My brother-in-law was a Thai policeman. I ran into a baht bus (taxi) once and the driver, seeing I was an American immediately started pointing out ten years of scrapes and dents from service in Bangkok. He figured that at the least he would get a new truck and probably get several.
When the police arrived on the scene the sgt in charge was my brother-in-law.
Instead of a new fleet of trucks, I believe the driver spent a little time in a Thai jail.
Now, my sister-in-law was a different story, the only time she visited was on military pay days.
