lordgrinz

Obviously the credit rating of your 50 yr old couple would be much higher than the 20 yr old. Thus cheaper rates.

In these circumstances I think the amount should be billed back to the foreign country, let them handle who pays after they repatriate her. Maybe then more governments will take action on their citizens welfare, home or abroad.

Travel insurance should probably be required to cover all circumstances, leave it up to the courts in their home countries to assign liability (i.e. Insurance company, insured) when the insured gets back in-country. They should also make insurance mandatory before even getting on an airplane. Yeah, rates will probably go up, but having more people required to carry it, might actually bring the costs more inline with current ones. The rates could also be adjusted, denied, and based on current risks (driving records, credit rating, criminal history, etc.).

All The Gear All The Time.

If the goal is the upper crust, then just create a limit somewhere high enough to avoid catching the lower echelons. Say somewhere above the Immigration requirements, like anything above 1 to 2 million baht.

Sounds like he hit her while she was on the ground. "At the same time, another moped driver came from behind and tried to overtake Felicia and her crashed moped. During the overtaking, Felicia received a violent blow to the head, a blow that caused a cerebral hemorrhage, swelling of the brain and fractures in both the back and head."

Especially knowing that motorcycle deaths and injuries here are off the charts, I won't ride on the street here without ATGATT, no exceptions!

The ridiculous money I spend for taxes and military in my country says otherwise, they have a duty to protect their citizens. If not, then they should explicitly says so upon any travel outside of the country, that way when it hits their bottom line financially they can smarten up and do their jobs!

I totally disagree, my government should protect its citizens at home and abroad if they are travelling in countries where we have embassies.

I thought after seeing many motor vehicle accidents, that a human life was worth just 40,000 baht in Thailand? The Siam Paragon incident broke the mold though, its now over 6 million baht.

Here in Nonthaburi I haven't had any issues with any delivery services, all of them deliver without issue, and the only missed shipment (Lazada - delivered to wrong address) was quickly fixed the next day. I've always prepaid, and never had an issue, probably a thousand shipments in the last 7 years.

To the pockets of MP's, the trough is low, it must be replenished.

By flashing their headlights and honking their horn, GET OUT OF THE WAY!

Thai culture at its finest, disgusting.

The Israeli borders will be locked up like Fort Knox within days, it will be the safest place on the planet, everything outside their borders will be the unsafe areas.

His bank account will be bowing when all is said and done, say bye-bye to your assets!

"We could care less about your safety, or anyone's else's safety in Thailand, we work for our own selfish interest."

In a country where people flash their headlights to force their dominance over other people on the road, its pretty obvious they are offense drivers, not defensive drivers. Until this "me first" attitude is changed, and people actively care about other drivers or pedestrians, nothing is going to get better. Just travel into Bangkok on the Sirat Expressway on any given morning, there are 100's of drivers flying down the emergency lanes to pass other traffic, not only that, they enter busy ON-RAMPS to pass on the left.....these people are suicidal! Cops? They sit there and watch, or take part in the psychotic behavior, I shake my head in disgust at this horrible culture.

Hybrids make more sense, especially in Thailand, best of both worlds.

Tore through my daughter's school (she got it too - mild case), mainly hit Grade 2 the hardest, neither my wife or I got it though.

Show of hands, how many people are willing to give detailed tax information from their foreign homelands to the IO (Royal Thai Police)? Anyone raising their hands please schedule a lobotomy.

Back home in my case, mainly because I hate this place, but also sick of the paperwork and constantly feeling like an ATM to Thai's.

If requiring everyone to file tax returns in Thailand to stay on visa extensions is the way forward, you can expect a mass exodus.

They need to make it safer, as in safer on the roads, safer on the sidewalks, and safer in crosswalks. But first they need to work on a proper police force that not only enforces laws, but doesn't actively engaged in lawlessness and corruption. Basically, the impossible.

For a while there I thought he might be an evil genius, but I'm positive now that he's just another village idiot.