noise lately... wasn't the guy who turned off a Thai's motorcycle Norwegian?

In poimt 1 I think you must have meant "if this guy moved in 'after' the bar ever opened up, then he should have known better" ?

How could he have known better if there was no bar there when he moved in? Clarify?

How are these drones surveying the crops at night? Do they have night vision cameras? Also I would question how the owner knows there are four or five of these drones surveying his crops at night, if he has observed them that closely it seems like he could have caught the culprits himself.

No more cards is correct...only it doesn't seem that all Thai Airways or Thai Smile staff know this, a staff member at Swampy would not accept my number unless I had the physical card, I went upstairs to the office and they told me that cards were no longer issued, back down to the check-in counter to tell them what the office told me, not really worth the bother anyway unless you fly a jillion miles with them.

Regardless of the nature of the incident, it is so nice to be reading about someone saved instead of another life lost.

It is really sad that this accident cost someone their life and injured so many, my heart goes out to the victims and their families. 

"I dozed off"...."the brakes failed"...." I suffered a seizure"....and the list of excuses goes on and on. When I was a tow truck driver in the States I heard all the excuses. It was "my power steering quit working" when they lost control on a corner and the steering would not respond because they were in a slide, or "my brakes failed" when they were going down steep mountain hills and were riding the brakes so hard that they would no longer work. If they rear-ended another vehicle it was usually "my anti-lock brakes failed".

21 hours ago, krystian said:

"He said the Lao smugglers – brothers Suebanh Tiasili, 30, and Khumborn Tiasyly, 24 – had agreed to pay a Bt40,000 fine and let Thailand keep Bt94 million, thus avoiding further prosecution"

 

That was easy giving up 94M THB... 

A little too easy actually

9 minutes ago, BuaBS said:

I wonder who ratted them out ... the banks where they exchanged the $ for THB ?

would imagine one or all of the businesses they exchanged the money at ratted them out, a bit unusual to have that kind of $ around...I'm surprised it wasn't fake. wonder who the big guy is behind all this?

On ‎12‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 2:59 AM, Thongkorn said:

 Why  Kill Snakes,  Snakes are attracted to filth, Try cleaning around your property, No Rats no snakes.

Our property is kept meticulously and we have snakes come in all the time. Snakes are attracted to food, and that may consist of frogs, mice, bugs, fish, chickens. Some snakes eat rats, but rats here are not totally sustained by garbage, some rats here even nest in banana trees where they eat bananas.

   I wish you were right, it would be so simple that way.

They are not deadly, but many say you might wish you were dead because it is so painful. My wife was bitten by one a month or so ago. It was a big one and she was doing some garden work so just used the shovel to cut it into three pieces when she saw it come out of the ground, I had just warned her to be careful of the pieces because they can still crawl around and the head can still bite, when she yelled out that it had bit her on the foot.

    They do not always inject venom when they bite, in this case the area turned red, hurt and swelled a little in the following days, but it was because one of the little bugger's teeth was still in her foot. One bit the neighbor lady and she was in pretty severe pain for three days.

5 hours ago, Moonmoon said:

That's what I call a "Cash Cow"! ????

and that's no bull! (might as well milk this for all it's worth)

22 hours ago, Chris Lawrence said:

Just walk around the country areas and you will see it. 

That's not gonna work friend...I live in the country and don't see it.

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

This figure represent less than 10% of the population, almost every Thai 

person owns a smartphone, a motorcycle or and a piece of gold ornaments,

most Thais now days will scoff at a minimum wage days work, a young guard

girl with no formal education get over 10,000 baht a month at our condo,

Thai people get fat and drink a lot, and travel overseas frequently, 

however, there's a serious issue with the elderly and the disabled who

has to do with a peanuts for living and something clearly has to be done there....

How about showing us sources for these "facts" you are spouting off ?

Unfortunate, I have noticed quite a difference in treatment when I ride my bicycle around town and stop at shops, often the attitudes towards me are markedly different than when I drive our Fortuner. I have also noticed clerks and cashiers badmouthing customers to each other, thinking the foreigner customer who is standing there does not understand what they are saying, the last time was at one of the aforementioned stores.

    Try not to ride at night if possible, many vehicles which pull over to the shoulders like to rummage around and find big rocks to chock their wheels with, then they often drive away and just leave them there...pretty good sized hazards for a motorbike, you can see them in the daytime but not so easy at night.

    Always keep an eye out to the rear, especially if you are using the "car lanes". I have left the shoulder or 'bike lane" to pass slower bikes and had cars and trucks come up from behind at a high rate of speed nearly striking me. As far as many of them are concerned you belong on the shoulder if you are riding a motorbike...no matter how fast you are going.

    Always keep your distance from big trucks, especially the dirt, sand and rock trucks. There may be laws in Western countries which prevent loading the trucks up over the top of the side boards but there don't seem to be any here, I am constantly getting peppered by sand, rock and dirt if I get too close to those trucks.

Praying for the guard and his family, and for justice.