On 8/17/2020 at 11:19 PM, freesudani said:

well ive been in thailand for nearly a year and i have been asked for documentation  around 15 times.

I've been here for 18yrs and never been asked to produce my ID except in immigration..

27 minutes ago, freesudani said:

1- Their primary motive was not the ID ...they were looking if i had any drugs  (not saying they dont care about my visa status) 

2- They were only considerate enough to follow me to my apartment  because it was incredibly close (i just left home on my way to 7/11)  and  it will cost them more to take me all the way to the police station.

3- going by the number of times i had been through things like this, you would understand why it is frustrating. 

On point 3, really surprising that you don't, at the very least, carry a copy of your pp with up to date visa page.

 

Having been stopped 15 times during the last year I would have thought carrying a copy of the documents would have become 2nd nature to you by now, even just for short trips to the 7-11. As you stated  earlier, that would have been sufficient for you to be checked out and then let on your way.

 

You understand who and why they are, in the main, focusing on. Yes, it is no doubt frustrating, but surely it doesn't take anything near 15 checks to learn a simple lesson.

32 minutes ago, freesudani said:

1- Their primary motive was not the ID ...they were looking if i had any drugs  (not saying they dont care about my visa status) 

2- They were only considerate enough to follow me to my apartment  because it was incredibly close (i just left home on my way to 7/11)  and  it will cost them more to take me all the way to the police station.

3- going by the number of times i had been through things like this, you would understand why it is frustrating. 

3- going by the number of times i had been through things like this, 

 

This is very unusual. Even so,  you did not want to carry any ID with you?

On 8/17/2020 at 12:19 PM, freesudani said:

well ive been in thailand for nearly a year and i have been asked for documentation  around 15 times

I've lived in Bangkok for over 10 years and never been asked for any documentation.

'nuf sed.

Think I would get a T-shirt printed up with my passport pages on display.

It happened to me, a lot, when I was working... in Kenya.

Multiple times a month being stopped by police forces (armed with machine guns) asking for money! They just cared about one kind of papers: banknotes!!!

NOT a very pleasant experience!

In comparison, life in Thailand is sweet! ;-)

They've gone mad today.  I saw a whole road of cars clamped.  The police were coming in on motorcycles clamping and going off.

same experience in North Africa, in Ivory Coast where we were quite often stopped, asking us our papers, searching our bags, baskets, (or basket for shopping) and calling us "white or roumi".

So let this gentleman first look at what is happening in his country, against the whites, and behave impeccably when he is in a country that is not his.

23 hours ago, sirocco said:

same experience in North Africa, in Ivory Coast where we were quite often stopped, asking us our papers, searching our bags, baskets, (or basket for shopping) and calling us "white or roumi".

So let this gentleman first look at what is happening in his country, against the whites, and behave impeccably when he is in a country that is not his.

His country ??  im not from the ivory coast , and in my country we got no issues with whites ...you notice that africa is a large continent with 50+ countries ??....so relating me to an experience you had in a foreign country that dont share my  culture / beliefs or tradition is a bit unfair i guess.

On 8/21/2020 at 2:49 PM, from the home of CC said:

I've been here for 18yrs and never been asked to produce my ID except in immigration..

Never checked into a hotel in all that time, or done something at the bank, or obtained a driving licence, or applied for a SIM card?

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