lordgrinz

Committee, then a committee to check the reports from the committee, then another committee to check the work of the committee checking the committee.......rinse, repeat. A few trillion baht later, and after the city sinks into the ocean, they'll find someone of lower level importance to charge with malfeasance.

Which is weird, try fixing or working/adding on anything to your house or land in the USA without a permit and the local building inspector will be up your you know what within minutes.

I found the police and insurance agents love that I have everything on HD cameras, I am glad I had them, both my wife and I have both had other drivers lie about accidents, the police have sided with us every time. So I would say you are fine with the cameras, at least from my experience. Just follow the laws and rules, and don't change your lane to avoid an accident, don't want to get blamed for hitting someone else, just let it play out in your lane.

Oh, dear God, please let be! 🙏

Driving like the locals, now if there was only a proper police force around, the illegal and dangerous road-blocking vendor cart wouldn't be allowed on the road and the suicidal Thais/Farang drivers would be removed from the roads as well. Instead? We get a free-for-all, an award winning Darwin experiment played out on the streets. Plenty of dead people because the RTP, Government and citizens couldn't care less about public safety.

Brown envelopes for everyone, corrupt employees at all levels have been satisfied, nothing to see here.

Demolish it, and pay the residents back with interest.

So, Never.

B24 Million in one year?! Someone was either overly trusting, or completely stupid to let that go that far.

A nation built on corruption, imbedded in every Thai at birth, and embraced by the government is bound to be exploited. It will take generations to fix the issues here, and nobody is even willing to start the healing process, especially under the most corrupt Thai government ever conceived. With Thaksin at its helm, good luck!

I think they just need better Amulets.

Best way to "protect tourists" is to remove all Thai drivers from Thai roads, problem solved.

That was good for a laugh....

Why does everybody here, including lowly government employees, wear what appears to be uniforms that resemble those of Admirals of great militaries? They even cover them with fake badges and insignias.

Any one with any integrity would choose "None of the above".

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Unless everyone else was at a dead stop, then yes indeed he was speeding.

Exactly, what kind of profit could he make, unless those phones were stolen in Australia. Plus, if he is 39 yrs old, those were some really rough years. With fingerprinting on entering, I don't see how he thought he would get away with reentering under a different passport. But I am surprised that when his fingerprints were taken at the airport, that the system didn't immediately flag him, I guess the immigration system isn't as sophisticated as I thought.

I'm specifically talking about offroad only motorcycles, or what is basically a Dirt Bike, are they legally allowed on the road? Does Thailand allow them to be registered, or would they not be able to register it on the roads? The ones with no lights, no blinkers, etc.

Not that I think they would enforce any laws/rules here anyway, but I see a lot of off-road only motorcycles here, are they legal on Thai roads? Can you even register one? Because I see them all the time here with no license plates on them.

I don't use my phone while driving, i hate talking, let alone texting. I use driving as an excuse for avoiding all calls and messages 😉

You must live in a more law-abiding area than I do, I could find 1-2 every 5 minutes.

No such thing exists, there is zero enforcement, and I doubt any Thai even remotely knows the first thing about "safety regulations" on the road.

I'm guessing close to, or over, 200 kph. That's a pretty straight and wide section of road, I would say he made some type of abrupt lane change to send the vehicle into a spin, then hit the pole sideways, thus ripping it in half.

30.68% are either on the take, uneducated, or just plain ignorant.