Brit refused entry to Thailand after ripping out passport pages to use as toilet paper

[KC 71]

She must have wiped with both sides of the sheet ! Hehe

[Suradit69]

Her application form for a replacement should be a good read, listed in the Fiction category perhaps.

Was she really escorted all the way back ? Good that the security guard had a passport and it was handy but wouldn't he / she need a visa which would take time ?

Escorted onto a plane bound for Britain sounds more like it.

"Was she really escorted all the way back ? Good that the security guard had a passport and it was handy but wouldn't he / she need a visa which would take time ?"

If she was still acting flaky she might have been considered a risk to other passengers. If her escort was airline staff they don't need to get a new visa every time they fly into another country and he/she could just have returned to Thailand on the same plane without ever entering UK.

[monkey4u]

Is this Person BRAIN DEAD or what

[Minnehaha]

I have been refused entry to a Southeast Asian country (not Thailand).

I was held in small room with friendly police officers who smoked constantly and chatted but mostly left me to just sit there and read a book.

When I was escorted to the plane, which was the next flight on the carrier I had booked the return portion of my ticket. I had arrived at 11 am and the return flight was 5:45 pm, so it was a long wait. They made no attempt to be quiet about it. One fully suited on the left and right, although they did not hand cuff me or hold my arms. It caught a lot of attention. We were on the walk when they realized the flight was delayed 15 minutes. So we stopped in the Members Lounge of the Airline I ate a bit of the food and had a coffee. They were with me the whole time. I stopped at the mens room to comb my hair and primp a bit. People were taking pictures ! Thought I might see some business acquaintances in the biz lounge, but not so lucky.

They walked me through all security - no waiting!

Waited with me at the boarding gate for the 5 minutes and then watched me walk down the ramp.

Why?

Because my passport had added pages and they determined my passport "had been altered" and this was an offense. It had been altered by my Embassy.

[HooHaa]

dont know about you lot, but i would not have minded a chance to spend 24 hours with her. shes pretty damn cute.

[trogers]

I have been refused entry to a Southeast Asian country (not Thailand).

I was held in small room with friendly police officers who smoked constantly and chatted but mostly left me to just sit there and read a book.

When I was escorted to the plane, which was the next flight on the carrier I had booked the return portion of my ticket. I had arrived at 11 am and the return flight was 5:45 pm, so it was a long wait. They made no attempt to be quiet about it. One fully suited on the left and right, although they did not hand cuff me or hold my arms. It caught a lot of attention. We were on the walk when they realized the flight was delayed 15 minutes. So we stopped in the Members Lounge of the Airline I ate a bit of the food and had a coffee. They were with me the whole time. I stopped at the mens room to comb my hair and primp a bit. People were taking pictures ! Thought I might see some business acquaintances in the biz lounge, but not so lucky.

They walked me through all security - no waiting!

Waited with me at the boarding gate for the 5 minutes and then watched me walk down the ramp.

Why?

Because my passport had added pages and they determined my passport "had been altered" and this was an offense. It had been altered by my Embassy.

Sounds like Singapore...

[Thian]

I have been refused entry to a Southeast Asian country (not Thailand).

I was held in small room with friendly police officers who smoked constantly and chatted but mostly left me to just sit there and read a book.

When I was escorted to the plane, which was the next flight on the carrier I had booked the return portion of my ticket. I had arrived at 11 am and the return flight was 5:45 pm, so it was a long wait. They made no attempt to be quiet about it. One fully suited on the left and right, although they did not hand cuff me or hold my arms. It caught a lot of attention. We were on the walk when they realized the flight was delayed 15 minutes. So we stopped in the Members Lounge of the Airline I ate a bit of the food and had a coffee. They were with me the whole time. I stopped at the mens room to comb my hair and primp a bit. People were taking pictures ! Thought I might see some business acquaintances in the biz lounge, but not so lucky.

They walked me through all security - no waiting!

Waited with me at the boarding gate for the 5 minutes and then watched me walk down the ramp.

Why?

Because my passport had added pages and they determined my passport "had been altered" and this was an offense. It had been altered by my Embassy.

And who paid for all the damage done to you if the passport was totally legal?

[tracker1]

I would have kindly wiped it for her

[Hawk]

So she passed through Heathrow immmigration unchecked? Then through Dubai also unchecked? One missing page not noticeable but 4 or 5 missing pages easily noticeable.

[bkktrapper]

Western women are discussing .

[Gillyflower]

A very strange story. She supposedly came from Australia. I can't imagine the authorities there letting her pass with a dodgy passport.

[Hawk]

Just another badly reported incident,

Common sense tell any sane person that she was NOT escorted back to the UK, but to the plane.

Exactly, escorted to the plane by an immigration officer, not all the way to London.

[StasD]

expirienced people use underwear or socks in this case)

[Krataiboy]

Makes you proud to be British, doesn't it? No wonder so many UK men come to Thailand to find decent partners and the Thais have such a low opinion of us. The media version of events is about as believable as this drunken bird-brain's loo-ny explanation for the missing passport pages. She deserves to be banned from Thailand permanently and prosecuted in the UK for abusing the privilege of having a UK passport.

[reggaebkk]

He could have used US dollars, it would be more appropriate to the task...

[ratcatcher]

Western women are discussing .

Well that's a matter for further discussion. I suspect this young lady was cussing when she was detained.

[abitmiffed]

Toilet paper? A bit rough on the bits...not exactly made of tisue paper is it?.....

[Canuk23]

This story was in the British press hours ago. She had been using the passport for the last five years with said pages missing with no problem.

She gets to Thailand and is refused entry despite the fact she had the correct visa etc.

She also didn't go back to the UK but to Dubai before going onto Scotland.

Escorted to the gate to board the plane, is probably closer to the truth.

If Thailand can cause you problems it will. Where's Captain Jack when you need him?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brit-refused-entry-thailand-after-7345231

Edit. don't suppose she needed a visa.

Actually I think Thailand did their job, and the other country`s did not,

Ripping pages in your passport or any modification is against the law

it is an official document and is the property of your government and

should not be modified in any way,

[LannaGuy]

luckily no les majeste in UK? dependant upon page etc.

[Baerboxer]

I don't know what to say ............

I do! Those brittish girls drink too much! They have a serious alcohol problem and that causes them to get into trouble whereever they go.

And of course, girls from other countries never ever drink too much, do drugs, go to the wild parties here, or misbehave in anyway.

In fact you no doubt think all the people from your country so perfect - why did you leave?

[carter1882]

Interesting really especially when you consider that in the 70s it is rumored that long haired people travelling through Singapore actually had S.H.I.T. stamped in their passports......suspected hippy in transit.

[Baerboxer]

I have been refused entry to a Southeast Asian country (not Thailand).

I was held in small room with friendly police officers who smoked constantly and chatted but mostly left me to just sit there and read a book.

When I was escorted to the plane, which was the next flight on the carrier I had booked the return portion of my ticket. I had arrived at 11 am and the return flight was 5:45 pm, so it was a long wait. They made no attempt to be quiet about it. One fully suited on the left and right, although they did not hand cuff me or hold my arms. It caught a lot of attention. We were on the walk when they realized the flight was delayed 15 minutes. So we stopped in the Members Lounge of the Airline I ate a bit of the food and had a coffee. They were with me the whole time. I stopped at the mens room to comb my hair and primp a bit. People were taking pictures ! Thought I might see some business acquaintances in the biz lounge, but not so lucky.

They walked me through all security - no waiting!

Waited with me at the boarding gate for the 5 minutes and then watched me walk down the ramp.

Why?

Because my passport had added pages and they determined my passport "had been altered" and this was an offense. It had been altered by my Embassy.

And who paid for all the damage done to you if the passport was totally legal?

Yeah right. Do you think a country would say "oh sorry, we should've realized your country allows additional pages to be added to their passports by their Embassy. Very sorry, let us reimburse you".

They make a decision and you live with the consequences. That's how it is. I doubt his own country would be particularly interested other than putting a note on their website to warn other travelers.

[madmitch]

I remember many years ago a friend of mine ripped the middle pages out of his passport to use as a scoresheet for a game of cards. Although bloody stupid, you could get away with thing like that in the early 80s, before passport controls became more sophisticated and serious.

Fast forward to 2016 and he'd get a double whammy in Thailand: one for the missing passport pages and one for "gambling" with playing cards.

Edited February 11, 2016 by madmitch

[trogers]

Interesting really especially when you consider that in the 70s it is rumored that long haired people travelling through Singapore actually had S.H.I.T. stamped in their passports......suspected hippy in transit.

Yes, the Bee Gees had to get their hair cut in order to enter Singapore and perform...

[DM07]

When you gotta go...you gotta go!

[diehard60]

This has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. She is really stupid!!!!!

[i claudius]

Thailand , another quality tourist arrives .

[Schillaci]

A very strange story. She supposedly came from Australia. I can't imagine the authorities there letting her pass with a dodgy passport.

Sydney out going immigration has a machine that swallows and reads your passport. You don't even have contact with humans anymore (is this the same everywhere in the west now?)

[dageurreotype]

Even if she had lost the pages (how is anyone's guess) she would have been denied entry. This is the second time in the past few years a British lass has been denied entry due to missing pages. Last time the brat went to the media and it was this whole bash Thailand for being too harsh on her debacle. The thing is though that no decent country (certainly no 1st world country) would let you in with missing pages: It's a security risk

Thailand is neither 'decent' nor '1st World'. There's the flaw in your argument right there. However, they are quite amenable to anyone giving the requisite bung. Hence it's being one of the World's largest repository for every crook on the planet.

[webfact]

Brit denied entry to Thailand after she used passport pages as loo roll


Featured image is via ThaiCallTaxi

BANGKOK: -- British woman Faye Wilson was denied entry into Thailand recently when immigration officials spotted that her passport was missing a number of pages.

Wilson, aged 28, had ripped the pages out of the official document belonging to the UK government when she had been caught short on toilet paper on a drunken night out years before.

Not wishing to explain the situation to border officials out of embarrassment, Wilson simply told officials she had lost the pages. Unfortunately for her, that meant she was deported back to Dubai – where she had caught a connecting flight – before being escorted back to the UK with a security guard and her passport confiscated, reports ITV News.

She now has to apply for an emergency passport in her hometown of Glasgow before she can return to the Kingdom to meet up with her friend. After a planned month in Thailand, she will be moving on to work in Australia for a year.

Full story: http://whatsonsukhumvit.com/brit-denied-entry-to-thailand-after-she-used-passport-pages-as-loo-roll/


-- (c) What's on Sukhumvit 2016-02-11