jaywalker

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.

1 minute ago, RichardColeman said:

 

I bet they wont pay for any hospital bill for any child bitten by the scummy things. Should kill the lot off. Nice to see my local 7/11 having signs up now for Do not feed the soi dogs

Of course not!

Dog does you damage..."not my dog".

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

soi dogs are vermin, he did good but his method needs a rethink ...

My neighbor tried to poison a mutt once in Pattaya...yapping poodle across the street.

The owner fed soidogs right outside her front gate so the strays slept there & the poodle on the other side yapped ALL NIGHT long at the strays.

I politely BEGGED her to put her dog inside repeatedly. I was ignored,

The farang next door mixed rat poison with hamburger meat yet I got blamed because I had complained about the annoying vermin. The mutt shunned the poison meat, much to our chagrin.

I never thought of it at the time, but I once saw some smallish, pistol-sized cross bows for sale on Beach Rd. for about 500 baht.

Metal darts about 8 inches long (quite deadly at close range to humans or dogs) & I could have tossed it after the fact....Just a thought.

BTW, I absolutely love a good dog that behaves and does not annoy other people, but have zero tolerance for a dog that is annoying to me or anybody else.

It would have been SOOOOO simple for that woman to -

1 - NOT feed soidogs outside her front gate.

or

2 - Put her poodle inside at night.

Nah, just told me to bleep off is all she could do. Bitch.

9 hours ago, fakename said:

And im sure it was the most valuable dog!

Of course!

It was a purebred Heinz 57 & the owner had it imported and paid 100,000 baht for it!

4 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Explain how a driving licence is generally available for anyone to purchase.  If it were true, which it isn't, how come LTD offices are overflowing every day with people taking their driving tests?

My wife failed the hell out of her driving test. 600 baht later she had a license.

It may be different now, but that's how it was in Surin, in 2001.

1 hour ago, Thian said:

yup another 500 baht driverslicense.....well done Thailand. 

I feel cheated. My wife paid 600 for hers! (TRUE!) She was knocking down obstacles left & right. 

My fault though. I had her take it in a stick shift vehicle.

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A friend in Kuwait took his wife to get her license there. The evaluator was reaching for the door handle to get in for her driving test, and she drove off and left him standing there, so it's not just Thailand.

BTW, she eventually passed that day.

1 minute ago, worgeordie said:

I think that's why most Thais prefer automatics,

3 pedals are just too confusing

regards worgeordie

I had my wife take driving lessons for 6 flippin' WEEKS in a manual shift car.

17 years later she still can't work a clutch.

Women drivers....

22 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Yes Tasers would be a good idea,where can we buy a 100,000

with a good commision,never mind the cost,or if they work

regards worgeordie

Errrr.....Beach Road?

10 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

Like far too many things over here, quite pathetic really.

I still gotta give the the headline 4 out of 5 stars...

Drunks & chicken essence for the cops. 

1 hour ago, Retiredandhappyhere said:

Does the previous owner not know the name of the guy to whom he sold the car?  Even if he sold it to a dealer, the dealer should know the name of the new owner.   Or am I just forgetting where I am?

I was just looking at my Florida vehicle records online a couple days ago.

There's a 1972 Chevy pickup I bought in 1986 or so, that my brother totaled in 1988, and a 1996 Ford F150 that I sold in 2001 that the state of Florida says I still own????

I suppose this could just as easily happen in Thailand.