I. was. being. a dick.posting. without even. one sentence.
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I am thoroughly entertained by such runners and characters (and my old commentary in this thread from more than a decade ago). Come on folks – this is what makes Taiwan so much fun.
Takes me back to the days when there were often one or more Canucky stories-in-the-news a month.
If this dude is from Saskatchewan as was mentioned, they should give him an Order of Saskatchewan or some other politically-correct medal. Any person that gets kicked out 3 or 4 times and keeps coming back is a national treasure.
I feel like one of the characters in Sergio Leone`s Once Upon a Time in America. Someone who later in life misses the earlier days and lots of cheap laughs, or maybe just hallucinated them all along.
Am I an elitist or an unapproachable sadhu clinging to Brahmin seclusion? No, I am someone who appreciates the rank and file, warts and all.
The story seems to run deeper, apparently he tried to open a bar and it failed, rumor is, it was an illegal building with no permits, so the local government tore it down a few days after he was deported “for been a criminal”.
I still think such determination to return again and again makes him an excellent example of Western North American yeoman traits transplanted into Asia. 
In other words, he shows more resourcefulness than your typical Yankee or Canucky.
Yes, a perfect example of Frederick Jackson Turner`s frontier thesis in contemporary expat culture. This CKS runner shows the self-reliance, individualism, inventiveness, restless energy, mobility, materialism, and optimism by coming back yet again! But instead of the Wild West, he is showing these traits in Taiwan. Very interesting.