Observatons from Eakamai Bus Terminal, BKK

[z909]

Corruption rewards the corrupt & the connected, rather than the talented people who grow successful businesses.

That's why Thailand will underachieve as long as they tolerate this entrenched corruption.

[Beachlover]

Corruption rewards the corrupt & the connected, rather than the talented people who grow successful businesses.

That's why Thailand will underachieve as long as they tolerate this entrenched corruption.

Totally true... a country where the smartest, hardest working, most innovative or most risk taking people aren't fairly rewarded for this... will never flourish to its full potential.

As much as there are many things wrong with the US, its ability to create an environment supporting capitalism and opportunity is why it has risen to the enormous and wealthy giant it is today (for a while anyway!).

[Astrro]

A farang friend of mine in his 30's was searched at Ekkami about 6 months ago.

[TrongpaiExpat]

A farang friend of mine in his 30's was searched at Ekkami about 6 months ago.

And............ Did the police say what they were looking for. Was he take out off the platform to someplace where no one would see what they were doing or saying? What did they say? Any tea money requests?

I really think that if you do not have any contraband, you have your passport and a current visa, then there's no extortion. You have to do or have something illegal and then and only then do the police work the extortion rackets.