Sig

I don't see any fingers pointing at him in the pics.... Seems that they might not have the right guy!

20 hours ago, Kandinski said:

On 6/19/2025 at 11:28 PM, Sig said:

Yes, I agree with you as to the roads and obstacles, but not sure what that has to do with my comment...? Do you mean that he wasn't intending to be responsible by sticking around after realizing he had hit someone?

If you ever been to Thailand you'll know hitting potholes, debris, cats, dogs, police offices etc doesnt necessarily make a driver stop. in the article his act was praised as commendable and, yes, his reaction was responsible and commendable  

As I said, I agree with you as to the roads and obstacles. My original comment had nothing to do with road conditions or about stopping or not because of hitting something unknown.

I'll repeat it here - "It is a "commendable act" to behave in a normal responsible way of showing respect to human life? Wow.... that says a LOT about the culture😟
Sadly, I'm not surprised to read that."

So... apparently he didn't know that he hit a person, then upon realizing he hit a person, he stuck around instead of fleeing the scene. I still fail to see any relevance to road conditions. The point is that he stayed on the scene after knowing that he hit someone and this being lauded as praiseworthy. Of course it is a responsible and correct thing to do. I have no idea why, as I said originally, behaving in a responsible way of showing respect to human life should be considered worthy of praise i.e., commendable, as you said. Perhaps we have different understandings of the word "commendable"? I understand it to be something describing an action that goes above and beyond mere responsibility. Perhaps something courageous or high risk to oneself for the benefit of another. In this case, it is regular responsibility and what should be a normal show of respect for human life. Negatively, it could be looked at as self-protection because if one fled the scene, it would be criminal. Either way, positive or negative, it doesn't fit the understanding I have of "commendable".

1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

Drivers who hit and run do not only exist in Thailand.

Is there somebody who thinks that is the case??🙄
The context of this feed is - Thailand. Although, I never said or implied anything of the sort anyway....

4 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

One can only imagine how drunk this guy must have been to fall to the ground and be in such a vulnerable position that his head got run over by a car. It's an absolute miracle this guy survived. I wonder if he'll consider cutting down on the drinking once he recovers? And that's assuming he fully recovers, having your head run over by a car could result in all kinds of issues. 

 

Kudos did the Bolt driver for being man enough to stay at the scene, and show responsibility for his actions, even though they appear to be accidental. If the guy's head was right in front of his tires there would have been no way for him to have seen or been aware of the fact that there was a drunk guy that had fallen under his car. 

He might want to rethink more than just his drinking habits. He might want to review his relationship with his wife, who just left him there, lying in the path of vehicles! She may need a rethink on her drinking habits too? The whole thing is unreal!

Kudos for the driver? For showing signs of being a normal human, concerned for another human being's life? I guess I don't see anything exemplary about that.... It is good, of course. It is always good to do the right thing. Just not sure why doing the right thing evokes praise or congratulatory responses....

1 minute ago, Thingamabob said:

People tend to care less for others who can't be bothered to take care of themselves. I agree you would think somebody would have done something to help this guy, but we don't know the full story. Well done to the driver for standing by.

Yes, you're right. There could always be more to the story that one may not think of. With the little information supplied, it is still difficult to imagine a reason for not protecting an unconscious human being. I don't think there's anything commendable about sticking around though. That should be the norm and completely shocking and inhumane to not do so. But, of course, I know that this is unfortunately, bizarrely, considered to be some sort of unattainable ideal to expect that.

7 minutes ago, Sig said:

8 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

I find that when I don’t lie down in the road then absolutely nobody drives over my head.

 

Just lucky I guess

Speaking of luck... I wonder if anyone would buy a lotto ticket with that driver's plate number?😅

I got that backwards! The lucky one was the Swede! Maybe his birthday would have the good numbers?🤪

1 minute ago, Kandinski said:

The driver didnt know what he hit and roads in Thailand isnt exactly know to be free for all kinds of obstacles.

Yes, I agree with you as to the roads and obstacles, but not sure what that has to do with my comment...? Do you mean that he wasn't intending to be responsible by sticking around after realizing he had hit someone?

Just now, wensiensheng said:

I find that when I don’t lie down in the road then absolutely nobody drives over my head.

 

Just lucky I guess

Speaking of luck... I wonder if anyone would buy a lotto ticket with that driver's plate number?😅

Amazingly, according to what the owner said, the car apparently accrued an extra 15,000 miles on it after the Thai police had it impounded. Hmmmmm 
Corruption has no bounds and the way it is exercised it truly mind-boggling. 

On 6/12/2025 at 8:14 AM, paul1804 said:

Why am I not surprised that it ended up in LOS and more than likely no official held accountable other than Boy Unity!!

 

Supposedly, something like 10 Thais were arrested. But whether or not anything happened after those arrests.... I have no idea, but of course it wouldn't be surprising if they were all let go as soon as the media crawled back into their holes.

On 6/13/2025 at 5:34 PM, Pouatchee said:

 

at first I really believed the car he was standing next to was the car in question. after viewing the video of when he found it and was standing next to it i realised i was wrong. dunno why the photo in the op didnt show the right one... the one he is next to is also a lambo... my bad

That would take work to get a more accurate pic, like maybe 2 extra minutes of backbreaking keyboard strokes.... But just searching and taking the first random pic of the guy in the story with a Lambo was apparently all that was cared about. Typical....

They had a tracker in the car, but they didn't even keep the tracker checked and didn't know the car had left the country until it was already in Thailand! lol  You'd think there'd be some sort of software tracking it and would let you know if the car left the country! Port/Customs authorities could have easily put a stop to it before it got off the plane (if you were lucky enough to get ones who weren't corrupted to let it through anyway....). 

On 4/21/2025 at 6:04 PM, webfact said:

Thai netizens were quick to defend the historic use of "farang," insisting it lacks malice.

In light of that argument, white people in America should then be able to use, normally considered an epithet, "<deleted>" (edit: N*gg**), since it too has historic use lacking malice.

On 4/11/2025 at 11:14 PM, NoDisplayName said:

 

It would have been an interesting followup story had the writer mentioned any of the history of the case.

 

It's up to us to find out what actually happened.  Assumption is this is something recent, that he was arrested in Thailand, possibly extradited.  Too much detail missing.

 

Had the journalist reached our level of google-fu, some of the background - like, you know, he was arrested on the charge two years ago, he's been held awaiting trial for two years, there were other interaction with the Chiang Mai consulate.........then it would have been more than a simple copy-paste of a DOJ press release.

 

 

That's a fair critique. It did mention that he is ready for sentencing soon, so we know it is an old (new and old all relative here) case, since even entering a plea can take many many months in serious cases like this. And then getting to trial can take a number of more months. Then these sorts of trials themselves can be drug on for more months before getting to the point the article mentioned that this one is at. And since the article mentioned that it was in reference to things this imbecile did in 2021, it's safe to assume that this case is quite old.
All that said, although I think the assumption should be that it's an old case, I definitely do agree with you that it takes much more critical reading, connecting of dots that aren't provided, and beyond what a news article should expect of a reader, to reach that assumption. Since by the forum rules, we aren't allowed to criticize the reporting or writing of articles here.... I'll just say that the "journalist" or "translator", whatever the case may be, was probably really trying hard and doing their best!
I like your "google-fu"! lol I'll have to remember that one. Never heard that before.😂

On 4/11/2025 at 9:37 PM, NanLaew said:

 

Good to see you calmly sat and reasoned your response instead of a doing one of those long, meandering, stream-of-consciousness, infernal wittering type posts.

 

Oh, wait...

Sorry it that was outside of your attention span and ability to comprehend beyond elementary school levels. Oh... wait... that would assume you graduated elementary school....
If you can't deal with reading more than a sentence or two, then move on and keep your toxic behavior in your head instead of spewing on social media. These kind of posts are exactly what are the bane of social media and devolution of social discourse.

On 4/11/2025 at 7:26 PM, Thingamabob said:

You have managed to totally distort the issue. It was not the schools circulating porn, it was the pupils. Next time engage brain before opening mouth.

If you were paying attention, you'd remember that the genesis of this thread was, "How do you take pornography out of schools?". Taking something out comes with a valid assumption that it was put into place to begin with. In recent times, this issue has made national headlines uncountable times with MANY viral videos of parents complaining to school boards all over the country regarding pornography being introduced, promoted, and taught to children by the school administrations and teachers. I have never once heard anyone refer to pornography being introduced and "circulated" in schools by children being some sort of problem beyond the typical childish behavior that has existed since the beginning of time and that it's some sort of "issue". NEVER. Therefore, the logical conclusion to make is that the inference is regarding the schools' introduction and promotion of pornography. I didn't distort any issue whatsoever. You seem to have difficulty grasping context in relation to content. If you wanted to switch context midstream and create a more specific context other than what already is existing in the conversation and public consciousness, then you need to do so, clearly and specifically, not with general statements.
Your ideas of logic are elusive to me as is how you pretend to "engage brain before opening mouth", but you might do better to practice what you preach.

7 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Good question. When I was a kid at school in the late 1940s/early 1950s black and white, postcard size porn  pics imported from France were widely circulated. The idea that youngsters have only recently become exposed to porn is nonsense.

Interesting. Thanks for enlightening me. I had never heard before that the schools circulated pornography to the school children before, as they do now and even assign homework with pornographic books to children. I guess I hadn't kept up with the reality of the situation in thinking that school districts in the past didn't impose pornographic materials into the curricula making it, in some cases, required reading of the students, as some school districts have been revealed to have been doing lately. But, even if school officials or teachers widely circulated pornographic postcard sized pics to students in the 40's and 50's, I think you'll find that there is a MASSIVE difference between that and the pornography that the teachers and school districts have assigned to schools these days, with very explicitly graphic stories, with pictures. In particular, they prefer to promote homosexual pornography and to even explicitly encourage the students to explore for themselves what they are learning in the assigned homework. The kind of stuff you mention from the 40's and 50's is like kindergarten level compared to post grad university level pornography. Although, I admit that I had not heard of schools widely circulating pornography to their students in the 40's and 50's, I have EXTREME doubts that it bore any resemblance to the kind of pornography being assigned to students in these recent times.
Sorry to say that I also doubt your version of events, unless you are meaning to say that kids got their hands on these pictures and passed them among themselves, that it wasn't from the schools. Of course, that sort of thing has likely been going on for millennia. But that isn't the issue and nobody is arguing or doubting that. That's why I took it that you were comparing apples to apples and meant that pornography was being distributed by the schools back then too and not making a vain attempt to compare apples to oranges.

Anyone remember that China won the bid over Japan for helping Thailand build their high speed rail? 🤔
I'm still is utter disbelief over that insane decision.

I haven't heard much of anything about Chiangmai. I'd expect a lot more damage in Chiangmai that Bangkok... it is less than half the distance from the epicenter. I don't expect the corruption in the construction industry are much different between the two. Anyone here know if Chiangmai is much different in damages? I'm out of town at the moment....

29 minutes ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

Your source ?????

 

 

 

Google is your friend.

Grok is a MUCH better friend. Makes Google look like an obstructionist.