UK warns British tourists to behave in Thailand or face jail time

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, norsurin said:

The brits is number one in thailand for crimes compared to other foreigners.

Where are the statistics for that?

[Andycoops]

A complete waste of time, the dregs that cause trouble here mostly can't read and have the brain of a neanderthal.

A spell in the Hilton will do them good, lock them up 

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Chetzee said:

total waist of time ......  most of the types this advise is aimed at can't read ....

The irony...  "Waste", "Advice".

[Liverpool Lou]

36 minutes ago, Paris333 said:

 Although I smoked and I have quitted smoking since 2000 years...

Jesus, you're even older than Methuselah.

[atpeace]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Then you should educate yourself on the difference between the two.

 

 

I'm part of the problem ????  ....    the problem of idiots misunderstanding a thread about the Foreign office advising its nationals of visa regulations and bigots going off on a Brit bash !!!....   ???  hmm... 

 

 

This is the problem with these fora... they are full of idiots who suck out the oxygen and replace it with with their hypoxic stupidity.

 

Once you take your head out of your backside and are able to re-oxygenate those brain cells... what problem are you imagining and what solution could 'I be part of' ???    - seriously, your comment itself is so ridiculously unintelligent !!! 

 

 

 

No, they are just having some fun at your expense and a few have comprehension issues.   Most know the OP has nothing to do with offensive behavior.

[MalcolmB]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

two

Right.

An endemic of two negative Swiss men, one of who was obviously mentally unwell.

Waiting for the Swiss government to put out a statement now. 
 

Two, twice, a couple. 
Don’t look over here, look at the Swiss. 

[Bday Prang]

6 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

To avoid paying the tax. Much cheaper.

i have been buying some from Cambodia I think. Cheaper and none of those stupid warnings on the packets. I bought them from a Burmese guy in Patong.

 

I applaud this warning from the UK Foreign Office.

what I have noticed in the short time I have been here is the terrible behavior from the Brits. Murders, trying to rip off poor sex workers, bashing the elderly Thais, human trafficking and child molesting etc etc

 

It is disgusting. 
And ironically most of the Brits I have met here are constantly criticizing Russians.

People in glass houses should have a good hard look in the mirrors.

So you admonish others for breaking the law, yet in the same post you openly brag about buying illegal cigarettes to avoid paying duty, Knowing full well, as we all do, that the profits from such illegal enterprise are often used to fund people smuggling and sex trafficking operations. Then you end the lesson in hypocrisy with "people in glass houses"

  Jesus you really are a piece of work

[schweizer]

28 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Right.

An epidemic of two negative Swiss men, one of whom was obviously mentally unwell.

Waiting for the Swiss government to put out a statement now. 
 

Two, twice, a couple. 
Don’t look over here, look at the Swiss. 

There you go, I put your English right

Could I perhaps suggest a remedial course in English, you obviously need help

[MalcolmB]

5 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

Knowing full well, as we all do, that the profits from such illegal enterprise are often used to fund people smuggling and sex trafficking operations

Yeah, sure mate. 
Everyone knows that.

Got a link for any of your accusations?

[MalcolmB]

4 minutes ago, schweizer said:

There you go, I put your English right

Could I perhaps suggest a remedial course in English, you obviously need help

Will they help me speak proper?

[schweizer]

2 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Will they help me speak proper?

No but your writing might improve 😉

[Bday Prang]

4 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Yeah, sure mate. 
Everyone knows that.

Got a link for any of your accusations?

I haven't made any accusations, I didn't need to , you admitted everything.      if you want any further  information about  the illegal tobacco trade and its links to organised crime there is no shortage of it on google. 

[MalcolmB]

2 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

I haven't made any accusations, I didn't need to , you admitted everything.      if you want any further  information about  the illegal tobacco trade and its links to organised crime there is no shortage of it on google. 

No need to google, everyone knows that.

 

I just asked my girlfriend. She said she didn’t know that either and that the Burmese guy who sold them to me was just trying to make some money to send back to his family in Myanmar and wasn’t a sex trafficker.

 

There is a lot of trouble over there at the moment.

A lot of Burmese in Thailand now.

[Dogmatix]

You can now come without a visa for 60 day business assignments but they haven't changed the working of aliens legislation.  So you can still be busted for working without a work permit. Seems to be a trap. 

 

You can also be forced by pay tax for the time spent on a business assignment.  It happened to me years ago when I was new to Thailand.  Immigration gouged me for 40,000 baht income tax based on the officer's assumption from looking at Thai stamps in my passport that I was working on several visits of a few days each and his personal assessment of what he thought my salary might be, which I just agreed to because it was much less than I was earning.  I needed to get a NON-B visa from him, so I had little choice but to given in to the extortion and my company was decent enough to reimburse me.  I got some sort of receipt, which at least facilitated the claim from my company, but doubt that the cash was forwarded to the Revenue Department.  

Edited June 4 by Dogmatix

[Mickboy]

What 60 day visa ?

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

Right.

An endemic of two negative Swiss men, one of who was obviously mentally unwell.

Waiting for the Swiss government to put out a statement now. 
 

Two, twice, a couple. 
Don’t look over here, look at the Swiss. 

 

Your observations underscore a discernible absence of critical thought, an dearth of intellectual balance, and a lamentable deficiency in education.

 

It incredibly easy to pinpoint three discrete instances involving the Swiss this year. However, this remains irrelevant to the discussion, as you persistently falter in understanding anyone else's comments.

 

 

1) This thread is about the British Foreign Office reiterating their advisory for British Nationals to adhere to Thailands visa stipulations. This thread became requisite subsequent to Thailand's proclamation that incoming individuals would be granted a 60-day stay, a policy not yet implemented.

 

2) The focal point herein does not revolve around inebriated British tourists or British individuals causing disturbances in Thailand. Those who disparage the British, much like yourself, have interjected such remarks into the conversation due to an inability to engage with the actual subject matter, instead fixating on a misleading headline.

 

3) Furthermore, you have failed to grasp the notion that individuals exhibiting misconduct hail from every nation, a reality readily discernible in media coverage.

 

4) Similarly, you have overlooked the concept that the transgressions of a select few do not serve as a representative benchmark for an entire nation.

 

 

I would be remiss to castigate the entirety of your nation as undereducated and bigoted based solely on the cognitive challenges you evidently face and example in this thread.

 

 

 

you like links... 

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1321119-thai-woman-assaulted-by-swiss-man-in-phuket/

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1321451-foreign-man-throws-glass-at-a-thai-woman-in-a-dog-cafe/

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2024/03/06/a-swiss-man-seriously-hurts-thai-woman-in-trang-supermarket/

 

 

 

 

 

[Dogmatix]

2 hours ago, Paris333 said:

Although I smoked and I have quitted smoking since 2000 years but at Suvarnabhumi airport I witnessed an episode between two ladies from France and a rude idiot employee from Thai Tax Authorities (at 2015 year).

The ladies was crying because outside of the airport Thai FBI idiots arrest them to.......check out their unique middle size  baggage and finally they found that they carry two small boxes of Marlboro cigarettes they had bought from Doha airport.

As European citizen I intervene to calm the ladies and stop idiots of Thai Customs to pulled them out of their hands.

Τhe main issue was that ladies have bought as I referred two small boxes (20 packets) of Marlboro cigarettes from Doha and they didnt pay Thai......import taxes.

Thai idiots of Customs try to arrest me (I was neutral observer) but I pushed him away the idiots who didnt know his rights furthermore I notified him that only Policeman can arrest me do you want to call him? Only Policeman can search anyone in public space and nobody else as well as to ask your name or personal details and nobody else.

I was carryng a big suitcase that was empty because I was going to stay in Bangkok for 6 months at my job so I wanted to buy many things when I will return back at my home country.

The smart idiot guy from Thai Custom considered that I may carry illegal things and he demands to search me as punishment because I had tried to calm Frances ladies who were crying and shoutting.

I again notified him that only Policeman can order me in public space outside of the airport as well as to search my clothes and you are not authorized to do it. 

I inquiry you again do you want to call Policeman to search me here no problem by me but if you touch me I will break your arms. I finally call Policeman explaining him what was going on with Thai idiot from Custom and I forced him to search my clothes opening voluntary by suitcase.

Αs I have already referred my suitcase was empty and his head a Thai lady assistant custom Officer asked me why my suitcase was empty simultaneusly showing me the camera recorder at the ceilling of her office.

I aswered her give me your money madam to buy many things in order next time to be completed full telling to camera recorder at the ceiling of her office "chao Bella".

When I was finally free I asked the two Frances lady who were under arrest if they pay them any fine and told me that they paid .......€500 for 20 packets of Marlboro cigarettes from Doha airport.

We exchanged our phone numbers to make some calls at my Thai Jewish friends who live in Bangkok in order custom office to declare unpaid the fine and to return them back all the amount of their money.

It is noticable that I was a neutral observer in this horrible unacceptable stance from an idiot of Thai custom office outside of airport and not involved in any illegal things because my suticase was absolutely empty but the "smart" idiot guy from Thai custom office tried to punish me because I intervened to chill out Frances ladies who was crying and shouting at Suvarnabhumi airport.

It is more noticable to see how quickly they returned them back all the fine €500 at France ladies Bank account furthermore I am not sure if they offer them........... coffee and sweets "ladies -madam we are deeply sorry etc" dull bubble sh....ts and all of that I owe a great thanks to my Thai Jewish friends at Bangkok. (nice and very- very coincius guys and gilrs)

We love and respect Thailand but we also demand Thailand to love and respect us as much as we love them!🙂

 

 

A rather confusing story but 200 cigarettes can be imported to Thailand duty free. So I guess this was a genuine extortion scam.  At about that time there were cases of Excise Department officers lurked outside departures at Suvarmabhumi Airport and demanding to search luggage.  They had found out that Brits were coming via the Gulf and loading up with hundreds of cigarettes at the duty free.  Then they would put them into their check in baggage to fly back to the UK, hoping that that UK customs officers would not make them open their check in bags.  If they bought them on the way home, they would have them in carry one bags and customs watch to see, if passengers put stuff in their check in bags in the baggage halls.  The Thai excise men sometimes took the people they caught downtown to the Excise Department office or to the local police station.  The Excise Department's job is to collect local excise taxes, not import duties.  The conclusion was that some of these scamsters were genuine Excise officers moonlighting with their bosses and local police in on the scam.  I think it stopped after many people complained of extortion but it may still be going on or may have been revived.

[Sigmund]

One just has to see the mess these Brit drunks create in Spain. Even the locals in Spain are fed up.

[JimTripper]

Many guys want to let go in Thailand. Want to let it all hang out. Some of those guys, are one of those guys, who look better with their shirt on.

 

Are you one of those guys by the pool?

Edited June 4 by JimTripper

[richard_smith237]

13 minutes ago, Sigmund said:

One just has to see the mess these Brit drunks create in Spain. Even the locals in Spain are fed up.

 

Specific areas of Spain that are specifically targeting British Tourists - with cheap accommodation, cheap booze, cheap 'pseudo-British food'...  (Benidorm, Mallorca etc) - despicable places to be avoided at all costs..  But, this is what the Spanish wanted, or rather, they wanted to attract these cheap tourists, concentrated them all in congested area's, but then complain when they get the accompanying cheap chavy behavior. 

 

Its exactly the same in Bali with Australians...    Its the Same in Cancun with those from the USA.

 

And now... we have the Japanese complaining about the hoards of Chinese and Thai Tourists.

 

Ultimately, anywhere there are a lot of tourists from a specific nation, some of those tourists are going to be behave diks and build a negative reputation....  In Japan now, even Thai's try and avoid other Thai's because they are embarrassed by their behavior....   In much the same way we (I) are often embarrassed by the behavior of other Westerners in Thailand and worry we will be tarred by the same brush....    

 

... But...  that doesn't mean there is a sweeping generalisation that fits the behavior of all from than nation. 

 

 

 

BUT....  this thread is about Visa's and overstating - not about behavior of tourists !!! 

[Northstar1]

9 hours ago, daveAustin said:

They won’t listen. While my country has nice, polite people that often find their way here, it also produces scummy bogun types. I’m all for turning them around or better still send them to Oz. Oh wait! 😜

Close the borders!

simple.

yes far too many boguns 

[vangrop]

8 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

None of these stereotypes are strictly British. There are bad people everywhere. There is no country that has a monopoly of sending trashy people to Thailand. It is good that the UK government called it out though.

 

The Chinese are the most proactive, they will prosecute people that get deported from foreign countries.

 

Fortunately the football thugs can't afford the tickets. 🙂

Indeed these thugs come from everywhere. Thailand, especially Pattaya and Phuket seems to attract them like flies an a <deleted>.

[schweizer]

19 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Specific areas of Spain that are specifically targeting British Tourists - with cheap accommodation, cheap booze, cheap 'pseudo-British food'...  (Benidorm, Mallorca etc) - despicable places to be avoided at all costs..  But, this is what the Spanish wanted, or rather, they wanted to attract these cheap tourists, concentrated them all in congested area's, but then complain when they get the accompanying cheap chavy behavior. 

 

Its exactly the same in Bali with Australians...    Its the Same in Cancun with those from the USA.

 

And now... we have the Japanese complaining about the hoards of Chinese and Thai Tourists.

 

Ultimately, anywhere there are a lot of tourists from a specific nation, some of those tourists are going to be behave diks and build a negative reputation....  In Japan now, even Thai's try and avoid other Thai's because they are embarrassed by their behavior....   In much the same way we (I) are often embarrassed by the behavior of other Westerners in Thailand and worry we will be tarred by the same brush....    

 

... But...  that doesn't mean there is a sweeping generalisation that fits the behavior of all from than nation. 

 

 

 

BUT....  this thread is about Visa's and overstating - not about behavior of tourists !!! 

Also worth noting is that Germans also cause a lot of trouble in Spain

 

Ballerman has been a centre of debauchery for many years, there is even a German movie about it

 

and according the recent reports a German Hells Angel is causing havoc on the island of Mallorca using his gang to control businesses and extort money

 

as far as I can see any country that tempts cheap holidaymakers to their shore to make quick easy money is asking for trouble and shouldn't go crying afterwards

[sanabavy IV]

Yes, good job, British Gov ! It was high time you disciplined your folks!

[frank83628]

4 hours ago, Chetzee said:

current Civil service... so unlikely !   But point taken Spoling  never my fing at Skool 555 !

yes, i wus nevier good at spilling eithre 6666

[frank83628]

5 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Bigotry? Calm down.
Next you will be using the race card.

 

By denying all this you are part of the problem when you could be part of the solution.

 

aye aye calm down, calm down, dey do do dat do dont dey

[Snackbar]

Weed lowers iq by 8 points

[jvs]

10 minutes ago, Snackbar said:

Weed lowers iq by 8 points

Weed makes you peaceful bro!

 

[G_Money]

5 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Do you have any figures to support your statement of fact?

We see it every day on THIS forum.

[G_Money]

4 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Nope... You can do your own leg work....   

 

There are plenty of articles on this very forum of  non-Thai's misbehaving and getting themselves into legal difficulties, and some of them have been Swiss... in fact, very recently two of the most famous stories were of Swiss nationals misbehaving...  but you still miss the point that this news, is of a warning to remain within visa regulations. 

 

It also seems you are unable to find information on any Governments webpage advising its citizens to remain within the legal bounds of their entry permissions when travelling overseas, you are too stupid to entertain any further discussion with... 

 

 

 

Time for a quote I think: Mark Twain — 'Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.'

 

You can waste your own time a look for your own links.

 

 

“Mark Twain — 'Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat youwith experience.'”

 

Love this!  I can use this on the political threads.