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I can't speak for every country but the UK certainly supplies emergency travel documents in such cases as the OP describes, and within 24 hours.

I agree with others here - zero sympathy; if you didn't know the correct procedure to keep yourself legal after your passport was stolen, the necessary information could have been obtained in five minutes.

a taxi minimum fare in bkk is always cheaper than a mobike taxi for a short hop ,they usually want 40-50 for the same short hop. i always end up using the taxi for a short hop

Certainly not so where I live. In fact, the motosai guys are alarmingly cheap.

I just checked the distance on google maps and from my house to a point 1.9km away is 15b.

I agree. Anyone who pays taxi rates or more for a mo'sai needs to hone their negotiating skills. Of course there are many riders who see the farang coming and try to take advantage. Such is and always has been Asia.

Call it a carriage, a coach, a passenger wagon or a train sleeper...but not a bogie.

This is a bogie!

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Quite so, unless they are referring to female Thai nose-pickers.

How do the royal Boys in Brown recognise a "Devastated World Cup Gambler"? Might they not mistake a "Distressed Drunken Farang", or a "Disorientated Pothole Victim" for one?

Do they have meters to detect such conditions? We should be told.

I think they want to tap the organ donor destitution they use on the poor Chinese here.

Maybe they will start with the organ beween your legs

What is "organ destitution" anyway? Perhaps they have already "destituted" the organ between his ears.

1,390,510,630. China’s population makes up around 19.3% of the world’s population and they want the freedom to come for as long as they like. Give them a chance and it will be like getting cancer Thailand.

Perhaps you could point to the passage in the Nation article relating to your above assertion: "...come for as long as they like"?

The old "Yellow Peril" card is always a good catch-all one to play.

I'm a Master Mystic and have been investigating the Unknown since 1964. If Soul is real and exist eternally, then your soul possibly could exist before you were born this incarnation and after your material body dies, so if this is fact, then where does your soul go, or where is your soul at during the time after you die and are reborn?

Posession could be from a earth-bound soul, stuck between two dimensions (earth and the hereafter), or a very negative low vibration entity could be entering the person. As far as earth-bound souls are concerned, I exercised on in Anderson Indiana that died in a underground railroad basement, by using a certain mystical practical application taught in the Mystery Schools.

At the risk of sounding cynical, may I venture a couple of questions?:

What is a "Master Mystic" and what are "Mystery Schools"? These seem to be very generic terms.

A one-month French course in Vichy. An ironic choice of venue, given events that transpired in WWII.

There is nothing wrong with a little parsimony when dealing with Thai girlfriends. It is part of their learning process to disabuse themselves of the notion that all farangs are King Midas reincarnate.

I recommend at least an initial six-month frugality regime for foreign males entering a relationship in Thailand. Besides making a welcome saving in hard-earned cash, it is also instructive to your lady friend as to who is wearing the jodhpurs in the relationship.

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It's unfortunate that bureaucrats and politicians feel the need to make knee-jerk responses in the wake of tragedy, often with unintended consequences. They are usually to placate public opinion and be seen to be 'doing' something about the problem, in reality rarely addressing the cause directly.

Apropos the OP's question, has anyone investigated the availability of palliative care - hospices etc - in Thailand?

Even with low-rise buses that have electric ramps to assist loading of wheelchairs, I imagine Bangkok, with its uneven road surfaces, its variable-height pavements and its potholes, would not be an easy place to use them.

While they are at it, clear all the disused phone booths, etc. that are blocking the footpaths and install ramps at intersections. Bangkok is the worst city I have ever seen for being non-friendly for wheelchair users.

You have clearly never been to Manila, Jakarta, Phnom Penh or HCM City, to name but a few.

Joke? โจก - with a raw egg beaten in. As for fruit juices and smoothies - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/07/smoothies-fruit-juices-new-health-risk

Oh boy, meat for the grinder!

I sure hope the military junta don't bog itself down with Bangkok traffic management problems during its hopeful limited time in power. Instead, let them focus on BIG problems affecting the "entire population/country" which can be quickly solved or at least pointed in a new direction.

Like it or not, Bangkok's traffic problems have a huge impact on the Thai economy. Greater Bangkok accounts for nearly forty-five percent of the country's GDP. An efficient urban transport system would be an enormous benefit not only to the city but to Thailand as a whole. It IS a BIG problem.

Yeap, its a big problem for Bangkok. But that GDP you a stating for the Great Bangkok area (got a source?) is only partially tied to transportation. And I expect much of that GDP is factory output dealing with heavy transport by large trucks, rail, barge, etc. This article is basically talking people transport via bus, tax, motorcycle.

NESDB (National Economic and Social Development Board), 2012, pp. 26, 39–40, 48–49, 62–63, 218–219: http://eng.nesdb.go.th/Default.aspx?tabid=36

The impact of poor traffic management and infrastructure on the economy in any capital city is enormous, in terms of man-hours wasted, inefficiencies, wastage.

Only in a few cases, and for very short periods, has the political will in Thailand been favourable to any serious and long term planning, and even that has been half-hearted and piecemeal. While not wishing to put too fine a point on it, contrast this with a city like Shanghai, where population and economic growth in the past two decades has been exponential but infrastructure has largely kept pace. Yes, I am aware of the abuses and policy downsides in China, but Thailand's performance in this respect has, by contrast, been abysmal.

Without going into your standing in the community, there is also this to consider if you do take the 'job' without having a WP: if you cross swords with a local and they are aware that you are teaching illegally, they could make life very uncomfortable for you.

Anybody who knows better can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that, even for voluntary, unpaid work, a work permit is required in Thailand, so despite assurances from the headmaster, you would be putting yourself on the wrong side of the law, and all that that implies, if you take the 'job'.