News Forum - Dead man walking – after being ‘dead’ for 25 years, Thai man receives new ID card

[Thaiger]

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”, Mark Twain And so it is with a 63 year old Thai man from Nakhon Sawan in central Thailand. In fact, he’s lucky to get to 65 because, according to the local district office, he apparently died in 1997. But his ‘resurrection’ has caused a number of issues for him as his Thai ID was cancelled because of his ‘death’, a paperwork mistake when another man with the same name had died. But Ong-art Boonyarit didn’t realise there was a problem with his walking around as a living citizen until he went […]

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[palooka]

Only took 9 years, probably a record for fixing up an official stuff up in Thailand.