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Doc67 wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:21 am Paragraph 3 is just as interesting.

After just one offence you get a yellow card and you will be denied permission to "stay in Thailand". Waat does that mean? Will you be denied entry at the airport or trying to check-in? For how long does this prohibition last for?
Is your passport stamped accordingly?
Does this mean that when your current visa expires your "visit" has concluded and you cannot obtain an extension?

They come up with these things and then realise it is unworkable and drop them, meanwhile these scare stories live on the internet forever.

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From those pictures Phuket seems to have gone downhill lately.

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i read it as you wont be allowed back a 2nd time> how long?? who knows

the drive thru window is ONLY for doing 90 day reports and has always been on the left side of the car, so no real change other than it was moved to the back of the building as the lines would stretch out into the road before on a busy day

I agree , it wont pass, but they need do something to control these guys as it happens every year

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Police tracked down and fined a Frenchman yesterday for ‘annoying’ residents by revving his loud rented motorbike along the Bangla Road in Phuket, southern Thailand, in the early hours of Monday morning.

At 5am on Monday, Phuket traffic police were tipped off that a group of four to five ‘dek waen’ (motorbike racers) were causing a ruckus outside a convenience store on Bangla Road by revving their loud engines, sending plumes of smoke into the air.

Traffic police raced down Bangla Road to swoop in on the gang but the boy racers managed to flee. However, police did manage to catch the registration details of one white Yamaha TMAX.

Two days later, police tracked the motorbike to a Frenchman identified as Sofiane Ouenzerfi. Police charged Ouenzerfi with causing annoyance to others and driving a motorbike without a license and fined him 1,500 baht.

Investigators summoned the real owner of the motorbike to Patong Police Station and fined him 1000 baht for renting out a motorbike to someone without a license.

Police said they also informed the French Embassy in Bangkok of the turn of events to address the problem of lack of adherence to traffic rules among French people in Phuket.
IF they wanted to stop this , all they need do is require the motorbike renters NEED see a motorcycle license< No license no rent
BUT there is to much Baht to be made by everyone :-)
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It appears the dickhead factor in Phuket is off the charts.
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25th March, 2023

Phuket’s red card system for foreigners nabs 6

Phuket Immigration has announced those punished with their new yellow card and red card system for misbehaving foreigners.

This month so far, two foreigners received red cards and four received yellow cards. Authorities also note that 181 foreigners are currently involved in criminal cases and working their way through the legal process.

According to Phuket Immigration, most of the foreigners involved in these cases are from Russia, France, the UK, Myanmar, and Cambodia. The majority of cases are located in Patong. The most common offences involve drunk driving, overstaying, illegally entering the kingdom and working without a permit.

Phuket Immigration made clear that what others do or what others are caught for is irrelevant, and the only consideration in punishment is the individual’s actions.

In the first half of March, two French, a Ukrainian and a Swedish national were on the receiving end of yellow cards. Red cards were handed out to a Swedish and a French national who were both then deported.

The trial card program, currently operational in Phuket only, could potentially be extended to other tourist hotspots like Pattaya, Chiang Mai, and Koh Samui should it prove effective.

Phuket Immigration responded with the assurance that abiding by Thailand’s laws and regulations should keep foreign visitors out of trouble.

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/p ... ers-nabs-6
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Very obvious that the Thais don't want foreigners living there and clearly only want foreigners to do business trips then promptly leave.

I don't see why someone would willingly live there.
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Darkcel wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:05 am Very obvious that the Thais don't want foreigners living there and clearly only want foreigners to do business trips then promptly leave.

I don't see why someone would willingly live there.
BS: they dont want farnags that cause trouble< Yep 6 yellow/ red cards out of a million ++ arrivals :facepalm:

beats anywhere else i've been /lived since i started traveling in the 60's :beer3:
on the lived list, ie more than 10 months each
America
Amsterdam
Mexico
Bahamas
Cambodia
Nepal
Hong Kong
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'making noise'

That's funny, really, it's the Thai national pastime.

Richard being the apologist for Thailand as usual,
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Darkcel wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:05 am Very obvious that the Thais don't want foreigners living there and clearly only want foreigners to do business trips then promptly leave.

I don't see why someone would willingly live there.
Well I've lived in Thailand since 2006 and it has been great. But YMMV. It's a bit more complex than you make it sound in your first paragraph. I think the main issue is that the Thais have certain ideas about the kind of foreigner they want to attract, but many if not most of those foreigners they actually attract are quite a bit different. That leads to disappointment, on both sides.
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phuketrichard wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:31 pm what happens every feb /march is a bunch of African Arab French show up and rent those tmax 150 cc bikes and terrorize the island by running red lights, overtaking on the wrong side and causing general mayhem especially up an down the west coast
One cut me off yesterday on the road between Kamala and Surin

two examples;
Feb 9th
French tourists arrested for driving around Patong making noise
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Seven French tourists were arrested and fined by Phuket police last night for disturbing the peace with their motorcycles in the island’s party town of Patong.
Just love how these mothafuckin dickheads stick together and never talk to anyone who isn't French, etc... Personally, I think the RED CARD system is a great idea... Should have it in Cambodia. Three times without a helmet, get deported. But the cops don't have the computer records or brains to manage that, sadly
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orichá wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:03 am
Just love how these mothafuckin dickheads stick together and never talk to anyone who isn't French, etc...
Good to see your bout of self-loathing has lifted.
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