Tropicalevo

I am not sure how that helps to stop fraud. The only time that my wife's card was scammed, was after I had made an online booking for a flight. No physical card was involved. I only use the credit card online. For shopping, I always use cash.

Lived here for 24 years and both wife and I have Thai credit cards. Wife was scammed once. It was just after I booked a flight with SriLankan Airlines, for her to meet me in Colombo. (She had a larger credit limit just for flights.) Within 12 hours, the card's details were used to buy items in a number of shops in San Francisco. It was spotted and I got the transactions reversed.

So where the heck was the driver?

And the third party is???

Stopped using 'standard' post years ago. Very unreliable in terms of how long it took, as well as many letters/cards never arriving. Mind you, here on Samui is worse. There is no postman for our area. Not enough staff. Piles and piles of undelivered stuff sitting in the bay at the local office. 3 -4 feet high.

Looks like the driver did a good job on avoiding the tollbooths.

Many Thai men dye their hair - black. That is one reason as to why you do not see many grey-haired old men. One Thai guy that I have known for more than 20 years, always had black hair. Until Covid. His business died during Covid (his customers were all tourists). He needed to save his money to live so the dye jobs stopped. He now has a full head of white hair.

Deeper social issues are a main factor in many of Thailand's problems. Training and educating people on how to be responsible useful human beings starts in the home at an early age.

So not even a first 'offence'. How dumb is that.

And the young students are still in gaol without bail even though some have not been found guilty yet.

Nothing to do with making money from unused land then?

Your memory is good to a point, but your paraphrasing is inaccurate. I was not 'proud' at chucking them out. It was my job. And I did not 'direct' them onto their motorbikes. I was amazed. I could not believe it. And quite a few more 'stoned out of their heads' since then. It not not a resort, nor my property. Nice try at a misquote. Back to the drawing board?

When I die, I will be going to hell. I have worked hard for that one. Sadly, wifey will not be there. She was an angel. PS if it is full of weed smokers, I may ask for a transfer.

Crikey. Thais in Phuket must be well off then. Here on Samui there are 'professional' scavengers that go around all of the collection points separating the waste and selling it to the local recycling places. One guy working for me resigned as he could make more money scavenging (and scavenging was easier).

From the article

Well done to the lass and her boyfriend. Knights in shining armour v <deleted>es in no armour. I hope that there is no follow up against her and the boyfriend.

What lights? They don't even see them. Too busy looking at their phones.

A very patient lady.

Thailand has missed the 'reality' songteow. It is the curriculum that needs changing, not the hours or location. More hours/less hours, it makes no difference if the quality is not there. This is not a five minute fix and it needs to be driven by educators, not accountants. eg Boeing! Also, remote lessons only work if the child has the facilities and the 'will to learn'. Not some thing that every Thai child has. eg the article where the kid had to build a sala in the middle of a field in order to get a wifi signal. (Article in AN during Covid.)

I hope that the dogs are OK. It is not their fault that some craappy human abandoned them.

Recreational cannabis is a problem. Having to deal with stoned guests is a real PITA. It is bad enough having to check them out of the villas, but then when I see them getting on a scooter or into a car and driving off - that is a real danger to innocent people. And before we get the distractors, in more than 20 years in the hospitality business, I have never had a problem with a drunk guest.

. The voting population figured it out perfectly. (They get paid even in local elections, except there it is cash in hand.) They are just waiting to get the money. If they do not get the 10,000 baht, then the next election will be interesting.

BJ was also suspended by the Junta and removed as head of Immigration. (He wanted an investigation into the bidding for the biometric systems that were eventually installed. Said that there was corruption in the bidding process.) Immigration has gone downhill since then.

Or perhaps Thailand is correct. Look after your citizens first, expats and tourists second.

WTF?