Bangkok Barry

I'd love to see how they retrieve the vehicle from that position. Not easy.

Who wrote that? I missed it. You do know this a forum about Thailand, don't you? Which is why what is said here is related to Thailand. That's not too difficult to work out for most of us.

Agree with all you say. And the quote above is something I've many times written about on Facebook. People get upset, even suicidal, about comments from total strangers. Very strange. Even stranger, people such as sports stars or other high profile personalities, set up a social media platform which presents a ready-made platform for anyone to abuse them. They only have themselves to blame. What they should do, and I guess there are many who do as they have a brain, is set up a profile with a name that no stranger could guess and give it only to those they trust. Would they give out their phone number to all and sundry? Of course not. Yet they give their on-line contact info out to the entire planet.

No. They wear it as a symbol of their faith, not to assure them that they can drive like a lunatic and not come to any harm. Very big difference.

And that is exactly why Thailand is backward in so many areas. Ignorance isn't not knowing, it's not wanting to know. The country was once summed up perfectly to me in just six words by a Korean tv producer I worked with here - The standards here are so low. If I went into what led her to that conclusion you'd shake your head in disbelief.

I really don't believe that proper policing would make much difference. Thais can't be disciplined and just do what they want, regardless of the consequences. It's deeply ingrained into the culture. Rules and laws don't apply to them.

And then he loses even more face by spending years in jail. But he wouldn't have thought of that. That's step 2 thinking, not a common trait in Thais. They just live in the moment. You see it most commonly in the way they drive, with no thought of the possible consequences. It's a very strange society.

Did you talk to them in Thai? As I said, they completely ignored me. I was invisible to them. They had no interest in talking with me at all. None.

My understanding is that only applies to aliens as a totting up thing so they can be deported and blacklisted. Thais not included as it is always someone else's fault, no matter what they do. For example, was the gun used in this instance Thai-made, or manufactured by a foreigner so then it's their fault.

Maybe they have 'special arrangements' there. You know, like the Chinese do where over 100 IOs have been arrested in the NE.

he was, in fact, according to him, just stooping down to pick up an inhaler that he had dropped That's okay then. It tells you all you need to know about Thai drivers. He put his passengers in danger by retrieving an inhaler, because that was far more important than keeping his eyes on the road. No wonder the tourist screamed, and in true Thai fashion making it someone else's fault, he blamed the tourist for reacting to his dangerous driving.

You consult AN readers instead of a doctor? Very strange. A government hospital is surely a better place for advice, and they can even provide treatment too for a few hundred baht.

Reminds me of something I read here many years ago. Someone, a farang, rang a restaurant and asked if he needed to reserve a table for that night and he was told no. He got there and it was closed. He didn't ask the right question. Of course, in the real world common sense would have prevailed and the restaurant would have told him they were closed that night, but......

Yes. But why not ask the hotel rather than us?

But many house in Tilan not hab bottom flor, sir. Tilan hab no need

That might be difficult. What should he ask? Is the 1st floor the first floor? Or is it the ground floor? And maybe they have a staircase which makes it kind of a high ground floor, or maybe they call it 1st floor. ???? Is the first floor the bottom floor? Do I have to use a staircase?

A similar problem caused a massive fire in what is now the Intercontinental Hotel on Sukhumvit. It happened the day before the (new) building was due to open. As the law demanded, a sprinkler system was installed, but there was no law to say it had to be turned on. And it wasn't. People had to be lifted off the roof by helicopter and landed at the nearby police hospital. I happened to pass by about 10 minutes after it started and it provided an afternoon's entertainment. The BP has, or had, huge photos of the fire in a corridor.

I've read several times over the years that, based on population numbers, the land of smiles has twice the number of gun deaths than the USA. These idiots failed to join the number, so far, but provide an excellent indication as to why that might be so.

Yes. The security guard misunderstood that he could get away with slapping and handcuffing a tourist.

You forgot smelly, as declared by the Health Minister. And possible future PM, God help us!

The Pattaya News asked a motorcycle taxi rider who witnessed the accident and was told the teen motorcyclist was driving at high speed We'd expect nothing different, would we. Thais can only drive at high speed.

Why not contact the hotel again to clarify, rather than ask on AseanNow? Strange.

So just because he apologised, it excuses his behaviour and we should all continue as though he didnt do it? Right I didn't write that. You made it up.

And therefore you knowingly bent the rules and are now reaping the consequences. Tough luck. You made a very unwise investment, with no safeguard at all against it going tits up. What on earth were you thinking?

The linked article has him admitting that he did.