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As an insight into the Thai mindset of stopping for others just watch how they stop for a pedestrian crossing with one person trying to cross the road.

Thanks for your good post Big Guns.

Do the international school students do the iGCSE's at the end of Year 12, as their final exams?

However to get into a European/UK/US/Australian University students need A Levels or the International Baccalaureate.

Are people able to study and sit the exams for either of these here?

4-man gang thought to be responsible for many street robberies targeting only foreign nationals.

No, I bet that they were only targeting farangs.

Actually the same with giving to charities.

A few years ago gave some baht to the blind man singing while being led by his wife. Then watched as they walked down the road, got into their own tuk tuk and he drove off.

So not a baht more to anyone.

Amazing how becoming more Thai makes you a more selfish, uncaring person.

Odd that, eh.

You've been here 5 minutes and now more Thai

Every single post from you is designed to portray Thai's at their worst........did she take you for a bundle?

Get over it!

Them reading skills of yours aren't so good, are they farang.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/678784-dont-stop-for-an-accident/page-3#entry6991475

2 good choices. Pirelli or Michelin.

Both good value at around 3-4k baht

Pointless crap that will change absolutely nothing, in any way.

Thais used to buy new cars without even looking inside. It looks nice and big and shiny, deal done.

Face matters more than how it drives.

And everything else.

I remember seeing a bag snatch from a young lady at an ATM outside a 7-11 on the other side of a 5-6 lane road (Ratchaprarop in BKK). It took three big yanks, each one accomapanied by a ear piercing scream from the victim, the bag snatcher was just in a scruffy shorts and t-shirt. After getting it he just walked off. Right next to where it happened (and where the guy walked through) was a bus stop with about 10-15 Thais waiting for a bus.

No one did anything to help in anyway.

They let the guy just walk off past them when it would have been very easy to suddenly king-hit him by surprise.

Not one of them went to help the victim in anyway and she was left sobbing on her knees on the steps by herself.

Beautiful, caring, loving, Buddhist Thais. A superiorly decent and moral people.

I've had two alarm locks for 18 months, used every night, not one false alarm, unless I take off the bike cover without removing the lock first.

I hang them verticle. Something like 500b each in SP320.

Problem with your story is that you had 2 credible Thai witnesses with you.

Doesn't matter when there are immediate claims of wrong doing and the police need to hold someone during their initial investigation.

Many Thai people don't stop because they know that they could end up being extorted for everything they have.

Got a problem with that, move out of the jungle and back to a developed society with real police and judicial processes.

Been here 5 minutes and you know that 'many' Thai people don't stop.

I'm half Thai, was born in, and spent the first 11 years of my life here. Returning in my mid 20's a number of years ago.

^ Careful, that's borderline Lese Majeste, punishable by 15 years in prison.

Actually the same with giving to charities.

A few years ago gave some baht to the blind man singing while being led by his wife. Then watched as they walked down the road, got into their own tuk tuk and he drove off.

So not a baht more to anyone.

Amazing how becoming more Thai makes you a more selfish, uncaring person.

Odd that, eh.

Wasn't he charged with selling counterfeit goods?

Thailand is an awesome place to live. If you haven't figured out that yet, there is probally no helping you.

Don't worry, the second day of your holiday will be great too. Enjoy!

Perhaps try the Grand Palace and Wat Arun.

I came out here to further my interest in bird-watching. I have found a particular liking to the the brown coloured, short legged varieties mostly native to the north and north-east areas of the Kingdom.

No sighting of the lesser spotted tit yet?

Saw my first brown tit last week.

Feed it some nuts?

I always would have, until I moved to Thailand as an adult and started to become more Thai.

Now that I have done that I think solely about myself a lot more.

All the other car washes will have been told to expect you, and to add a nice razor blade to your tire free of charge.

This and the OP, true Thainess.

By the time farang realize it, it is usually too late to move on. It takes many years to understand just how ********** they are.

Thailand and the Thai people are the best the World has ever seen, ever. The World is lucky to have such a country and such an amazingly good people. Thailan' numbah Wan!

http://www.khaosod.co.th/en/view_newsonline.php?newsid=TVRNNE1qTTBOemd3Tnc9PQ==

Good work.

Now the police will actually want to find the accused so they can get a photo of them handcuffed with 17 police officers behind in the papers. Motivation, the opportunity for face and pats on the back.

Unless they know who it is and they have some sort of protection or business opportunity for plod. Both probably unlikely unless they were just the foot soldiers for a much, much bigger operation.

Good luck with it.

Anyone else noticed how SHORT FUSED, and SHORT TEMPERED the Thais have become in the last few years? 10 years ago you still had a "solly" or "khothoat krap" but now its just "f*&K you", "Khee Nok", and "go back your country"

Farang have everything they desire and will never have.

And they utterly hate you for it.

I am speaking for the majority of those with less than you, that have no chance of attaining such.

@Marcel1 you've done it right, read here: http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

that's the best way to break in.

I'll come back in 10 pages time.

Shouldn't be long.

OP, common sense, not too hard, not too soft, let it warm up before you ride, varied RPMs (rev up then engine break back down in different gears (for the first few kms), don't let the engine get too hot stop and letit cool down, change the oil and filter early.

It was built in 2013, not 1963, a lot of the old processes will be almost redundant.

Finally, enjoy riding it.