Coss Posted February 20, 2016 Report Share Posted February 20, 2016 Looks like they're rounding up undesirables again, or they could be just pinging quality tourists, on a fun night out... http://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/news/100-armed-police-raid-zoe-in-yellow-no-criminals-found/ No weapons, drugs or other dangerous items were found on any of the people there. Immigration police found no evidence of anyone overstaying their visas. All the tourists who did not have their passport with them were taken to Chiang Mai police station and processed. and http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1455879034 More than 100 officers raided nightclubs along Pattaya’s famed Walking Street early Friday morning and took dozens of foreigners in for interrogation because they were not holding passports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Hi, Wonder if the passport stuff is done to justify the raids in light of them not finding anything else. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted February 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Prolly no-one was carrying enough playing cards.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Wow lets go to Thailand and have a good time-NOT IF THEY WANT TO INVESTIGATE TRANSNATIONAL CRIME THEY SHOULD START WITH THE BIB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Prolly no-one was carrying enough playing cards.... ROTFLMAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Is it in fact a law that foreign nationals must carry their passport at all times?? Not so sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Friend here in Sydney got pulled up by Police recently and questioned over why he wasn't carrying any identification. His response " it was voted on back in 1987 and the government was told to shove it up it's arse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specialist Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 Is it in fact a law that foreign nationals must carry their passport at all times?? Not so sure... Apparently it is not. See here for some details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 There is no law saying you can only buy booze between 12 noon and 2pm and from 5pm to midnight, but try buy a bottle in a grocery of 7-Eleven outside of those hours. It's all based on a 1972 coup proclamation that Khun Purachai dredged up under Thaksin, simply because he is against alcohol consumption. When the courts pointed out that old coup proclamations have no legal standing, the wording was changed to "by order of the police". Now it says something like "by order of the Ministry of Health," but there is still no such law. This is Thailand. Just issue a proclamation whenever you feel like it. I've mentioned before how a colleague and I were pulled up short when we went to renew our visas in the mid 1980s. We were told we needed a work permit. No WP, no visa. Huh? We were Thai government employees and carried government ID cards as temporary Thai civil servants. We went back to the university, which was quite puzzled. But the rector (a mom rachawong) filled out the forms for us to apply for a WP. When we got to the Labour Dept, it was their turn to be puzzled. They showed us the Labour Law, which specifically stated that government employees were exempt from the WP requirement. We returned to Immigration with a copy of the Labour Law section, showing why we didn't need a WP. The reaction from the Immigration Police was short and simple. "We don't care what the law says. WE SAY you have to have a WP!" Now the Catch 22 set in, since Immigration wouldn't give us a visa without a WP, and Labour couldn't issue us a WP without a visa! After a few more trips running back and forth, Labour finally decided to give us a WP for the 3 remaining days left in our old visas. Immigration was beaming when we showed up with that, and you could see their delight in having forced the Labour Dept to bow to their will. Since then every government university lecturer has had to shell out money annually for a WP that is not actually required. Remember that when you ask about Thai laws. As the police told us way back then, "WE DON'T CARE what the law says. WE SAY ...!" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 23, 2016 Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 The Thais are riding high on all the quality Chinese tourists, so they can now fark with the farang... No worries, the Thais will screw with the tourists until there are no more tourists coming to Thailand, IMO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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