jaywalker

1 minute ago, Blindedbythelight said:

I wonder who will rescue her kids ?

Same folks that would take care of them if she'd been run over by a bus I guess, as that's basically what has happened.

Google bangkok-post/20150621/282797830013543 to read the full story.

It'll be the top link.

Basically she rescued some wild animal that was destined for Europe, and the cops wanted her to pay 400,000 baht.

She didn't pay so they framed her.

7 minutes ago, joepattaya1961 said:

I recently bought an AIS Mobile hotspot at the AIS shop @the basement of Central Pattaya Beach. 

It's 4G compatible and fed by a dat-SIM-card. 

The device cost THB 1,990 including a data-sim with 2Gb 4G data transfer. 

 

I used it as a back-up connection in a rental and according to the guests it worked fine. 

 

Only down-side......if you like to download movies, music or like to watch streaming vids, you'll run out of gigabits in no time and you will be 'downgraded' to 128kbps. 

I've had two USB dongles from AIS....Still have them & it was unlimited data for 1,000 baht/month. They were pretty fast & came with a SIM card (as you say).

They worked pretty good in BKK & Pattaya and a bit slower in Korat. The coverage was horrible/non-existent in the sticks just outside Surin.

I haven't used them for a long time, so maybe things are different now.

14 hours ago, dcnx said:

They need to put them on kid sized tricycles and big wheels, it would be fitting. 

This is what they need.

I got a moto-taxi ride once & the guy told me 80 baht.

I had to run in a Tesco for less than 5 minutes & asked if he'd like to take me back. Sure, he'd be happy to wait.

Got back to starting point & watched him almost break down (in his head) trying to add 80+80.

It was so entertaining that I gave him 200 baht.

4 minutes ago, wprime said:

Not necessarily, ever driven a truck down a hill? Could easily just be an incompetent or lazy driver.

I've driven some huge rigs, at night, in the rain when I was in the military.

I'd get a different truck & trailer every time I turned around.

The FIRST thing I'd do, was test the brakes in a safe area & I was in my early 20's.

I recall being 8 or 9 years old, with my Dad in Kentucky (very hilly, about like the Mae Sot area), going downhill in a 1976 Lincoln Continental & he told me he had dropped it out of "D" into 2nd so he could keep his foot off the brakes. I never forgot that lesson.

I'm just surprised the driver made it to be 64 years old.

They have them in Tesco & Big C for 900-1,000 baht back in the mobile phone section.

Pre-paid service at any AIS kiosk (just outside the entrance to any Tesco or Big C) is about 1,000 baht for a month.

I used mine for Skype in BKK and Pattaya...a bit of a jerky video, but streamed Youtube nicely.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The driver of the truck - Warit Sukhonthanitkun, 64 - was heard to cry out as his brakes failed coming down a hill.

Sad story for sure all around, but especially about the little girl.

Thailand, the "hub" of brake failures.

7 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

include wear & tear, maintenance

Maintenance, sch-maintenance. The "M" in Thailand stands for maintenance.

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

muscles bigger and facial hair thicker.

Will it be a new tourist attraction? 24 kilos of weed...Rather stupid when it's illegal.

Got nothing against weed, nor anybody's lifestyle, but they'll probably have the bearded "ladies" in a ring, boxing in bikinis next week to attract busloads of Chinese tourists.

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

it is good some people are trying to tell other people what they should do.

I was sending my wife out on an errand once,  ( I wish she was still as naive).

She had no idea where it was, and Thai addresses are made for people on Mars....No Google Earth back then either.

Told her she'd have to ask directions, and not if, but when the guy/gal somewhat pointed towards the moon, she's have to ask them again to be more specific.

She told me I was just like George Bush, and that I "just wanted to tell everybody what to do."

Somebody has to do it sometimes.

Why are the Swampy restrooms 1/10th the size of those at the Mo-Chit Bus Station, and all the concourse seating looks/feels like it was designed for a US Super-Max prison?

I loved old Don Mueang, even though it was under 7 feet of water a few years ago.

On 3/15/2017 at 4:42 AM, ricklev said:

Exactly!  I take a van out to Rangsit every once in awhile.  When they are speeding down the Don Muang Tollway at 130 there is a beeper that goes off every second or two.  That's what GPS does.  It requires the passengers to listen to the beeper when the van is speeding.  Of course most of the drivers have muffled the beeper so it's not too loud to disturb them all day.  

I wonder if their GPS will "Fail" as often as their brakes?

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Had a taxi w/ Indian driver taking me from Dubai to Abu Dhabi once. I was knackered after a 30 hour flight.

No GPS, but the beeper was tied into the speedometer.

Talk about annoying! I was ready to strangle the guy!

8 hours ago, elgordo38 said:

Patient to Robbie the robot. Robbie all these pills are any dangerous to my health and my kidneys? Robbie Bleep let me get back to you on that one my program does not compute bleep. 

Kinda sounds like the Pattaya crosswalk traffic lights.

Of yeah, I LOVED Robbie the Robot when I was a kid.

Hadn't thought of him in decades. Thanks!

I needed a cyst removed from my testicles once upon a time years ago.

Embarrassing as it gets, from the female receptionist on.

At BKK-Pattaya hospital.

Had a male doctor & he said he could laser scalpel it off there.

Pregnant, female nurse had me drop my drawers & applied a local anesthetic (some kind of numbing cream & a band-aid) on my ball-sac & told me to go wait outside for an hour.

Back then I hardly spoke any Thai, but I gathered it must've been some field trip day for some med students, as the doctor invited half a dozen young 20-ish kids in there to watch him do the procedure.

Not sure if a robot could have done better, but it would have certainly been less humiliating!

12 hours ago, captnhoy said:

Let's focus on the big picture folks - as long as the Thai worker is not losing their job to a farang, mai pen rai. True story too - I went to the pharmacy of my local (provincial) hospital trying to resupply my eye drops for glaucoma. I explained and showed the nearly empty dispenser. she tried to supply me with nose drops.

I went to an optometrist & told her I'd like to buy some PLUS 5.25 contacts (far sighted)

She sold me MINUS 5.25 contacts (for near sighted people).

Being half blind I couldn't read the box, so I got the wrong thing

So they use 25 trees for their poster & burn a bazillion watts on lighting for their photo op.

2 hours ago, DualSportBiker said:

Just like reversing on a highway having missed one's exit.

I can recall a few times where it might have been safer/quicker to back up on the expressway (I'd missed my exit).

I drove on to the next exit, thinking I'd make a U-Turn & wound up in the 4th or 5th dimension.

It added HOURS on to my trip.

37 minutes ago, webfact said:

new applicants for driver license will now be required to pass a minimum of 15 hours of instruction at qualified private driving schools

My wife couldn't drive a ten-penny nail into a piece of cornbread when I met her, so I had her do a 40 hour driving class in a stick-shift.

She still can't drive a manual transmission vehicle, but does pretty good with an automatic.

18 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

He could've been sleep walking, or got up to use the loo and was disorientated, found the balcony not the loo, he's only been at the hotel for 10 days, I hate staying in new places, I always get up in the night for a Jimmy due to one or two too many beers and have trouble locating the bog, these days I leave a light on in the bathroom and the door slightly ajar. 

 

RIP sir.

I know a guy who was fishing at night in a bass boat, stood up to wizz over the side, put his hand out like he was going to lean against a wall, and fell in the lake.

He was sober too! Just sleepy I guess?

A few years back I was on Walking St. & hear/noticed a sound like somebody welding.

There was a power pole with wires that were arcing a big blue flame about 3 - 4 inches across.

This was far South end of WS, so I made my way up to the police table at the North end to tell the cops.

Young cop there spoke perfect English & told me not to worry about it, as it always does that.

15 minutes ago, SunsetT said:

....I would have thought there was an excess of happy zones in Pattaya already...........some erogenous and some erogerinous.

Ad nauseum buddy....

Did you just fall off the turnip truck?

If so ask for advice, but saying all of Pattaya is/has been a happy zone has been obvious for decades.

I suppose the sky is blue as well, and when it rains things get wet.

15 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

So your analogy is being in bed in pattaya by 11 pm and any tourist city in the USA at 3am??  I don't get it. 

Many tourist cities in USA have all bars closing by 2 am including San Francisco and Boston.  

You cant say pattaya at 3 am is safer than many USA tourist cities at 3 am. Tourist areas in the USA have police out and available to help with anything for free!  They are almost always in extremely safe neighborhoods. They also have CCTVs  that work. Just read TVF on occasion and Pattaya at 3 am is far less safe than almost any USA tourist city/tourist area.  You can't even compare slightly. 

I just know my limits.

I get drunk & go to bed, get up & have fun with my wife & daughter the next day.

I don't drink and drive, & don't stay out all night.

I don't stumble around Miami nor Chicago nor LA at 0300 hrs drunk.

I like drinking. I also like living. I never said anyplace was safe, nor that you should adhere to my code.

I just feel safer when I'm curled up next to my wife in the middle of the night, and turn out to be a better man the next day!

If you want to run the streets anywhere you want in any urban area, then, by all means Sir, "Move out & draw fire".

Any thug/lowlife after you is one less after me.

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Edit... I never said Pattaya was safe. Baghdad & Yemen & Kosovo are probably safer. I've been in all three when mortars were being lobbed in.

7 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Not too familiar with Pattaya. Maybe someone can help. Is the 'Happy Zone' near the 'Happy Ending Zone'?

 

Go to Soi 6 and/or Soi 6/1.

Oh yeah, be careful about any "AMAZON"-looking women, as they'll most likely be a transvestite.

Any Thai "woman" over 5' 6" tall is probably a man.

8 minutes ago, Nice Boyd said:

Chewing Ice could mean Iron Deficientcy , Google it  

Yeah, she's starving to death, almost 5 feet tall now at 11 years old.