"I'll never set foot in Thailand again" - damning review by Taiwanese celeb "extorted by Thai police"

[papa al]

6 hours ago, nigelforbes said:

The story makes no sense. She showed her visa passport so she had no basis to pay anything, for any reason, she should have stood her ground.

u bad

[nigelforbes]

26 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

OK, but were you just lucky? Why was you luggage searched? Did the cops do it for no reason?

No idea, we presumed it was for drugs.

Edited January 26, 2023 by nigelforbes

[nigelforbes]

54 minutes ago, Nip said:

Brave keyboard Spartan. 

Alternate name for cat.

[Chongalulu]

5 hours ago, nigelforbes said:

They found nothing, they planted nothing, an officer supervised and was very professional, we even split some pizza with me whilst the work was underway!

If it had been a Hawaiian you would’ve been charged with desecration of pizza with unlawful placement of pineapple ????! ???? 

[Puccini]

6 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

One suspects there is more to this story. 

 

There would have been a reason for cops to demand payment. Yes, police carry out random stop and searches but they don't ask for cash unless they find something. 

 

What did police find on her or her friends?

The police found 27,000 Baht and the liked the look of it.

[nigelforbes]

A few years ago, the wifes mother had the police show up because somebody thought that the wifes brother was dealing drugs...he wasn't. About 20 cops showed up and wanted to search the house but MIL wouldn't let them in, you wait she said. She called out to neighbours and quickly about a dozen of them showed up. OK, you come in now and each one was assigned an escort who accompanied them on their search, just to make sure nobody planted anything. It's what they do apparently and the cops were OK with it.

[JimmyJ]

5 hours ago, nigelforbes said:

I am in a foreign country and I have been stopped my police. We were stopped whilst driving from Chiang Mai to Sukhothai and a hoard of police swarmed my car and inspected our lugage. They found nothing, they planted nothing, an officer supervised and was very professional, we even split some pizza with me whilst the work was underway!

Sample size of...one.

 

And this is meaningful to you...

[nigelforbes]

Just now, JimmyJ said:

Sample size of...one.

 

And this is meaningful to you...

Nope, no more than the story in the press is.

[wensiensheng]

6 hours ago, nigelforbes said:

If the sole basis for the bet was that nothing even remotely similar had ever happened to me in 20 years, I might give it a punt. Mind you, if I was a younger female and minor celebrity who was trying to get my name out there in print and to attract attention, my experience might have been different.

Minor celebrity?

[richard_smith237]

27 minutes ago, Doctor Tom said:

To me this says don't set foot in Bangkok again.  They seem to be particularly corrupt in that place,  many more easy victims to defraud. 

Strange.... I feel the same about Pattaya and Phuket... particularly when out riding a motorcycle.. 

In BKK, I’ve been pulled up a coupe of times, I flip open my helmet, they see a westerner and are not interested and just wave me along... 

 

That said: Thonglor - Asoke area (Thonglor Police) were notorious at one point for their hassling of tourists and shakedowns... It seems the same characters maybe starting up again.

 

IF this lady had a perfectly valid stamp in her passport - I wonder on what grounds she was shaken down. OR... they just made the accusation and she folded... Usually when trying it on the BiB are the first to blink knowing they are trying it on....

 

A terrible experience for this girl.... We will soon see an announcement, it was a misunderstanding, or she had a fake passport stamp etc and the BiB were doing their jobs etc and took pity on her and let her go after she paid a fine etc etc....  OR...  Thai Policeman returns wallet of Taiwanese tourist yadda yadda yadda.... 

 

News like this surprises no one, but fortunately is rare enough for many to claim... there must be something missing. 

 

 

[nigelforbes]

Just now, wensiensheng said:

Minor celebrity?

Definitely not in the Jenifer Aniston, Julie Roberts league, I've never heard of her before!

[StayinThailand2much]

5 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

Without pockets?

In Thailand? The cops would go on strike!

[Ginner]

6 hours ago, nigelforbes said:

The story makes no sense. She showed her visa passport so she had no basis to pay anything, for any reason, she should have stood her ground.

You been in Thailand, how long?????

 

[nigelforbes]

Just now, Ginner said:

You been in Thailand, how long?????

 

20 years, 5 months and 2 days...full time.

[AndyFoxy]

2 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

20 years, 5 months and 2 days...full time.

Owned

[StayinThailand2much]

1 hour ago, andygrr said:

Who bought the pizza lol

Complimentary from the cops, as a 'thank you' for the generous donation to the 'New cars and Mia Noi Fund'...

Edited January 26, 2023 by StayinThailand2much

[geoffrobbo]

"She suggested that the police had gone without their cut in the pandemic as tourism floundered."

They have a lot of catching up to do

[nigelforbes]

Just now, AndyFoxy said:

Owned

Rented mostly, by the month.

[Ginner]

6 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

20 years, 5 months and 2 days...full time.

Then you should know that some RTP Make the laws as they see fit.

[Lizzy Duang]

Did she sign the bills?

[proton]

1 hour ago, nigelforbes said:

You might like to think that's the way things are here but if ever you visit you'll soon realise it isn't. And if ever you'd seen the inside of a jail cell here you'd know they aren't as you described them....although I admit your post will appeal to others who also don't know!

Are you claiming to have been in a prison cell in Thailand? other than a visit from the outside.

[proton]

12 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

20 years, 5 months and 2 days...full time.

Newbie ????

[nigelforbes]

3 minutes ago, Ginner said:

Then you should know that some RTP Make the laws as they see fit.

Operative word being "some", I wouldn't know, I've never met even one who does so I'm not sure why I "should" know. Oh wait, you mean I should believe all the stories I hear on places like AN...hahahahahahah, stop it, please, it hurts.

[nigelforbes]

1 minute ago, proton said:

Are you claiming to have been in a prison cell in Thailand? other than a visit from the outside.

AS SAID EARLIER, my neighbour and friend is a policeman, he showed me around the station. In fact, three of my neighbours are in the police or were, one is a retired general, nice guy, nice family, traffic div., my wife and I bought our house from him.

[rwill]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

"I will never set foot in Thailand again".

She better not.  She would probably be arrested for defamation.

[proton]

1 minute ago, nigelforbes said:

AS SAID EARLIER, my neighbour and friend is a policeman, he showed me around the station. In fact, three of my neighbours are in the police or were, one is a retired general, nice guy, nice family, traffic div., my wife and I bought our house from him.

Police Station is nothing like a prison, that is another world with 40 crammed in cells meant for 20. knowing a lot of piggies makes no difference.

[sambum]

6 hours ago, nigelforbes said:

The story makes no sense. She showed her visa passport so she had no basis to pay anything, for any reason, she should have stood her ground.

"............she should have stood her ground."

 

Difficult to do when you are a visitor, and have been "bundled off" to a police station for no good reason! 

[nigelforbes]

3 minutes ago, proton said:

Police Station is nothing like a prison, that is another world with 40 crammed in cells meant for 20. knowing a lot of piggies makes no difference.

I wrote jail cell, you said prison don't play word games we all know what's being talked about here.

[pedro01]

Last time I was out at that time, a friend and I got pulled over in our taxi at a checkpoint. First thing they did was put hands in our pockets, checking for drugs. Nobody asked for ID, which is just as well as I don't carry my passport around with me here. 

 

It was all friendly, I asked if they caught many people that way and they told me that yes, every night they caught people with drugs there. My experience is that they shake you down when you've done something wrong - like failed a breathalyzer (which I haven't) test. Once you are on the wrong side of the law, the negotiations start.

 

It's the same when they bust you for a wheel over the line at a junction, it's petty but they have their excuse to start the negotiation process. I've not experienced or know people that got shaken down when they did nothing wrong. It seems to generally be the way here

 

I'd put it at 50/50 that the girl in question was on the wrong side of the law, somehow. 27k fine is pretty steep and would be in line with being drunk at the wheel, having narcotics etc. 

 

it's not that I don't believe her, just that normally, you get shaken down for a crime of some sort.

Edited January 26, 2023 by pedro01

[pedro01]

24 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

20 years, 5 months and 2 days...full time.

You aren't doing it right then. I've can't even remember which year I came to Thailand ????