Can anyone identify where...

[christianpfc]

...there is an average 10/12 districts for each one of the 78 thai provinces.

More precisely 76 provinces plus Bangkok, with 878 districts (amphoe) plus the 50 districts (khet) of Bangkok.

[latintopxxx]

...does it prove anything...could be off a government website or something...can we please have some more pics of hung wanna be monks having water poured on them...please

[Nirish guy]

I'm guessing now that he knows you're no slouch his pic selection will be a LOT more careful than before.

Mind you I've found a simple 'Ohhhh sorry cannot" repeated over and over where required usually is enough to stop such requests eventually. And whilst they may huff for a period the ones who were a genuine ( semi) friend usually pick up the conversation where it left off later, whereas the ones who refuse to every talk to you where usually the ones who were only ever talking to me to attempt to get money out of me in the first place ! ( oh how they must have departed so disappointed as THAT almost never happens !

[goji]

Mind you I've found a simple 'Ohhhh sorry cannot" repeated over and over where required usually is enough to stop such requests eventually. And whilst they may huff for a period the ones who were a genuine ( semi) friend usually pick up the conversation where it left off later, whereas the ones who refuse to every talk to you where usually the ones who were only ever talking to me to attempt to get money out of me in the first place !

A very good point.

[gerefan2]

Thanks llz. He did tell me he would have to go to court in Surin, if he couldn’t cough up now. Perhaps the process starts in one of these offices. Sikhoraphum Is the nearest town.

Nirish. He says he needs 15000 to escape jail. I usually send him 5000 a month, but only while this virus thing is on.I’m still not sure whether he is making it all up but am highly suspicious!

As a matter of interest he is the one who was kept in Kuwait when the massage owner refused to return his passport.
See here....
https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showt...ems&highlight=

I’ve known him for about 4 years ...and am fully aware of begging messages!

You comments are spot on Nirish!!

[sglad]

Nirish. He says he needs 15000 to escape jail. I usually send him 5000 a month, but only while this virus thing is on.I’m still not sure whether he is making it all up but am highly suspicious!

Well, if he can openly admit to breaking a law (the alcohol ban) that's been very well publicised and has severe penalties, what makes you think he won't lie to you? Did you think you were special?

PS The easiest thing for him to do is show you the charge sheet which would have his name on it, not some random pictures and newspaper articles.

[Marc K]

Gosh, when will we ever learn! The sad thing is it is often hard to tell if the begging message is legitimate or totally contrived. If the plea WERE for a real emergency, I think most of us would be happy to open our wallets and send some juice to help our (semi)friends. But we just never know. It is a pity really that there is no better way of judging the credibility of such pleas.

Right now it seems that more and more young men are in a precarious position. The economy there (by all accounts) really does suck. Legitimate jobs are very scarce. Illegitimate ones (such as gerefan's friend's) are fraught with new dangers.

I have read on TV a thread about the reaction of people to the closing down of alcohol sales. You'd think the sky was falling in! It is hard to realize there are so many people who seemingly simply cannot exist without it. This demand pull might very well put some young men off track to engage in illegal sales where they are very unlikely otherwise to be lawbreakers. Sad.

[christianpfc]

I thought the ภูธร poo-ton in สถานีตำรวจภูธร... sà-tăa-nee dtam-rùat poo-ton... is part of the geographical name. But it is not! It goes with สถานีตำรวจภูธร sà-tăa-nee dtam-rùat poo-ton and means "provincial"; provincial police station (followed by the geographical name).

Transliteration and translation from https://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/1402560.html

[BonTong]

I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but the Chang Puek giveaway in the first pic is the Police Captain who is definitely at Chang Puek Definitely one of Thailand's more "interesting" police stations.

Some trivia regarding the name. Chang Puek means White Elephant. Legend says the white elephant, an animal with significant religious symbolism, was released from Chang Puek Gate and allowed to wander. It headed off into the jungle and up the mountain. Where it laid down to rest was the site chosen by the elephant to build Wat Phra Doi Suteph, with its famous gold stupha overlooking Chiang Mai. I think the elephant was originally a present to from some king or prince to another. That's the jist of the story ayway.

The white elephant monument (I believe built by King Kawila, who rebuilt Chiang Mai after some big war) still exists on Chang Puek Rd about 500m North of Chang Puek gate. Many here have probably passed it without even realising as its rather uninspiring. Street View