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15 hours ago, Mingomania said:

Well, if the number of tickets a cop could write would reflect on his or her pay check it might make a difference... 

It does. 

Every ticket has a 5% paid to the officer when processed by the DLT.

THEN AGAIN.  

Every cash in hand paid fine is 100% into the officers pocket...

Maybe, just maybe. 

The fat cats will start to look at what can be done to ease the pain. 

I've mentioned this before. 

Economy is a balance between domestic and export sales. 

Investors will not invest in Thailand when its running in overdrive on exchange rates. 

Who wants to buy Thailand exports when they are more than 30% dearer than home country products?

They will also look at cheaper option countries. 

Those who offer incentives, or concessions. 

Its not just the tourists who are feeling the pain. 

3 hours ago, Derek B said:

The difference being ambulance drivers in Thailand abuse the use of their emergency lights so much so that self centred drivers do not take the lights seriously. I do not recall the use of sirens in addition to flashing lights perhaps if the sirens were used bad drivers would be more considerate.

Many countries have despatch centres to control emergency vehicles. 

Lights and sirens are a code one approved despatch. 

So can basically run the red lights. 

The use of flashing lights except for emergency vehicles is Also banned. 

Here its used for Jeabs som tam being sold on the road side.

Strobe brake lights another one. 

Time to wake up Thailand...

The world is watching you. 

22 hours ago, petermik said:

A 500 baht fine and an apologetic wai from the Benz driver and all will be forgotten....big car=big man

Used to be a saying. 

BCSD

Big Car, Small Dick.

Maybe it should be Big Car Small  Brain. 

Suppose it comes down to the same old basic Thailand failures.

Pittance fines.

Tea money policing.

Drivers education. 

Police training. 

Too many vehicles with flashing lights is totally confusing. 

A lack of mentality that tells the driver that they are in control of a lethal weapon.

Cars kill, bikes kill. Trucks kill.

I have a friends son in ICU still.

Run over by an 18 wheel truck that didn't even have the balls to stop.

If you do the crime,  pay the fine, or do the time.

Simple hip pocket nerve policing. 

Australia is 4 demerit points and a $400 (8,000 baht) fine, failure to give way to an emergency vehicle. 

It's like Lemmings rushing to the ocean. 

NO care and NO responsibility. 

Buddha will, Karma..

Its actually all bull <deleted>.

In Buriram last weekend visiting a friend whose son was hit by an 18 wheeler. 

That didn't stop. 

Many months of rehab. 

Still possibly brain damage. 

In petchabun last night and not one police man in sight. 

Local youth hooning their lives away in the main street. 

No one had a helmet on. 

Nobody really cares.

Spot the helmet in country towns..

And no night time police. 

At home watching the soapies. 

Every thai should be made to visit the ICU and see what they are looking at in the near future.

They just don't care...

On 11/2/2019 at 3:26 PM, banagan said:

I need a low profile trap.

 

What about something like this?

 

 

Make your own. 

A couple of 90 degrees elbows joined and a few bits of off cut blue pipe. 

They consider it in the same way as a stench pipe 

Mai bpen rai...

19 hours ago, Number 6 said:

April Fool's!

 

 

 

 

The problem with Pattaya Jomtien is that there are 200k poor, uneducated Thai who are from everywhere but Pattaya. They don't own condos, homes, pretty much the clothes on their backs. Add to this the precarious and dangerous work they are engaged in and the fact they are young and carefree. The motodops are already on the run from family and police.

 

Not much incentive to care about YOUR beautiful day.

I sat on the edge of the beach at the bottom of soi 5 Jomtien after the immigration visit. 

Several thai looking ladies having a mid morning graze, and just threw all the containers and wrapping on the sand along side of me.

I gave them the evil eye a few times and shook my head. 

Got up, put it all in the biggest plastic bag and handed it to one of them. 

Saying, "see its not that hard to do, is it?".

Now all you have to do is put it in the bin.

The aim was to make Pattaya "green".

you can get that green already. 

Numerous places and several types. 

13 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Maybe they were missing a couple of toes.

All jokes aside,  the calibre of the current individuals from India doesn't raise the bar much.

Normally congregating along 2nd and the corner of soi buchao and klang or 8 in a baht bus. 

Blocking the roads and pavement.  

They are the new cheap Charlie's. 

18 hours ago, parafareno said:

iam trying to negotiate some condo price but the owner does not bulge......it fits me perfectly.....but she is adamant to not give any discount....

120000 to 1100000, she does not want to do it

If she is a thai woman it's just like buying a car...

They have little perceptions of depreciation. 

They just think that they bought it at say 1 million baht and five years later it has to be worth more. 

To them a baht is a baht. 

For us who are impacted by low interest rates and exchange rates,  we see the depressed market and understand why the price is reduced...

3 hours ago, Jane Dough said:

Interesting.

 

But where is the bit that says 100 trucks - and 1% of their emissions - is equivalent to one million motorcycles as was claimed. 

 

I wasn't doubting that trucks and such pollute much more than bikes, just the numbers.

 

Rooster

Quite right in the numerical sense. 

100 trucks on the HD testing will contribute 1.14% of emissions x 100 would be 114.

But NOT a percentage. 

One million bikes at the 0.35% figure of emissions would be 350,000.

You have to break it down to ppm, and other boring things. 

But doesn't sound as interesting does it..

Nonetheless the article is interesting and shows that Thailand can produce some great statistics, even with Windows NT software. 

33 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

Hi there. 

 

Do you have a link to substantiate your 1% claim. Is it Jesus?

 

Thanks.

 

Rooster

It's well documented and the results are readily available. 

Albeit 2 years old.

The bottom line says..

(Don't want to bore anyone)

Conclusion The results from the chassis dynamometer analysis for four vehicle types show that HD-DV had the highest CO2 emission rate (an overall average of 1,198.8±93.1 g km-1), followed by LDD (268.4±21.1 g km-1), LDG (166.1±27.7 g km-1) and MC (42.5±6.1 g km-1).

This study considers emission of vehicles data from emission lab. Results from experiments conducted by a range of responses in terms of CO2 emissions of GHG for different fuel types.

NGV in particular shows high CO2 emissions, but ethanol in gasohol shows virtually no change in CO2 emissions.

The CO2 emission rates obtained in this study can be used as a basis for further studies on GHGs emission rates from various types of vehicles.

Vehicle test conditions were performed under a Bangkok driving cycle

MC is motor cycle. 

Fuel usage overall in Thailand is 76% usage in HD vehicles and trucks,  Passenger vehicles etc.

Some quick math says that bikes produce 25% to 30% of the emissions that large vehicles do.

And as said previously the large vehicles are around 76% of the total fuel consumption. 

Suggests to me that bikes contribute less than one%.

19 hours ago, Just Weird said:

That would be Euro 4, and Thailand complies with that standard already for diesels.

Thailand has subscribed to the Euro system of light-duty vehicle emissions standards since May 1998. Light-duty vehicles in Thailand are currently under Euro 4 emissions standards.

Emission standards for on-road vehicles in Thailand are administered by the Pollution Control Department (PCD) and adopted by the Ministry of Industry (MOI).

All well to espout the regulation and say they support it. 

(As with many other laws and regulations).

Comformance and testing are another subject. 

TIT...

15 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Jacob's Creek is a very average wine in Oz. Not sure where the winemaker gets the front to describe a Shiraz and Cabernet blend as classic. At 33 AUD here, I'm not buying.

Even the better labels are only around the $12 / 240  baht in Australia. 

Once that excise sticker goes on a bottle here, ka ching, ka ching. 

Never mind the bikes.

Get the truck exhaust pipes pointed at the ground. 

Many have three or six split systems blowing straight out at the tail gate level..

Euro 4 emission is a design feature. 

Same as Euro 5.

Euro 5 encompasses PM emission levels at lower levels since 2008.

Typically Thailand. 

One step behind...

Except when it comes to extracting money from people. 

44 minutes ago, madmen said:

You couldnt pay me to take one. Living amongst the cheapest charlies , alcoholics and desperates. Why would anyone want to rent there let alone buy there

True..

Although around Arunthai soi facing the school are some decent price renovations now.

It's a buyers market for sure.

Nirun is definitely on the skids.

Several friends have just locked up and not coming back..

Look at Nirun condo pattaya 

Several have sold recently for 500k plus.

One Chinese chap bought 3 for 1.65 million baht a few weeks ago...

Bargain basement prices. 

They said the American fired at the police twice with a BB gun adapted to be a 9 mm. 

This guy is not your average person by the sounds of it....

Its possible to convert an air rifle or bb gun to take .22 but you are taking a few risks to go to 9mm

That's heavy stuff. 

Expensive too.

It's a wonder it didn't blow up and take his hand off.

It's good stuff. 

Like trying to believe what your thai partner tells you. 

Shot, 

Gun in right hand but shot in left temple. 

Shot his lady.

Dead.

Oops, take two.

Not dead.

Not shot the lady..

Probably explains why I had a passport check coming through

Sa keao Tuesday afternoon. 

And they emphasized that I was Australian. 

(It was an Australian passport)

A different police division than the normal people. 

Pleasant enough though...

50,000 reward!!!

Great incentive to dob someone in.

I think not....

Attempted murder. 

You can share a much safer reward for grassing on someone smoking on the beach..

Surely they can't be serious. 

And dont call me Shurley..55

This is Thailand...

6 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Ouch!

 

I would not want to be them when they are caught.

 

Being arrested and jailed in Thailand is already something that I would not wish on my worst enemies, but these ones, should they live, are likely to have it even worse than most.

 

In their shoes, I wouldn't allow myself to be captured...

 

 

They were caught. 

Once already. And escaped...

Speaking to someone who has shared the monkey house in Pattaya and also the court, anything is possible for the right price. 

Crack pipes were being smoked in the monkey house and sex was happening with a consenting female one night.

Food and smokes can be ordered and delivered. 

The court has payable access and prisoners get to use ac offices and make phone calls. 

His three days (picked up Friday night in pattaya and had to front the court Monday morning) certainly opened his eyes.

His passport was not even taken. 

Just paid one of the teams in Pattaya Central and 50k later he was out, suspended sentence. 

So, if you are high enough up the money chain, anything is possible.