Old Croc

Two cities starting with J where I will never return. Jakarta - a group of us from a cruise ship were followed by a gang of ugly men for several miles, Felt very dangerous. Several of we larger guys had to position ourselves to shield the girls in our group. Johannesberg, there for nearly a year when 20-21. Life threatened several times, saw more dead people than I've seen anywhere before or since.

Well said. And please leave your toxic American politics behind you, it's not wanted in Thailand. There are too many rabid morons leaving their excreatment all over forums like this as it is.

Think about all the people who have been dumbed down to the intellectual level of a fence post through religious brain washing.

The old pink buses were a great, cheap, tourist ride, but slow, awkward and impractical as city transport. It's well past time a more modern alternative was introduced to move people around and hopefully, get some private vehicles off the overcrowded roads. Of course the "experts" and deniers are already coming out of the woodwork with the usual negativity and silly claims about battery life and charging times, as if literally thousands of cities around the planet weren't already using electic buses. Someone even expressed surprise that one of these small 23 seater buses were cheaper than a new double decker London bus! It seems after decades of talk only, something positive is finally happening about Phuket transport.

I'm just getting over it, I think I contracted it at my local hospital early this month when I went for routine blood tests. I didn't wear a mask. I'm not in the statistics as I tested with a pharmacy bought test kit and treated myself at home with copious amounts of paracetamol. It wasn't too bad overall, albeit with the strange effect of loss of my sense of smell. I can't even smell tiger balm on the end my nose! Hopefully it will come back. The vax es from years ago I think helped greatly in minimising the effects.

Of course any individual may decide tocheck your status with immigration if they have doubts about your status, your ability to pay or just have an attitude about foriegners. Recently I applied for the pink id card at the district iffice and the grumpy, incompetent officer dealing with it decided to call Immigration to check my legality. He was holding mu passport, with a current marriage extension, in his hand as he did so!

Taking a copy of a patients ID at a hospital would be very unlikely to be enacted into law. I'm sure Thais show their ID cards when registering for treatment. Having been a patient at both a major private hospital and and also at a minor public hospital, copies of my PP ID formed the first part of my files.

Modern countries have all your visa and movement records on computor. Bogus stamps in a passport would only get you past a police officer or such checking you on the street.

The main reason people overstay is a lack of money. Banking rules probably wouldnt affect many. From my experience hospitals only take a copy of the PP details page, visas are not examined.

From the link I published earlier: "A staff member accompanied her to an ATM, but once they arrived, she said she didn't bring her ATM card.' Staff accompanied the woman to her hotel to retrieve her card, but when she tried to withdraw money, there was only 100 baht in her account. She allegedly claimed 'the stock market had crashed' and continued to offer various excuses before being dragged back to the bar to explain herself."

South African. Drinking tequilas, not eating. Tourist rants at police after 'refusing to pay drinks bill in Phuket' | Watch

Aliens in the country fot more than180 days a year are considered tax residents.

You got one thing right. I attended twice, then told my mother I wasn't going again, it was rubbish, Later the same priest started bible classes at my primary school telling the same old stories about slingshots and jawbones of asses. I again pulled out and was forced to always spend that period sitting quietly on a bench. I assessed and rejected your gods and the idiotic stories before I reached double figures in age.

I rest my case.