Bangkok Barry

They only have 10 fingers to count on.

This is a thread about road deaths. And even including deaths by other means over that period is total nonsense.

In many, maybe most, side sois in Bangkok you have no choice but to walk in the road, no matter what nationality you are. Just part of the fun of being in the 'world-class' city.

Strange that in 40 years of travel on hundreds of flights I've never been asked for my boarding pass at any immigration anywhere. So it's far from common. I'm pretty sure that immigration know what flight you've arrived on by checking your passport, as that is entered into the system by check-in at departure, or even before if you book on-line as most people do. Everything is linked these days for security reasons. Check passport, there's your flight number. No need for the passenger to keep anything that could be lost, left on the plane, deleted from a phone. As has been mentioned before, if the passenger doesn't have the boarding pass the IO just shrugs and you move on. So what's the point of it if they don't care anyway? Are they going to deny entry if you don't have it?

Correct.

Thailand's rigid and outdated class system strikes again.

How does your post relate to two staff members fighting each other? That they should work elsewhere, maybe?

I've posted this before, but..... You don't understand the Thai system. He has spoken, made his recommendations, and his job is done. Anything that happens later is not his responsibility. You, I, he and everyone else knows that what is said will be ignored and is unenforceable, but that is not the point. He has acted, done what he considers to be his job, while actually doing nothing. This happens all the time, at least once a week. Someone makes a declaration and the next day it's ignored and forgotten. But that person has done their job by 'acting'.

Stop driving without a license: 'No' Stop driving while drunk: 'No' Stop riding in the back of a pick-up: 'No'

True. But that doesn't explain how it started, with the Indian crossing the road to confront the Thai. We'll never know, I suppose.

You can assess if you like, but I'd say that I doubt a Thai woman would have shouted an offensive comment across the road (why would she?), so insulting that the Indian came over to confront her. You are entitled to have a different view, of course. As for protecting Thais, others comment that I take every opportunity to criticise Thais. You can't both be right.

Looking forward to that...... Let's start: The Indian woman recognised a Thai vendor who sold her short earlier in the day when the Indian received only three pieces of pineapple instead of four.

That's nothing. Thieves broke into the house of my friend and not only stole valuables but his SUV as they found the keys. The same day, the 'security guard' for the housing community vanished. The police refused to investigate unless he bribed them with 100,000 baht. Soon after, he decided to go back to Australia and his Thai wife was happy to leave her cesspit of a country and go with him. I say cesspit, as if you cannot rely on law enforcers the entire structure of society collapses. You have anarchy, where anyone who wants to can break the law and do so with little to no chance of punishment.

What caused the incident was an Indian woman crossed the road to confront a Thai woman. Why she did that we don't know. But that is what started the incident. Seems clear enough to me. Maybe you didn't read that far down, so here it is: an Indian woman, for unknown reasons, crossed the road and confronted a Thai woman, triggering the physical altercation.

Try reading the linked article. Then you might need to guess.

Same as Chinese, Thailand attracts bottom of the barrel. I've known and worked with many Indians, shared a house with an Indian family, been on holiday with one, had an Indian boss who invited me to her house for dinner.

YOU don't know what happened as you didn't read the link. At least, what an eyewitness reported, Strange term that, eyewitness. How else can you witness something?

I agree. But I believe most people wouldn't give it a great deal of thought and assume the crew knew of any potential danger and would act accordingly. And have you ever seen anyone going round a bus before taking it, checking the tyres etc? You rely on the crew to keep you safe, and in Thailand that can get you killed - as many have found out over time.

I suppose checking the forecast before sailing was out of the question? But that might have meant refunding ticket money if they didn't sail.

Another tourist who I guess won't be in a hurry to return to the land of smiles.

You're missing that this thread is about domestic airlines and not Chinese tourism.

You know you've been in Thailand too long when...you spout a ridiculous explanation that is at the level a Thai would come up with, that of a child.

spot the Republican. i bet you support a megalomaniac who is clearly a serial criminal. as we'll soon see confirmed in the courts. Your clear suggestion that those on this site are in Thailand for the young ladies places you perfectly within Trump's collection of ignorants. By the way, I'm not a democrat and not an American, but from one of the countless countries around the world where people shake their head in wonder and despair at how broken the USA has become, with a serial criminal and a geriatric the best the country can find to run for president. Quite incredible.

I've worked with a couple of Chinese and had experience of many more outside of Thailand and they are highly respectable. Thailand tends to attract trash. Like the buffet vultures. I've never seen Chinese act like that at hotels overseas in places like Dubai.

I feel sorry then for the hundreds of millions who must use it 24/7. And for those who venture into Thai cinemas