Happy New Year....immigration swoop on 83 year old Brit on 4,929 day overstay

[Ramen087]

3 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Yes  monitor person,

I was asking questions, if you make suggestions you should be able to define the outcomes.

I have no idea how many illegal over 80 year old there are, do you?

 

Set precendents expect the unexpected

 

Monitor person? Here I am, stung by your rapier wit.  I did define the outcome in my reply.  There aren’t a lot, but my guess 13.  Have a nice life.  

[Aussiepeter]

Oh - and for those who want to know about his health. If he ever needed to see a Doctor, old David went to Mae Taeng hospital and the lovely old lady there, who knew his wife and also his financial situation, would see him but put it on his Thai wife's medical record. Which is why in future years when someone looks at those records, they will see that in 2003 MRS Gaewboonrung Smith had a small cyst removed, from her left testicle. Not all Thais in government jobs are insincere - many are very caring folk. (David assumed anyone reading the records would perhaps think he had  married a ladyboy) !

[Odysseus123]

Just now, Aussiepeter said:

Oh - and for those who want to know about his health. If he ever needed to see a Doctor, old David went to Mae Taeng hospital and the lovely old lady there, who knew his wife and also his financial situation, would see him but put it on his Thai wife's medical record. Which is why in future years when someone looks at those records, they will see that in 2003 MRS Gaewboonrung Smith had a small cyst removed, from her left testicle. Not all Thais in government jobs are insincere - many are very caring folk. (David assumed anyone reading the records would perhaps think he had  married a ladyboy) !

Ah yes.. thank you OZZIE peter.

 

 

[spiekerjozef]

1 hour ago, GeorgeCross said:

if he dies in IDC this WILL be a diplomatic incident, expect the UK press and (subsequently) the Foreign Office to be all over this.

 

 

You mean they sort it out as quick as they did the brexit?

[Neeranam]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

hmmmm .... 83 and will be going back,  it won't be a very nice home coming.

I expect he has nothing except the OAP

Why do you expect that?

[Odysseus123]

2 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

That is a dinner party story , good one

So it is..

[Andrew65]

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

How pathetic coming out with a comment like... Got to rid Thailand of criminal elements and foster peace and stability in the Kingdom.????

Silly bug++r is just a long time overstayer, criminal, seriously!!!

Overstaying & illegal entry are criminal offences in Thailand, whether we like it or not. In fact Thailand ain't that different to many other countries in that regard. Do the same thing in Australia and you could end up on Christmas Island (there are/were Kiwi nationals there). I'm not picking on Oz, just that that's an example. 

 

 

[Dustdevil]

22 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

Well..I couldn't give a flying squirrel about Poty under the very best of circumstances.

 

However the English words are deflection,displacement and denial.

 

In this case it is displacement as it is immensely satisfying to kick an old age pensioner when he is down..makes you feel better..

Deceive, inveigle and obfuscate work well too.

[Neeranam]

27 minutes ago, natway09 said:

Thats the way boys, go catch the dangerous ones first

Does being old somehow make one not guilty?

 

 

[saminoz]

5 hours ago, colinneil said:

How pathetic coming out with a comment like... Got to rid Thailand of criminal elements and foster peace and stability in the Kingdom.????

Silly bug++r is just a long time overstayer, criminal, seriously!!!

How much money has he spent and how many Thai families has he heped to support during that time?

Get rid of this arch criminal immediately!

[Krataiboy]

He was handed over to the Hua Hin police for processing

 

Probably end up as a spicy sausage.

 

 

[Neeranam]

34 minutes ago, Aussiepeter said:

One of nature's real English gentlemen.

Illegal immigrant is what he was.

[Tracyb]

I hope I'm in good enough shape whem i'm 83 that it takes a swarm of people to swoop ME up if ever needed! 

[Dogmatix]

I wonder how many thousands of Thai criminals are overstaying in Europe, the US, Australia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan & etc. The UK should arrange a prisoner exchange and swap this gentleman with an illegal Thai waitress or prostitute without fine or incarceration.

[shy coconut]

4 hours ago, Sticky Wicket said:

"the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.”

a idiot ????????????

[mike787]

He looks like a serious threat to thailand.  They must feel so accomplished to catch this one.

[giddyup]

Can you imagine at 83 arriving at Heathrow in the middle of winter in shorts, T Shirt and thongs, with possibly no family or friends to take you in, but instead thrown into some depressing old folks home where you can spend your final days in misery. I think I'd be throwing myself of the highest floor they have at Swampy.

[saminoz]

4 hours ago, apalink_thailand said:

According to the letter of the law, it is a criminal offence to overstay a visa. I agree, its not a big deal in a case with an 83 year old retired man but the law applies to everyone, not just some. So pass the word. OVERSTAY is a CRIME in Thailand. 

Get over yourself!

Don't give these ridiculous tin pot soldiers any credibility!

If they were in the tiniest bit professional, they would have caught him about 12 years earlier, if he were really any risk at all, wouldn't they?

Jeez, you people who empower these power-mad half-wits drive me to distraction.

[Golden Triangle]

2 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Much more likely that he's not an Alzheimer sufferer but, even if he is, are they exempt from the visa regs?

 

You're asking about compassion but there is no indication that the IOs are not being compassionate.  He's been arrested, yes (what else would they be expected to do?) but that doesn't mean that no compassion has been shown subsequently.

If the way Pattaya plod treated that 70/80 year old in their reception area is anything to go by then then any chances of compassion being shown are 0% - or did you miss that little gem ? 

[saminoz]

3 hours ago, Old Croc said:

Have you ever considered that I understood what you thought was a joke, but didn't find it funny?

Do you think I asked why you wanted to know my age just so you could amuse yourself with a silly answer?

If you don't have an answer to my question, don't expect respect next time you ask something.

..grumpy old man!  lol

[Chongalulu]

13 years usually heralds some sort of long service award. Perhaps one of Prawit's dead friend's watches in a photo opportunity ceremony? 

[Just Weird]

5 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

If the way Pattaya plod treated that 70/80 year old in their reception area is anything to go by then then any chances of compassion being shown are 0% - or did you miss that little gem ? 

How about this little gem?  This man is in Hua Hin, not Pattaya and he was arrested by Immigration officers, not Pattaya police so what you quoted is nothing to go by.

[Mister Fixit]

42 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Thank you for the comprehensive explanation, totally different from  civilain parachute training for recreational jumps. New knowledge

Iam sure I am not the only one unaware of this process   

I have to say that the training we had at the para school was some of the best, most professional training I have ever had.  

It was also one of the best two weeks I spent in my entire life.  It was 1973 and I had just turned 24.

From a disparate bunch of part time Marines, paras, combat engineers and SAS with all the inter-corp rivalry, within 4 or 5 days the instructors made us into a highly cohesive bunch who would have done anything for each other.  The true meaning of esprit de corps.

It was also nice to think we came out of it alive!

Here's a snap of my stick with our instructor, a brilliant chap.  I'm the good looking one.  

 

[Neeranam]

13 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Can you imagine at 83 arriving at Heathrow in the middle of winter in shorts, T Shirt and thongs, with possibly no family or friends to take you in, but instead thrown into some depressing old folks home where you can spend your final days in misery. I think I'd be throwing myself of the highest floor they have at Swampy.

Indeed, what a thought. 

 

He should have thought ahead.

 

Cases like this were the reason I decided to get Thai citizenship. 

 

Some here have this Colonial attitude that think they have some kind of right to stay here for a long time, while their only contributing to Thailand is maybe by helping a Northeastern buffalo vet.

 

Stop moaning about immigration laws and do what needs to be done to comply, it isn't that hard. 

I have a neighbor in a similar position, he sits at home all day moaning about the weather, politics etc, can't even speak to his neighbours as in his 49 years here he thinks Thais should learn English!

[Traubert]

4 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

If the way Pattaya plod treated that 70/80 year old in their reception area is anything to go by then then any chances of compassion being shown are 0% - or did you miss that little gem ? 

It all ended happily as far as I remember.

 

The assumptions made so far without the slightest evidence:

 

1. He's got Alzheimers

2. He's going to die in IDC

3. He's penniless

4. He's harmless

5. There was a battalion of troops to arrest him & c.

 

One question worth asking is about his passport. Has he renewed it in the 13 year of overstay, or is he passport-less?

 

 

[Raymonddiaz]

An 83 years old criminal, really???? Police should arrest drunk drivers....

[Lipoman]

He overstayed his Visa in Thailand.  He broke Thailand's law on day one of overstaying his Visa.  Therefore, he committed a crime in Thailand.  He is a criminal with respect to Thai law.  His age is irrelevant in this matter.  He broke the law.  

[Golden Triangle]

1 hour ago, transam said:

No wonder you never got nominated for "Poster of the Year"................????

Neither did I ???? 

[saminoz]

1 hour ago, JAG said:

His overstay probably predates the implementation of computer records.

....and don't forget the great crash of '2007, when all the beads fell of the abacus!

[Sticky Wicket]

6 minutes ago, Lipoman said:

He overstayed his Visa in Thailand.  He broke Thailand's law on day one of overstaying his Visa.  Therefore, he committed a crime in Thailand.  He is a criminal with respect to Thai law.  His age is irrelevant in this matter.  He broke the law.  

Thai Law.........hilarious????