Don't stamp your passport with Hello Kitty - the Taiwanese don't like it!

[webfact]

Don't stamp your passport with Hello Kitty - the Taiwanese don't like it!

 

Caption: Can't travel because of Kitty

 

A Thai woman went online to advise people not to decorate their passports with pink stamps of the cartoon character Hello Kitty. 

 

This is because the Taiwanese authorities won't let you into their country.

 

Three passports similarly defaced were shown online after an airline barred the holders from travelling to Taiwan at the weekend. 

 

The holders argued that they had got into plenty of other countries before but the airline wouldn't budge. 

 

It was unclear whether the passport holders were children or adults. 

 

Netizens related similar stories about Taiwan - apparently it was a turkey shoot as to whether you'd get in if you'd put cartoon stamps on your passport. 

 

More adults netizens pointed out that a passport was a grown-up document issued by a government - deface it at your peril. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[kotsak]

I've run out of facepalms..

 

[Pilotman]

Tell Eva Air that, I hated that paint job, even though it was on the outside not the inside. 

[Happy Grumpy]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

A Thai woman went online to advise people not to decorate their passports with pink stamps

What a revolutionary concept!

 

Don't decorate the pages in my passport? 

 

Thank god I read this. I was about to tie-dye mine. 

[Briggsy]

My God, those stamps are on the inside pages. Is the woman insane?

[Vacuum]

30 minutes ago, webfact said:

It was unclear whether the passport holders were children or adults. 

'Adults' for sure.

[seeyoujimmy]

14 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

My God, those stamps are on the inside pages. Is the woman insane?

No just your typical Thai adult.

[nikmar]

edited as was stating the bleeding obvious. apologies.

[holy cow cm]

I guess porno pictures printed on pages are out of bounds too. What’s the world coming too!

[smedly]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

It was unclear whether the passport holders were children or adults. 

in Thailand they stop mentally maturing at 8 - problem being they physically mature and  get to play with adult things like cars motorbikes guns and passports 

[Wilsonandson]

Why do we even need a passport in this digital world we live in?
An iris scan and thumbprint at the border should be enough.

[overherebc]

10 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

I guess porno pictures printed on pages are out of bounds too. What’s the world coming too!

???

[yodsak]

Kasikorn were giving out hello kitty bankbooks/cards.  i don't think you had a choice. 

Sadly discontinued.

[overherebc]

Wouldn't any stamp you put in yourself be defacing the passport and technically make it invalid?

[Briggsy]

10 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Wouldn't any stamp you put in yourself be defacing the passport and technically make it invalid?

Yes, that is the point of the story.

[stanleycoin]

1 hour ago, kotsak said:

I've run out of facepalms..

 

Have this one.

 

[overherebc]

24 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

Yes, that is the point of the story.

Aware of that. I suppose I was thinking about a statement in the OP about the holder saying she had been allowed into 'other' countries with the stamp in her passport.

Surprised she got past Imm' in Thailand unless using auto gates.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

It was unclear whether the passport holders were children or adults.

In Thailand is there much difference? 

[Snow Leopard]

1 hour ago, Vacuum said:

'Adults' for sure.

With a mental age and IQ  added together that is the same as their shoe size and for sure should not be let out alone. Some people just don't have the intelligence for international travel (Westerners included).

[Just Weird]

1 hour ago, seeyoujimmy said:

No just your typical Thai adult.

Really?  The majority of Thais do this, do they?

[Justgrazing]

Could've been worse .. Imagine Immigration's response to this one ..

 

 

[overherebc]

2 minutes ago, Snow Leopard said:

With a mental age and IQ  added together that is the same as their shoe size and for sure should not be let out alone. Some people just don't have the intelligence for international travel (Westerners included).

Yep.

I remember a question ( on another forum ) from a guy from USA asking if he needed a passport to visit Vietnam because the USA won the war there.

[Snow Leopard]

14 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Yep.

I remember a question ( on another forum ) from a guy from USA asking if he needed a passport to visit Vietnam because the USA won the war there.

Nothing like a great knowledge of modern history. I am sure the CIA didn't shoot Kennedy either. 

[Basil B]

It was the airline who refused to let them fly...

 

Probably there have been other instances and Taiwan has sent out a memo to Airlines warning them that they may refuse entry and fine the airline. 

 

But I would think Thai Immigration would take a dim view of it also.  

[Bluespunk]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

A Thai woman went online to advise people not to decorate their passports with pink stamps of the cartoon character Hello Kitty.

Only the terminally stupid would require -or have to give- such advice...

[trainman34014]

9 minutes ago, Snow Leopard said:

Nothing like a great knowledge of modern history. I am sure the CIA didn't shoot Kennedy either. 

Ask any Paddy and they will tell you the IRA did it because he wouldn't fund their weapons shipments !

[Bluespunk]

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

My God, those stamps are on the inside pages. Is the woman insane?

Yes.

[Razek]

Stupid peoples are everywhere . Why stamp hello kitty in passport?

Why not in their ass

[jacko45k]

37 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Yep.

I remember a question ( on another forum ) from a guy from USA asking if he needed a passport to visit Vietnam because the USA won the war there.

Seems to be lacking knowledge on a few subjects there. 

[stanleycoin]

13 minutes ago, Basil B said:

 

But I would think Thai Immigration would take a dim view of it also.  

Nah.

They would say it needs to be done in Blue ink.