Foreigners beware! Big Oud's "smart van" is coming for you!

[swampdonkey]

Aside from the van+laptop=smart van ridiculousness, what - are they going to now randomly check foreigners? That'll be great for tourism....

Would not be the first time, did it only 2 - 3 years ago daily around Asoke


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[gunderhill]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

that a computer is used in the smart van to access the system. 

Incredible technology who would have thought  it, the mans a geniarse.

[Percy P]

19 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Aside from the van+laptop=smart van ridiculousness, what - are they going to now randomly check foreigners? That'll be great for tourism....

But so called tourists have brought this on themselves. Altogether my time in Thailand is about 30 years. Never had any immigration problems. 

[gunderhill]

19 hours ago, thequietman said:

This just in!

 

Thai Immigration have announced the NEW Sa-mart Bike. 

 

It's a first I tell ya. ????

Then theres the heads up display  model for  all round portability

[3421abc]

Just pathetic. Who is going to replace the teacher? Probably noone. Only losers here are the thai kids.

7 clowns posing w the catch of the day.. a teacher.

 

[Percy P]

19 hours ago, thequietman said:

This just in!

 

Thai Immigration have announced the NEW Sa-mart Bike. 

 

It's a first I tell ya. ????

 

19 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Aside from the van+laptop=smart van ridiculousness, what - are they going to now randomly check foreigners? That'll be great for tourism....

If your here legally no problem.

[Tanlic]

Donald Trump would call this Fake News.

 

You get stopped for a traffic check in the UK and the cops immediately know when you last went to the toilet.

 

In Australia they know if you were having a number 1 or number 2

Edited July 25, 2019 by Tanlic

[NightSky]

WARNING!

 

If you see this parked outside RUN god dammit..

 

 

 

[Tanlic]

2 minutes ago, Percy P said:

 

If your here legally no problem.

No it is a problem if you are with your family or alone and some cop stops you and everyone stops and stares as they do.

 

It's harassment and if they start checking and embarrassing tourists..........Not Good!!!!

[tigerfeet]

20 hours ago, CNXexpat said:

Thailand 4.0 ????

Don't know if it's me being behind the times but is it not possible to check your computer through your phone these days they are smart phones after all 

[Mavideol]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Big Oud's "smart van"

such a big name for something that simple....whoww soon they will claim they invented the gunpowder

[bluesofa]

3 minutes ago, NightSky said:

WARNING!

 

If you see this parked outside RUN god dammit..

 

Must be the brains behind all this.

[bluesofa]

3 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

such a big name for something that simple....whoww soon they will claim they invented the gunpowder

The big bang theory.

[Percy P]

20 hours ago, Creasy said:

A van with a laptop = a smart van

Had them in the UK for years. But no one ridicules them . 

[Percy P]

19 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Aside from the van+laptop=smart van ridiculousness, what - are they going to now randomly check foreigners? That'll be great for tourism....

Possibly,  No problem if your here legally. 

[Expat Tom]

I can't fault a country for wanting to control its boarders and people who enter and stay illegally. For some reason, this concept seems foreign to the USA. Maybe they can buy some smart vans from Thailand and hire some Thai immigrations officials to train them in their use. 

[Classic Ray]

Since by law all foreigners have to keep passport and work permit with them, why do the police need a computer? Just look at the documents and their status is clear. If they don’t have the documents, arrest and detain until clarified at the police station, where they also have a computer and maybe someone smart enough to operate it as well.

[Magenta408]

Nice welcoming message. A friendly welcoming message. This lot is always negative and derogatory - to keep their jobs of shaking money from dubious and misinformed tourists. 

[PerkinsCuthbert]

While it's enjoyable to ridicule the idiocy, there is a more sinister, serious side to these absurd antics. Little by little, and story by story, the impression is being deliberately sewn that foreigners are responsible for the woes of Thai society, while the real causes go unaddressed.

[Magenta408]

True. I do understand that there was a need for a massive hunt and purge of the illegals and the illegals and the illegals. It is important to maintain your borders and ensure that the people within that you have allowed in are not stabbing you in the back like so many NGOs now in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Clean house be be welcoming to those who entere legally.

[newatthis]

32 minutes ago, 3421abc said:

Just pathetic. Who is going to replace the teacher? Probably noone. Only losers here are the thai kids.

7 clowns posing w the catch of the day.. a teacher.

 

But those clowns are smarter than a school director who employs foreigners on overstay and without a work permit, aren't they?

[crazykopite]

And what will be the punishment for the school head as he or she must have known about the overstay.

[alzack]

Dim Wit van more like

Edited July 25, 2019 by alzack

[MekkOne]

Is not the laptop that makes the van smart, it's the stand for the laptop.

[digger70]

What's so Smart about that? The cops in Western countries Like Australia they having be using Laptops and gadget for more than 25 years .They drive on the Highway or other roads and put in you're Rego number and up comes Whatever you have done (or not)and if you got any Warrants /Tickets /fines /crimes/done drugs/or seen with the wrong people. If you check out ok they may not stop you.

[AverageBloke]

A prototype of next years model.

Edited July 25, 2019 by AverageBloke
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[CALSinCM]

Very very good.  Nice to see immigration nudging its way into the 21st century.  Otherwise they would need a few 18 wheelers driving around in a caravan carrying the tons and tons of paperwork we farangs submit every year.  However, I wouldn't doubt the van has a copying machine in the back so that once they start grilling a foreigner, who is no doubt a criminal, they can then make copies of all the foreigner's paperwork in triplicate and stamped with a box exactly 0.5 cm from the right margin and exactly 1.0 cm from the bottom margin that the foreigner must place they signature into, after which they can scan all said paper work along with photos taken on the spot, maybe even fingerprint, and place them into the computer.  Once the van fills with new paperwork they can then return to home base to pick up some more blank paper.  And on a good day, transport a bunch of criminal evil-doers to Immigration Detention Prison.

[Gonzo the Face]

21 hours ago, taichiplanet said:

looking forward to see what the smart cars and smart bikes look like!

...and out in the mountainous countryside they they use donkeys...  there they are called Smart Ass .

[Derek B]

Can you be forced to line up with your captors before the legal due process has been completed?

[elgenon]

Big Oud should be careful of all the publicity. I'm sure he wouldn't want to end up like Big Joke.

Don't get more attention than the General.