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Excellent. TOTALLY agree! Too modest to mention them myself. 😉

May have something to with all the fraud they've encountered, easy to perpetrate in the digital age. Same reason they began to require the embassies to verify the income of farang getting income affirmations for their visa extensions. In Pattaya the very strict requirements keep the yellow book and pink cards away from all the riff raff. It's a big deal because those documents are official verification of identity. Best to be sure they're as accurate as possible.

Way to go. More specifically the yellow book behind the pink card.

Imagine you, a bunch of condescending older educated farts with more degrees than a thermometer being, like goldfish, unable to speak Thai well enough, and insufficiently knowledgeable about culture common to most Thais, to make trivial conversation with an uneducated Thai girl about the things that Thais are normally interested in. Who are her favorite singers, for example? You dunno. You were clearly out of your depth.

Against the spread of such egregiously bigoted nonsense the mods need to invoke the "disinformation" rule as they did so liberally during COVID. But perhaps some posters are privileged.

Maybe it was simply your own anal retentive attitude they reacted to. I'd really not have expected them to get going promptly at 7 and just made a little joke when they didn't, smiles all around. Waiting in Thailand is par for the course. You should have learned to roll with the flow by now. Been many years since I had an unpleasant interaction with a Thai. Oh, poor baby. 👉Expect the unexpected. Were you lying on the pavement bleeding out, m'lord? Say this: "Ouch!" Then get in the car and close the door. You ain't owed anything. Haven't had a good whinge thread since Monday's Inconceivably Inconvenient Shelves Restocking whinge. We'll see how long this one lasts.

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Life at the keyboard, posting fiction the morbid old Brits like to hear.

Additional compensation to the victims for pain & suffering. I hope they survive.

LOL. I seem to be on the few on the forum healthy and fit enough to need no meds, thank you. OH. It does NOT, in that narrow case.🙂 But YOU have determined it DOES apply when she hasn't expressed politely and gently--according to your standards of "class" and "control"--her mental distress and subsequent legitimate request for due compensation. Correct now? Hee. Now the concept of tort was broached in Gladstone's Commentaries and has been a branch of law for more than a hundred years. The Brit legal system, formerly ruled by men, was traditionally reluctant to recognize the concept for what they termed "women's maladies." After all, women do express their "maladies" vociferously at times, unlike tough guys such as yourself. Now the courts certainly do, however, in the UK and the USA, as suggested by the recent fine of 93 million imposed on a prominent figure in the US for crying claims of trauma over an imagined incident nearly 30 years ago with no hard evidence. Widely applauded here, BTW. In that case, perfectly understandable, LOL. Call her a drama queen if you like. 🙂 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events. --https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/overview/ Though you may have your womanly side, you don't really know how stressful it was for her to be suddenly kicked in the back at night by a big foreigner and cursed out, with possibly much worse to come. Clearly it was quite a shock. And you can't definitely say the event, and subsequent events, didn't cause lingering emotional distress for this lady that could be described as at least mild PTSD. Could she have nightmares? Not a far-fetched idea. Does she have the right to let a court decide the matter? She does. But your "class" and "control" would have her just suck it up as you would have, if kicked in the back in the dark by, say, Taylor Swift on public land in Hawaii. In reality your PTSD would have come on much, much sooner, LOL. Typically in such legal cases the plaintiff will put forth the "best" case. We see similar in claims for GoFundMe by all these Brits injured on their scooters. Nothing unusual here, really. Including Boomerang posts such as your own.

You get the copy of the passport validated and then find a translator either in or around the MFA or elsewhere (mine was in Pattaya) to handle the MFA's blessing and mail it to you. One gotcha is that you need to be sure the spelling of the name on the translation is exactly the same as the translation that appears on any previous official document, such as marriage certificate or land deed. Otherwise you'll need to get another translation or change the spelling on the other document. Thais are known for being consistently inconsistent in their transliterations, and so idea is that at last your name should have ONE official spelling.

But that's not the predicted scenario that fits the shrewd assured prophecy, you see. The bribes, including covert payment to the doc, would ensure that events didn't reach a certain publicity level and all would be buried and quickly forgotten. It would appear then that our smug experts were just full of cr*p as usual.

He'll pay up. He's certainly leaving, given that his visa has been canceled. Banned? Probably not indefinitely. Big question for our shrewdest members, blowing more of the usual hot air, is: when's them bribes gon' to kick in? You know, the bribes smugly and authoritatively predicted to bury the whole case as all quickly returned to normal, WOT??? We may have (cough) a credibility problem here.

Bob? Of course.

Or they really do feel what they feel. Simple as that.

As would any Brit if possible under similar circumstances. She should get all she can out of this pr*ck. She probably IS stressed. It was quite a shock. Docs aren't the bar girls you're accustomed to.

Let's see. Sitting on some stairs watching the night sky on the beach isn't "classy." Resenting being suddenly kicked in the back by an big arrogant Swiss nutter shows no class or control. If YOU were kicked in the back then you'd just wai and slink away. Seems the ANF Poster Boomerang Principle applies: it's actually the poster himself who lacks class and control. Class is sitting on a bar stool.

Is it necessary to suffer a haematoma before common sense tells you that a kick in the back is actually a kick in the back and not a "shove?" LOL.

Actually just posters milking it to reinforce ignorant Thai stereotypes and have an enjoyable bash.

Oh, that makes ALL the difference. We don't like Chinese.

Perhaps it makes a difference if it isn't YOUR violent assault causing your own injuries?

Photocopy of TM.6 Departure Card if you have that. Jomtien also wanted a photocopy of the middle pages of my passport, first time for that. However, the IO made a copy for me to sign. Also the Terms & Conditions and Overstay Penalties forms if you have those. You can download them here: https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/downloads_en/ Scan, fill in your computer, then change the date as needed and run off copies yearly. You can stop your bank in the morning on the way to Immigration to update your bank book and get the bank letter. Ask the bank to provide you w/ a copy of that updated last page. Don't forget to sign it. Pensioners: save money by using the bank's pen.

Never needed a TM.30, use a copy of my pink card. Yellow book will also do nicely.

Do that. And let him know that he may shop in other areas of the store and return later to area in question. Or if it's an urgent need for, say, toilet paper, he may request staff to fetch him a few rolls. Sorted!

In Pattaya it's always started on the 11th in the bar areas. It does always stop on the 19th, or rather the 20th in the wee hours. In recent years it hasn't been bad at all outside the bar areas. But you may always encounter exceptions.