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We just need to build two or three military bases and a naval shipyard and we should be all squared away.

So the motorcycle stopped in the left hand lane (fast lane) with plans to make a turn, as opposed to stopping in the median between the two roads. Can't tell from angle but it would seem there isn't a right-hand turn-out lane to get people making the turn/U-turn out of the main traffic. However, looking at this picture, the motorcycle could have gotten off the road and into the relative safety of center median, but it didn't, it stopped IN the "fast lane" of a highway. And you should expect what? Well, other than getting killed? I've seen Thai drivers do that before and it's suicidal, and yet...they do it. I feel sorry for the kids. Another question (for anyone living down there) is that a legal U-Turn. Usually when there isn't a right-hand turn-out lane for making U-turns, it often means that U-turns are illegal from that direction. That median has to be about 2 1/2 meters across and a car / motorcycle in the middle of that median should be off the road. Yet the motorcycle obviously was not off the road. When I drove motorcycle, turns like that would give me the creeps, and I would drive accordingly - like getting myself and my motorcycle as far off the main road as I could, ie, driving defensively. I would have been as far off the road as possible and still would have been eyeballing my rear-view mirror. Now you can argue it's the fault of the car until the cows come home, but that doesn't put lives back into dead bodies. If you're on a motorcycle you HAVE to drive defensively, but Thais don't, and they die as a consequence. Again - sorry of the children. And I don't see this as 100% the car's fault at all.

True, but if someone can't pay you can petition the court for prison time instead.

If he had been "doing what ever" once he had tapped the taxi with his bumper, he should have floored it and pushed past the taxi and take it up with the police later. In a fair court, the taxi would have been libel for all of the damage for both vehicles.

As I said previously, had the driver been a foreigner.......(enter outrage and calls for the most severe punishment plus prison and deportation here)

Brake failure Steering wheel failure.

You're joking. How do you measure "success." People getting mauled in a cross-walk is almost a weekly new item.

This Is Thailand (TIT) 🇹🇭

500 THB fine.

I tend to agree with you. If it's your time to go, the ambulance gets their in a jiffy, and EMS crew has all the necessary equipment to keep you alive...and do, then some Thai drivers runs the red light and T-bones the ambulance. Everyone but you walks away without a scratch, but the impact caused the leads of the defibrillator to come out of their holders and land on your chest and then administers a shock which kills you. When it's time for your ticket to get punched.........

Sounds more like trying to get an ambulance to the NHS. Then you'd wait 1/2 day, or longer.....

I've seen idiots blocking ambulances but they tend to be the same morons who will get in the right-hand lane and drive there forever with the intention of making a right-hand U-Turn at a U-Turn_Of_DeathTM that is 7 kilometers up the road. Ya know, of course they can't get over...the plan to make a turn. Raw bap neung. Just wait a second. I'll be turning and will get out of the ambulance's way in 6.48 kilometers. Raw bap neung!

"An incident has unfolded in Phuket after a green-plate taxi obstructed an ambulance from Patong Hospital, maybe resulting in the death of an emergency patient inside the vehicle." And maybe not. How long was the ambulance detained. Was that person already clinically dead? We'll never know. However - Thailand insists on NOT enacting extremely stiff penalties for acts like blocking an ambulance. "Oh hum, oh well - dead person have bad karma." The taxi driver will invoke "brake failure" or some other excuse, and no one on this forum will ever know the outcome because there is never any follow-up on these new stories. It will probably be a small fine and not much else. Well, unless the taxi driver was a farang, but he's not. So a slap on the wrist with wet bamii noodles and a 500 THB fine. Maybe. Maybe not. Ya'll do understand that blocking an ambulance is only a 500 THB fine? So what's the downside? Not much. The person died so the taxi driver can be charged with MURDER!" "Can be" and "will be." Can be = maybe Will be = probably not. But in reality? You'll never know because none of these types of stories ever have a follow-up article, perhaps unless the person being charged is a farang. A Thai blocking a ambulance and a patient dying is so "oh hum" that it never is worth a follow-up. Anyway, we can write this outcome ourselves. Fine: 500 Thb and a wai and apology to the family of the dead person while attending the dead person's funeral. Another 1000 THB to pay the monks to chant at the funeral. Everyone's happy again! The End

Ok.

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I have no doubt Hegseth's days are numbered. He'll be replaced by mid-terms, which by the way, I fully expect the Republicans to lose. If Trump has any plans which include Congress, he better get moving. To quote James Carvill, "It's The Economy Stupid!"

I can agree with some of Trump's appointees, but Hegseth is not one of them. He is totally unqualified for the position which leaves a glaring gap in national security. A Fox News anchor was a better position for him and probably paid better.

Nancy and Kamala would drink him under the table.

I'll even give that a thumb's up. Nice catch.

Oh, by the way, when the lights went out? So did The Cashless Society. If you choose to live in a country which plans to be 100% "renewable" energy and 100% Cashless, you better understand how the local black market works and what can be used as "money." And btw, this isn't a "one-off" event. It's baked-into-the-cake so to speak of these new 100% "renewable" systems which are prone to grid oscillations that can damage the entire grid and take it off line for extended periods of time.

I agree 100%. Ban all tourists!!! In the meanwhile: 🇹🇭 "No understand. Tourist no want to come to Thailand. Many many go to Vietnam." Dear Polish sunbathers: According to Resolution No. 11/NQ-CP you are now Visa Exempt in Vietnam. https://vietnamnet.vn/en/vietnam-ranks-among-top-trending-travel-destinations-for-2025-2373275.html

Tanedar is a real winner. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shri-thanedar-animals-rescued-from-lab_n_5ae12c41e4b055fd7fc7be6c

He is obviously infected by the Trump mind-virus.

There is a big difference between getting in the shower and soaping up every time, and just getting in a shower and rinsing off. I may take showers up to four times a day when it's hot, but all but one of those times in nothing but a rinse-down other than perhaps hitting the privates with some suds, and if you're used to using a butt-shower instead of TP, you really don't even need to soap up for that. The problem is that farangs are acculturated to use toilet paper and smear poop over their butts and assume they are "clean." You're not. You smell like poop. And that sort of adds ammunition to the Thai trope that "farangs are dirty and smell." Some do. Actually, many may smell if they don't use a butt-shower.

Twice a day if not more. By the way, that comment it typical of Thai ethnocentrism and racism - you know - all farangs are dirty. Hell, remember Anutin and his rant about "dirty farangs." If you live here, you encounter racism aimed at farangs. Unlike your home country, it's pretty much either ignored or encouraged by the government. "Ai farang," to quote our friend Anutin.