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Of course he said that. It's what he gets paid to do!

That happened back in late 1972 I think. A guy's teelock hit him in the head with his bong. Lots of blood that night, a trip to the medical clinic, some stitches by the medics, a big bump on his head the next day. I either don't know or don't remember why she hit him. I do remember the blood trail from the front gate all the way to the medical clinic though. He must have been leaning forward as he walked to leave a trail like that!

It was as I wrote it.

My Thai wife says the mother is a greedy woman who dumped her daughter when the daughter was young and only went back into her daughters life when her daughter started making money!

I also loaned my wife $120,000.00 to start a restaurant. She insisted that I draw up a loan contract. Contract stated that two years after she received the loan, she was to start payments of $1000.00 a month until the loan was paid off. Instead of waiting two years to start the $1000.00 a month payments, she started making payments one year later. At the end of two years I gave her a "Paid In Full" receipt for the $120,000.00 loan. She paid every penny of the loan back! That isn't what Thai people do, according to once Thai Visa and currently Asian Now, comments about Thai people. Now, would I loan my sister, an American woman, money? No! Not her or the American guy that used to be my best friend. They took the loaned money and never made a penny of payment! There is a friend of my Thai wife's family, that is trusted to handle family money. Wife gave her $20,000.00 to deposit into a family bank account, for some reason there was extra money deposited with the 20k. Seems that I left over $500.00 at the apartment, laying on the dining table. She deposited that with the with the money my wife gave her! It must not be Thai's that are untrustworthy. It must be the people that you know who are or are not trustworthy!

Mom ..?

I gave my wife the combination to the safe. For some reason, she still asks me to open it!

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.