radiochaser

I would say that the 30 days starts from the date stamped into your passport. So don't forget to check the date stamped, before you leave the immigration counter to be sure you will have 30 days stay in Thailand, before you leave I once flew into Thailand and had a ticket to depart 28 days after I arrived. I had evidence of this with my round trip ticket itinerary and boarding passes when I boarded the aircraft to Thailand from the United States and the boarding pass for the day of my arrival, when I boarded the aircraft in Japan. What I found out when I went to the airport was, the date stamped in my passport had me arriving before I entered Thailand, making me 3 days overstay when I was leaving. Even when I showed them the travel itinerary, showing my arrival date, the boarding pass from Japan date, etc, I had to pay 1500 baht for 3 days overstay!

He doth not!

Get over what?

I think I know who you are writing about. The last picture I saw of him, he had lost a lot of weight, was skinny, and looked to be in poor health. I am an old fart in my early 70's and I looked to be in better health than he did in the picture!

I like that. It has a nice shape and good form with a tall U opening to help prevent projectiles from hitting the thumb placed at the bottom of the U. The elastic bands look a little weak but that is easily solved so is of little issue. Did you find this picture on the internet or did you buy one?

I understand that you may not grasp such things. From what I have been reading about the UK, you are, almost, not allowed to have a knife longer than 3 inches if that, when outside your house, much less being legally allowed to carry a concealed firearm. But rest assured, so few people actually know how in depth a background investigation is for a security clearance, for Top Secret security clearances, they think that a background investigation for a concealed carry handgun is a real back ground investigation. It is not and neither would a background investigation for a visa be either. And that is my point of my posted comment and analogy. I still do occasional contract work for the government, as a federal agent, even though I am retired. I still have to maintain a moral character and non-criminal life that is required of that work (even though there are certain people who are more equal than others and they don't). There is no way that either the CCP investigation or a background investigation for a visa can compare to the investigations that I have gone through, yet, there are those that want me to apply to a local law enforcement agency to get a "criminal background investigation" just so I can travel to Thailand. Just think of the visa background investigation as playing in a kiddie pool that is 6 inches deep, compared to the one I went through, as deep sea diving to 14,000 feet below the surface of the ocean.

Obviously, if an application for a visa, requires a background investigation, then I would have to contact a relevant law enforcement agency for one. But, do I need to apply for a background check merely because someone says we should, when there is no requirement. It's sort of like applying for a concealed carry handgun permit (CCP) locally, which requires a background check, and the CCP is issued after a two week wait. All it required was birth date, place of birth, drivers license and current address. What kind of investigation is done? As a Federal Agent, who had an extensive back ground investigation, where I had to provide a list of every job I held, how long I worked there, every address I lived at and how long at that address, name of father and mother, their birth dates, if alive, where they lived, if married who I was married to, when I graduated from high school and where, and much more! Damn form was 36 pages long and the background investigation the first time was only 6 months because it was during a war, but there were two FBI agents whose only job was to investigate me, for those 6 months. Second time, the investigation was 18 months, because it was done by one FBI agent! Third investigation was 2 years and 9 months, because I married a woman from Thailand! Yet, someone, malibu kid wants every one that wants to go to Thailand to have a background investigation. Just how thorough will that investigation be? And has malibu kid ever had any kind of back ground investigation?

I could be wrong about the location and access, because I was never there, but the U.S. of A. had a work site at Chicksands RAF base and I think Brits worked there too.

Nah! That's British stuff I think. NSA is the way! Top Secret / SCI.

I thank you.

Yes. In the U.S. of A. Don't be mean. My Samsung might cry! P.S. Life is going forward well. Needing an iphone to have a good life ... what does that say about you?

As someone has already commented, that ain't no flea. Some of my childhood and teen years was spent growing up in the south. There were two boys I remember, at two different places I lived, that would pick fat dog ticks off of dogs ... and eat them! It's easy to tell, who the strange kids are, and stay away from them!

What brand? I want to buy some! Yes, an off topic response!

Thais in pickups with bins full of water? That was done back in 1973. I was there!

I am a retired federal agent of the government of the U.S. of A. and worked with a once, little known part of a military intelligence collection agency.. I have had three background investigations that involved multiple face to face interviews of the people I worked with, my neighbors, my relatives, and queries to local law enforcement agencies. All because I either had access to, worked with, intel that was some of the most sensitive material of the military or NSA, or generated cryptographic materials and intel. Every five years, agents were again sent around to question fellow employees, neighbors and relatives to keep my security clearances active. I didn't even need to commit a crime to lose my clearance. 5 moving violation traffic tickets or other moral factors would have caused my clearance to be pulled and I would lose my job. Do I need a background check before I go to Thailand??? More to the point, did you have a background criminal investigation before you went to Thailand? If so, how extensive was your background investigation?

Last year at the mall across the street from the condo, the battery in my Samsung popped out all by itself! I had just bought a screen protector and watched it put on. When the cell phone was given back to me it felt warm then got warmer. The phone split apart as I walked out the nearest exit thinking the damn thing was going to explode, catch fire, or both! With me hoping it didn't like those youtube video's I saw! My cell phone died a hot death by expanding battery!

Who knows where it's going? Not I. Does it matter? Google, Microsoft, apple, opm.gov? They all have my life history someplace! It's that black web that worries me. They have it all too!

Something like that. All my contacts, pictures, documents, etc were downloaded from someplace onto my new Samsung android phone in the U.S. of A., after the old one crapped out in Thailand last year.

Reading the news story, it seems two pistols are involved. Two gun shells (expended cartridge cases) collected at the incident scene, suggests a semi-auto pistol, either 9mm or .45 caliber. Then at the alleged suicide location police collected a .38 caliber revolver. Revolvers do not eject cartridge cases!

I read the mortgage/sales contract the Title Search Company (in the U.S. of A.) gave me. She told me that in the 13 years she owned the company, I was the first that she could remember that read the entire contract. Usually, she would put a contract in front of the buyer, tell them, initial here, here, here, here, sign here, here, here, here and they did. I bought the house at $240,000.00 in 1991. Six years later I moved to a different state, rented the house and bought a second house. When I visited the first house to be sure maintenance was being done, Steve, the neighbor across the street came over and told me that he had refinanced his house at 125% of the then market value which was about $325,000.00 or $350,000.00, don't remember which, with an 11.5% interest rate. Steve also said he thought the interest rate was going to be 9%. He then gave me advice on how to buy homes and sell them. What I owed on both my homes was less than his one home and my interest rate was less than his too. Later I found out that Steve put his house up for sale and found out he had a 10% prepayment penalty to pay off his mortgage. I don't think Steve read his contract. I am sure the interest rate and prepayment penalty information was in it! I worked a short time for a security company that falsified the times they checked doors and buildings when they never did. I quit after finding out if you did what you were supposed to do, you know, actually drive to all the building you were supposed to be checking, you could not do it in the 8 hours of your shift. I told the supervisor I was not going to lie about doing the job. Later I heard the company was sued by some of it's customers. People were stealing from the customers at the times the security company employees wrote they had checked the building and nothing was wrong.

I didn't know that Lake Pontchartrain had a seawall. I had to look that up on the www. I saw a reference to a seawall along Lakeshore drive. Is that the one you wrote about?

Wow! 1000 baht a day. That is about the average that I spend on my self, when I am in Thailand. I really hated it when my ex-brother in law retired from the Royal Thai police and gave up his free apartment, where I stayed by myself. I only had to pay for electricity there. But it was very convenient to the MoChit BTS/MRT stations. Also convenient as it was closer to downtown than some other places. I only had to pay a few Baht on the bus to go to MoChit, then downtown on the BTS/MRT, depending on where I was going. No need for taxis to go where I wanted to. What the heck is a Scoopy? You don't buy anything from 7/11? Why pay for a tour? Family friends do that. I don't have a girlfriend.

That used to be done in the U.S. of A.. I have seen the Border Patrol enter busses looking for illegals and it was more than 100 kilometers from any border. When I was assisting U.S. Border Patrol this subject came up as well. I would not be surprised that the democrat party has stopped the activity of checking for illegals, here in the U.S. of A..

That happened to me on a bus from ... uuuhhhh (I forget the name), the city where my brother in law was living and working at, which was near the Lao border, and I traveled to Udon Thani. Thai police had a roadblock on the high way. They were checking peoples ID's. One came to my seat and said passport. I gave it to him he opened it up and gave it back in about 3 seconds. I think the only thing he did was to check if the picture looked like me. They did take 3 people of the bus though.

Flying through Europe means I will be on different flights that connect in two different countries in Europe. I will stay in the airport a few hours at a time before leaving on my next connecting flight. My travel is for the purpose of going to Thailand. Europe is not my destination. Even though I will not exit the airport, from what I read, I may need a transit visa for the second stop in Europe. Last year, I and other family members flew to Thailand and we had to extend our stay there for a week before we left on our return flight. Our return departure date was past 30 days. I forget how many days it was. Two or three other times in the past I have also had to extend my stay before I left on my return ticket to home, because my return flight was more than 30 days after my arrival in Thailand. I have had no problem with that, so far. One time before when I flew to Thailand, my first stop was in Germany. What I found odd was that I needed to go through immigration just to go from my arrival gate at the airport to the gate from which I departed the airport to continue my travel to Thailand. I think I may have gone the wrong way through the airport and left the international travel part, and walked into the domestic travel part of the airport. I actually left the airport building for a few minutes too. When I reentered the reentered the airport I received a second stamp in my passport before I had to go through security again. It was after questioning the German official that first stamped my passport, I understood that I could actually leave the airport, so I did. I walked around outside for a short time, then decided it was nothing special and went back into the airport proper again. But I have had no trouble with the issue of my departure from Thailand being more than 30 days after my arrival there. I did, however, have a problem leaving Thailand one time. My wife booked me a round trip ticket, leaving 28 days after my arrival in Thailand. When I went through immigrations they said I had overstayed 3 days. I showed them my itinerary from the U.S. of A., and connecting in Japan which showed my scheduled arrival date and time, in Thailand was 28 days before, But the entry date stamped in my passport indicated that I had arrive 5 days before I actually did. I argued a little bit, then just paid the 1500 baht and continued through to my gate. I have since, tried to remember to check the date of the entry stamp since then.