Did my run today, seems to be the same, two hours including stop at duty free!

Two hours is quick,did you have an agency walk your documents through?

yes, but mainly for the cheap ride across the bridge and back, for the two of us!

Ran into a Brit from KHON KAEN, has a business there (recycle plastic), but on a 60 day tourist visa. Hmm, he had to stay over night?

Later when I thought about it, not a good idea to have a business on a 60 day tourist visa!

Dakoda you would be amazed at the number of farang with businesses and on a tourist visa.Seems very odd to me as well.Al ocal guesthouse and also a karioke bar are owned by tourist farang.

Just hope they dont get caught, for their own benefit

It's frightening really at the risks people will take.

As far as I can remember - unless you have a non-imm B-type (work) visa, your passport will be stamped with 'Employment Prohibited' on any other kind of visa.
It is possible to get a work permit though on a Non-imm O visa (support Thai wife), but again its a non- immigrant visa, not a Tourist Visa - which is for exactly that - Tourist

If you are caught working when prohibited - its usually deportation and is worded simply- violation of visa terms.

As you say though, it is staggering how many do break the rules and its on their shoulders I guess.

The paperwork required for a work permit (and the costs involved) is staggering - so sometimes its not suprising people dont do it.

If theres one thing Thailand likes above all other its bloody paperwork - endless forms and photocopies, its almost a joke.

Hmm, that's what I have! and no plans to work! well I am suppose to be looking for art work to import into the states, I have taken a few pictures and sent them back!

Like most Brit's he was going on and on about why he could not marry his TG, but what came to me later, (most times I just let Brit's talk, in one ear out the other, without thinking much, maybe its the language barrier) after remembering him saying he was getting a new machine to process bottles and while talking to the Brit over on Soi one, that his Thai partner would just have to report him and he would be gone! Actually the Brit from Soi one said that! And he was worried about his TG, go figure!

Very odd that these guys do not marry the girlfriends.They fear they will lose eveything and yet if a competitor gets a sniff that they are on a tourist visa its all over too.Strange way to live a life.