Frenchwoman deported for vaping

No. I don't know the facilities at BK Airport, normally you pass immigration without any additional controls, I always carried my little vape gears in my pockets in case luggage would be inspected. If there isn't a bodyscan, then they don't look in your pockets. All the cases I know with reported seizures of vape stuff at airports by now, they are only prosecuted by a high fine you have to pay instantly at the airport. Its only a waste of time, but no arresting.
All those cases where people were arrested happend when vaping in public and in addition resistiing to pay the fine right at the spot. In all other cases reported beeing cought on the street vaping nothing happened to those who respectfully payed "tea-money". So its up to you how to come up with the situation. Either I am just a lucky girl or just very careful I never ever had any problems.

 

Sadly the tea money in this case can be 20-30k. In this case of course it didn't happen, after all one of the highly trusted senior cops said so (yeah right). BJ seems less concerned about that particular flavour of illegal though.

Wouldn't mind so much if they decided they wanted to keep it illegal. Other countries do. But legislate for it properly so everyone knows what the penalties are FFS rather than letting the BIB draw upon some tenuous legislation using the severe penalties for that legislation to up the ante and scare folks in terms of the bribes they demand to not face prosecution. It's that aspect to me that makes Thailand look stupid. Legislate for it properly one way or the other. It could be a project for BJ. Sadly though there doesn't seem to be as much of an incentive to keep the thieving paws of corrupt BIB off of folks' hard earned money as there is to deter the use of corrupt agents WRT visas.

 

Its stories like this French Lady being caught and all the B/S now going on at Immigration
that is driving me closer to the exit gate at the airport, I am really getting fed up with all of this B/S.

Cheers
Rowdy

 

I just had a confusing discussion with someone from the country who emphasized that the only reason for this law against vaping in Thailand was because of abuse possibility of ingredients in the e-cig, namely drugs like Cannabis or crack or others. And the police cannot recognize what a vaper ist inhaling, so therefore they banned it completely. I never heard of that, and asked for an official source.
My answer was somekind of a question: How can a police officer recognize what a smoker has in his self rolled cigarette?

 

exactly, that what was written in a news paper (with one?,more than 2 year ago, maybe 3) e-cig can be used for other purpose that's why. My wife tall me the same story; TV information.
A very very bad excuse IMO, for other purpose people don't need to playing around with the functionality of a e-cig, it's just boring.

 

I don't remember wen: Police arrest a foreigner and his associate who were selling in the south, home made, special plant juice. media were quite discrete, information at the TV love it. Maybe the information form the people you meet come from that?