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Methinks you're confusing fast/slow lanes with in/outbound lanes. Inbound lanes are heading into a city, outbound heading, well,....out. Typically double lanes separated by a median, with occasional marked U-turns. I read this as the truck had left a sugar cane collection point, thus loaded, was on the highway heading towards some city/township, and had gotten into the lane intending to U-turn, and head back away from the city/town to a sugar cane processing plant on the opposite side of the highway. I don't see where the article stated the truck driver moved suddenly from the low-speed inbound lane into the inbound passing lane, only that he was heading into the city, but needed to U-turn to head away from the city. It's the responsibility of a professional bus driver to drive the appropriate speed for the conditions, especially at night thru an agricultural area during harvest season.

How could the bus driver miss an overloaded sugarcane truck ahead of him? From the report, there is no indication the truck moved suddenly into the path of the bus. Truck was in the left lane, slowing or possibly nearly stopped (unclear) to make a U-turn. Bus driver plowed into the truck from the rear. Driver already doing wrong:

Why's a brit wearing lederhosen?

No thank you. I'll take my money and go someplace interesting.

Probably an oversight. Something deemed to be "disinformation" was removed, then someone got distracted removing bickering posts and forgot to insert a notice.

You thought correct - all good. Your non-O renewal is not a visa, it's an extension of stay based on your original non-O visa that has already expired. Your latest entry stamp was dated based on the expiration of the current non-O extension of stay. When you recently renewed your extension of stay, well, that extended your permission of stay, not your visa. Note the title of the form you submitted "APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY STAY IN THE KINGDOM"

Lights. Get some white halogen daytime running lights to be visible. Maybe a red flashing LED bar wired into the brakes mounted on the rear fender.

Mistake? I suspect he fell asleep whilst Facebooking. There's no excuse for rear-ending a massive slow-moving vehicle. The bis driver is 1000% at fault.

Siren?

Oh, noes!!!! They gonna make me wear a mask! Oh, the humanity!

If you're concerned, just open a WISE account in your name. I don't believe immigration is concerned about who sent the money, only that it came from overseas. The bank letter you provide won't detail who sent it. It only confirms it was an international transfer deposited into your account.

Do you know how to get the proper documentation if the WISE transfer is not coded as an international transfer? SWIFT transfer will have the correct coding. With larger transfers, the WISE fees increase bigly. Maybe calculate the cost of both methods to see which is a better deal. Consider transfer fees, correspondent bank fees, and exchange rates.

I did both at the same time,each taking twenty minutes. Yellow book was free, pink ID 60 baht.

How well do you understand spoken Thai? Perhaps you misunderstood? They may have been making small talk, mentioning "We sa you Lotus moo wan!"

C'mon, man! They can be super useful! The land office just typed up a lifetime usufruct on the back of our house chanote without asking to see my passport. Handed them a half dozen photocopies, but they only asked to see the pink ID card for the name spelling.

Go to the online site and request a list of all transactions for that account over the past 5 or 10 days and note the balance available after each. Prolly a processing bug. Likely had the 31K deposit added immediately as available balance, which then reverted to a pending deposit after the overnight update. That's assuming the 31K you received is not available for spending immediately.

Ooopsies! Somebody missed the announcement by the transport ministry that the Bangkok-Korat high-speed line route is being redesigned, leading to a (further!) delay of at least two years. The decision affects phase one of the scheme, a 250km section from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima. The route has 189km of Chinese-style elevated track, 54km of ground-level track and 8km of tunnels. The cost had been estimated to be $4.7bn. So far, only one of the 14 contracts that make up the line has been completed. https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/thailands-high-speed-railway-china-link/ Interestingly, the entire run from Kunming to Vientienne, thru the freaking mountains, was completed in under 6 years and cost a mere $5.9 billion, under budget and ahead of schedule. Yet here we are. Hub of "if it ain't broke, break it."

Wait. What did you tell them the first or second and maybe third time they asked how long you were staying? You didn't mention then that you had a ticket out in less'n 30 days? Seems like that would've pretty much resolved the situation.

No, the family members are not. The lady apparently died from an allergic reaction. But the fact that the reaction occurred 45 minutes after leaving the restaurant, and no telling how long after actually having eaten, points to something other than that specific meal being responsible. But the lawyer may be publicizing the links to Disney to get the public aware of the "facts." Juries are notoriously generous, especially when the "winnings" come from a deep-pockets corporation. Back when I lived in Alburquerque, an elderly woman got a million dollar judgement against McDonald's when she burned herself with hot coffee. Seems she went thru the drive-thru, ordered coffee with her meal, pulled up from the window, took the coffee sitting in a secure no-tip cardboard retainer from the bag, put it between her legs, removed the safety lid marked 'caution, coffee is hot', and then proceeded to drive over a speed bump and spilled coffee in her lap. The lawyer brought in barrista experts to 'testify' that McDonald's coffee was 10 degrees too hot, therefore negligent. The jury thought, "aw, poor lady, it's only a couple million, McDonald's won't miss it." And now you know why Mickey D's coffee is now sold lukewarm.

She left the restaurant after the meal, and went to a second location for some reason. Enough time had passed that her husband was not in the immediate vicinity and unaware of the situation. Disney lawyers will be collecting all the evidence, including time stamps on the order and receipt and CCTV recordings showing their movements after the meal. Anaphalaxis is not a delayed reaction in most cases. A response causing death I suspect would begin immediately. They will demand any receipts for mixed drinks/snacks at the next establishment visited, and likely introduce the potential of flavored vapes containing allergens used by other patrons. *edit* It seems quite some time had passed, as she had left to go shopping, likely entering the second restaurant to seek aid. CCTV of her movements in the park afterwards will be essential evidence. From CNN: After dinner, Tangsuan went shopping in the Disney Springs area, and began “suffering from a severe acute allergic reaction” while at Planet Hollywood, according to the lawsuit. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/26/business/new-york-doctor-dies-at-disney-world-restaurant-after-staff-confirmed-food-was-allergen-free-lawsuit-alleges/index.html However, 45 minutes after Tangsuan ate her meal, she was in a nearby store alone when she started having a severe allergic reaction to the food she ate and self-administered her EpiPen. She began having difficulty breathing and collapsed before 911 was called and she was taken to the hospital. https://people.com/doctor-dies-allegedly-allergic-reaction-food-disney-world-lawsuit-8600661

If you're going to blast loud music at YOUNG Germans, it better be Heino! There's nothing like traditional Blasmusik at 6am when you're hungover!

Oh, really? A former (alleged) case officer would let the bad guys take out the president 'cause you don't like his positions? This is why someone needs to overhaul the intel services. Who knows what else they might get up to. They might spy on his campaign, they might sex up a fake dossier and leak it to tame journalists, or they just might sic the IRS on opposition parties.

Flood damage, already written off?

Okay, so he cut out beer and lottery tickets and hookers for 18 months and plowed the savings into paying off the mortgage. Nothing supernatural about that. How come the spirits didn't give him the lucky numbers so he could pay it off in 3 days?

Shirley, we've seen plenty of threads with video of motorcycle riders hit from behind, either while riding or sitting at a red light. Also multiple threads with scooter riders mown down by truck-n-trailers taking a left turn too tight, trailer wheels in the emergency lane. I keep a constant watch behind. Out here in ruralville, pickups with hay bales sticking out half a meter to each side, flatbeds with oversize earthmoving equipment, scooter/sidecar riders in the emergency lane...............and half of them encroaching on my lane, not paying attention, or reading their facebooks. Numerous times I've had to move into the gutter, or completely into the ditch, to avoid getting sideswiped. Things in front I'm not as concerned about. I can see those coming with more warning time.