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  1. I read that they could be held up to 84 days before they could be sent to court (read it, not 100% sure if it is true). I think they will be held the maximum or close to it. Just a feeling.
  2. I live in Phuket and see these out of control Big Bikers every day. Completely surprised that I don't see at least one bad accident a day. My fear is one of these idiots will take out an innocent Thai family on a small bike. I wish they would at least crack down on the Big Bikes. It's a real problem.
  3. I've seen this argument in other papers. However, in my opinion, that is not the real problem in Chalong & Rawai. I live in Chalong and very near where this incident occurred. My observation the other day was that the tourists behaving very badly on the motorbikes is the problem here. These tourist motorbike drivers are arrogant and self-centered, don't know how to ride a bike, don't observe the natural traffic flow, ignore the safety of other drivers, just bad driving and big bike speeding. They feel like they can do whatever they want because they are in Thailand and on holiday, a very bad attitude. Now, this may sound strange, but we know that the Thais drive terribly. However, they drive in a flow and are aware of the surroundings. A few are really terrible, but not as terrible as the tourist here in Chalong. My guess, and it is a guess, but I see it every day, is that these guys didn't like sitting in the traffic there by the police station and decided to drive very fast in the oncoming lane. This happened in front of the police station, not the traffic circle where they give the traffic tickets. There is no way you can speed around the traffic circle. What happened after that is not good, but if the police could just get a handle on these cowboy motorbike drivers life in Chalong would be much better.
  4. I was going to write a post about this and still may do. The PM and his government have in a few short months destroyed Phuket. Horrible behaving people have moved in, set up businesses, and torn up the road with their unbelievably bad motor bike driving, with no consideration at all for anyone else on the road. Having lived here in Phuket for 9 years and a good friend for 24 years, we are dismayed by what has happened to Phuket in just a few months. Phuket was always a bit crowded and had tourists behaving badly, but now it's a total free-for-all, and this is before noon!!! We don't dare go out after dark, and a lot of long term expats have said the same. The government keeps saying they want more and more tourists to come to Phuket to spend more and more money, but the majority of the people coming to Phuket are destroying it. Please Mr. PM, send in the army or some other independent organization to go from door to door at each business and weed out the illegal ones. Then get rid of these undesirable people who aren't spending tons of tourist money, but are taking advantage to the Thai people. It is so so sad.
  5. If they're white skinned, yes I think they do now, but a while back they were in a sub-category. I can't remember what, now.
  6. Lots in phuket. Now they have muey Thai visas. What is the government thinking? We need quality tourism. Sigh. Seriously low life’s here now.
  7. There must be 1,000s of young people illegally working here in Phuket. You can spot them. They are not tourists. Women in yoga pants carting their children arounds, bakeries, coffee shops, car rental & motorbike shops, all with Russian signs. Russians selling real estate. Russian commercials. Russian families buying cars, home improvement items and driving the rental properties up in price. These people are not tourists. If the police would check on all of them they could clean up the employment problem and clear them out. Local Thai people are very upset and not much has been done about it. It’s very sad. All because the PM wants high tourism numbers.
  8. I rented a room out to a guy who spent his summer savings on 2000 hits of acid he bought from a US preacher passing through. He was selling it for a living. I would not let him keep it in the house so he had it buried in the snow around town. In the spring when the snow melted he had a pile of the stuff to deal with so he got into it ,one a day for a week then seven at one shot. That did it he went up and never came down. He threw out all his possessions, nice cameras etc. and would sit all day in the bath tub. He stopped eating regular food saying honey had everything a body needs till I told him it had no vitamin C so he bought a case of oranges. Anyway he spooked my girlfriend so I had to run him off so I could get laid. The last thing I heard about him was that they put him in the nut house but he climbed over the wall and escaped. I knew a guy like that on Maui once. It did get him out of the draft.
  9. And let's not forget that the restaurant was making money off this delivery. It was not like someone off the street popped in and got some free water.
  10. Where I came from the fruit punch dispensers at the fast food places also had a water option. You got pink water, but it was water. Maybe same with the coke dispenser here. It's freaking hot out there. Give the guy a break if it really was water.
  11. Yes, probably speeding, but there is a big curve in the underpass. Not dangerous is not speeding typo, what I meant was , yes there is a curve in the underpass. If you are going the speed limit it is not dangerous. If you are speeding and out of control, yes dangerous. There are orange traffic cone-like things embedded into the divider through the tunnel. At the curve, most of them have been taken out by drivers..... speeding.
  12. Yes, probably speeding, but there is a big curve in the underpass. Not dangerous is not speeding
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