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OttoPollmann

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  1. 1 hour ago, Eaglekott said:

    He might not have enough traction to make a hill start depending on load of the truck and % climb at the bridge and how many axels that have a driving force. He might have to reverse back down flat surface and gain speed before the climb start again. He stopped on top of the bridge and didn't run away. That is good enough for me.

    This shouldn't be an excuse at all.

    By this logic, he also don't need to stop if the traffic in front of him comes to a hold and just plough through it? 

    If he is unable to make a hill start, then he is either overloaded or has worn tires. The later is the standard with most of the lorries. 

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  2. 9 hours ago, FriendlyFarang said:


    Looks like entering illegally is his only crime, and considering that he tried to depart at the airport and not through the jungle, I guess he wasn’t aware that he entered illegally.

     

    My guess is: Somebody at the airport left a door open and on arrival he accidentally left the airport without passing immigration.

    This is of course a major security breach, and somebody in charge might lose face over it, so better just blame it on the foreigner.

     

    I am with you, that was my first thought too. The report doesn't specify whether he had a fake stamp-in or no stamp at all and he was only not registered in the computer system. If he didn't had any arrival stamp at all, normally the first hotel would have raised some alarm bells by the immigration thru the TM-30 reporting system.

     

    Or is this also a wast of time and resource like so many things in this country.

     

    Furthermore, if he had willingly entered Thailand illegally why would he try to leave thru an offical immigration checkpoint.

     

    So many questions and like always no real answer.

  3. 7 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

    Given the presently lower temperatures it can be assumed, that the "90%" is more than just a conservative estimate. As long as the law is not enforced ...... 

    In the past (and I am talking 30 - 40 years back), farmers would plough their fields, keep microorganism of the soil intact and the air breathable.

    Unless seriously stiff fines (six digits) on land owners are imposed and executed, nothing will happen. If the culprits (in their thousands) cannot cough up the fines, then confiscate the title deed and auction it off for social welfare and slap a juicy jail sentence of at least six months to get the message across. Go seriously public and within weeks you will have eliminated the Thai side of the burning and have set an example of how to keep your people out of the smoke. 

    The money for 500 ridiculously less than those submarines without engines, so what on Earth are you waiting for? Ah, I forgot, the semi-divine Thais rather die a slow coughing death than possibly stepping onto the toes of the "phuyays". 

    It might take a Royal Thai Airforce toy to crash-land in Chiang Mai or anywhere else due to the haze to re-inforce my point! 

    In the past (and I am talking 30 - 40 years back), farmers would plough their fields, keep microorganism of the soil intact and the air breathable.

     

    you are talking here from Thailand?

     

    From experience of 25+ years in the sticks, I can tell you that nobody has plowed their fields before all residue was burned off.
    How you think they would have done the plowing with only a Khway and a single plow or if they were lucky an iron buffalo.

     

    Now slowly they get the hint and start to bail the straw because they can sell it but still they'll burn the stubbles. Thereby the air quality has inproved significantly but is still far away from good.


    Even to get one to plow the fields right after harvest to start the decomposing process is an impossible task and I do provide all neccessary machinery.

    The problem lies in the lag of agriculture education and I can fully understand it. Who wants to be a farmer in Thailand only the ones with no other options. There is no money to make in this profession and as long this will be the case you will see no improvement.

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  4. 7 hours ago, ezzra said:

    Maybe so, but being in jail for many years many other men will be free to love his wife.

    That's sometimes really questionable how long your terms will be in the Bangkok Hilton! I know a guy in our village who has killed 2 of his drinking bodies with a garden hoe about the next payment of a round Lao Khao. He was faster back in the village as my work contract of 2 years in Saudi was completed. 

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