surayu

I think the only solution is for you to move away to someplace where no one has every heard of you and get a clean start, trying to act nice and get along with the locals

Or just put up with being pissed upon by your neighbors.

Move away?? In a place where no one has every heard of me???? Are you kidding me??

C'mon, tell me what i did wrong that i shouldn't have done, as far as i know i am been more than reasonable, what is wrong in making understand somebody that want to takes all your money/belonging away from you that he can't?

And in this particular case, what is wrong in telling this sev/wage that he can use your toilet for free if he really have to relieve himself in such a (no)manner?

I don't know if any of you watch the "Myth Busters" on tv, there was a scene where they tested if someone pissing on a high voltage rail could be electrocutted in doing so, unfortunately it's not possible, right, i am switching to plan "B"....

Have you thought about providing hot towels and neck massages while they go about their business?

Yes but:

1) That wouldn't be me, a bit like asking you to go for a romantic date with a gekko

2) I thought some of the aficionados here were already providing that service and even more, i mean, much more...

But the way you told your story sounded like you were not wanted in the village.

I believe, as a foreigner, they tolerates me, but that's all.

What many people find unacceptable, is probably how i can manage to still be living here without having been relieved of all my belonging, this might be another loss of face for the locals.

The fact that i am aware of when someone try to put a scam on me (almost any time there is a deal taking place), i do behave myself and not put myself in a position of weakness (as getting drunk for example), i can see it really piss some of them off.

It's really easy to demolish any of the crazy and childish stuff they make up as soon as a conversation is engaged, that's why they do avoid it too and keep those nasty fables all inside their closed circles, for what they can.

Surayu seems to have neverending issues with the Thais.

Berkshire, here you are again with your very local savviness!

What can i do about it? I just have an impelling feeling that tell me to act in a certain way rather than another, i am sure you would have gone hand in hand with them....

Don't be so negative toward life, it's bad for you, see any given new day as a gift and i am sure you will feel better too

Where do you live and is the wife an outcast like you ?

(i mean shunned in the village)

.....Robblok, i admit i am not out to make friends, especially if becoming friend of someone involve being a victim or making one, with that being said, if having some manners and respect/help others, without being afraid to tell whom is wrong that he's wrong, makes you a "outcast" as you wrote, well, be it.

I want no part in this krapp and doing what i believe it's right, if you or anybody else thinks i am wrong, please say so.

I dont know where you all come up with these Threads, in all my six years of visiting and living in Thailand, no one has ever urinated

Yep

[Taking tthis kind of action (electric fence) seems like a recipe for disaster, especially as you are the only falang in the village. It appears you already have a few locals offside, I think you might exacerbate the situation.

Thanks for the suggestion, i know what you mean.

There is a problem on how a "logic" discussion would go on between the locals, they regularly do meetings between the households (obviously i am never been invited to it, or made aware where or when they would take place, strangely everybody else always seems to knows everything, and i only observed them by chance in the past).

For instance, they would claim on how bad i am to not allow anyone into my land....but nobody mention the thefts i had, nobody out there that see or know anything about it (but they always knows whatever is happening into my home), if you put the question they either tell you that can't be a thai but someone coming from abroad (cambodian, burmese) and in this place they are all totally honest, or they don't seen it as a theft but as something they are magically entitled to.

I do offer what someone might need if they just ASK for it, but maybe "asking" is a way to losing face for a local and eventually take away all the fun of some bragging rights on how did they takes(steal) something, no jokes (unfortunately).

and you are naturally superior to them in all ways.

No i am not superior by any means, but i have some self respect and give respect to whom deserve it, for sure i wouldn't stretch myself to extreme lenghts to try to justify the crap coming out of someone else, only because they are the natives and so they are entitled -to the eyes of someone- to whatever hideous act they might come out with.....so how's the tea in the gulag this morning?

I don't think I have seen any Thais urinating in my garden... Maybe they're just trying to tell you something? To be fair, if I was Thai and you went around calling Thai people 'scummy individuals' I would sure as hell piss in your garden too! Psh!

Not sure if the dinamic of the events are that clear to you, it's not that all out of the blue one person decides to take an action, mine is a reaction to an event, if the event wouldn't have taken place, then there wouldn't be a reaction to it, got it now?

Edit: added the word "out"

I presume they urinate on your fence and not actually enter the garden. Get it wired up with some electricity (not too much) . Make a video, post it on youtube and share the link.

We do not have this in our hood.

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No sorry, he went deep into the garden, made sure he was in full view and despite being asked what he wanted and told to leave, offered a toilet, etc....he declined and showed a clear will to start a fight, he wasn't drunk and had many of his fellows primates looking at him on the neighbour land, they had something in mind methinks

Edit:

Been thinking about an electric fence for a while now and did some research into it, too busy with other stuff lately but that's something i will have to go for.

There is a video already, you can see from the body language that he's there to fight (quick movements, facial expression, etc)

Surayu.....maybe they just don't like you.

Yeah that might be a hint ...they like what i own though

As long as it's onto grass or a bush or tree where there's some sort of absorbency then fine, it's probably good. But not onto concrete/asphalt, because then it builds up and reeks.

I say we organize a TV event to get pissed then go by Surayu's and piss

It had rained quite a lot earlier, most of the land wasn't absorbing the water anymore.

Let me know if you can find enough revellers for the event, have you decided a name for it yet? Maybe "Cholera's Nostalgia" or something similar?

I think this must be a very localised local behaviour - very very localised..... maybe even down to the level of just the OP's garden.

I don't look much on neighbours's gardens, i am way too busy with my one to focus on other people properties, but my wild guess is that you are right GuessHouse

Bear in mind, this was not a random drunk, but a neighbour with whom i never had any sort of interaction before, probably living few blocks down the road and coming into my land from another neighbour which sides "my land", i believe he's older brother as they look very similar...

My idea of why this provocations are happening, have roots into the way these local people behave and i reported it in the past, to resume the concept in a few words, if you gave them something(money,food, whatever else) they will talk between them on how little the farang is giving them, if you give them nothing, then they would start saying how the farang is stingy and attached to his valuables, so, at this point, they might just be trying to start a confrontation, to find a way to be sure i would have to stay away from home and just depredating anything they could put their dirty hands into.....

Now i hope people would not start with the usual "yes but they are poor and have no other way to go on if they don't steal..." , no! there are tons of jobs around, i always have money available to any person willing to work, BUT these people are lazy to say the least and having to earn some money honestly is not even the last of their concerns, they must outsmart the foreigners with some tricks to just show up their innate superiority, always

Refuse to pay them...they will soon drift away to another farang household.

If this outstanding individual was on my paycheck, he would have been relieved from whatever position he would have been pretending to occupy sooner than he would realize....

I don't foul around my own garden or in public view of any passer by, i am also the only foreigner in the village....

At the land's office (Khom Tee-Deen , sorry for the spelling), they have a copy (or better to say the second original Chanote which is an exact copy of what the owner have) of the Chanote, not sure if they will give you access to them, this is Thailand and anything is possible.

Last time i went there, i just had a black and white photocopy of the Chanote belonging to a thai female citizen, i could have been anyone and they just gave me access without asking me for a proof of whom i was.....

I have traveled the world and seen some unusual habits here and there, but in all honestly, for sure the natives here take the first prize in having some of the scummiest individual you can meet on earth between them.

I know that no official statistics on this front have been published yet, but for what i can see in the everydays life, i have some fair ground to reinforce my personal opinions with any passing day.....

Will only leave one fridge operating.

If you have no need to keep the electricity on while you are away, i would just turn it all off from the main meter.

If on your return, your neighbour start complaining with you on why you did not left it on, that might give you a hint for solving this mistery...

There are so many different possibilities on why you are getting a higher bill.

It could be a rat biting the electric wires, a refrigerator having a faulty condition running up 24/7, a neighbour putting a bridge on your wires somewhere and even the electricity company scamming you, i still remember few years ago a newspaper publishing the group's picture of all the employees working at that particular branch, all of them involved in the meter's scam, nice memories....

Every electric appliance you own should tell you the consumption involved, sum them up and then calculate the cost, there are also "Smart" wireless electricity meters that you just hang on the wires coming out of your main meter and will be able to tell you if the main meter is giving you a wrong reading....http://www.mygreenlifestyle.co.uk/energy-savers/361-owl-wireless-electricity-monitorusb

Initially our e-mails were responded too but as of late (the last month) we have e-mailed on 4 seperate occasions to find out when delivery is expected and are getting no response.

Is this level of customer service normal?

No it's not normal, i am surprised they bothered to reply to your initial e-mails

I think this topic is very popular between the natives as well, more than once i overheard some thai conversations where at some point they would inevitably said something like "Pai Me Die"......

The language of love, kisses and licks in all the right places. Gets you almost anything

Tried that in 7/11 and it only got me arrested.

You should try that only inside the "licker's stores"...

The OP talks about having a wife.

After this, i would not make any sort of assumptions anymore, a case of wife+wife shouldn't surprise you either nowadays

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/301

Proactive thinking is one of the best methods to contrast these kind of inconveniences, together with visual recognization, a mugger, can usually be identified by his/her/hir/hes dirty hands, watch carefully...

Thanks. I assumed she was female as she talks about jewelry and accessories. Men dont wear that shit where I'm from.

Drefyus (Chief Inspector)

My dear collegue Drefyus, i dare to remind you, that real men only wear real perls and the OP might not belong to "where you come from"....have a nice day.

Doggie Doo (Mischief Inspector)

Don't smoke noodles