NorthernRyland

It's also an indication of a total lack of rules and discipline. Seems everyone has given up long ago on having rules that people follow.

If they can get 10% of all transactions made by expats that will pay for itself. If they put any thought in to this at all there must have some minimum figure their targeting. It's possible though this was just something drafted up by a few people and they never spent any time considering how it will be implemented (typical for the government here actually).

that's a good point. The Thai government could require major banks to disclose Thailand-based transactions under your name. I'm sure they have loopholes in place to violate your privacy. I imagine they're going to have us volunteer our spending and if the numbers are too low you'll get pulled aside.

I think some of these people have a poorly functioning prefrontal cortex. They simply can not control their urge to go as fast as possible and never stop. Any normal person can see the danger involved and can control their emotions enough to slow down and take their time making proper judgments.

That's true but it's also true that unless you build yourself and choose the location it's impossible to get acceptable quality in my opinion. So many things wrong with how they design and build the houses plus the only thing they build now are congested housing developments where one bad neighbor will ruin your life.

I thought one of the features of those blocks were noise reduction? Maybe they were a bad quality 12 years ago? Anyways I applaud your efforts.

If they drive like boats then it makes sense he didn't break and just floated in to the road and in to oncoming traffic. Maybe he should sell his boat and learn how to drive a car.

a damning condemnation of Thai driving if I ever heard one.

I see people often enough carrying kids on motorbikes and they still go so fast if they had to break the kid would go flying. I don't think people here understand physics or if they do are they really just that foolhardy to take that kind of risk? None of it makes any sense.

250k for 4 days in a hospital with a fever? What possible justification could there be for this? Event if you take off the 100k it's still a crazy price right?

Yes I am the superior master race because I know how to stay in my lane and wait before entering the road. 😂

yes.

In America they play the good cop, bad cop routine to keep people engaged in the democracy (next election is most important ever, you must vote!) but they always keep the policies they really want. Mass immigration is most certainly one of those policies.

Of course not. That's not how the ratchet works.

yeah it does look too far back. Either way you'd stay in that lane and then move forward enough to see traffic. Even if he didn't enter the road another car could have come flying around the corner and smashed in to him there. Double stupid move on his part.

So the last 1000 years of history means nothing and those people should be subject to anyone coming directly into their towns? Who cares what race they are the island is settled and occupied by them and it should be under their control who enters. When you've had an island under your control for 1000 years, yes, you are indigenous.

Same as with the US the real numbers are legal immigrants. It makes no sense though because legal immigration is a government sanctioned policy, they want those numbers in the end. They could have just said you can move to work but don't bring your extended family that has no means to support themselves but instead it's a blanket policy that affects everyone.

Do you appreciate the fact that the island has been settled for a thousand years? The immigrants are moving to a settled territory, it's not a frontier nation like USA 200 years ago.

The UK is now in the exact same situation as America and it apparently it's a nation of immigrants so you're on the same footing as person who got their papers yesterday. How they pulled this off to English is beyond me.

The Thairath Online YouTube channel really is a treasure trove of road accident videos. They post these like once day as if it's even news anymore. This is a typical driving pattern you see in Thailand and should be aware of. The guy on the motorbike is turning left at a junction and goes into the right lane then proceeds to sneak around the corner when entering the road. I don't know why people think this is a good idea but I see it all the time here. It's almost like "if I can't see them they can't see me" mentality. Total mental. So in this incident the guy sneaks out into the road to see if he can make it across and hits a woman carrying a 1 year old child and who is also 7 months pregnant. Just consider the utter shambles of a scene but this could happen anywhere if you're not lucky and don't watch intersections like a hawk since these guys could be lurking around the corner. As usual they present this matter of fact as if it's a legit accident instead of a pattern of driving which is totally normal here. No sessions to be learned it seems.

Here's some video. What's gets me about Thai media is they never acknowledge there are road safety problems in Thailand and all of this is to be expected. We don't know what happened but it's nearly certain it was preventable. I honestly don't know if they know what they're doing on the roads in this country. Maybe too simple minded or in deep denial.

Looks like what I would expect. 👍 All part and parcel of living in paradise.

yeah right the driver was probably reckless and swerving around cars at the fastest speed possible. They're too stupid or don't have enough emotional control to drive at safe speeds for the road conditions. We've all seen it a million times.

Well the Italian guys sounds like he may been a total mess of a man and a miserable rude person. The Thai guy sounds like a typical low class loser who blames his problems on the world instead of taking responsibility. I noticed how he said the man MADE his son go to jail. Bad situation all around.

They basically say it was a revenge killing but it's all in Thai so I may have missed something. They said last time the father spoke to his son in prison he was suffering greatly and he couldn't handle it anymore and that's when he went after the Italian. This story has too many holes to make sense of. They said the Italian called the cops on his son because the son was harassing him or attacking him (something like that anyways) but it wasn't his fault. Oh really? What did his son do exactly? The police seem to think he deserved to be in jail. Btw, they said the Italian lost trash pickup services and he was putting his trash in black bags and stacking them outside, hence the smell. Annoying and bad behavior for sure. If he had money to eat he could pay for some trash pickup.