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DUI in Thailand: RTP warned of possible 10 year prison terms
Mr Meeseeks replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Nothing will be done if it is a local but you can bet they will make an example of any foreigner they catch. -
DUI in Thailand: RTP warned of possible 10 year prison terms
Mr Meeseeks replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Beat me to it... -
DUI in Thailand: RTP warned of possible 10 year prison terms
Mr Meeseeks replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The jails are overflowing, there's 30 guys to a cell as it is. -
Visiting ain't the same as actually being here. Been living here 31 years. Have personally seen with my own eyes: Thai student stabbed inside Panthip Plaza in Bangkok. Violent rioting at Democracy Monument. Army shooting protestors with live ammunition. The takeover of Suvarnabhumi airport by armed thugs. Several beatings of foreigners by Thai males on Soi Cowboy including one who had his neck broken. Multiple Thai on one Thai attack on the street at Asok Plaza. Bus driver attacking taxi driver with metal bar on corner of Sukhumvit Soi 22. Thai man brandishing gun on Soi Cowboy threatening people. Thai man with fruit cart attacking Thai Police with knife on Soi 22. Numerous other acts of aggression and violence perpetrated by Thai males over the years that ! don't immediately recall.
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Tourism Ministry Launches ‘Thailand Trusted Destination’ Campaign
Mr Meeseeks replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The cigarette littering scam has been going on since Moses wore short pants. I doubt the local Police would want to stop any revenue stream that they control either, including scams and African drug dealers. -
And if yer Auntie had baws she'd be your Uncle.
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I think this is one of the reasons why manufacturers tend to suppress availability of high performance models that are readily available elsewhere, especially in the West.
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I had an interesting and eye-opening experience the other day after I overtook a Honda on a quiet road in Chonburi. The inadequate male driver was so hurt by this he followed me until I stopped, then began to chastise me from inside his vehicle for overtaking him, accusing me of "driving too fast" and "driving danger", even though he attempted to speed up to stop me overtaking as many of them do. The reason I highlight this anecdotal incident is that for many, their ego will not allow them to be safe and careful drivers, and any loss of face will cause them to lose control of their emotions, act irrationally and drive dangerously.
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Often if you are a designated first aider or first responder other people will get in the way and try to interfere. Untrained persons and do-gooders are an additional danger to an already tense and difficult situation. Twice I have come to the aid of someone in Thailand and on both occasions local bumpkins or friends of the victim have interfered and on one of the occasions the victim's friend seemed to think I was trying to take something out of his pockets lol. If he had a clue he would have seen on my wrist a watch worth over 1.2m thb. That incident was not serious, just a guy passed out and drunk but the other was a cardiac arrest which the victim would most certainly have died without my intervention. Right place, right time I guess. Normally, if the victim isn't breathing you have three to four minutes to revive them or it's lights out as the brain will die if starved of oxygen.
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My first visit there was some 30 years ago. It was pristine, completely beautiful and hardly any tourists at all. Then the Beach movie with Leo DiCaprio came out in the late 90's and it got busier, and busier, and busier... Chinese tour groups were the final nail in the coffin. Locusts. To quote Robert Carlyle from the film, "The big, chunky charlie's eating up the whole world!"