kwilco

look at the geography!! I suspect you haven’t bothered to research this preferring to rely on bar gossip and prejudice. Since its major rollout after 2004, the system has hugely improved. Based in Bangkok, it’s the core agency that monitors and issues tsunami alerts. But it's not without problems. Thailand has generally issued timely alerts through sirens, media, and mobile phones—especially in Phuket and Phang Nga. People in coastal communities, including tourists, are now much more aware of what to do— there is also visible signage, hotel safety info, and occasional drills. Thailand works with the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWS), allowing it to receive early seismic data from international partners like Indonesia, India, and Australia. However information from Myanmar, thanks to the Junts is patchy. As with many systems in Thailand maintenance has been poor at times; some of the tsunami detection buoys have been known to have gone offline through damage or poor maintenance. There have been times when it was revealed only one buoy was functional, which raised concerns. Also rural areas have suffered neglect. While signs and routes are posted, tourists tend to ignore them or may not always notice them or understand the sirens, especially if no context is given. Hotel staff training varies by place. The result is that tourists don’t react when real alerts occur. So, The system is definitely functional and much better than pre-2004, especially in tourist-heavy areas. However, reliability depends on location, and ongoing investment in maintenance and education is crucial. Do you know the sound of the tsunami siren? Do you keep an eye on local news or weather apps Do you know the signs of a tsunami and how they happen?

I suggested a few days back that Pattaya would have a boom in occupancy but the idea was derided.

Driven through loads of times - you actually can by-pass them easily enough - just use Google maps.

Road safety is a public health issue and in all countries with low death and injury rates it is planned by the government. You don't have a clue, do you? As a foreigner in Thailand with that attitude, you are not only a danger to yourself, you are a danger to others.

will it cover her in Thailand? Especially if she's riding illegally?

Sorry, but what does that even mean???

I'm perfectly aware of how vulnerable a head is - all you actually have to do is fall over and fail to put your hands out. however the cliche of responsibility just shows you don't understand even the basics of road safty - I don't think a single poster has said anything that shows an understanding of road safety.

That's the story given by the police and first responders..... what is disturbing is that people accept it and their conformation bias allows them to. Virtually every comment on this post is toal nonsense just a litany of prejudice and cynicism to cover their ignorance. They think that blaming the driver is somehow clever whn in fact it just shows how little they understand about road safety.

Why should a vehicle have a helmet??

No you didn't, your comments on the roads on Samui is made TOTALLY without reason - you are just blurting out untutored unthought out and unreasoned cliches

Always the same response from the same uneducated few.

Rubbish - you are just promulgating the myths of the ignorant. You need to look at who com[piles the road safety stats before talking ill-informed nonsense like that.

That is a totally unhelpful comment, it just shows you are a bad driver.

because it is incorrect. Do you have anything to add? or do you have no realargument?

Motorcycle helmets are estimated to be between 35 and 40% effective in preventing fatal injuries to motorcyclists. People are also unaware of how helmets work to safe your life. In this case no=-one would argue against wearing a helmet - we don't know if it would have saved him though. THat can't be proven because their will be no proper crash report. What needs to be answered too, is HOW and Hy the crash occurred and what factors were involved to start the accident and did not prevent serious injury.

you are stating the "bleedin' obvious" - you seem to be one of those people who doesn't think a joke is funny until they have explained it.

This is an unacceptable analysis of what happened - it is conjecture and explains nothing.

so why did the crash occur?

The legislation is there - enforcement is grossly inconsistent. But do we know what happened? Was he licenced to ride? Did he know? What was the road like? How fast? Sadly there will never be a proper scientific road crash report and it will be left to supposition and cynical response by the prejudiced and ignorant.

That in no way justifies or mitigates the old git who's already there.

People have always been ambivalent about the US, now they are just universally hated. Trump has joined the Putin, Kim Jong Un in an axis of evil.... and the irony of that expression seems lost on them

No tariffs on Russia,then?

I think that many Americans don't understand that it is THEY who pay the tariffs .... to put it simply Scotch has just gone up 10%.

...but they don't...... here's an analogy....if you want a pick up you will be paying the tariff...not Thailand. The reason you don't make it in the US is because it was cheaper to buy from Thailand. However if evebtually you make a sumilar onevin the US it will cost more....unless you want to work fir $12 a day. Of course with the removal of the minimumwage and immigrants, you may have to. It's all very well, but most businesses don't just work for a protected home market, they need to export to survive. Well Thailand won't want your trucks because they make cheaper ones themselves.....so your new pick up industry is fecked from the start..... which won't be for a few years anyway Started by explaining it is an analogy... but my guess is people wint get that. It's a little bit hard for some to understand, so I expect a few "confused" emogees from the resident thickos.

Remember it's Americans who pay the tariffs. They are paid by those who import the stuff not by the countries who make it.