richard_smith237

Wrong.... thats a myth as explained above. Vehicles are supposed to be in the left hand lane unless passing another vehicle - this rule is for flowing highways, not city, town traffic. There is no law against lane splitting in Thailand.

As others have pointed out... The Dashcam will have an internal battery which maintains the settings and time etc.. What model of Dash-cam is it ?..... You may be able to open up the dash-cam and change out the battery yourself (it’ll very likely be like a watch battery etc).

One of yours Bob Smith ???????

Are for real? Its night, its dark, what can you see?? There is a man on the floor not moving, what is the French guy supposed to do? There were plenty of other people to help the Thai guy... .... Who seriously sticks around after a fight ?.... Does sparktrader seriously expect the Frenchman to hang around so the Thai guy can get back up and start fighting again ???.... or for others to potentially join in ???.... They had the fight, one guy was grounded... the other walked off... thats how it is everywhere in the world. This time the guy who lost hit is head - an extremely unfortunate consequence for both.

Lots of french do muay thai It's not called ‘Muay-French’ though is it.... Your implication that the French Guy is some sort of Muay-Thai expect and the Thai guy outgunned by a skilled master of martial arts is seriously over egging it.... .... at the beginning of the fight the French guy is on the floor as the Thai guy tries to kick him... They’re both throwing punches and kicks....

A few seconds before the Thai guy was knocked down, the Frenchman was also on the floor - the Thai guy can be seen attempting to kick him while he is on the floor as people pulled him [the Thai guy] away. This is very clearly a fight BOTH parties wanted.... I think we can all see this except for the trolling fool who is so amazingly halfwitted he thinks he’s somehow balancing the scales by mentioning the opposite of reality.

Nonsense. Look into eyes. Look for any blood. Anybody can see if someone is in a bad way. Plenty of people around to help. The French guys had just been in a fight with a Thai - getting out of there was perhaps the sensible thing to do, they didn’t know how seriously injured the Thai guy was at the time.... as far as they were aware, he’d just be knocked to the ground thats all. If hanging around. the situation ‘could’ have escalated to them being attacked by more Thai’s - thats the primary reason people escaping the scene of an accident. They had their ‘fight’... they left. There is still no information of how all of this started... nothing realistic anyway (i don't believe the reported version of events at all).

Wrong on many levels.... stay off the roads, you are a danger to others !!!

Are you crazy? Scooters can drive in any lane as long as they are not impeding traffic. That is, they can drive in the rightmost lane as long as they are traveling faster than the vehicles in the left lane. The car (SUV) was clearly at fault for making the U-turn from the wrong lane. Indeed... jossthaifarang is repeating the common myth which swung around Thailand 10 years ago... At the time the Police in Sukhumvit area Bangkok (and perhaps other areas of Thailand) were running a racket - pulling over riders in the 2nd lane and fining them for not riding in the left most lane... there is no such rule. Some of the BiB even had no idea that there is no such rule, they simply learned from their peers - it took a while for this legacy error to sort itself out... But, some people still believe this to be a law [that motorcyclists must stay in the left such lane] - there is no such law.

Most people on this thread and forum are pro Thai, that’s why why we are here. But, being Pro-Thai without intelligent critical balance is simply bias…. As you have exampled… Pro-right & anti-wrong regardless of nationality is not the opinion you have expressed in this thread - That is why it probably seems like you against the world at the moment - you are on the wrong side of bias in this situation.

There is precedent for Thai on Thai, Thai on foreigner attacks & fights which ended in serious injuries & death… It would be fair for these penalties to be in line with those passed before under similar circumstances. Nationality should not play any part in the judgement or provide any reason for any of us to expect a more severe penalty.

Agreed…. IF those legal consequences for the Frenchman are the same as those a Thai would receive in exactly the same circumstances….

In my video, two punches and a half-hearted kick from the Frenchman don't constitute "incredibly beaten up". The Thai bloke fell badly - that's as much his fault as the Frenchman's, maybe more - which which was more responsible for his injury than Frenchie's punch. I think that’s the way most people see this… two people willingly fighting, not even an extreme fight…. But with horribly unlucky and potentially grave consequences. Then we have an utter fool come along and try and ‘tip the scales’ with some opposing bias as if this provides some balance to the thread…..

& no… that is your flawed reading comprehension leading to your hyperbole…. Not one person has suggested the ‘beating’ (fight) was justified…. The result is extreme & tragic & could have been the other way around with the French guy in ICU had the Thai guy landed one of his kicks or punches well. Both guys flighting - both at fault. It is being pointed out that this was not a an unprovoked attack on an innocent party.

You can go back to trilling the others thread with anti-British comments…. But, before you do…. Do you think the Frenchman should receive a more severe penalty than a Thai guy would under similar circumstances????

No…. Those are your words, your projection, your misunderstanding…. No one deserved this… but he wasn’t incredibly ‘beaten up’ - he was punched, fell and landed very badly… not stomped all over in a vicious attack, it was a ‘tit for tat, handbags a dawn’ fight….. The Frenchman wholly in the wrong for fighting, the Thai guy also wholly in the wrong for fighting…. Both complicit and to blame for in any injuries they receive as both were clearly willing participants in a fight. The outcome is tragic & I hope the Thai man recovers.

Yes… and you have been called out for your bias, unhinged, unbalance anti-Foreigner opinion….

The Thai guy was also fighting, you levied all blame at the Frenchman & have ignored the video evidence. I understand you want to apply balance and present a non-distorted opinion to counter what you believe are anti-Thai comments…. But, identifying that the media report leads with a false bias is not anti-Thai… the Thai guy was also fighting - that is the balance.

You just admitted to attempting to balance the scales…. In your view if you present a bias comment to counter an opposing bias comment believing it provides some balance !!!! It doesn’t… it just adds another unbalanced & bias comment. IF you can’t see that the Thai guy was also fighting and you are suggesting the French guy is 100% at fault - you are not balancing any scales… you’re just coming across as anti-foreigner…. Just as you did in another thread where your supposed ‘balance’ was anti-British. Your views which you claim offer balance clearly originate from a mind with an underlying agenda.

Both reengaged the fight when they could have walked away.

Was the Frenchman getting charged for DUI ? The report suggests they couldn’t as he was drinking later when they found him so couldn’t test him. What about the second French man? What crime dud he commit ? Or was he the fighter? Driving at night with red plates ? Is there actually a written law on that ?….. I’ve always understood it to be a myth…. Same as leaving the province…. The only regulation I know if is that the brown book must be filled in for the journey.

It’s an impossible task…. In some threads we see the foreigner doing wrong & blast him / her. In other threads we saw a Thai doing wrong & blast him / her. in this case the story has been misreported with bias from the offset heavily loading opinion against the Frenchman and painting the Thai guy as an innocent victim of an unprovoked attack. Highlighting that the Thai man is also complicit for his seemingly willing involvement in the fight as shown by the video does not present an ongoing hatred against Thai people, that’s just your profiting & bias shining through. Highlighting that the Thai man is also complicit for his seemingly willing involvement in the fight Is simply doing that… nothing more than pointing out ‘it took two to tango’…. Its also worth pointing out what appears to be an unbalanced response from the refusing bail when in similar & worse cases a Thai is afforded bail - perhaps the very point that foreigners present an elevated flight risk accounts for this.

Actually, they need to sit in a jail a few years for this violent attack. They need to be kept out of society for a while before being sent home and blacklisted. They??? You saw two French guys attacking the Thai guy without any provocation? Did you see the video at all? It was a fight, both parties guilty of poor behaviour… why such harsh judgement for the second French guy who did nothing ? The fight itself looked like a ‘tit for tat’ fair fight until the Frenchman landed a solid punch & the Thai guy fell hitting his head… it could have easily gone the other way….. …. at one point the Frenchman walked away and the Thai guy reengaged into the fight, then tried to run away & the French guy landing that final punch. All I see here are two guys behaving like utter idiots fighting… & no second French guy doing anything.

I think you made your point. Either you just trying to antagonise everybody here with your stupid defence of the French Thug or you are are indeed one of these foreigners living here who constantly look down on the locals and behave like the master race and behave like thugs. stop being a bell and move on from repeating the same over and over. My comments present no bias in highlighting the point with evidence that two people were fighting. If you think that is defending the Frenchman it is your bias which needs addressing. Nationality should not come into this issue at all…. Two guys getting into a fight. You have now brought further anti-foreigner bias into this discussion with some dumb & distorted master-race comment and suggestions that those of us who see a Thai also fighting are looking down on Thai’s…. That’s your bias again & needs calling out like the other unbalanced anti-forigner comments.

The ‘other person who knows everything’ says it was an unprovoked attack after she said the car was nice…. ….. are we suddenly believing everything we read or are told ?