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54 minutes ago, Chip Allen said:

There seems to be a sick fascination with 15 year old girls among the male Thai population. I get the feeling that this is often not taken seriously enough by police.

The only reason it was illegal in this case was because the parents didn't agree to it. If they had, it wouldn't have been against the law (that is my understanding anyway). That is why it isn't taken seriously by police.

50 minutes ago, fruitman said:

It's not normal that the driver didn't see the sugarcane truck, i mean those things are not tiny or so. Still lucky that only 1 of the passengers died, it could have been much worse.

You should consider the fact that many times these large trucks have burnt out tail lights and cracked and dirty reflectors. They are often very hard to spot at night. Add in the rain and the driver presumably driving well over a safe speed, and you can see how he had a hard time seeing the truck in time.

It's a curious situation. Whenever a rich Thai person gets arrested, they are free on bail until the supreme court hearing. I wonder if he had the same option. If he is found not guilty by the supreme court, will they somehow add 9 years to his life as compensation?

Interesting tour office names. I suppose they are the shops that pay to have tour buses stop to show tourists shopping spots in the "real" Thailand. I can't see how they are registered as tour companies though.

12 minutes ago, uptoyoumyfriend said:

where did you get that information ?  it seems highly unconstitutional to me.

By signing your driver license you agree to give consent to a sobriety test. People are tested in hospitals after traffic accidents on a regular basis because consent is already on a signed government document.

In the states they would simply draw blood if the person was "unconscious". I bet a needle in her arm would have been sufficient to "wake" her.

Boy, that escalated quickly.

They finally stopped using the word "lure". Good on them.

Nope, "attractive packages to lure investors". Go-Go honeypots, I suppose.

I guess that's what I get for reading the headline and simply skimming the body of the text. Whoops.

They finally stopped using the word "lure". Good on them.

All together, the incidents result in 200 billion baht in economic losses for the country annually

This will not stand! it's one thing to lose 24,000 people. It's a completely different thing to lose money.

Call me stupid but why would these people be stocking up on food for a fasting?

They have huge feasts all night long during Ramadan, so they actually end up eating quite a bit.

Personal attacks in the form of name calling aren't allowed by forum rules .

I guess you can't understand English too well to understand when someone uses that phrase?

I was making a joke while also being informative. I guess it flew right over your head, stupid.

Call me stupid but why would these people be stocking up on food for a fasting?

They have huge feasts all night long during Ramadan, so they actually end up eating quite a bit.

Personal attacks in the form of name calling aren't allowed by forum rules .

Most of the 'milk' here has added sugar.

Interesting that they didn't add in that stat. It probably jumps from 5 grams of sugar for 100ml of whole milk to 25 grams of sugar for flavored "milk".

I think mobile phones are intrinsically safe, which means there should be no problem using them around hydrocarbon vapors.

The real danger is to start fueling, sit in your car for a second, then go back and touch the fueling hose...the static charge you generate sitting down can arc on the fueling hose. Usually this kind of fire is started by Mothers checking on babies while fueling.

Had the same problem in Canada where it self serve.

Start filling the tank and get back in the car especially if it is in the winter and wait for the gas nozzle to click off when tank is full. Maybe not much of as Hazzard in the winter but for sure in the summer when more vapors will.be present

I think the opposite is actually true. In the winter, the air tends to be very dry. This can lead to static build up. In the summer (99.99% of the year in Thailand), the humidity is so high that you'd never build up a static charge outdoors.

I see people in Thailand filling up gas tanks on the beds of their trucks all the time. In the states this is banned due to the danger of a static spark and several instances of this causing a fire. You either have to ground the tank prior to filling using a wire or actually place it on the ground. Though it's still technically a hazard, I'm never all that bothered by the practice in Thailand due to the ridiculously high year round humidity.

No mention of the prices of rotten rice.

Nothing like suspending major repairs to ensure nothing goes wrong.

A similar cash-back offer currently being offered by Malaysia is at the rate of up to 30 percent.

As always, copy others.

A substandard copy at that!

Interesting to read all the typically cynical comments. based on absolutely nothing. All six involved, despite four of them being related to police, have been arrested and refused bail while evidence is gathered and the case prepared. How would they do anything different in your country? As for the police firing their guns in the air as a warning, which seems to have worked although too late to save the victim, maybe that happened as Thailand isn't the US where the police would no doubt have shot them all dead as they never appear to be skilled enough to shoot to disable. And how about the police being called and being there so quickly the assault was still taking place. Not bad at all.

The cynical comments aren't based on nothing. They are based on the fact that Thai authorities have a rich history of acting like they will proceed with a prosecution and losing momentum as soon as the outrage has died down.

Cops are taught to shoot at center mass for a number of reasons. First, it is the most likely to result in a hit. Second, you are still quite likely to die if shot in the leg due to these things called arteries that carry blood around the body (watch 'Blackhawk Down'). Third, America is the hub of lawsuits, and a dead guy can't sue.

As I said in my previous post, all firing into the air does is put more people at risk. The bullets should have been aimed at the little murderers.

How can firing in the air put more people at risk? Are they flying past on a kite.

Well, this incident took place in Bangkok. From a cursory look around, there are high rises as far as the eye can see. There is also a little known force called gravity that tends to bring objects back to earth. The danger really depends on the angle the bullets were fired. The rifling aspect will maintain a bullet in forward flight after it passes its apex if not shot at an angle close enough to 90 degrees.

So, firing in the air puts people in nearby tall buildings at risk when bullets are on the way up, and it puts people further away at risk when bullets are on the way down.

Interesting to read all the typically cynical comments. based on absolutely nothing. All six involved, despite four of them being related to police, have been arrested and refused bail while evidence is gathered and the case prepared. How would they do anything different in your country? As for the police firing their guns in the air as a warning, which seems to have worked although too late to save the victim, maybe that happened as Thailand isn't the US where the police would no doubt have shot them all dead as they never appear to be skilled enough to shoot to disable. And how about the police being called and being there so quickly the assault was still taking place. Not bad at all.

The cynical comments aren't based on nothing. They are based on the fact that Thai authorities have a rich history of acting like they will proceed with a prosecution and losing momentum as soon as the outrage has died down.

Cops are taught to shoot at center mass for a number of reasons. First, it is the most likely to result in a hit. Second, you are still quite likely to die if shot in the leg due to these things called arteries that carry blood around the body (watch 'Blackhawk Down'). Third, America is the hub of lawsuits, and a dead guy can't sue.

As I said in my previous post, all firing into the air does is put more people at risk. The bullets should have been aimed at the little murderers.

Police called to the scene had to fire their weapons into the air after the gang refused to stop the assault, it was reported yesterday.

Might have been better to shoot at the actual perpetrators instead of endangering others by firing into the air.

I saw a story similar to this in Florida a few years back where the cab smashed into the overpass, and that was all she wrote. Had he been driving at a higher rate of speed, that could easily have happened here. The guy got extremely lucky that this wasn't his last ride.

Good riddance. I'd be ecstatic that idiot was gone if it were my kids.

The 600 drivers undergoing initial training have also been invited to a midnight prayer on April 12 to symbolize the beginning of their new driving habits.

I guess getting adequate sleep before getting behind the wheel of a public transport vehicle won't be one of the Thai values.

In Chiang Mai, the festival will be celebrated a bit longer than the rest of the country because this year marks the 720th anniversary of the founding of the city.

720 is that some kind of auspicious number or something. Seems that they would have an anniversary every year.

Thais celebrate cycles of 12 years. This would be the 60th cycle for the city.

I only know this because they mention the coolest pieces of artwork were commissioned for the 4th, 5th, 6th, etc. birthday cycles of the King and Queen at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles.

On the bright side, Thailand has been getting some rain for the past two days...