A British woman faces six months in jail for slapping an immigration official in Bali.
Auj-e Taqaddas overstayed her visa in Indonesia by 160 days. Upon trying to fly out of Bali, a passport control official noted her illegal presence in the country and asked her to pay a fine of $3,500.
Taqaddas flipped, yelling and cursing at the immigration officer and eventually slapping him across the face and trying to reclaim her passport. It was all captured on cell phone video.
She wasn’t locked up immediately. Instead, she was released after being assigned a court date. But she skipped her first court date. Then she skipped her second one. Meanwhile, she told the BBC that prosecutors had “tortured” her. Indonesian prosecutors vehemently deny this.
Bottom line: she’s not helping herself and remains trapped in Indonesia.
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I once wanted to slap an immigration official. It was in Almaty, Kazakhstan and I had to bribe my way out of the country on trumped-up charges of an invalid visa.
Boy did I want to reach across the desk and wipe the smug smirk of the face of the duplicitous immigration official who demanded a bribe from me even though I had a valid visa.
Thankfully, my anger did not dash all common sense from me.
> Read More: Bribing My Way Out of Kazakhstan
CONCLUSION
What a simple lesson we have today: don’t slap immigration officials. Not in Indonesia, not in the United States, not in Kazakhstan…not anywhere. For I can guarantee you that it will not turn out well.
(H/T: Flyertalk)
She deserves what she received. Overstaying by over 5 months is not an accident. She didn’t like the $25 a day fine, so she went nuts. Then after two missed court dates she was arrested in a shopping mall and kicked and screamed and swore there too. Zero sympathy for this one.
I won’t be lobbying my MP.
I saw a hatchet faced immigration officer in Bangkok last week confiscate the phones of some Malaysian ladies taking pictures in the immigration area. I didn’t see the ladies ask for them back, nor were there cries of racism for some reason. /sarc.
Agree. But there’s every chance those phones will end up for sale on eBay. We’ve seen that before with items confiscated at BKK, including cosmetics and perfumes over the size threshold. In those cases sold as part of a scam rather than what might have been a transparent, legitimate purpose, eg a charity auction. Some people suggest the involvement of the duty free provider in the scam ( in any case, “duty free” at BKK is a misnomer as almost everything on offer is retail price and there are no discounts).
It goes without saying that this woman deserves a jail sentence if she attacking this guy .
It’s much better value slapping a security worker not an immigration officer – just $30!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.upi.com/amp/South-Korean-woman-fined-after-slapping-airport-staff-in-Thailand/1041548788099/
Or you can get away without penalty for slapping a security official , but only if you’re a ‘hiso ‘, high ranking ‘officer’, eg the case at BKK in which a young guy manning the security screening devices had his ears boxed by a fat scumbag senior official , who insisted that he shouldn’t need to be scrutinised like ordinary people. The victim suffered hearing loss and the case caused some outrage in Thailand ( even though it’s pretty much par for the course behaviour for some of those entitled creeps ).
Lol. Skipping 2 court summons surely won’t resulted in summoned with red carpet and flowers for the third one….