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RIP, young lady. A helmet and some careful and skillful driving could have prevented this unnecessary tragedy.

I'd call this a draw...

Motorcycle rider turned a blind eye on the indicator of the truck. I mean, man!!! look how the flashing indicator lights up the whole corner. Some massive blinking here and the idiotic rider didn't see it coming. Any biker knows that you should maneuver carefully when driving close to such a large machine. He acted like he was completely alone...

Truck driver, especially in Thailand, should always anticipate one or several bikes to be on his left when stopping at a traffic light. He didn't look and also acted like he was completely alone...

Lucky escape indeed.

Btw: Did anyone see that little guy pulling the large woman out, losing grip so her head hits the b/w concrete border flat on? That might have caused some serious damage - no idea what he was doing or thinking. Plus - did I see THREE people on one motorbike and am I correct saying that there were no helmets involved?

9 hours ago, haveaniceday said:

USD or Baht 4 mill?

USD - all the numbers are in the original story (click the link under the header story). 

Congratulations to the lucky guy!!! Good to see that also a commoner can have lucky strike these days.

Another day at the office...

Given the facts, all tourism-related businesses men in TH who either have loans and mortgages on their properties / boats / buses, you name it, and those paying exorbitant rent in "Location, location!!!" areas will go belly up within the next quarter. 

Little side note as food for thought...

Within my circle of Thai and Expat friends and family in 2020
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Corona cases, infected and/or deaths = 0
Suicides = 2

Wake up, people!!!!

On 12/6/2020 at 8:58 AM, Tropicalevo said:

'Mass tourism' probably enabled you and many other posters that live here, to come to Thailand in the first place.

Mass tourism enables cheap flights and accomodation. It helps to build the infrastructure that enables people to move around the country more easily.

Of course, those who came here earlier do not want to share paradise with the masses.

It was the same when I first came to Thailand (except I drove here). I built a house in the middle of nowhere and told my friends about this geat place that I had found. They told their friends, who told their friends and before you  know it, I am surrounded by more 100 houses. But at least I now have concrete road access, and reliable water and electricity supplies. There are even supermarkets now where I can buy decent bread! ????

It is called progress. The world changes.

Tropicalevo - couldn't have said it better myself. All those keyboard warriors bashing the so-called mass tourists, have either been one of them themselves and/or have profited from it to secure their life here as an expat with an INCOME. Let's face it 90% of the people are too dumb to add 1+1 and think farther than from where they stand to the TV, fridge and the local supermarket - and THAT includes foreigners!!!

TH health minister possibly in pursuit of new prey, since there are no pesky, smelly foreigners around who never shower??? Hunt 'em down, boy! Gettemmm!!!

Thailand... hub of price hikes with the possibly worst timing.

Sofas are very rare in Thailand - I heard they mate only every 6 years or so... 

13 minutes ago, Techno Viking said:

 

A loaded Izuzu pickup will weigh more than 2.2 ton..... 90kh/m limit for that bad boy !!

Wow - so Isuzu has even some more power tweaking to do... Maybe they can add a tiny nuclear thingy to reach the desired speed level? Or a Flux Generator like in Back to the Future... ????

Hhhmmmmhhh, that means that Isuzu basically have to make their truck engines more powerful to allow for all these baby shrimp delivery guys to drive double the new official speed limit... So far, that was 180km/h in places, but now we are up to 240km/h to reach that totally understandable level, since Isuzu pickup drivers simply HAVE to show others who's Boss...

I fear that Isuzu will need at least three months of planning and redesigning to do that, what means that those poor drivers will have to be patient for a while, some trait they have never really learned... I deeply feel sorry for them.

Am actually looking forward to the then upcoming Isuzu advertising clips on cinema - I see more flames, slipping and sliding, amazing drift, screeching tyres, and rocket fast high power Isuzus overshooting the earthly limitations of the big silver screens while the souls of all these local, well educated and hyper responsible drivers in this country will yearn for these new, shiny rockets on wheels...

Most likely, the Isuzu videos will outperform the actual movies that follow the ads and the national anthem. It's all so exciting... and frightening at the same time. What a life!!!  ????

Question should be... who's looking after all that ice??? ????

Another muppet, another pipe dream, another Hub fantasy... Nighty, night, Thailand! ????

One should not say that he/she "hates" anything or anyone, but these disgusting and very dangerous m(deleted)f(deleted)rs I truly "hate". We lost one, elderly, gardening staff to a centipede bite more than 10 years ago. Our gardener was already a bit sick and weak - thus, the centipede bite was the "straw that broke the camel's back"... ????

Nice idea to get the economy off the ventilator - fine the remaining businesses to death if you can't break them with all the other C19 restrictions in place. More Nanny State, more fines, more BS... Nice! Well done!!!

BTW, 30 years here and never had food poisoning, eating street food at least on 4-5 days out of 7... How come?

I'd dismiss this as a pipe dream given the fact that the muppets in charge and the so-called "experts" most like haven't even grasped the deeper meaning and concept of the word "forward"...

1.201 tourists... a trickle...? It's not even a flash in the pan. Get real, folks!!!!!!!!!!

Thailand - hub of delusion.

I fear that some of those arrivals will have to stay in tents, as the 757. 000 hotel rooms within Thailand will be hopelessly overcrowded shortly after that plane hits the Tarmac. Quick, quick! Anyone would like to invest with me in a Thai hotel, resort, or... minivan transport business, anyone??? C'm on... lifetime opportunity, folks!!!

More loan slaves! Great!!!!

Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, cut 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, rawhide!!!!

????  

Oooohhhh, I can see another "Hub" headline on the horizon... ????????????????