jaywalker

16 hours ago, 2long said:

Some vital information here.... "He was fully clothed and had sneakers on."

Reminds me of the motorbike driver in Pattaya, that crashed and died while wearing a condom some years back. ????????????

13 hours ago, DJ54 said:

It’s a bit worrisome the fights breaking out among youngsters…. .. lack of opportunities for their future 

doesn’t help… 

The clown had a full body tatoo. Tells me his future was fairly bleak to begin with.

23 hours ago, swm59nj said:

I have known people that own legally bought guns.  They don’t go around committing violence.  
And here people with the so called ego and culture issues are using illegal guns.  From what I see on Thai news programs.  There seems to be quite a bit of gun violence.  For a country where owning a gun is supposedly illegal.  

 

 

Yes.

Oh yeah, cars drive drunk and forks make people fat.

32 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

But you’ve got to be careful being a hero and stopping at them for fear of getting hit up the arsse!

Yes, and risk getting a ticket for "Stopping too suddenly".

Some clown with no insurance T-boned my wife's truck once, speeding, wrong side of the road, no license, no insurance.

Cop told her she must pay 10,000 baht.

His reasoning? "You have farang name. All farangs have big money".

15 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

More tough laws that won't get enforced, so who cares. 

Well the speeding fines that will be increased greatly will, so I do.

The speed limits in the areas where speed cameras are set up can be very confusing, with 3 different speeds shown within 100 meters in quite a few cases, Saraburi is a minefield to go through.

It's almost like the signs were set up in such a way as to generate extra income for the Highway Department/Traffic Police Dept. ????

 

Whenever I visit my wife's home village, it doesn't matter how carefully I drive (under my wife's back-seat guidance), I will still end up with 2 tickets.

 

A round trip to the North will now cost me Baht 8,000 instead of my normally 'budgeted for' Baht 2,000.

 

Edited to add,

I'm sure that my budget for speeding fines was Baht 1,000 and a ticket was 500 and not 1,000.

Either way, Baht 8,000 makes the trip too expensive.

Er indoors can fly next time she visits her village.

 

 

I took my buddy to Koh Chang 20+ years ago, from Pattaya (he was visiting from the US with his half Thai wife). Not a matter of "IF" it was a matter of "WHEN" I would get pulled over by some suicidal BIB walking out in front of my truck.

Sure enough, an hour into it, I get pulled over. To this day I have no idea what my offense was. I asked my wife and she said, "Just, give him some money!". ????

200 baht and I was off again.

50 minutes ago, Jiggo said:

Rarely have had a problem with taxi drivers using a meter in BKK, unless your standing out side Nana etc, most are very pleasant and don't overcharge... 

I grabbed a cab 21 years ago on Sukh. Soi 21 to Lat Prao.

My wife was hammered (I'd just met her & she was tring to keep up with me). All 99 lbs of her.

I thought "She's going to yak her guts out soon", so I popped into a late night pharmacy just to have a plastic bag.

Poor taxi driver was going nuts till he figured out she had a barf bag.

SPY....she won't touch them things a couple decades later. ????

PS....I went shopping the next day & brought home an ice cold SPY. That's a true Led Zepplin fellas.

What a champ she is. She saw it and started wretching.????

13 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

Could be but I would find that hard to believe. If it is true it is one of the very few electronic devices which cannot be changed.

But things move along at the speed of Greenland glacier when the government becomes involved.

I recall 1999. Prince was still alive ????

Meter drop was 35 baht. It should be 200 baht by now.

I have driven a taxi, and it ain't no way to get rich, plus most of them are driving a stick shift....I have done that in Krung Thep in my own POV. Not fun.

The guys are working 14 hours a day. Cut 'em some slack & tip them well.

Wow, sorry to read this.

Mostly  they die from smoke before the fire gets them. I hope that's the case here.

He went to sleep & never woke up.

It happened to my elderly neighbor 25 years ago.

17 hours ago, JulesMad said:

It is ALWAYS someone/something else's fault; the driver will NEVER take responsibility for his OWN actions in traffic (or life).
ALWAYS blame:
- wet road
- rain
- brakes
- other people
- telephone
- falling asleep

- anything you want as long it is not driver self!

Drive/Ride safely and be watchful of the idiots (they are everywhere!)

Look up & look down too. I had friend step into a storm drain during a torrential downpour. I had to help him out, as he was about to be deposited somewhere in the Bight of Bangkok.

19 hours ago, KannikaP said:

He, possibly, did not have insurance. Even if he did, would the Insurance still pay out if he says it was 'the wet road' which caused it?

 

I sideswiped a cement pole in Surin many years ago.

Budget rent a car. 5,000 baht deductible.....Gimme a new truck.

Told them I swerved to miss a cow in the road....had to draw a diagram of how it happened.

Hemingway would have been proud of that yarn I spun.

35 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

So many people in Thailand have no pride in what they do. Any way will do. What a sad way to live. We've just had a college-trained electrician do some work at our house and he simply fixed a couple of wires together with so-called insulating tape - like in the photo in the linked article. My wife told me not to be fussy.

Reminds me of walking into a restaurant on an RTA base near Chanthaburi once. They had a fan running without a shroud and I just slowly gravitated over to it with my hand out like I was mesmerized.

I was surprised as a couple of my Thai co-workers and the lady owner all started yelling "MAI CHAI, MAI CHAI!!!".

???? ????????

6 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

NO once again, rain and driving too fast should be attributed to the accident, does anyone else see a pattern here ...............!!!

Awww, c'mon. His brakes failed too I'm sure.

Brakes failed?

57 minutes ago, Xonax said:

So why isn't there any chinese cities on the list??

Because China is in North East Asia and this is about South East Asia???

14 minutes ago, maddermax said:

I don't see Hong Kong or Guangdong on the list. I believe they would top the list.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Here is the list of 19 SE Asian cities.
 

POLLUTION INDEX    

1 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam   92.18    

2 Yangon, Myanmar 91.76

3 Manila, Philippines 89.92

4 Hanoi, Vietnam 89.60

5 Pattaya, Thailand 88.21

6 Jakarta, Indonesia 84.72

7 Cebu, Philippines 84.33

8 Quezon City, Philippines 82.89

9 Phnom Penh, Cambodia 80.50

10 Chiang Mai, Thailand 76.97

11 Bangkok, Thailand 76.78

7 hours ago, mrfill said:

Then the death penalty should also apply to drunk drivers who kill

Didn't you know that cars drive drunk?

I'm from Florida, where we get millions more foreign tourists than Thailand, plus a few million folks from outside the state.

We have what is called a Florida resident discount.

It is dual pricing, but it is not called MILK EVERYBODY NOT FROM FLORIDA!!!

Take'em to the cleaners boys!!!

On 11/6/2019 at 8:17 PM, webfact said:

deputy chief Itthiphon Itthisanronchai

Say the above three times real fast.

2 minutes ago, mikebell said:

I like working dogs; I like all dogs with no vocal chords; all dogs with no ass-hole.  All the rest should be shipped off to Cambodia.

Dogs that bark only when useful are cool (snakes & such).

Mutts are cool....if they make the team & have a wee bit of brains.