Bangkok Barry

So was the writer

Can someone please tell Nattapong Westwood that it wasn't the pickup that lost control, but the driver. How difficult is that to understand?

Still too difficult for some Thai drivers to navigate. I live on a long straight road, and I've now lost count of the number of accidents there have been within 500 metres of me in the 10 yeas I've been living here. Certainly more than 20, involving death and amputations, long-term coma, 18-wheeler lorries overturning, even a car flying through the top of a tree.

Entirely agree. I can't think of any positive effect that humans have had on nature. Quite the opposite. And nothing will prevent our self-destruction as the people who can make a difference - the biggest polluters - have no desire to do so. Money rules. Always has, always will. As an aside, isn't it strange that humans established a monetary system, and millions die each year as they don't have enough of it. Making it another form of self-destruction. Meanwhile, we find anything at all to kill over - religion of course, or drawing a line on a map - something that man alone on the planet recognises - and then threatening to kill anyone who steps over it. John Lennon imagined it right.

This has nothing to do with Lazada. It probably applies to any Christmas lights bought anywhere. But still something to bear in mind when buying, so

That might have been a challenge in a Tomboy bar.

Whether something is illegal or not has no relevance in Thailand. They say jump, you jump. They say pee, you pee.

That tells you all you need to know. The cost of treatment is entirely unrelated to what it actually costs, but what passport you carry.

That's because he's a German exposed on a German tv programme. Maybe the Americans are a bit slow off the starting block. Stay tuned.

The forecast I get via my PC tells me it's going up from 30 to 34 in Kalasin Province over the next few days.

Bizarre post. It asks why fewer Chinese are visiting and then promptly answers their own question in the first paragraph. So let's change the headline for them: Why are fewer Chinese tourists are visiting Thailand?

The world doesn't give a rat's fart about Thailand. What happens in Thailand is only of interest to those who live there, and even a sizeable number of those don't care either unless something happens which directly concerns them.

So you'd be ok with being hit on the side of the head?

It's Soi Cowboy in Bangkok, but perhaps Thaiger were too lazy to find a photo of Rayong.

Possibly, as they do trains when they want to end their life. Not saying that was so in this case but it does seem like a possibility.

What do you suggest people do? In a country where some, including criminals, even murderers, are untouchable. It's Thailand and no-one expects anything different, nor that they can do anything to change it. Any time 'the people' raise their voice they are quickly, sometimes brutally, shut down. No different to Russia or China or any other place where democracy is absent.

What Thais call a microsleep is what most of us call a lack of concentration, the mind drifting off. Anyway, shouldn't the driver be alert at all times while operating a vehicle, instead of having a microsleep or dozing off.

Again if you dont know then pipe up. Nationality does not depict if you fall asleep or not. Clearly, your reading skills aren't very good. I wrote I think, not that I know. There's a difference. Perhaps it is you who needs to pipe up instead of claiming I wrote something that I didn't. And it has been reported on this forum countless times that drivers have admitted falling asleep while driving. How many times have you read that from your own country?

Where did you see anyone writing that, or did you just make up that they did? This was an accident in Thailand reported on a forum about Thailand, and that is why it is reported here. What happens elsewhere is of no relevance to this forum except perhaps to compare. Perhaps you didn't realise that.

Along with any law in Thailand being routinely ignored, there is a difference between requiring it to be fitted and actually having it turned on and functioning. Many years ago, the building on Sukhumvit that became the Intercontinental Hotel caught fire the day before it was due to open. I happened to be passing at the time and it was spectacular, with people trapped on the roof who were lifted off by helicopter and carried across to the roof of the current Thaksin residence, the Police Hospital. An air-conditioner had exploded and, although the law had required that a sprinkler system had to be installed and it was, there was no law to say it had to be turned on, and it wasn't. Years later I was in the BP building and they had huge photos on the wall of the blaze.

What reputation being damaged are they talking about? Pattaya's reputation worldwide is of a place where it's easy to buy cheap sex from thousands of women - or other genders if that's what you choose. Most do not come for the ever-disappearing beach and constant works along Beach Road.

Why do reports here always refer to these as tour buses when they are not. This was a regular passenger service, not on a tour.

It happened at 1am so I think the most likely cause was the driver dozing off. We read that Thais can sleep anywhere, anytime, and we read often that some manage to do it when driving. That should be impossible if you are concentrating on your driving, but difficult if you have the attention span of a goldfish.

As ‘Big Joke’ delves into the intricacies of the case, the Thai public is both disturbed and angered by what is emerging from the unfolding story. The author forget to add at the end 'but not surprised'.

Well, it seems that the high number of Indians reportedly being robbed of their gold necklaces in Pattaya hasn't received the media coverage you'd expect back home, because they still show up flashing their bling. Or - it has and generated reports of even more robberies, genuine or not. Impossible to judge who to believe in this case. I certainly don't believe the trans saying she tried to return the phone as it was password protected. Tried? What does that mean? She couldn't find him? He refused to accept it? Utter nonsense and the usual Thai-standard excuse that a child would come up with. Did he actually have the gold necklace? Who knows? And we never will. He said, she said.