Classic Ray

So nothing to do with raising money by extension fee between 30-60 days rather than 60 days free?

Let’s hope craft breweries are also included in the ability to be listed and raise investment funds in the same way.

Any insurance cost should be applied to the operators, not the passengers. Otherwise there is no incentive for them to increase safety. The increase in fares should be zero or minimal as the risk of an incident is very low.

It just happens that Sino Thai is owned by Khun Anutin’s family and are Italian Thai’s main competitor in Thailand.

There are several well respected and independent collision investigations bodies in other countries who would be available to review the evidence and provide an untainted opinion regarding likely speed. But just because they determine he was not exceeding a speed limit does not mean his speed was not reckless under the circumstances. Speed limits are maximums, not recommended levels in all circumstances.

If they examined the statistics from previous years they would see that the measures they take are ineffective. Someone in RTP needs to use their brain cell to realise that only proper stop checks both by mobile patrols and static checkpoints can do anything to reduce the toll. In Western countries it is the fear of arrest and consequences of harsh penalties that reduces offending, not the actual number arrested.

Never a mention of increased mobile patrols to catch offenders. There is very little effective prevention or detection of road offenders here. Just static checkpoints for tea money, or escorting VIP convoys of coaches. Most patrol vehicles are pickups for placing cones and scooters for manning traffic points in rush hours. it’s pathetic really.

Thailand has all the laws they need, yet little enforcement or will to insist on it. Until a culture of valuing human life and not relying on fate to determine outcomes, nothing will change. Most people don’t even want to wear crash helmets or provide child seats for their kids. Carrying people in pickup beds or multiple kids on motorbikes is never questioned. No wonder so many die.

Brake failure?

Even strait laced and restrictive Singapore has legalised sex shops where toys can be bought, and the country has not collapsed from immoral behaviour. Time to legalise and regulate. Laughable that girlie bars and cannabis shops are allowed to operate but dildoes are verboten!

I previously had SS cover, but when I started a new contract after the age of 60, I was not allowed to be a member of the SS scheme. When I was knocked off my motorbike in Chiang Mai some years ago I was not allowed to leave the private hospital until the offending driver’s insurance company had coughed up the money for the treatment, including operation and ICU stay. Fortunately now my wife has a Govt job so I get almost free (50 baht) treatment at Govt hospitals.

Safety glass for domestic and commercial buildings still not reached Thailand? Should not just be restricted to vehicles.

Wouldn’t he have been identified anyway when his passport was checked at the border? Or isn’t the computer system in use there?

UK recently started cracking down on nail salons and barber shops used for money laundering. Shopping mall near me in Bangkok, many units vacant, but several barber shops and nail salons (with few customers) remain open. Could they also be used for laundering?

If the council and the police were serious about protecting tourists and locals, they would set up and fund a central CCTV monitoring centre and direct police patrols to possible incidents, as they do in the West. Also body worn video for the police would help. All the readiness inspections in the world will not prevent one instance of harm or detect one offender. CCTV here only used after the fact when the harm already done. Pathetic.

1. Lax licensing system with minimal training and enforcement. 2. No tachographs or restrictions on driver’s hours. 3. Routine use of drugs or stimulants by drivers. 4. Poor maintenance regime on heavy vehicles. 5. No training in use of gears and retarder systems and excessive speed on inclines. 6. Reliance on Buddha protection and acceptance of fate as cause of collisions. Nothing new in what I’ve said and no changes seen in the 12 years I’ve been here.

My children have been instructed to resist any attempt to discipline them physically at school. This punishment is illegal in Thailand. I would be straight to the school and the police station if such a thing occurred.

If he was so lilywhite, why did he not report the original attempt at bribery and the request to split the bribe from the other police officer to the NACC for investigation? Maybe frightened of more bullet holes appearing in his car?

Another vote for Omeprazole as a Protein Pump Inhibitor that reduces the production of stomach acid. But see a doctor first as it can mask the symptoms of stomach cancer. I also use a couple of chalk tablets to settle it down quickly as Omeprazole takes an hour or two to take effect. When I first saw a doctor about GERD thirty years ago he said most middle aged men got it as the valve at the top of the stomach weakened in middle age, he had a stack of photocopies on his desk explaining it. mine is exacerbated by type 2 diabetes, so get checked for that as well. I only have to take Omeprazole every three days or so, my doctor prescribes it for me.

With thousands of logistics motorcycles and pickups, I can’t see the need for drone deliveries. Maybe just another trough to visit for those setting up the scheme.

In most countries hotels and hostels are visited and inspected on an almost daily basis to check registers properly record guests and employ licensed workers. Certainly used to happen in Spain. Like so many things here, looks like it is left to crackdowns to manage the problem, maybe after “licence fees” not being properly processed.

At least he’s not pretending to be a prince and scamming people out of their savings!

Agreed. Experience in the UK where 24/7 sales were allowed a few years ago led to a rash of late opening that soon diminished when customers, who only had the same amount of money to spend as before, started leaving early and landlords did not want to pay staff in empty pubs. Very few now open after midnight, only entertainment venues where there is demand. Early diners and shoppers like me will appreciate removal of the afternoon restrictions preventing a drink with a meal. Will the removal of zoning affect the ban on sales near educational establishments? The onus should really be on the sellers to prevent sales to children whilst allowing adults to buy conveniently.

Driving the move to Grab and Bolt even quicker, unless they introduce a similar increase. In Bangkok I find that many of the rides I book on an app are serviced by normal taxis anyway, works very well.

Having exchanged money many times, including yesterday, the first step is for the employee to count the money you wish to exchange, and check your passport. What sort of process are they using where they hand over Thai cash before obtaining the foreign currency?