I took a boy from Tom Yam about 2 weeks ago. He had id and checked out as 19, even though I was doubtful at first.

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How did you check out the age of 19? The teeth (like a horse)? The rings in his anus (like a tree)?

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555 ... no, from his ID card! subtract 543 and u have his d.o.b. easy !

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I had assumed you meant that the age check and his ID were independent of each other. After all, boys carrying ID cards that are not their own are, so I'm told, not unknown. I never ask to see ID cards, as I stay at Tarntawan Hotel when in Thailand and they always check that sort of thing themselves.

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The ID cards do have their photo, and full name and I haven't come across a fake one yet ...... though I am aware boys do "borrow" cards on occassions. The guards at my condo in Jomtien just smile and salute when I bring a boy back, so I cant rely on them to do the checking for me!

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The ID cards do have their photo, and full name and I haven't come across a fake one yet

My closest tells me there are numerous places in Bangkok, well known, where you can in 5 minutes buy a fake ID card, fake ID number and name, with your photo. Don't know about Pattaya but my guess is that it would be easy enough.

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I'd imagine it's the boy's "lunch" he's hoping to enjoy.

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How do you think I'd go in court. "well guv, I mean yr 'honour, sir. The security guard said he was 18. fair dinkum... so how was i to know ...??"

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-- Several yrs. ago I was told the story of a Swedish tourist who, having checked the young girl's ID., ret'd. to his hotel with her.
- After it was all over the girl left.
- However, she ret'd. not long after accompanied by a couple of BKK's. Finest who charged him with picking-up a minor.
- He protested that he'd checked her ID. first of all, and that the ID. at wch. he looked shewed her as being over 18YO..
- The Police asked her to shew them her ID., she complied - it was for an under-age girl.
-- Maybe she worked with the Police and both profited thereby?

-- I have been wondering if some of those under-age looking boyz in SUNEE PLAZA might not be police 'plants.' designed to catch the unwary tourist?
- Catch a farang tourist with an u'age. boi - good PR. etc. etc. for Pattaya's Finest - ha!
-- Bibi. --

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Security at Tarntawan also write down the ID details in the book they keep of everyone's comings and goings. As we all should know, Thailand is the Land of Scams and I take every precaution I can.

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I have honestly never heard of anything like that happening.The arrests that are publicised are usually for VERY "dec dec" (like 12 to 14) , but I agree with all above posts ...... best to be vigilant. There are so many cute 18 - 20's guys why the hell would any-one risk the trama of under-age (unless thay are paedophile?)

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Do you know where such persons are available? Thais can't get an ID card until they are 16, right?

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-- Wrong.
- Every Thai has to report-in and be issued with his/her ID. on his/her fifteenth, (15th.), b'day..
- sources:
1.- Farang who teaches in an int'l. school;
2.- Two Thai staff in CHESTER'S GRILL.
-- Bibi. --

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It's amazing how people see what they expect to see. My comment was intended to point out the obvious nonsense you typically spout, that a boy such as you describe would not, in fact, be old enough have an ID card.

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