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200,000 baht for each victim? What's a new Porsche cost????

This was a deliberate and provocative act by the driver. Loss of license for a year, a serious fine - say 100,000 baht - and/or 6 months in jail. Followed by 3 years probation with any further offense committed within that time span a mandatory 2 years in jail. 

Impeding an ambulance is a very serious and most egregious offense. Especially in this situation when there were no other vehicles on the road. 

On 10/10/2024 at 5:25 PM, MikeandDow said:

If so you must have done Risk assessments

https://www.hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/risk/steps-needed-to-manage-risk.htm#_Control_the_risks

Before every single flight, every house under construction every single day and before untying from the dock every time. From what I read, at least one of those 11 CNG cannisters was leaking. A quick check and a sniff and shut it down. No lives lost. 

A Dutchman arguing over insignificant change? Not the least bit surprised. They are notoriously cheap people. We were three amigos back in Canada, myself a Dutch guy and a Scot. Those two used to get in the most hilarious arguments and situations over who was cheaper. It was a matter of pride! 

7 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

 

I really can't see any driver thinking "better check the integrity of the gas tanks".....most wouldn't know what they were looking at or looking for......light checks, yes, brake check as they set off, yes, glance at the tyres, yes.

 

 

 

Yeah...having spent 10 years in the airline industry, a few years sailing, and then the house construction industry, I guess I'm kinda safety conscious. 

5 hours ago, ukrules said:

 

Lol, foreign woman are harrassed all day long in India by men asking for photos, then they move in for the kill - sometimes quite literally.

Here's a video :

 

Creepy as hell. And then at the end the woman walking in the back in full traditional Indian dress LOL

On 10/8/2024 at 12:47 PM, Will B Good said:

 

 

Not jumping to his defence......but would the driver know about improperly retrofitted gas tanks or leaking gas tanks?

 

Initially he did run to get a fire extinguisher to try to put out the blaze....... before realising the enormity and horror of the situation....and then ran away.

I would think that before leaving a driver would check his vehicle for safety. But maybe that's just me being pedantic and, you know, safe!

3 hours ago, Homburg said:

Checked in baggage is also subject to x-ray examination.

Yes, but after it gets checked in down in the belly of the airport before it gets loaded on the plane. The article sounded like it was scanned with the passenger when he went through.

6 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

They can be the biggest jerks on the planet - next to border control. RIP to the poor Polish guy who got tasered to death by "Canada's Finest" at Vancouver airport back in the day.

The RCMP and Immigration at YVR are the biggest <deleted> that have ever lived. I also remember the Polish guy's murder. As an aside, I was a flight attendant with Air Canada, I have no idea how many times I have been through YVR. 

15 hours ago, brianthainess said:

I wonder if it was in his carry on, luggage or checked in luggage. 

Being as the gun was seen in an x-ray, I assume it was in his carry on.

On 10/4/2024 at 1:22 PM, Unamerican said:

Since when? 

It was designed to mimic a street circuit on Ile Notre Dame. Cars can drive on it when there isn't a race as you drive around the island. There are public roads and purposefully built sections.

50 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

How do you know the driver was complicit was it him that paid to get the bus passed knowing so many gas tanks were illigal ? 

The bus driver was complicit either through woeful or willful ignorance. He ran away ffs!

40 minutes ago, ronster said:

Most feasible way to hold a race would be organise a street circuit in Bangkok . This cuts out the insane cost of building a race track that would mostly sit unused.

Good idea, plenty of width on the roads and there is precedent. Monaco, Montreal is a street circuit but specifically built. It could totally work. 

This is something I would love to see. I would go every year. Me and the guys became kinda famous at the Montreal F1 race every year back in the 90s. 

An autopsy of the lungs of the deceased will tell whether they died of asphyxiation or burned. I can only hope it's the former. 

So sad. And that stinking coward of a bus driver who ran away. Why do Thais always seem to do that?

8 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Trump is reduced to just making stuff up in his desperation.

 

Any Trumpers here believe Trump's claim that Biden isn't talking to the governors of the impacted area?

Can anyone flat out believe anything a politician says? 

I am curious as to the process in which the video was "leaked". I don't know how that happened unless it was either shared by the girls or they sent it to others. In either case, it seems to negate the accidental part of the leaking equation. 

Also, in this day and age, I think 12 year old kids are perfectly aware of what is going on. It's a far freaking cry from when I was 12. 

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

So what? You just admitted you pitbull has bitten 5 or 6 times. Proof that he bites.

 

Then you say it's your fault. So why do something that you know will stir the dog to bite?

 

And what about if you're away from the location? good chance the dog will bite anybody.

 

And please don't tell me it's all about training. Pitbulls are aggressive, they bite, they try to kill. Training won't totally cancel their aggressiveness and the danger they pose.

Pretty sure he was being facetious. 

Also, there are aggressive breeds and it's not always the owners' fault. 

Don't get all excited, it's Thailand. They'll renege on this in short order.

H2S can kill you quickly at concentrations as low as 100 parts per million. It's idiotic to do something like that without wearing supplemental oxygen. 

See? This is why it is a waste of time to take anything the Thai government says at face value. Are they even capable of figuring anything out before making grand sweeping gestures and announcements? 

It's called planning, man!

Pitbulls are responsible for 60% - 70% of all fatal dog attacks. This means of course, that every other breed of dog combined make up 30% or less of all fatal dog attacks. 

Bad owners? I don't think so. 

On 9/24/2024 at 8:32 PM, MalcolmB said:

No such thing as a bad dog breed.

Only bad owners.

This is such a load of <deleted>e it's incomprehensible someone would utter it in any sense of seriousness. I hope you are being facetious. 

My heart is broken for this poor child. I am a child abuse survivor. Approaching mid 60s and I still think about it everyday. It is a pain that never leaves. That child needs therapy. Now. The rest of those dogs, need the Catherine Wheel. 

Statistically, there are many on here who suffered abuse as a child.