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Not seen or heard of in 13 years.

Mass testing is done at entertainment values, checkpoints.

But a whole village...

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Same thing happened in our village about 2 weeks ago.

 

Although my wife is our phu yai ban's aunty, and I'm privy to some things that go on around here I didn't get to hear what the results were, if any, although I do know there are a couple of users living here.

 

P. S. I was NOT required to provide a sample.

 

 

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We went, as we have a residence and they specifically mentioned that tenants must also be tested (they obviously have no idea who is living in such places, so a focus surely).

Not very well thought out as it ended up being 9-12 on a Monday (they could have done it yesterday if they were really interested in a total sampling).

I suspect that they already know who they are after and just wanted to create a reason to grab them this evening, or whenever. Some of our residents went but the dodgy ones didn't read the wife's informing message and 'went out', maybe to not return in a while....

 

We recently evicted a 21-year old guy and his 14-year old girlfriend that had a weed party in their room.

 

 

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51 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

I’m surprised it’s legal to do that.

 

What does legality have to do with it?   It is a pain but as the OP said they probably had a few people in mind that were causing issues.  This is one way to keep the property values up and get rid of the riff raff.

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4 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

On the face of it the main guy runs a restaurant........but strangely.... ...with no food and no customers?

6ft tall terracotta fish outside? (serious question).

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2 minutes ago, mokwit said:

6ft tall terracotta fish outside? (serious question).

 

No...but the most dark, dirty and unappealing frontage you can imagine......just in case some outsider thought it might be a restaurant...555.

 

Brand new Ford Ranger with all the bells and whistles parked outside though.

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On 12/23/2024 at 10:57 AM, richard_smith237 said:

I've read of a similar story on this forum in the past - a few years ago. 

 

Don't bother with it and don't worry about it - I doubt anyone will be that interested in you anyway, this seems more like a 'generalised sweep' to catch the local lads who've been up to mischief. 

 

Its a heavy handed and rather lazy way for the Police to enforce laws, but also can have a positive impact of taking a few nutcases off the streets or bringing them into line. 

 

The issue with such behavior is that its difficult to 'stand up for your rights' - the BiB need cause to test you, but also, refusing a test will make you look like you have something to worry about. The Police and community won't understand anyone 'standing up on principle'....   

 

If having to 'volunteer' yourself at a centre for testing, I wouldn't bother.  

If the BiB turn up at your house and request a test, then just do the test and forget about it. Refusing could make things in the community more awkward for you as this somewhat backward idea of testing a whole village already implies a backward mentality. 

 

 

 

 

Hello richard, merry xmas.

 

I thought you lived in BKK, therefore how can you make all these statements about rural thailand having never lived there?

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On 12/23/2024 at 11:36 AM, Moonlover said:

Same thing happened in our village about 2 weeks ago.

 

Although my wife is our phu yai ban's aunty, and I'm privy to some things that go on around here I didn't get to hear what the results were, if any, although I do know there are a couple of users living here.

 

P. S. I was NOT required to provide a sample.

 

 

Yes, had this about a month ago. The real purpose is to give the pou yai a clearance that the whole village is not on yaba. Those that are did not turn up for the test so the pou myai gets 100% clearance.

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On 12/23/2024 at 3:32 PM, NotEinstein said:

 

We recently evicted a 21-year old guy and his 14-year old girlfriend that had a weed party in their room.

A "Weed Party"  lol

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20 hours ago, zepplin said:

My wife built a house in her village, she said all the workers use it, I said: don’t the police do anything? She said -yes, they supply it! 

 

19 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

I’m surprised it’s legal to do that.

Yeah really I’m surprised too

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Our village did it back in the summer, except for old people over 40 something. Must have been about 5 people tested. Everyone is old here. 

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21 hours ago, zepplin said:

My wife built a house in her village, she said all the workers use it, I said: don’t the police do anything? She said -yes, they supply it! 

Yep - My wife can point out the meth dealers in the village (and the tambon), tell you where they live, who is dealing, and who is supplying them (see zepplin's comment).  🙄  It's a nice cosy little world. 

She did get a twenty-something year old monk busted for meth.  The young monk was the sole caretaker of the village temple as the official abbot was often in Bangkok and was due to be replaced with a new abbot.  During that time the kid spent most of his days with the yaba crowd hanging out at the temple and installing stereo systems into cars.  My wife bypassed the local amphur cops and went to a narcotics cop she knew in Chiang Mai.  Chiang Mai narcs contacted the amphur cops and showed up to do a surprise pee-test on the monk.  Caught him with meth in his possession as well.  Lucky for him he escaped going to jail.  A local shop owner took him in as an employee and the got off with pretty much a hand-slap and parole.  Which is fine imho.  Yaba users need treatment, not prison.  Wife is not interested in the rest of the yaba dealer network.  She only cared about a yaba-taking monk being in charge of the village temple. She is a solid Buddhist if a monk is disrespecting Buddhism - look out.  We now have a older monk who is doing a great job renovating the temple grounds, and I believe he will eventually become the abbot - he's a stand-up guy. 

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On 12/23/2024 at 3:32 PM, NotEinstein said:

We recently evicted a 21-year old guy and his 14-year old girlfriend that had a weed party in their room.

what's a weed party?

 

few people having a smoke ( that's legal ) and you evicted them......lovely!

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16 minutes ago, PJ71 said:

what's a weed party?

 

few people having a smoke ( that's legal ) and you evicted them......lovely!

Oh how we jump to conclusions!

 

We have a no smoking in the room policy, whatever it is. We also do not allow parties or other people staying overnight. They broke  those 2 rules, so my wife spoke to their boss, who was paying for the room, who said she can deal with them. She spoke with them reminding them of the no overnight guests, to which the guy said that he works for his boss. In response the boss said "chuck them out now". When told, they asked if they could stay until the 21st, which my wife agreed to if they followed the rules - that night they did the same again.

 

It wasn't until they had left that we discovered the disgusting state of the room, stinking of whatever they had been smoking, burns in bed sheet and mattress topper, the bathroom flooded because they had blocked shower drain with fag ends being deposited.

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On 12/23/2024 at 10:49 AM, KhunBENQ said:

Not seen or heard of in 13 years.

Mass testing is done at entertainment values, checkpoints.

But a whole village...

The police would not be able to piss test me (you can refuse and go to the police station) like alone a stupid village headman and his cohorts.

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