Thread: "Prizes" for informing on tourist teachers

Originally Posted by William

btw - I love how everyone is given a month's notice to prepare themselves for the oncoming crackdown.

You never know Smeg, your "mate" may well think it's cheaper to do you in / turn you over before the policy kicks-in, esp. if you give him notice of your intentions.

Its probably a "prevention is better than cure" approach. Its cheaper for the imm police to not have to pay out bounties, so maybe they are hoping that some offenders will find legal jobs or leave the country this month.

Luckily he doesn't know where I live or work, but you are right, life is cheap here.

Originally Posted by Smeg

There is one teacher I am considering shopping; a "friend" from last year (actually I only knew the guy a few weeks, hence not qualified as a friend at all),

well , he was a friend enough for you to hang out with him and lend him your phone. You obviously did consider him a friend.

maybe you had better make some "friends" amongst the bargirls, and you may find they are more reliable and honest.

or maybe not

Originally Posted by DrAndy

well , he was a friend enough for you to hang out with him and lend him your phone. You obviously did consider him a friend.

You may be right, but this was the first and last time I went drinking with him. As it was, he only paid for one round of four rounds of drinks we bought, and bored me senseless telling me about his smuggling runs to Myanmar, and about how clever he was for not having to pay income tax for his job in Thailand (and advised me to try to do the same), so I wouldn't have met him again anyway (maybe he knew that, so nicked me phone!)

4 drinks and you pissed!!! sound like a shandy light-weight to me mate

Yeah, sad aint it. But it was 4 large bottles of 4 different brews on an empty stomach (Chang, Sing, Leo, and pass!)

Originally Posted by Smeg

Yeah, sad aint it. But it was 4 large bottles of 4 different brews on an empty stomach (Chang, Sing, Leo, and pass!)

What were you doing ?

Having a beer tasting session?

Everyone knows u dont mix yer drinks!

^mate, where I come from, that's called lunch

yeah yeah, macho drinkers

when I was a lad we would play spin the barrel and.....

just think, if you can get pissed on four bottles of brew, how cheap a night you can have

works for me!!

Originally Posted by Smeg

Chang, Sing, Leo, and pass!)

Oh, come on.....thats not mixing your drinks. It's all beer.

^ I wouldn't wanna be your liver mate!

So how do I get me phone money back?

Originally Posted by William

The problem with that Smeg is that Imm have tried that policy for years with Bolier Room operators and have failed. Generally, as a rule of thumb, people who work in the places you mentioned are "aware" of their current status and have an exit planned. Foe example, I knew one guy who taught at a school here in Bangkok who point-blank refused to teach in a room that was not adjacent (sp?) to a fire-escape

What a wierdo.
I could understand if he was Jewish in Europe during WW2 but Thailand teaching. The guy needs to be deported for excess paranoia.

If the bounty was high enough I suppose it could be an earner but I think the bounty on Smeg's head would be higher. No shortage of willing donors to that cause!

^agreed on both points.
I tried to get him to write to Dear Poolie to clear up his problems. In the end he went back state-side.

Originally Posted by Smeg

Yeah, pretty dumb. I went to 7/11 for the Chang, he didn't like it so he bought Sing next time, I didn't like that so bought Leo. Then came the 4th round and he insisted that he had bought the last one, so I went again, and I think I bought tiger coz they had run out of Leo. (I knew that he hadn't but wasn't gonna argue over 90 baht)

Erm.. the 7/11 isn't a bar you know, you could buy a load and stick 'em in the fridge.

That's the first time I've ever heard of people buying ronds in a 7/11, takes all kinds, don't it...

yes, "no planning for the future" springs to mind!

anyway Smeg, if you know the phones reg number you could blacklist it so it cannot be used (can they do that in Thailand?). It gets done to stolen phones in the UK

Originally Posted by DrAndy

anyway Smeg, if you know the phones reg number you could blacklist it so it cannot be used (can they do that in Thailand?). It gets done to stolen phones in the UK

Yep I know it, but doing that doesn't get me any money.

well, it makes the phone worthless, so then he would be more likely to return it (having found it under the bed)

^ Good point, but he may have been straight down to MBK with it in December. (hence this is a bit cruel on the new owner)

well Smeg, you seem to have thought of everything

Why didn't you go round and give him a slap?

Originally Posted by Lily

I cant find anything in my passport to indicate that I have a work permit

Lily: you should have a red stamp on the last page of your passport

at least that's what I got, although it was through the BOI fast-track office in Ratchada and maybe different from the Labour Dept

Originally Posted by NickA

Why didn't you go round and give him a slap?

come on NickA, you know Smeg is not into direct confrontations

now if his ex-friend was on this forum.....

Originally Posted by NickA

Why didn't you go round and give him a slap?

Possible, but too risky.
It won't guarantee me getting me money, and the guy was practising with his ninja stars for about an hour of that evening in December (mainly on a tree, but a couple of soi dogs had a lucky escape!)

Originally Posted by klongmaster

Lily: you should have a red stamp on the last page of your passport

Agreed.