On 8/15/2018 at 5:56 PM, Darcula said:

 

Thailand number one.

Interesting I think that is the only number 1 ranking Thailand hold in the world in anything 

If you pull out into traffic, and you don't look, you deserve to die.  Maybe, since one of the major issues is the afterlife, the survivors that suffer for the rest of this life should be focused on~burned, brain damaged, limbless...otherwise they just think it's funny

Really sad story about the 19 year old on a brand new mopad. Crushed to death by an idiot in a pick up truck. 

 

Thai roads won’t change for at least another 30  years plus when the country becomes more affulent and funds can be poured into this area. 

On 8/15/2018 at 3:27 PM, Don Chance said:

I don't know why Thai's can't even stop at a cross walk for pedestrians. It is ridiculously dangerous to just cross a roadway.

Am guilty of stopping but ignoring traffic behind me which won't stop...

A merge gone bad. Trying to figure out what the road designer's intent was to merge the traffic into the main road. In the USA, there probably would have been a stop sign for the side road traffic. Then I realized that Thailand doesn't have many stop signs.

 

Then it dawned on me: Thai motorists, particularly motor bikers, do not like to stop or be stopped!

 

And they've gotten used to non-stopping merges and have gotten pretty good at it.

 

However, IMHO, non-stopping merges can cost more in accidents, as is illustrated by this fatal accident.

Edited August 16, 20187 yr by MaxYakov

Just don't be dogmatic about asserting what you believe are your lawful rights - give way and live!

 

As a VERY longtime motorcyclist it worked for me.

Thailand is and will always be a third world country, at least in my life time.

I do not expect this country to get below the top worst 5 countries in the next 15

years. Carry on and please keep all those gross pictures coming in the news..

  us bored old forum readers need our daily fix of death.

(Sarcasm)

52 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

us bored old forum readers need our daily fix of death.

us bored old forum readers need our daily fix. of death.

I cross Sukhumvit Rd in front of the police box at Soi 4  & see all the time red light dashes & not stopping 

for pedestrians when turning left.

The BIB have 8 cameras in the police box to witness this & could even if they wished, look outside the window.

What do they do,,,,,,,,,,,, nothinjg

1 hour ago, natway09 said:

I cross Sukhumvit Rd in front of the police box at Soi 4  & see all the time red light dashes & not stopping 

for pedestrians when turning left.

The BIB have 8 cameras in the police box to witness this & could even if they wished, look outside the window.

What do they do,,,,,,,,,,,, nothinjg

As I stated HERE. What would you have the cops in the box do? I'm sure the video (assuming the cameras work) would be accessed only if there were a fatal accident or some other interesting event (such as a man punching out his GF).

On 8/15/2018 at 12:21 PM, Mr E said:

Even that wouldn’t work.

Inherently carefree and stupid.

They’re perfectly happy in their microcosm of oblivion.

I don't understand why if you hate a whole race you choose to live amongst them? 

13 hours ago, AdamTheFarang said:

I don't understand why if you hate a whole race you choose to live amongst them? 

I do not express any hatred; neither explicitly nor implicitly.

And you know for a fact that I live there?

With no due respect, your response is incorrectly presumptuous and vapid.

On 8/16/2018 at 8:02 PM, Redline said:

If you pull out into traffic, and you don't look, you deserve to die.  Maybe, since one of the major issues is the afterlife, the survivors that suffer for the rest of this life should be focused on~burned, brain damaged, limbless...otherwise they just think it's funny

Thats the Thai driving culture.

You are only  interested in the road ahead.

Anything to the side or behind is another drivers problem.

Its not the truck drivers fault.

Some off topic posts about the world golf ranking have been removed. 

7 hours ago, Mr E said:

I do not express any hatred; neither explicitly nor implicitly.

And you know for a fact that I live there?

With no due respect, your response is incorrectly presumptuous and vapid.

Perhaps you just like to patronise as it gives you a sense of superiority in your own mind.

53 minutes ago, AdamTheFarang said:

Perhaps you just like to patronise as it gives you a sense of superiority in your own mind.

Overwhelmingly hyper intelligent riposte.

Stick to the salient points.

You are too feeble to retract your absurd unsubstantiated accusation that I hate an entire race.

I do not patronise. 

However, if I ever gave your vacuous words anything more than a modicum of attention I probably would patronise you.