A Grand Day Out. Not.

[tuktukmike]

Well i was lucky enough to have to go to Bangkok this week to arrange licenses i require.

So i met my agent in the shipping office and off we went to the Department of Foreign Trade. what a grand day out it turned into.

I have never had to photocopy sign and stamp so many pieces of A4 paper in my life, where do they store all this.

Then you are sent from one office to another to another to another, after all this you must wait, and wait, and of course wait.

Then they inform me that it would be better if i came back the next day as they are busy with so much paperwork, REALLY.

After some begging and ass licking they agreed to complete it all on the same day.

So my advice to anyone who has to deal with goverment departments is, take a packed lunch, wear trainers for all that running around from office to office, oh and maybe some Valium to keep you calm.

Anyone else had the same probs.

Mike.

[buksida]

Oh yes, ever tried getting an official press card here? You need a wheelbarrow to carry the stack of papers from MOFA to their office. The procedure when there though is not actually that painful.

But then you need to cart that barrow of papers to Immigration, where you resign all 36,000 of them before carting them all to the Labour Dept. I must have signed so many times that my signature actually read "Donald Duck" by the time I'd finished.

[tuktukmike]

Funny you bringing that up,

Was talking to Alan from Asia Times just the other night.

He was telling us that you had to jump through hoops to get a press visa and work permit. think he mentioned that at the moment the goverment is not press friendly.

As i first said, why do you have to do so much paperwork and why do they send you from office to office.

When all was finished i felt knackered and still had the drive back to Hua Hin.

When Will We Get A Tollway like Pattaya has????

Mike.

[rosso]

Hello

Last time I missed to wear a helmet and I had to pay about 200 Baht at the police office.
I was astonished how many paper they fill out by hand and at the end I had to wait about 90 minutes to pay the penalty.

regards from Swiss ( the country of Jaegermeister )
Rosso

[PeteC]

Last time I missed to wear a helmet and I had to pay about 200 Baht at the police office.
I was astonished how many paper they fill out by hand and at the end I had to wait about 90 minutes to pay the penalty.

Here in fun city the officer collects it on the spot and on you're on your way. Of course, this is supplemental pay for him and it never goes into city funds. Pete

[Norseman]

Happens here in HH too prcscct. Was stopped a year ago outside City Beach Hotel. One way traffic reason. 200 Bt solved the problem.
Had otherwise to pay 300Bt at the police station. A minute after I was stopped, a man in brown followed in my tyre tracks. What about him I asked "my" policeman.
No no he said. And that's it.

Equality before the law?