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  1. The usual issue with anything IT from a Thai government agency. Like all agencies, upper-management is overloaded with incompetent political appointees who wouldn't know a laptop from a lap-dance.
  2. Be careful what you wish for. In many municipalities where local taxis have gone out of business, ride hailing fares have doubled beyond what the taxi fares were. An incident like the one in this story happens and people start demonizing taxi drivers yet hundreds of thousands of taxi trips daily just go on without issue. In my 20+ years in Bangkok, using taxis frequently, 99% of my rides have been totally without issue. Most drivers are just people trying to make a living. And don't think incidents like this don't happen with ride hailing drivers. Horror stories told by passengers being victimized by ride hail drivers are often reported as much as by taxi drivers.
  3. If you enter the dashcam's settings menu, if there is an option to sign into a network, then it has wifi. If no network settings, no wifi.
  4. I suspect you may have a dashcam with no wifi. I recently purchased a dashcam on Lazada. I found out there are dashcams with wifi and cheaper dashcams with no wifi. Exactly as you say, the only way to transfer the video is to remove the SD card and put it into a reader or a phone. Dashcams with wifi can be done wirelessly from dashcam to phone or computer.
  5. There is a forum on REDDIT devoted to safes: https://www.reddit.com/r/Safes/
  6. Perhaps it needs to connect to a mobile or other device via BlueTooth?
  7. Was that a single application of drops or several applications of drops on following days.
  8. With "MS-13", they must "earn" the right for many of the tattoos by killing a rival gang member. each tattoo can represent a separate killing. Nasty stuff.
  9. I once saw this type of thing first hand. I was staying in an Udon Thani MooBan with a GF and her kids. For his birthday, her 7 year old son asked for us to buy ice cream for him and his whole class at lunch. We went to the school headmaster and he said it had to be done through him and asked for B1000 for the ice cream. On the special day, each kid got about a tablespoon of the cheapest possible ice cream, the kind vendors sell for B10 a scoop. My GF said all in, probably cost him less than B200. The rest went into his pocket.
  10. Fortunately, a fire station is right around the corner. They were able to get on it pretty quickly and prevent it from spreading to adjacent buildings.
  11. Girl wearing #9 looks like a minor. Probably a lot more to this story.
  12. Little bit of hypocrisy showing here. Countless western bar owners supplement their income running Golfing Tours, bar crawls, fishing expeditions and other activities that fall under the definition of "Tours". Pot calling the kettle black.
  13. Driving on back roads in the Pattaya/Jomtien vicinity. it's really sad to see endless piles of illegally dumped refuse, mostly building materials dumped on almost every non-developed piece of land. The lack of any kind of enforcement against these dumpers is discouraging.
  14. Wide angle lenses can exaggerate perspective but it really does appear to be a substantial overhang of the kind that usually requires a following vehicle with warning lights displayed. If the car approached at as high a speed as the damage suggests, he may not have realized the extent of the overhang viewing it from behind. Not long ago, there was a large truck in front of me as I approached a red light. I could see he was carrying some kind of beams extending from the rear but as I got close I had to hit my brakes much harder as I realized the beams extended back several meters more than they appeared from a distance. Very easy to misjudge from behind.
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