OnTheRun

2 hours ago, Lowryderen said:

If you mean the notification of stay (where you have to register your adress,  after entering Thailand again,  for example after a visa run)... Then yes..  It should be,  and is free of charge.

Does anybody actually go to immigration to tell them where theyre staying upon returning to the Kingdom? 

11 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

"Daily News called them a "nasty black skinned gang" in their headline."

 

Thailand 4.0.

 

 

What are they meant to call them? Things get lost in translation so probs not exacly what was originally written. Me? I'd call them dirty rip off African bastards and if anyone objects stick yer PC <deleted> where the sun dont shine.

About time, it is always annoying taking the airport link then having to queue for onward tickets at Paya Thai MRT.

1 hour ago, graemeaylward said:

Anyone who has any doubts about the abhorrent offence of using or trafficking in minors for sexual purposes would do well to watch the 3 one hour drama, documentary "Three Girls" which was shown over 3 consecutive nights on BBC this week. This was a harrowing account of the abuse of young girls in the Rochdale UK area which took place over several years. In all there were hundreds of victims, and terrible failures by the authorities to stop this terrible crime.

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Terrible failures? You mean police telling victims not to mention that Asian males were the perps? Or in Rotherham the local MP being told by Ken Livinstone to drop it in a bid to protect another Asian gang . These people are as guilty as those that commit the crimes.

36 minutes ago, BangkokNicky said:

Well gone by now ... Plus looks like a Australian on the cctv ..

Looks more like Roy Keane to me. 

1 hour ago, rkidlad said:

'The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society has clarified that social media users were still free to “like” or share posts as long as they respected other people’s rights'

 

What rights? The right to not be offended? My god, you'll have a society of children who are terrified to say anything. 

 

Seems to me that if you wanna go down this road, you'll have to support the poor with legal aid. This way, everyone who has their feelings hurt, can take the other person to court. We wouldn't just want the rich people suing. 

 

I hope this is a sign of backtracking. 

"The right to not be offended". The west chose that route a while back, the offended bus has been rammed for a long time now.

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

Never stand under a load ,that a crane is attempting to lift.

regards  worgeordie

One of the most basic rules of safety during crane operations, knowing the capacity of the plant you are operating is an even more fundamental rule. 

I've mentioned this before on a similar thread. One of the main reasons, if not the major reason, that western companies really tightened up on HSE was when governments introduced corporate manslaughter charges that made company executives liable to prosecution. Hopefully one day Thailand and other countries in the region will adopt a similar policy. 

21 hours ago, hocuspocus said:

I was going to wire my own new house, then I read about the new electrical regulations so I decided that I would have to hire a Thai electrician but will it be any safer if a Thai electrician does the work? Probably less safe.

I'd suggest you supervise him closely. A friend from a while back was having a house built and he specified he wanted a proper earthing circuit. When he checked some wires at a socket point he found the electrician had just stuck about one meter of earthing cable in the hole to make it look like it was properly earthed. 

14 hours ago, ezzra said:

I'd venture an opinion that if tomorrow as if by magic, there will be no

booz or cigarettes and similar vices , the world will be a

better place to live in....

 

Yup, in an ideal world which this most certainly isn't, just look at prohibition in the US in the 1920's, what a rip roaring success that was........... for the likes of Al Capone etc.

Banning or putting the prices up to prohibitive levels on anything just creates a black market where the void is filled by criminals, and I include drugs in that statement. 

5 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

If he was really involved in a boiler room racket, it is most likely he came to Thailand without much money and got rich enough to buy the Porsche from criminal activities in Thailand. The ones who make the big money are the founders and organisers of the scams.  They recruit farang down and outs and train them up to do tele sales to marks in farang countries picked at random from any directories and lists they can get hold of.  The callers are trained to call with scripts that deal with all known objections put up by the marks and play on the greed and stupidity of the small percentage that don't smell a rat immediately and hang up.  The classic and original boiler scam is selling the marks traded on the pink lists in the US.  If you look into an online broker like Etrade, this look just like proper stocks traded on the NYSE or NASDAQ, except they have little or no volume but that will not be obvious to inexperienced traders.  Since there is no volume because these stocks are rarely traded, it is easy for the the gangsters to manipulate the shares any way they want by just buying a few shares at a time.  After recommending one of these stocks, they start pushing it up and keep calling the mark up, asking him to check the price until he gets in a complete funk worrying he is going to miss out on this gusher.  Since the mark has knowledge of how to trade stocks, he will be convinced that he has to open an account with a non-existent broker in order to get a private placement of the stock at a discount or some such.  He will hurriedly transfer his savings to to a bank account in Taiwan or somewhere (previously HSBC in Hong Kong) to open the fake account.  Then the money is transferred out and the account is closed down and he never hears from the same  boiler room again.   There are numerous variations of the scam including tree farms, football funds etc etc. 

 

Turf wars are common amongst boiler rooms, who fight each other to poach callers and lists of marks.  One of them was murdered in Bangkok a few years ago.  The suspect mastermind was his former partner in a boiler room.  The suspect, as US citizen was extradited by a US judge who must have thought that the evidence presented by the Thai government was convincing enough to extradite a US citizen to face the death penalty in Thailand.  But in the event he was aqcuitted by the Thai court. 

 

Thai authorities have historically tolerated the boiler rooms, as long as they only  target foreigners abroad or foreign expats in Thailand, don't encroach on the turf of local gangsters and wai local cops with sufficient respect.  When they are raided, they are usually only ever charged with immigration and work permit offences. 

And if, and I say if, he was involved in the above this is the reason why I, and a few others on this thread, wouldn't care tuppence about his demise.

Great news for me re Kota Kinabalu, that is if they can find it :-) I'm working here and have to use either Malaysian or Brunei. My last Malaysian flight home was 11 hours late, the one coming back this time was 1 1/2 hours late meaning I missed my connection in KLIA. 

If I never fly Malaysian Airlines again it will be too soon.

How can a doctor confirm they've been raped two weeks after the fact?

On 12/14/2016 at 11:39 AM, ChrisY1 said:

One of my biggest fears of driving here....hitting a motor bike and being in the wrong....

Even if it isn't your fault you'll be in the wrong mate. It happened to me a couple of years back, nightime, turning right at a busy intersection and a guy on a bike with no lights on drove across the junction and I hit him. Nobody was injured and just a small scratch on his bike but a crowd of people quickly formed, lucky the guy was ok and accepted 500 Baht for his stupidity and I left the scene as soon as I saw he was not hurt. 

This would appear to be a major shift in policy, Australia exporting instead of importing criminals.

18 hours ago, Cuchulainn said:

"She has to work to survive".

 

Yes, welcome to the real world.

Yup, as a ferang who has had to work to survive for 40+ years I can also testify to this daft Isaan bint, life isn't a bed of roses.

12 minutes ago, 1337markus said:

So it taking about an hour at Phuket. Compare the equivalent at Chiangi, Singapore I have cleared immigration many times on average in 3 minutes with a smile and free mouth freshening lozenge.  Why the difference, same process?

Agreed, I've cleared immigration and customs in Singapore from the plane to the taxi rank in 15 minutes. The last time I arrived international at HKT immigration took almost as long as the flight itself (from Singapore). In fairness to Thailand, KL is just as bad.

2 hours ago, hansnl said:

No, the man is a victim of the Dutch Public Prosecutors who wanted dearly to "get him" but could not, because he did nothing wrong legally.

So sent a request to Thailand asking for help, in such wordings probably the Thai prosecution could only do what they did.

The man is behind bars in Thailand because of a dirty game by the Dutch justice system.

Shameful behaviour of the Dutch justice system, again.

 

If that is the case I doubt he'll get any help from the Dutch authorities, Govt's rarely like to admit their people have screwed up as someone would have to be made accountable.

10 hours ago, elabuelo said:

With homegrown extremists plotting to blow up Bangkok, why waste police resources urine testing tourists?

Do you really need to be told mate? How much in the way of kick backs to be made chasing southern insurgents?

On ‎26‎/‎9‎/‎2016 at 2:49 PM, Basil B said:

Looking at the Photo... Brit??? maybe on a forged passport, did they check his freezer???

It looks like JP has tattoos aligning him to Celtic FC, I doubt he'd appreciate being referred to as a Brit.  :-)

6 hours ago, Xircal said:

Why on earth would Thai use an A350-900 long haul aircraft on such a short trip? It's no wonder they're in financial straits if that's an example of how they propose to utilise this type of aircraft.

 

It'll be interesting to see what the CVR and FDR reveal once they're published.

I think they use it on short haul initially to give pilots more landing / take off experience faster, for example BA used 777's on the London - Paris route when they received initial delivery back in the mid 90's.

14 hours ago, DeaconJohn said:

This is all about Malaysia and covering Najib's ass.

Yes, the seven hundred + million dollars that winged it's way into Najib's personal account that definitely wasn't 1MDB funds. The 'gift' from an unknown Saudi, prompted by Malaysia's assistance fighting ISIS despite the fact they haven't. 

9 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

Smartphone Footage Of Boat Capsiizing Near Wat Sanamchai In Ayuthaya.

 

The boat sank in a matter of seconds totally engulfing the lower deck, no surprise the death toll was so high, it was also travelling far to fast. RIP to those who perished.

7 minutes ago, Minnehaha said:

 

At the game last night ... 

were there any bad calls by the umpires?

any more than usual ?  just wondering if there were things to set them off...

Umpires :-)

"He said that the stolen money belong to the bank, not the customers, so GSB would demand compensation from the manufacturer of the machines. "

Had it belonged to customers the Thai Banks SOP is f you, nice to see the change in outlook when it's THEIR money.