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Big Joke is rightfully going for the throat at Immigration as he was deliberately dumped on in the past when trying to do a decent job of getting many of these Corrupt and Lazy Officers out of the Service or actually 'working' for a living. 

They thought they had got rid of him for good but he is having the last laugh !

No worries; he will just transfer the Business to a Relative or Friend, even 'dead friends' are used as excuses for wrongdoing here !

Amazing how Thai's can be 'Masterminds' when it comes anything Illegal but are dumb as bricks when it comes to actually 'working' and doing a decent job for a decent days pay !

RIP those lost.   Never known a Country where so many people fall asleep at the wheel !

No worries; any bad news will be 'rectifed' by the Thai's and before you know it everything will be 'booming' !

So; the 'Crackdown' started on Thursday and finished on Friday.    Sounds about normal for Crackdowns here !

Easy answer would be crush all the siezed Bikes that the Rental Companies hired out to Unlicensed Riders; that would stop it happening again pretty quickly.   However; this is Thailand, where a Brown Envelope fixes everything !

5 hours ago, IamNoone88 said:

Fifteen rental motorbikes were seized and legal action will be taken against motorbike rental operators for allowing drivers with no driving license to rent motorbikes.

 

....... At last they are going after the operators as well ... no license - no rent! Perfect.

Just another way for the RTP to collect a load of money for their 'Central Fund' and then back to normal again !

25 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

If you get a penalty notice through the post, how do they know your address?  I bought my car 8 years ago and have moved addresses 5 times since then, including a move to a new province.  There doesn't seem to be any requirement to update the address in the blue book when renewing the tax.  Is this something I should have done?

If you are Farang and you haven't notified your address changes you have broken the Law but if they had 'connected' Government Computers System Immigration records would have shown your address changes and therefore the Vehicle Licencing Authority should have contacted you.   However; knowing that Computer Systems here seem to be archaic at best they wouldn't know if you were in Bangkok or Timbucktoo !

It will just add to the hundreds of thousands that have no Tax already.   Last week i walked along a row of Motorbikes with at least 50% of them untaxed or showing Discs that were two/three years out of date.  Cops could do the same but not interested as no money in it for them !

24 minutes ago, Wongkitlo said:

I am convinced that Thai Coca Cola, Schweppes  etc have more sugar added than if you buy them in Western countries. 

The avearge bottle of Coke and most other sugary fizz drinks have seven teaspoons full of sugar in them.  You only have to look around the Parks, Playgrounds and the Streets to see how many bottles of this muck the Thai's drink !

On 2/1/2023 at 6:38 PM, scubascuba3 said:

too busy working 7 days a week

That's the Women.  Huge numbers of so called 'Men' are doing as little as possible except drinking Beer and Smoking whilst watching Millions of Burmese and Cambodians doing the jobs they should be doing !

On 2/7/2023 at 9:24 AM, vandeventer said:

Maybe it's time to stick our money under our mattress again as the banks are losing the war on crooks.

Because the majority of the Crooks work in the Banks !

9 hours ago, Artisi said:

Don’t want to run the poor guy down, but sounds like he shouldn't be allowed to dress himself each morning. 

Maybe she promised him she would not only remove his Pants every evening but put them back on in the morning !!

5 hours ago, marcusb said:

What I find funny is the split. 

27,000 divided by 5-7 cops, plus a big tip for taxi driver.  They temporarily messed up their lives and careers for what,  4000 baht each?  What a joke. 

4,000 every few nights is great when they can keep doing it and we know they do; that's why many Cops live in big Houses and have big Cars and Bikes etc etc.   Corruption is so deeply ingrained in their psyche it is almost impossible to stop it.  Furthermore; they don't give a hoot what Prayut or anyone else thinks or says and only stop when they are caught red handed and they also know that any 'Punishment' will be trivial !

On 1/26/2023 at 9:35 AM, Eric Loh said:

Where is the police reform that was promised by the current prime minister. 

Same place as all his other 'PROMISES'....in the bin !

8 hours ago, thaikahuna said:

When is the government going to wake up and regulate this business?

Will never happen until someone 'Important' dies; mainly because there is no money in Road Safety !

19 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Personally I can't stand those places.   It's a lot of work cooking your own food that's probably just a little over jail quality.

 

I think it's more of a Thai thing being more social than quality. 

At least in Jail someone else has to cook it !

On 1/21/2023 at 6:16 AM, hotchilli said:

 

A tad embarrassing one would say... corruption in the farce is strong.

Corruption IS the force !

5 hours ago, Surasak said:

All so true. The thing which annoys me more, is the change from any purchase is always handed to my wife or the Thai person I am with.

That can be a blessing as they have the terrible habit of putting coins on top of your notes which then end up all over the floor as you are wrestling with the other hand full of goods/bags etc.   They just can't do things properly !