22 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Gosh, another Israeli caught. Does the brown shirt brigade know? Surely, this will result in multiple accusatory topic entries.

Oh wait. Never mind. He was an Iranian, or as a brown shirt, might say, EYE rainy-on.

 

Yes, I know he should not be in Thailand. However, I doubt he was as bad as described. Look at the  description. Locals accused him of behaving like a mafia figure and causing public disturbance while secretly working at a local restaurant.    Sure, a mafia figure who secretly works at a restaurant. That's sure to be an intimidating position, a host handing out menus at a restaurant. What's he done to be so ferocious? Intimidated  locals with a kabob? Threatened someone with a bowl of Aash Shalgham?

 

I expect that the real story is that someone who knew his secret shared with someone else who tried to shake him down or who had a dispute and used this against the man. I doubt, he would have been so stupid to attract attention to himself. He managed to get by for 20 years, and then all of a sudden he became Don Mohammed, leader of  Iranian Ravioli family?   Yea, in your  xenophobic  fantasy world, maybe. 

Do you not know that Iran and Israel are two different countries? Two different cultures, languages, and nationalities? The man is Iranian. Best to look at a map. 

On 11/4/2025 at 7:52 AM, mikebell said:

SOP for most successful arrests - despite the photo of the smug officers.

 

So the 90 day reporting system doesn't work?

It says he came into the country illegally (somehow). So he would have never been in the system.

City of opportunities, city of angels😁

On 11/4/2025 at 4:01 AM, gk10012001 said:

So much for staying under the radar and not calling attention to oneself.  Being obnoxious or intimidating or whatever initiated the complaint .. oh well

But after 20 years of successful illegal activity, a man must become complacent.

On 11/4/2025 at 11:52 AM, mikebell said:

SOP for most successful arrests - despite the photo of the smug officers.

 

So the 90 day reporting system doesn't work?

why would it work in this instance, maybe that's the reason he's deemed illegal.  

On 11/4/2025 at 3:17 AM, Georgealbert said:

An unnamed, Iranian man who had been living and working illegally in Thailand for nearly two decades was arrested by Chonburi Immigration officers following complaints from residents in Pattaya’s Phra Tamnak Hill area. Locals accused him of behaving like a mafia figure and causing public disturbance while secretly working at a local restaurant

Bet he wished he'd shut up now

20 years over - That's one hell of a lot of hanging around, photocopies, bank statements, photos etc. all done away with, well-done.  

Probably the tip of the ice berg 

Plenty more like him working or hiding on overstay 

If the police and immigration looked harder   would find more 💰 🤑 

3 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

all it takes is for one of them to have a brain fart

Or an uncontrollable sadistic urge

On 11/3/2025 at 11:17 PM, HappyExpat57 said:

 

Hundreds? I think you are being too kind. 😆

Yes all 999...🤪

 

On 11/4/2025 at 12:57 PM, NorthernRyland said:

 

Why hasn't anyone turned him in yet?

Probably for exactly the same reason you didn't, they weren't interested or didn't know he was here illegally. 

He could claim Political Asylum, He demands they send him to the UK, 

Instigated his own downfall by not keeping his head down. Upsetting the locals is a sure fire way of not remaining anonymous. The arrogant mug will have plenty of time to dwell on his own stupidity.

20 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Well, would you like to live in Iran? Or your teelak? Black is the new black!

 

I've got a friend who went to Iran for a visit after a guy we grew up with moved back in his mid 20s.  He said it's a beautiful country with very polite people. The women covered their heads in public but wore designer clothes under the robe, which they shed as soon as they were out of the public eye. 

 

Most of the people on this board have probably never met an Iranian.  They're lovely people.  The women are charming and self confident- nothing like the way the Western media presents them.  None of my Iranian acquaintances could afford to keep an Iranian gf or wife, the women are that demanding. 

Two decades, that's quite an achievement.

 

Notably, that also means that he must have survived Big Joke's "purge" of overstayers! I mention that whenever it happens, hoping that the silly fanboys that he still has on here will wake up one day...

On 11/4/2025 at 10:58 AM, IvorBiggun2 said:

I'm gobsmacked. In the village I live in we have a copycat occurance. There's an Iranian living openly with his Thai teelak and her children. He's been living here openly, working, for a good few years. He usually works in the fields but currently he's the delivery boy for the teelaks restaurant. He speaks fluent English and Thai. I actually thought, on reading the article, that it was the same person. Amazing.

So the obvious question, " are you going to DOB him in"?

1 hour ago, flaming dragon said:

I've got a friend who went to Iran for a visit after a guy we grew up with moved back in his mid 20s.  He said it's a beautiful country with very polite people. The women covered their heads in public but wore designer clothes under the robe, which they shed as soon as they were out of the public eye. 

 

Most of the people on this board have probably never met an Iranian.  They're lovely people.  The women are charming and self confident- nothing like the way the Western media presents them.  None of my Iranian acquaintances could afford to keep an Iranian gf or wife, the women are that demanding. 

I didn't know much of that but it certainly makes sense. Everywhere, goats are evil and people are...just people! Dissidents, however, do it tough. And Iran has the highest execution rates in the world. I was friends here with the Iranian cultural attaché who lent me many Iranian movies. They were Hollywood or Bollywood, much more nuanced, with hidden messages. And the books! As a small publisher, I'd love to have some books printed & bound in Iran.

4 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

As a small publisher, I'd love to have some books printed & bound in Iran

 

I go home every year for summer and may be able to find some for you. Many well off Iranians fled Iran when the Shah was deposed and moved into the area I grew up in. There are bound (no pun intended) to be Iranian books available there. 

Wonder if anyone has told him the Shah is not in power anymore.

He’s in for a big shock when he gets home.

30 minutes ago, Keeenok Powell said:

Wonder if anyone has told him the Shah is not in power anymore.

He’s in for a big shock when he gets home.

 

That was around 1979.

It could be possible he knows this. 

1 minute ago, quake said:

 

That was around 1979.

It could be possible he knows this. 

Just a bit of fun mate.

Not long ago I was reading Thailand was again busy on legalizing 700000 illegal workers.

Same story I red years ago. So they didnt succeed. 

The difference in this story, the worker started(?) to behave bad and was reported !

At least 1 Thai did.

The restaurant was not his? They did not arrest the owner for hiring the illegal Iranian? 

If restaurant is not owned by Iranian, there is another person violating the Thai law

and action should have been with Thai labor office for punishing the owner.

Story doesnt tell.

Moral of story, if you are illegal in Thailand and want to stay there, dont piss off a Thai.

2 hours ago, flaming dragon said:

 

I've got a friend who went to Iran for a visit after a guy we grew up with moved back in his mid 20s.  He said it's a beautiful country with very polite people. The women covered their heads in public but wore designer clothes under the robe, which they shed as soon as they were out of the public eye. 

 

Most of the people on this board have probably never met an Iranian.  They're lovely people.  The women are charming and self confident- nothing like the way the Western media presents them.  None of my Iranian acquaintances could afford to keep an Iranian gf or wife, the women are that demanding. 

My son in law is Iranian, he's a good husband a good father to his kids, and I have met his parents they came to Phuket for a holiday, they came from Iran was not easy for them, they had to apply for a visa, Lovely people. 

Another story, I have worked in Iran in 1978/79, we working north of Tehran about half an hours drive in the mountains towards the Caspian sea, We was building what would have been a 5 star hotel.

It could have been the Switzerland of Iran, We managed to get out of the country before the Ayatollah took over, but some guys I worked with got stranded there for while but the had to live on the job, 

The hotel we stayed in, in Tehran, them mad mullahs blew it up, 

It never got finished and it did belong to the Shah, so they flattened it and it now a children play ground, 

We was also working on an Island in the gulf, Kish Island the Shah wanted to make it like a mini Las Vegas, 

On 11/4/2025 at 10:14 AM, IvorBiggun2 said:

 

He's got to cough up a 20,000 Baht fine first. He sure as hell won't have that. His teelak will undoubtably know he's illegal so will she be fined as well? 

No, he doesn't get that usual overstay fine. That fine is only for leaving the country without an arrest. If caught, arrested, jailed at IDC in Bangkok, and deported, the fine he gets from a judge is a lot less. Without a valid passport, the fine would be in the area of 6000 baht (3000 with a valid passport). Could be a little more for working illegally. The fine can be served at the prison where the judge is ruling the fine (which is not at IDC), by 200 baht a day.

 

But he must of course also pay for his own ticket back to Iran, and will be jailed at IDC until he can do so. And he will be banned, at least for 10 years, probably for life.

Been there, done that (not the banned thing, I'm on a retirement visa today) 😆

On 11/4/2025 at 3:12 AM, IvorBiggun2 said:

 

Can't say I haven't thought about it. Based on the fact I've lived here 20 years and never once have I commited an illegal immigration act. That includes using an agent for my extensions. I do admit I feel somewhat jealous that he's got away with a crime for so long whereas I struggled at times to stay legal. I have 3 teenage children, which is costly, and the Iranian looks as if he hasn't a care in the world. But my conscience is clear. I hope he can sleep at night.

After nearly 20 years here i think he did 🤷🏼

19 hours ago, Frankie baby said:

20 years over - That's one hell of a lot of hanging around, photocopies, bank statements, photos etc. all done away with, well-done.  

And 38,000 baht not paid!

In 2010 to 2013 I had Mexican friends who were in Canada illegally and the thought of ratting them out never crossed my mind. They were hard working people who wanted a better life. Far more kind than most Canadians I've known.  Always afraid of getting caught. They did get ratted out - by fellow Mexicans who were there legally and resented the fact that one of the women was a far better cook (restaurant business).  No arrests or forced deportations, just a winding down of affairs in Canada and a flight back home. 

 

 

I backpacked through Iran long ago.  I will always remember that almost every restaurant  and place of biz had two photos on the wall.  One was the shah of iran.  The other?  Muhammad ALI.

On 11/4/2025 at 9:09 AM, IvorBiggun2 said:

The likes of where I live I doubt the locals would know how to. Or know that he's acting illegally.

Perhaps when the time is right his "teelak" will do the honors...😁