another expensive night (got myself into a bit of trouble!!)

[sanemax]

Just now, Puchaiyank said:

Every cop has a copy of your passport and a pic of you giving 10,000 baht to arresting officers...

 

Advise carrying at least 10,000 baht from now on to pay for routine traffic stops...word is out you are an easy target...

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Is that an actual fact or just something you think is true ?

[robblok]

16 minutes ago, lust said:

I don’t support drinking and driving. However, there are often times I’ll do a run to 7/11 after having a few rum and cokes on my motorcycle. I don’t cover long distances and I try to not make a habit out of it though. It’s just annoying seeing all these saints chiming in about anything illegal in Thailand. Tres annoying.

I just don't see this as a victim less crime. I would have a different view if drunk drivers would kill themselves but usually they take innocent people out. I could not care less if people break the law but drunk drivers are affecting all of us. Has nothing to do with being a saint a friend got killed by a drunk driver. Once that happens you might think differently. The drunk driver of course lived. 

 

So no respect for people who drink and drive.

 

 

[Dexlowe]

49 minutes ago, robblok said:

Now if drunk drivers just killed themselves on their bikes in their cars i would not have had a problem with it

In the OP's case you may not have to wait too long as he doesn't seem intelligent enough to avoid being a Darwin award winner.

[robblok]

3 minutes ago, Dexlowe said:

In the OP's case you may not have to wait too long as he doesn't seem intelligent enough to avoid being a Darwin award winner.

I am not waiting for drunk drivers to kill themselves, point was more that they take out others instead of just themselves. So not a victim-less crime. Its others that suffer for them.

[Puchaiyank]

17 minutes ago, sanemax said:

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Is that an actual fact or just something you think is true ?

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[mstevens]

Drunk driving and paying off cops so you can continue to drive drunk? I wish they'd switch their focus from cracking down on overstayers to cracking down on foreigners who drive drunk (and the cops who allow them to do it).

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

No worries at all. You simply encountered two RTP franchisees, exercising their right to be creative, and taking advantage of the utter immunity the army has promised them. 

Or were they even police at all? Plain clothes, no ID and you can buy breathalyzers by the gross in Lazada.

 

But what the heck? The guy's a jerk anyway.

[Gecko123]

Disturbing how many people on this thread tacitly condone the OP's behavior which less and less sounds like a one-off mistake and more and more like a habitual pattern.  Many foreign guys over here with a casual attitude towards drinking and driving end up seriously injured or worse. Just in my immediate area: two guys with broken legs, another with a fractured pelvis, two guys dead. All alcohol related.

 

The excuse 'I thought it was the norm over here' is particularly offensive, as we all know how dangerous it is. No responsibility to set an example? No sense that you are a guest in someone else's country? It's also ironic how many people on this forum heap endless scorn on Thais who drive drunk and cause accidents, but then turn around and start making excuses about short distances and how they weren't hurting anyone when it's them behind the wheel. I'm thinking this thread may have attracted a few guys who similarly drive home on a routine basis after long drinking sessions at the local pub. Time to do some reflecting, guys, before it's too late.

 

 

[jabis]

Having been T-Boned by a drunk driver in an intersection where lights were green to me, ending up with fractured shoulder, clavicle broken to 3 pieces, and resulting in max "carrying capacity" of 3-4kg with my right hand, as well as not being able to drive motorcycles anymore, and then having to pay for everything as the ass hat didn't have insurance (well, I paid, then had to claim insurance afterwards in a long ass charade), I'd rather they threw the book at you, instead of losing 20k฿.

[NoshowJones]

Drunk drivers who are caught should automatically be banned from driving for life.

[NoshowJones]

On 7/4/2019 at 8:58 AM, BobBKK said:

Still we have all made mistakes and I was almost certainty one of those years ago. For the last 5 years I have a strict no drink-drive policy. When I go to town I book into a hotel, every time, and leave the car in the car park and the keys in the room safe.

You are LUCKY and they were shameless crooks. Learn and move on.

Drinking and driving is no mistake, it is done deliberately with full knowledge of what they are doing.