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Was that when the Beetle was an exciting new import from Germany? 😃

I didn't see any mention of enforcement. Did I miss it?

Sounds like an Isaan tourist ad. 😀

Yes, there's that taboo word again. Enforcement. It's what's needed but never done.

I've just watched the video and they don't seem very good. Particularly the one in the middle. I assumed it was all a joke anyway when the police said they were preserving their integrity.

Fair enough, and Phuket as well but they are on the beach. I'm up in Isaan and people still think I spend my days on the beach hundreds of kilometres away.

I agreed with you until the last sentence. No, that's not a problem at all.

Maybe it was a distraction for a breakout from the cells.

It will be assumed that we spend all our time looking at things like this. Even less support for unfreezing my pension. I'm sure some people think Thailand is Bangkok and a long beach.

'Foul-Smelling Trail of Feces' Is there any other type, apart from mine of course?

Yes, pretty good airport at New Delhi, and Mumbai, although I haven't been through there in a while. Its just they are run by Indians who seen to enjoy making hard work of things. Addis Ababa is fun as well. My ticket from BKK had the correct departure gate in Addis Ababa but they had the wrong one in their departure board.

A taxi I assume.

I don't think it's not an easy problem to fix. The rules are simple. If a pedestrian steps onto a crossing drivers must stop to let them cross. I know this and when in the UK it's simple to abide by the rules. Here it's more difficult. If you stop, as I have done, you get confused looks from the pedestrian as it's not what they expect and you get vehicles passing you, often on both sides, and sometimes a horn blasted at you. The pedestrian won't cross until there are no vehicles coming so you end up having to drive on. It's a never ending circle. One way to change things is to get all police officers who are based at a desk to go out once a week in civilian clothes, with no other uniformed officers in sight, and use a crossing in the correct way. A couple of near or actual fatalities would soon get things moving. A different topic but they could provide the bosses at the highways department with a Ferrari or Lamborghini and fuel to drive at a reasonable speed on random routes at a reasonable speed. Any damage caused to the vehicle has to be paid for by them. This probably isn't so relevant around Bangkok and down the eastern side of the Gulf of Thailand as the roads seem much better than in Isaan. There's a similar problem with roundabouts. The rules here are the same as in the UK, give way to traffic already on the roundabout. Before anyone claims I don't understand the rules as you give way to any vehicle that's bigger, that isn't the rule here as for various reasons I've had to do online tests and sit through hours of videos at Land Transport and I know the rules. Even if you did have to give way to larger vehicles a Honda Jazz has never been bigger than a Toyota, Isuzu Ford etc pickup, so there's no reason for them to stop for my Jazz when I slow down before joining the roundabout. Also a large army truck is bigger than all of them so shouldn't be stopped as I've seen.

Yes, I think their premises would probably be treated as a potential crime scene. Now the garage that was taking out the tanks should be treated the same way.

I doubt they can stop it if Thai authorities can't. Apart from the illegal gas tanks the bodies are often built beyond the specifications given by the chassis manufacturers and legal requirements. There was a 'crackdown' on this a few years back. I think they are often built higher than they should, although this one doesn't seem to be too high.

If I'd seen your post earlier I wouldn't have need to write my post. You've said it better than me. It's their country of course and they can do what they want but if they don't act then they are people who allow men, women and children to be needlessly killed because they can't be bothered to take responsibility.

It's good that she's taking notice and seems to want to do something about it. However thousands of men women and children are killed or injured on the roads in Thailand. Any country having such a large number of motorcycles will tend to have higher fatalities but it seems to be worse than in other similar countries. We all know how bad driving is here, and vehicle maintenance. Pink busses seem to be a particular problem in regards to public transport Put in place a proper driving test and enforcement rather than bribes to the police. The driving rules here are pretty much the same as I'm used to in the UK and probably much of the west. This would have the effect of reducing the number of vehicles on the road and reduce carbon emissions. Better signage around road construction and improved road building and repair. That should be a good start. If she doesn't at least start to do it then this is all just PR.

I see your point but there's that word again that causes a lot of the problems here. ENFORCE.

The reports I've seen say a tyre blew out. That can happen to anyone but I do see a lot of tyres with no tread. Do they over inflate tyres on vehicles like these as they seem to do on motorcycles. That might cause a blow out especially on an old or poor quality tyre.

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People don't pay can for property because its not easy. That's the point. Online purchasing isn't always COD. Transferring money via a bank isn't cash. I paid cash for the car for the reason I gave. It would be very difficult in the UK or many other countries due to money laundering rules. My point is that cash isn't always king and there's no real reason in most cases that you should do that unless you want to. My wife usually uses her app to pay in 7/11, Big C ect. I don't have an account to do that so I use cash. I think a lot of businesses prefer not to use cash so they don't have large amounts of cash in the premises plus they don't have to worry about counterfeits.

Second place for Pita so isn't sound bad since he was kicked out of politics so can't really be included in the political elite

And what would the US Navy know about the very special Thai water?

Not so good for property purchase, car rental, hotel booking, flight booking, car purchase and online purchasing. Fine for small transactions though. I did pay the balance of around 750,000 baht for a new Honda Jazz in 2012. That was so my sister in law could see what it looked like.

There was some doubt as to how much difference 10,000 baht would make, and for how long. All these reductions will presumably reduce the effect. Has any research been done on this? If it doesn't work, will it be because it was scaled back and therefore just be money wasted? Another method used to specifically boost the auto industry around the world were subsidies or tax breaks for buying new more efficient vehicles whilst scrapping old vehicles. Hence 'scrappage schemes'. This should mean no vehicle number increase due to the scheme of properly implemented. Thailand had its own scheme with it own touch of Thainess. We bought our Honda Jazz in 2012 using this scheme and we still have it on around 274,000km. Because it was fire those buying their first car it resulted in a few things. Grandparents and those who couldn't drive suddenly owning vehicle, often a pickup which I'd see coming toward me on my side of the narrow road on the way to our local market. The main difference of course is it increased vehicle count rather than being neutral. That was PT as well.