ChipButty

3 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

Can you start with the taxi drivers please?

Use BOLT even cheaper than Grab

After the IDF has interrogated them 

9 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

I suspect, due to the much larger population of internet users from America that UK English spelling will slowly be phased out in the following decades. Even now, in many forums, I tend to use the US spelling as the majority of users are American.

 

What English spelling do they teach in Thailand?

Philippine  

9 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

When you have an educational system that refuses to fail students,

I have never understood that, cant fail, how would you class a student with a grade "F"? I would say that's a complete failure

I dont know about Pattaya, but here in Phuket they used have a lab in the government hospital that I used some years ago, as for your filter, best to install a Point of Entry filter, I used Zeolite as the media everything works fine, 

19 minutes ago, scorecard said:

My devices are set for UK English and that's just fine. 

Mine are too, I even correct my wife sometimes if she comes out with that American slang.

42 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Don't want to go off topic in my own thread but can I ask why you chose to buy a 3 bedroom house ?

 

Maybe he likes the space, 

19 minutes ago, ripstanley said:

Read the full story before commenting.  The recording from Rawai Municipality’s CCTV shows that the couple was riding at a reasonable speed and was in the left lane when they were hit. The right lane was free of traffic.

It's a bit misleading that statement along that road is 2 lanes and a hard shoulder and many bikes do ride in the hard shoulder from the CCTV which is a couple of 100 meters away to me looks like the bike was way over to the left so making her have almost a clear road ahead of her 2 lanes, I live near by there I drove past there this morning, hope she did the right thing #Irina Pustovalova 

2 minutes ago, charleskerins said:

good info ,thanks -so she is not in jail ?  Bail ?   

I dont know 

8 minutes ago, actonion said:

Doubtful is ever any information will be released due to  too much paper work  involved

Suicide is only 10cm of paperwork, Murder is 50cm 

20 minutes ago, stix40 said:

If you like the open air experience, rent a jeep ! 

It's bad enough driving here in a car but motorcycle's forget it .

Most of the drivers here have no idea how to drive properly ! No lane control, no indication , No idea ! 

On top of that drinking , looking at there mobile phones ,  etc recipe for disaster! 

 

 

 

Still pissed the following morning, it happened a couple of months ago near me, around 8 am, a truck drove into a bike killed both women and the truck driver was pissed, they were all Thai, what happened after that I dont know, 

17 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

The Thaiger article uses a stock photo of a crashed bike in Latvia and the actual CCTV of the accident has been disappeared.

 

Yes we know that

24 minutes ago, hydraides said:

Crazy Accident,

 

It was harder for her to hit them that not to hit them with the whole rest of the road being completely empty

 

Also very unlucky to die when being hit from behind.......and both dying. Normally wouldn't happen unless other cars on the road 

 

 

I think she drove them into the electric post, the whole of the area down that main road had no electric for most of the day, from the original CCTV footage you can see sparks flying as it pulled all the cables down, the bike was left there most of the day you could not tell what make of bike it was, a crumpled mess, 

25 minutes ago, smedly said:

the Russian should be facing charges and if alcohol or drugs are involved then a very severe charge, this country is seriously ###

 

RIP x2

 

the damage on that bike is not consistant with a rear end collision 

which bike? 

3 minutes ago, neeray said:

Also, the article speaks of "motorbike". In my parlance, that looks more like what I'd call a "motorcycle".

But not the one in the accident, I saw the one in the accident you couldn't tell what kind of bike it was 

1 hour ago, Iron Tongue said:

It happened November 5th, no follow-up to where the Russian driver is now?  Were drug and alcohol tests administered on her?  Did she do a runner and is back in the Worker's Paradise? 

Seems like reasonable questions for a reporter to seek answers to.

 

She was/is a real estate agent with a office in Rawai, the day after the accident somebody  blasted her FB page with the article, she cleared all that out and all of her own photo's, whether she is still operating I dont know, her office is down a soi so I would have to drive down there to see, 

40 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

From the attached article:

"Despite the arrival of Major General Saksira Phueakam, the national Tourist Police Commissioner, in Phuket the next day, no information regarding the accident has been released by the police or local authorities."

 

This seems very strange, plus there was CCTV footage, that has not been released? Normally isn't it published?

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the original article it did show the CCTV footage, just back from there is a set of traffic lights and the camera from the showed it all, 

40 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

It used to be the case, most would drive over the border, others would fly to Had Yai but not many ventured much further North than Phuket or Surat Thani. The next tourist step further North is Hua Hin and then Bangkok which is a healthy 10/12 hour drive. Somebody recently posted the stats from land border crossing by Malaysians and they are substantial. The link below from the gov press office in 2022.

 

https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG221026093739999#:~:text=Unlike in the past%2C Malaysian,Chiang Mai%2C and Chiang Rai.

 

A news article in the Bangkok Post entitled, "The South Eyes More Malaysian Visitors", explains more.

 

According to booking.com here in Phuket, Russia tops the list, 

29 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Is there a proof for that? Or just hearsay?😶

Su-ngai Kolok is another boarder town many Malaysians visit 

Most of them Malaysians just cross the boarder towns, like Sadao and Hat Yai