DWB

For starters, no one gives a shit here how tall your grass is, if you have a dirty yard, or if you don't pay property taxes. The police would never, ever bother anyone about such nonsense. Minor traffic offenses and tourist shake downs excluded, the police don't waste their time on petty stuff like that, and certainly would never enter your home searching for someone unless they knew 100% they were hiding in the house because a neighbor ratted them out.

However, even in third world shit holes we are sometimes more advanced than western barbarians. Every legal citizen has an ID and every foreigner who entered the country has a passport. All run through the proper database and they will have a print out of that person (ID photo and ID print out) with them along with the warrant so they can clearly see the person they are speaking to is or is not the person they are looking for. They don't make the mistakes American police make, and they are 3rd world pea brains. Thai police always know exactly who they are arresting when they go to a home with an arrest warrant.

Anyway... So they would knock on my gate, I'd mozy out there and ask them what they want, they would look at the photo, see it is not me, ask if I know him or if he was inside, I would say no, and they would say "thank you" and leave. No one would ask to come in to search my property, no one would jump the gate to make me get an ID because they already have the photo of the person they are after, and they would be nice and friendly. If I was in a really good mood I'd ask them if they wanted waters or beer, which they may or may not decline and I'd make a few new friends.

That doesn't mean the police are all good here. They are incredibly corrupt, but even the bad ones usually treat you the way they should and don't overstep their boundaries unless you're in one of the big tourist cities and you get caught up in a shake down.

It boggles my mind that in the USA in the year 2013, the greatest nation on earth can't serve a warrant and have a photograph of the person they are serving it to. Just about everyone is in the system and photographed these days for one thing or another. Yet if they came with a photo then they couldn't be assholes and bullies, shooting up the wrong house or accidentally killing the wrong person. I personally think these dicks get off on being abusive. If they can figure out how to get the right person in Thailand but they can't in the USA, that really says something.

I had to get out of the USA to get perspective on how twisted it really is. When you're in the eye of the hurricane, it all seems somewhat normal.