RogueLeader

Could it be that he is a Nigerian scammer who had scammed the wrong people and they are seeking sweet revenge?

Oh dear. You really should read at least some of the thread before jumping in.

Considering that offering or paying bribes is a illegal, isn't this essentially an app that allows you to broadcast the fact that you've committed a crime?

Just goes to show how many farangs really don't understand the "Thai mind". You must be here just for the ladies. Hope the curse that your Isaan bargirl GF puts on you doesn't come true. The consensus here is that either religion is a sham, Thais believe in the tooth fairy, etc. It's animism--not Buddhism, and it's the oldest, most ubiquitous belief system in the world.

You don't have to believe in what they do, but when you mock it, you just show how superior you are to "them".

Can't you just suspend your superiority for a moment and replace it with anthropological curiosity?

Most of the comments sound as if they were made by British East India Company employees on a tear through Asia.

sorry to disapoint you but not all farang are here for Issan girl or thai wife ....or bar girls in general .... but let me ask you a question .. do you really believe a bad spirit has cause the TG flight problem ? if you answer Yes ... then I have nothing to ad , I will only feel sorry for you ...in general !

Of course not. This is about easing the minds of the Thai nationals that are the main customers--not farangs. Ghost appeasement rituals are not unique to Thailand. They do this in Japan, Taiwan, China, etc.

YOU might not believe that evil spirits cause these accidents, but the THAIS do.

That said--yes, they need to fix the airplanes, but the Thai people also need their animist belief in evil spirits to be assuaged.

Full disclosure--My ex GF's family was deeply into the Thai dark arts. I was exposed to it for years and wrote a book about it and my experience with them.

So, yeah, it's THEIR reality. Shift your paradigm to something other than your Western ways (and superiority) and you might learn more about the culture.

This isn't about the planes--it's about the customers who fly in them.

Awaiting more Richard Dawkins acolytes. I really enjoy hearing about pasta monsters.

They can believe whatever they like. When they're responsible for a company that moves thousands of tonnes of metal over densely populated areas every single day of the year, such an attitude marks them as unfit for that position.

While initial investigation pointed to a malfunctioned landing gear (the officials have not yet finished their inquiry), the Managing Director of Thai Aiways, Mr. Sorajak Kasemsuvan, is not taking chances. He said his company will conduct a major ceremony to appease the malevolent spirits said to be haunting the airport.

Thai Airways International planes should be banned from EU airports until this man is removed from his post.

Thailand is not so bad. In Holland the then famous footballer Patrick Kluivert was speeding in Amsterdam, killed 1 of a couple in a borrowed (and poorly insured) BMW M3. He walked away with it too.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2844/Archief/archief/article/detail/431138/1996/05/15/Rechtbank-acht-Ajax-vedette-schuldig-aan-dodelijk-ongeluk-Patrick-Kluivert-krijgt-werkstraf.dhtml

He had to work 240 hours = 6 weeks (to be finished in 1 year) on projects like gardening, maintenance blablabla.

It was a red convertible M3 and NOT insured. And the Dutch; always pointing finger to those 'terribly corrupted countries as Thailand'.

Are they? When?

Their Embassy in Bangkok is corrupt, the law system in Holland is corrupt.

Careful, now.

This article can put Ambien and every other sleep inducing medication out of business. What an insipid waste space .

Don't read it then. I'm sure there are some bright colours and loud noises for you to enjoy elsewhere.

So the headline, rather than the accurate

"Thai Airways International aircraft skids off the runway at BKK"

is

"80 flights delayed."

Utterly, utterly craven. Is anyone proud of this article?

There's already a thread titled: "Flight TG669 skids off runway at Suvarnabhumi Airport."

Try to keep up.

So the headline, rather than the accurate

"Thai Airways International aircraft skids off the runway at BKK"

is

"80 flights delayed."

Utterly, utterly craven. Is anyone proud of this article?

Errmm the crash was reported elsewhere. This is a separate story.

Yep, apologies. Didn't see the other story.

So the headline, rather than the accurate

"Thai Airways International aircraft skids off the runway at BKK"

is

"80 flights delayed."

Utterly, utterly craven. Is anyone proud of this article?

For a country who puts so much credence in what so called 'academics' say, they sure cannot half talk some crap. In most countries other than the ones at prestigious universities, 'academics' are generally thought of as people who could not cut the mustard it in the private sector, and went for the easy option.

Are they? Who thinks this?

Why do so few people choose 'the easy option' then?

It is not only a problem with foreigner gangsters that needs to be dealt with: much commoner issues such as overstaying Farangs and Farang child molesters also need to be urgently addressed.

Are you really equating visa overstays with child molesters? Really?

"Thailand warns of tough legal action against foreign gangsters..."

...who forget to pay their 'protection' money.

get me a good exchange rate and i really dont care what you do. But alot of ppl do and will go somewhere else around the perimeter of the country for cheapppp booze

Yep. It's all about you, Lee.

Good idea: legitimise jet ski and scooter scammers by 'opening negotiations'. These bastards shouldn't be given a forum to negotiate, they should be imprisoned.

Suicide is no laughing matter, don't be snide.

i couldnt agree more but with thai women they are like buses if you miss that one theres plenty more commng your way to ride on i dont get it my mate married a bar girl prostitute when i asked him if he marry the same type girl in the uk he said are you f inn joking they are sluts shows the power of the thai lady

Please have these, with my compliments:

,:'.-,.

Its a laughing matter from where I'm reading it, dimlow tries to top himself off building barely high enough to break a bone from. Can't have been all that serious if a, he chooses somewhere not high enough and b, gets talked out of it. Biggest laugh of all is the headline heartbroken Falang man attempt to jump off of hotel, surely Finnish man wants to finish it all would have been a better headline.

Why do people post stuff like this with their real name? Don't they know that information lives forever on the internet and employers and business contacts know how to use Google?

Air turbulence happens all the time.

Why were there so many injuries I wonder.

Seat belts not on.......................................

My idea............................every seat belt, like some cars, should have a warning when not buckled, sooooooooooooo, on planes a loud speaker should be put overhead of each seat for each seat belt saying........................

" Oui dip stick in seat number _________, do your <deleted> seat belt up AGAIN and don't be a bloody nuisance for the staff and others''

It might work, and if me, I would not like a 100 people staring at me.......

You should definitely be Prime Minister of the world. I'm stunned that your problem-solving talent hasn't been discovered. It's a travesty.

A knowledgeable, interesting and considered post on TV by someone who clearly knows what they're talking about. We should have it framed.

How would we know if a van is illegal before we climb onboard?

My problem is the legal ones are just as bad as the illegal ones, I do not understand why they only concentrate on the illegal ones.

Exactly

I for the life of me can not figure out how a license is going to prevent an accident. Where I come from they had a mandatory vehicular check also the drivers had to pass a certain test to drive a public vehicle.

Why people think that just getting a license will solve the problem is beyond my scope of comprehension. The vehicles should be subject to minimum standards and checked every year and the drivers should be made to pass more stringent tests.

Then and only then you will see a reduction in the accidents. just licensing them does nothing except provide more money to the government.

I would not be one bit surprised if an investigation showed some not all unlicensed vans and drivers to be the safer choice. The reason we here so much about the unlicensed ones is because these are English based sources of information we get it from and to them a license has a different meaning than in Thailand.

When the Government or one of its ministries comment that they are looking into the policies of licensing of mini busses. I think the majority will agree with me on the following;

1. Minibuses should be limited in public service to a particular, route, distance and speed. It's no point investing in 10 more air bags or if the driver should have a circus license or even speaks the good ingalisch!

2. Comfort is good, but priority is safety and instead of making some lame circus loop to increase fares on this licenses. It should increase the insurance on each passenger and the compensation to families in the case of death.

3. Public transport should be properly defined. Size of bus, routes, stops, securities in weight, storage, and maintainence!,,

4. Personalized vehicles such as ferraris and those who think they are land pilots should be grounded, jailed or license confiscated.

5.install in all public transport busses speed records and driving meters to control the drivers rest periods. Alcohol tests prior to long journeys and spot tests on the way. A second driver and route reporting of time,

Thailand, wake up you are no longer ignorant to common sense.

Money can not substitute stupidity, even though it probably paid off in the past on compassion or religious grounds!

And the price of a 3-hour minibus ride will rocket from 130 baht to about 500 baht. Thailand is not Switzerland. If all of these safety initiatives are implemented, the cost of living and visiting will rise dramatically and people will go to Indonesia or Cambodia instead.

I'm not saying that this is necessarily a bad thing, just that this is the reason that I can go to Chiang Mai on a first class train for a price that wouldn't get me a taxi home from the train station in the UK. Thais know this. If transport, food and accommodation get significantly more expensive, people will go elsewhere.

Although it is yet to be established, the fund, of which the initial amount is expected to be 1 billion baht, will go toward supporting the handicapped, and paying for education, as well as financing the Excise Department's activities.

Supporting the handicapped.......B50,000

Paying for education.........B50,000

Financing the Excise Department's activities.....B999,900,000

Especially when you realise that 'education' will mean a series of cheap TV and billboard adverts about the evils of a cold beer which will perversely end up promoting booze and increasing tax take.

Trebles all round!

The amount of ignorance in this thread is truly shocking.

Ha ha ha ha ha, please make me stop laughing before this thing kills me,, as it will,, eventually.

Hurr hurrr. Drugs'r baaaad.

No, it won't. Nitrous oxide is given to pregnant women during childbirth. One last time: nitrous oxide is completely safe.

Educate yourself.

So you can show many examples of unidentified people kicking in peoples doors?

Do you think that government should be trusted by default?