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Father and Son, Both Border Patrol Police Officers, Killed in Narathiwat Bomb Attack
They always know when the 'enemy' is supposed to pass by. I have lived in the region for 8.5 years and have been on countless roads with IEDs buried beneath them, some of which were detonated less than an hour later. Still, I'm not afraid. As a farang I'm not on the hit list and the insurgents never randomly detonate those explosives inshallah. -
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Plane stupid! Australian man’s flight crash threat lands him in jail
Actually it can be an issue. I knew that a long time ago and in 2019 I took a trip back to Canada. After arriving I put my passport in a pant pocket and a few minutes later put my phone (with it's plasticy cover) into the same pocket. I felt it jam something, took it out along with my passport and saw that the "face page" of my passport had a tiny rip, barely an inch (2 1/2 cms) long. I ended my trip a couple days early so I could go to Vancouver and visit the passport office. Normally, to get a new passport, you only need to fill out one form and have a "still valid" passport under the new system. But I was told because my passport was "damaged" - I had to go through the whole procedure as though I'd never had a passport before in my life. (I'd been issued 6 passports over the years before this.) And apparently I was deemed a security risk ! I tried to use my (still valid for 5 years) passport and my (Canadian) driver's license as ID - but they said a valid passport wasn't "proof of ID" ! And neither was my driver's license. They wanted a paper copy of my birth certificate to prove I was Canadian ! A piece of paper with nothing but my name and place of birth on it but nothing to actually say I was the person named on it. I had to scramble to get to the Ministry of Vital Statistics (or whatever it's called) but shocker - they can't print Birth Certificates in Vancouver. Can only be done at the main office - in Victoria. So they sent a rush request to have a copy printed and sent to my hotel in Vancouver. I was supposed to fly out on Friday evening and this was Tuesday afternoon. I went into the Passport office again on Wednesday morning with all the paperwork and a "guarantor" who - had to also have a valid passport and swear that they knew me for more than 5 years. And Security took her into a back room to grill her in private to make sure I wasn't some terrorist trying to sell passports on the black market. I was born and raised in Canada and had spent 22 years in the military and another 10 years as a civilian in Afghanistan supporting our military but some minimum wage failed wannabe cop was acting like I was Osama's BFF. They finally agreed to give me a "temporary" passport valid for just 2 years - because I couldn't "prove I was Canadian" !!!! If I couldn't "prove" I was Canadian - then why were they giving me a valid Canadian passport good for 2 years ?!??! And the next day (Thursday) the courier delivered the copy of my birth certificate so I rushed back to the passport office and - too bad so sad. The only way they'd accept the birth certificate is if I cancelled my existing application and started a new one - from the beginning. The coming weekend was a long holiday weekend and if I re-applied I wouldn't get my new passport until the following Tuesday at the earliest, meaning I'd have to change my flight and add 4 more nights in a hotel (at $200 a night). So I didn't bother and went back to the hotel. The next day (Friday) they called at 15:30 to tell me my passport was ready so I zipped down to the passport office again. (I racked up over $400 in cab fares alone going back and forth over those 4 days.) Get to the office around 16:15. No passport. Wait. Wait. Wait. 17:00 rolls around and the commissionaire is locking the doors and turning off the lights and I'm thinking I'm screwed. It was almost 17:15 when a clerk called my name and handed me my still hot-off-the-press (literally) passport and I was able to go back to the hotel. I'd paid for Friday night as my flight wasn't until 23:00 and I didn't want to be sitting in the check-in area for 9 hours - or running around Vancouver with my luggage. A year later I went to the Embassy in Bangkok with my "temporary" passport. Filled out the one page form, gave them my new passport photos and bingo. 10 days later I had a regular, 10 year passport. No hassle, no security BS or having to have a "guarantor" swear I was really me. All that because of a 2.5cm tear in one page of of a passport. I'll make a photo of it. (I keep all my old passports - which also made the rent-a-cop at the passport office suspicious.) Notice the huge rip in the page that had Security all in a dither because they thought I was some kind of terrorist or something. Good to know though that you can get a Canadian passport without having to actually prove your Canadian eh ! Another gift to the terrorist's of the world I suppose. -
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Motorcyclist Chases Down Foreign Hit-and-Run Driver in Phuket
You don't see the brake lights? Never heard of antilock brakes? The grey car was 'forced' to take evasive action and brake to avoid an accident... 'slamming on the brakes' may not accurately describe the braking action in this case, but that becomes a discussion of semantics... Its clear that IF the grey car did not take evasive action and brake he would not have avoided a collision. -
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"Climate Change" is causing the LA fires...or is it?
So why were there fires? -
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*Inauguration Day *- January 20, 2025
Yes ! I put that in bold type. Epic!!!!!! -
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Democracy has failed the US,maybe it's time for a King
Everyone has an agenda, and will change their whole ethos to get through a trauma (i.e. prison). When incarcerated, inmates will often turn to god as they don't have access to drugs and alcohol as on the outside... and appearing as god-fearing individuals that they weren't before they were caught, may pull on the heartstrings of the prison board they need to be judged by throughout their term. Could this survey be completely and obviously flawed?
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