Liverpool Lou

Have you sent them a message on their Facebook or Instagram...maybe they'd be able to tell you, from the horse's mouth? I'm waiting on a delivery of wholewheat toast and sesame toast from Beyond Bread, try them for real bread.

Which dollars?

Let's hear it for the "Sensible Drunk Driver Brigade"!

Not if he was MalcomB!

Good one mate. Hilarious. There really does need to be a "Sarcasm" emoji.

Of course you do.

1968 wants its joke back.

Yes, she "must of".

Maybe his holding back on a few baths [sic] is the problem.

Seems you know and do better than all these locals who pay on the spot then, or you just like to pay more than is needed? Lol. Yes under a rock for sure, you lived here almost as long as I am alive and seem to be completely unaware or ignorant about it. Seems that I do know how to avoid them, yes, yet you seem to be sneering at that. Very strange attitude. By the way, even if I was "paying more" (I'm not) that would not be avoiding those "fines", it would be paying them! Nothing that I have posted suggests that I am "completely unaware or ignorant about" the tradition, if I were, I wouldn't be able to recount my experiences, would I?.

You must live under a rock then, they are everywhere daily doing that, mainly to milk locals for 100-200 baht. Because I have been able to avoid having to pay any illicit "fines" means that I "must be living under a rock"? Thank you for that premium example of bizarre logic.

Obviously you don't. Obviously, you do not recognise the difference between a legitimate traffic fine that I have paid and a "fine"- note the inverted commas in my comments, they have a meaning.

I was writing for readers in general. Remember, it's not all about you.... So why did you address it specifically to me by commenting on my post that you quoted?

Why, with no evidence at all to do so, are so many here immediately blaming the driver?

90 kms/hour...... At what speed was the van travelling?

Really? Evidence for that? How many van tyres have you checked so closely?

Yes, very likely that he was so tired that a tyre burst.

Where was it reported that he hadn't checked his tyres? Where was it reported that he wasn't driving at a safe speed? Where was it reported that he wasn't prepared to take avoiding/defensive action at any time?

And what would be the normal reaction to a burst tyre, particularly if there are a lot of passengers to take care of? Most people would want to stop the vehicle, wouldn't they? And, on a busy road there may not be the option to not have to slow the vehicle down.

Who, exactly, "had bald tyres"?

Could he? How fast was he driving?

Worn out tyres? Road debris damaging good tyres?

Normal, legal speed for that road?

There maybe legal obligations... Exactly, legal obligations are the point when marriage, adultery and divorce are in the picture as were specifically referenced in the OP. Moral opinions of this case by others are irrelevant, even today.

No suggestion whatsoever that your bizarre speculation led to anything biting them, the reason for their decision was stated in the OP. Debts owed to others are not "removed from any bank accounts" unless it's an overdraft or associated credit card debt.