News Forum - Norwegian overstayer arrested on Koh Samui

[Thaiger]

Thailand’s crackdown on overstayers is continuing, and the latest offender busted is a Norwegian man on Koh Samui. Surat Thani immigration officers arrested the man, 43 year old Jan Banan Thalmann, at a house in Samui district’s Mae Nam sub-district on Saturday. Police said Thalmann had overstayed his visa by 15 days. His reasons for overstaying were not clear, The Phuket Express reported. He was taken to the Koh Samui Police Station to face overstaying charges. Thalmann’s arrest followed a string of arrests of visa overstayers in Thailand.  On December 8, Immigration Police arrested a Polish man in Koh Samui, […]

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[Freddan]

Funny he call him self Jan Banan, no-one has a name like that because "Banan" it translates to banana.

[HolyCowCm]

15 days? This guy should have known he was in Immigration's striking distance and he was no exception to the rule of overstay. He should have known that they are looking for everyone and anyone and now he has subjected himself to arrest and will be deported. Happy Holidays to these guys as it would have been much easier to border hop and clear yourself rather than taking any chance of getting nabbed like this one did.

[Wackamole]

4 hours ago, Freddan said:

Funny he call him self Jan Banan, no-one has a name like that because "Banan" it translates to banana.

lol I was wondering. But it might be the Thais who butchered his name. There are often incredible names in these reports.

[Soidog]

15 hours ago, HolyCowCm said:

15 days? This guy should have known he was in Immigration's striking distance and he was no exception to the rule of overstay. He should have known that they are looking for everyone and anyone and now he has subjected himself to arrest and will be deported. Happy Holidays to these guys as it would have been much easier to border hop and clear yourself rather than taking any chance of getting nabbed like this one did.

I think part of the problem HC with many westerners is they think it’s like back home. People come and stay and immigration never seem to bother much and certainly not after 15 days. Thailand is not Western Europe

[BJoe]

There are at least hundreds of over-stayers, maybe thousands. These long term illegals are in-trenched in rural provinces and more difficult to detect. But it’s the criminal element that authorities should be targeting, not the 15 day over-stayers who indirectly contributing to the economy. Probably supporting a girl friend, her children by a dead-beat Thai husband, her parents, her other boy friend, a water buffalo, and …..her former husband.

[Pinetree]

9 minutes ago, BJoe said:

But it’s the criminal element that authorities should be targeting, not the 15 day over-stayers who indirectly contributing to the economy.

So that absolves them from following Immigration Law does it?  The very reason that the rest of us have to put up with 90 day reports, ,TM30s and a limited 12 month extension of stay is precisely because of the idiots who over stay. Good that they are being rounded up and thrown out, notwithstanding their supposed contribution to the economy. 

[TWS60]

Be interesting to know what his plan was when he first came to Thailand, and the thought process to overstay - if there was one.   43 years old, not eligible for an easy extension path.   2-week drinking binge and lost track of the days?   Perhaps he doesn't think highly of the Thai acumen and work ethic, and figured it would take the silly monkeys a looong time to get to him, if at all.   Imagine being him that day when the door bell rang, thinking it was Grab delivering lunch.  Ooops!   Impressive action by Thai Immigration, for a mere 15-day overstay.

[Jerrygarcia]

i know this guy, total alcoholic dirtbag. hope they kick him out forever. most likely running away from norway and has no place to go.

[Soidog]

1 hour ago, TWS60 said:

Imagine being him that day when the door bell rang, thinking it was Grab delivering lunch.  Ooops!   Impressive action by Thai Immigration, for a mere 15-day overstay.

Perhaps it was the holiday girlfriend who decided she had got all she could and he wouldn’t move on. A quick call to immigration would solve her problem. 

[thingamabob]

Overstaying is entirely avoidable unless an illness/disability is preventing the foreigner from travelling to an immigration office. However, some of the cases listed here are only a few days overdue, and they are definitely not Chinese gangsters, so one wonders just why the police are focussing on them.

 

[Soidog]

5 minutes ago, thingamabob said:

Overstaying is entirely avoidable unless an illness/disability is preventing the foreigner from travelling to an immigration office. However, some of the cases listed here are only a few days overdue, and they are definitely not Chinese gangsters, so one wonders just why the police are focussing on them.

I think it’s a case that the focus is on overstayers and the message has been lost that the real focus is on gangsters and illegal business operations. People like this guy are just low hanging fruit for the local immigration police. I’m sure BJ is shaking his head in disbelief also. 

[TWS60]

4 hours ago, BJoe said:

There are at least hundreds of over-stayers, maybe thousands. These long term illegals are in-trenched in rural provinces and more difficult to detect. But it’s the criminal element that authorities should be targeting, not the 15 day over-stayers who indirectly contributing to the economy. Probably supporting a girl friend, her children by a dead-beat Thai husband, her parents, her other boy friend, a water buffalo, and …..her former husband.

What do you know about the bloke in this article? 

Who's to say he isn't criminal element from abroad?  

In Thailand, I hedge that bet 50/50 all day everyday, because this IS Thailand.

So he could be a 43-year old solid citizen blowing off steam in Thailand after COVID.  Maybe got divorced from his obese Caucasian wife and came here to finally quench his internet porn fetish for Asian chicks.  Drinking beer, having a great time and just got carried away.  Not an unusual TiT scenario. 

Flip side is the clean cut looking white boy sat next to you in the pub supping a beer, could very well be a proper villain laying low in Thailand.  Perhaps he killed his obese, nagging wife, buried her in the backyard then went to the airport.  Sounds whack, but is it?  Not really. 

Met some 'professional' criminals here who weren't at all shy to say their MO is to do crime for 4 to 6 months, then pop over to Thailand for a cheap sand, birds and beer holiday to let the security and police heat cool down for a while.  Wash, rinse, repeat.   Ok, they're not axe murderers but if you knew what they did for a living, would you be friends or drinking buddies with them back home?

Objectively, Thailand created its own reputation over many decades, which (still)  attracts the criminal element looking to get off the radar.  And as my own country's zoo keepers have learned, if you let all the minor stuff go, the monkeys will take advantage, and when polite society has finally had enough, it takes a lot of skull cracking to turn the ship around later on. 

[TWS60]

41 minutes ago, Soidog said:

Perhaps it was the holiday girlfriend who decided she had got all she could and he wouldn’t move on. A quick call to immigration would solve her problem. 

Asian women are submissive, innocent angels. 

They would never do something like that. 

[Donald]

Will have to forward this article to all the Thai's here in Georgia that seem to be oblivious to the racist attitude of the Thai government. We are not talking about criminals hiding out, but ordinary people that for whatever reason stay longer as they should have. Anybody here that has any idea of the amount of Thai people that are working without a work permit and overstaying in Koreo, Georgia or really any other part of the world. There must be tens of thousands .At worst they will be deported, but they will certainly not be arrested and used as a show piece for the "good" police work . Of course I expect the Thai apologists here to justify this as they are all so "clean".

[Poolie]

23 minutes ago, Donald said:

Will have to forward this article to all the Thai's here in Georgia that seem to be oblivious to the racist attitude of the Thai government. We are not talking about criminals hiding out, but ordinary people that for whatever reason stay longer as they should have. Anybody here that has any idea of the amount of Thai people that are working without a work permit and overstaying in Koreo, Georgia or really any other part of the world. There must be tens of thousands .At worst they will be deported, but they will certainly not be arrested and used as a show piece for the "good" police work . Of course I expect the Thai apologists here to justify this as they are all so "clean".

Great idea. Get at it straight away.