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Looking at that video we can see the tragic consequences of both parties making extremely poor choices. The woman paid the ultimate price and took with her 2 innocents; the Australian will live with the consequences forever. Yes, he is driving at lunatic speed and hugging the inside of the curve...when he should have known the likelihood of a cyclist doing just as the woman was, ie, overloaded, wrong lane, chancing death.

All are losers in this sad story.

Haven't noticed Bombe Alaska on airline menus for quite some time.

16 minutes ago, 007cableguy said:

I know when I deposit or withdraw at K Bank I get a text saying what amounts instantly!

Including spending 100 baht for coffee, it works well.

6 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

People have short memories. One of the reasons why western and advanced Asian region banks went to  e transfers and e payments was to reduce the discrepancies and errors associated with manual transactions. Don't be so quick to  belittle the Thais because of the banking system,  as their approach was the norm as recently as 10 years ago in North America. People still moan and groan in the west when they can't access a teller for all their transactions.

 

In the good old days of free wheeling money laundering in London, Miami, New York and  Zurich, cash transactions were everywhere. Millions could disappear and reappear. The Swiss  had perfected the system in the 1930's as their banks and unscrupulous  employees  had "absorbed" hundreds of millions of desperate refugees' monetary assets. It was called the Swiss grab for good reason.  Interestingly enough, one  rarely sees Europeans willing to address this sordid  period. And yet we are here,  heaping abuse on Thais because of an alleged uncorroborated  incident. 

 

Errors happen whenever there are a large number of cash transactions.  Before jumping in to trash the bank, consider who and what the depositor is. A "pet" shop owner. I call such people puppy mill operators. To be blunt, I have yet to  see or hear of an ethical "pet' shop owner. As such, the  complainant is starting from a position of limited trustworthiness. It is the obligation of the complainant to support the claim and so far, there isn't much convincing evidence. I suggest that before judging the bank teller guilty, some actual substantive evidence be provided.

True. Of course there can be fraud and dishonesty, as anywhere. Being sensible will minimise the risk. I have never had any issues of dishonesty with KBank ( attitude, yes, Byzantine procedures, yes, indifferent products/services, yes...but it's my choice to continue with them and I'm generally satisfied). 

4 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

It seems that values are reduced after the deposit transaction....so maybe detected when a passbook update is done, and in some cases, shows a deduction.

I get them to update the book immediately. Always.

54 minutes ago, tonray said:

I have never had a time when they did not use a counting machine for amounts over 10K baht. They usually do it twice to confirm and show you the readout before any deposit is processed. Pay attention.

 

Funny thing is once I brought in about 400 baht in various coins and they did not have a machine, they called in 4 girls from the back to manually count it all...later they told me next time to count it beforehand and just tell them how much it was....5555

I use K Bank and they always use the machine, at least twice, sometimes X 3. This sounds like a rogue branch.

7 hours ago, leeneeds said:

of course this does not happen anywhere else ,

green cards, Aussie visa , etc etc,

The going rate is AUD 20,000 rather than 200. Still people pay it....mostly to crooks of sub-continent heritage.

3 hours ago, freebyrd said:

In an age when many live to a ripe old age being happy with their lot, why check out at 59? I just don't see it and I've been a dog in my day, but not to the point of destroying myself.

 

Like I said in an earlier post, if it's your want to emulate GB, go ahead........

To put a really mean spin on it, there is also the matter of huge public funds being spent on healthcare....transplants....on someone who effectively committed suicide by drinking again, like JR Dallas. 

28 minutes ago, SheungWan said:

Bjorn Borg also lost a lot of money.

Within a whisker of the same fate. His underpants range was not a hit.

Classic photo in the BP print version, page 3: The General holding a rose in one hand and his arm around a bemused - looking boy scout. Prayuth with a pained expression hinting of " do I really deserve this?". 

Poor little fella. In a country full of obscenely rich tycoons, infant health is not what it could/should be. 

17 minutes ago, William C F Pierce said:

There is a well known saying "Mutton dressed as lamb". Enjoy your mutton.

"Mutton dressed as lamb" may be part of this story but I lean more to "wolf in sheep's clothing".

This topic has run out of steam. Loking forward to the next salacious one...or even a farang shoplifter or Arab robbed by ladyboys. Another Bridge Club raid would be good. 

The old guard simply cannot help themselves. Scandal after scandal, all the while pursuing the last mob for alleged malfeasance....this lot is worse than the last and they pay lip-service to "cleaning up" corruption, serve mammon, feather their own nests, etc. Deck chairs on the Titanic.

1 minute ago, Blinky62 said:

Rubbish , there are places they will shoot you . Stop for the coppers , same as home RIP THE MUM Hope for the kids .


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It has nothing whatever to do with the rights of the perpetrator but EVERYTHING to do with protecting the public from risk. It is standard procedure to pursue from a distance....sometimes it doesn't work , eg Melbourne Bourke Street Mall, most times it does. Certainly not rubbish.

The whole system is dodgy and beset with safety issues. As is expected, passenger safety comes a far distant second behind profit in the way this thing is run. Perhaps the tragedy of the pregnant woman is a one off event but it cannot be denied that the whole link is a monumental white elephant and by any measure a ludicrous joke when compared with other airports in the region and around the world.

How anyone could come up with such an absurdity is beyond comprehension. 

The details are vague but if it was a pursuit at speed then the police bear ( a small) part of the responsibility: follow at a distance, monitor and arrest at the destination should be the rule ( unless there is imminent danger to human life).

12 minutes ago, The Deerhunter said:

Every Thai women knows all farangs are rich.  Some of us are just Cheap Charlies.  Still rich but tight with the old do ray me.  She will charge thousands of baht for that gem and here I am giving it away free.

  

I have a question for maths educators....why is it that most Thais not in "personal " contact with foreigners, eg those working in service industries like retail/hospitality, require a calculator to subtract 50 from 100 and yet at the same time many of those who are in more personal contact, even though no more highly educated, seem able to do quadratic equations in their heads and in a split second? Only partly rhetorical...

3 minutes ago, Smokemachine said:

Is there a emergency stop button inside the train or inside the train station?
If such incident occur, rush to activate the Emergency stop button. Unnecessary tragedies can be prevented, regardless suicide or accident cases.

No....the emergency stop mechanism will only function if the train is at least 130 metres from the platform. That was confirmed by the company in the article in today's BP

5 hours ago, whaleboneman said:

How about a seat belt on the toilet too, just in case.

On a domestic flight in Korea, just as the plane was leaving the runway on takeoff, an ancient Confucius-like man appeared from out of the toilet. Staff must have failed to secure it. The poor old bugger really struggled going uphill...but we got him into a spare seat.

On the matter of turbulence in the toilet ( weather related), it's the most dangerous place to be....and must be as scary as hell.

She looks smart ( although one could just as easily say she looks dumb, had the story been about something else ,less flattering).

10 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

I thought that the local consensus was that she was fatigued, or otherwise feeling unwell, in part due to her pregnancy, and that she fainted, and fell onto the tracks.

Yes, she has a history of blackouts and fainting spells during her pregnancy. There is absolutely nothing to suggest suicide ( acknowledged by witnesses, the rail company, the police, the medicos); a tragic accident. 

The culpability of the rail company , given the less than glacial speed with which it has installed the barriers, is yet to be determined ( some will recall the outrage in Thailand over the case of the young Thai girl injured in Singapore under similar circumstances). 

RIP

Just now, bannork said:

Nope they're all different- British and American are mutually unintelligible - 

Ok, that's weird.

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6 minutes ago, bannork said:

Interesting, i thought sign language was different in each country but perhaps Thai and Korean are similar. Otherwise communicating by video those few months must have been hard work. Good luck to the lovely pair- their kids may be borne with perfect hearing but they'll have to learn sign language too!

Isn't signing universal? The beauty of it is the ability to communicate across border.

( unlike the dog featured on the BBC website that only speaks Polish; after the rescuers discovered that by chance, they are now teaching him English...and the new owners have learnt a smattering of dog inteacrion Polish)