How thoughtful to take their stones with them to the overpass.

3 hours ago, Greyhat said:

Did anyone here not do something stupid and dangerous as a kid? Hopefully this will be a learning experience for them and they'll straighten up and fly right.

Agreed

3 hours ago, Handsome Gardener said:

That's not even close to being true is it

Sadly, very true. Especially outside the city limits.

Just pure luck they didn't kill someone.

6 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

What was a 12-year old doing driving a motor bike?

This is Thailand.

3 hours ago, Greyhat said:

Did anyone here not do something stupid and dangerous as a kid? Hopefully this will be a learning experience for them and they'll straighten up and fly right.

Done stupid things, but not anything dangerous.

3 hours ago, lust said:

Throwing boulders off a bridge is next level. Many people have had their faces caved in through the back of their skull from this. These kids are lucky they didn’t the same, and they identified themselves as a gang. That’s not just boys being boys.

It has happened in the UK too, and by grown men. During the miners strike in the eighties, miners through things from a bridge and killed one of their own.

27 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

The same as every other 12 year old does in Thailand !

Only in Thailand????

6 hours ago, webfact said:

 

No charges have yet been made.

Expect more serious crimes when they turn 18....

A shaved head and some orange robes solves all problems in Thailand.

 

in the Thai version of Monopoly that’s what’s on the “get out of jail” card.

Edited August 13, 20196 yr by AlexRich

3 hours ago, Handsome Gardener said:

That's not even close to being true is it

Come up to lower Isaan and you'll see younger than that riding around on the family bikes.

6 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

What was a 12-year old doing driving a motor bike?

Carrying rocks maybe!

boyish prank when one is 12 yo is understandable. at 16 yo it's just being evil

 

 

8 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Happens 24/7, every day of the week. 

And if caught, very little consequence for their action it seems. 

6 hours ago, Greyhat said:

Did anyone here not do something stupid and dangerous as a kid? Hopefully this will be a learning experience for them and they'll straighten up and fly right.

When I think about it I did many stupid things I suppose. Similar to the stone throwing was definitely stupid, I threw a snowball at a passing lorry. Unfortunately the driver had his window down and it caught him smack in the ear. It didn't cause an accident but could have.  

6 hours ago, Greyhat said:

Did anyone here not do something stupid and dangerous as a kid? Hopefully this will be a learning experience for them and they'll straighten up and fly right.

We did trespass on to the railway near my folks house and put pennies on the line , after a 100 ton steam loco flattened them they looked quite splendid. The other thing near the same railway line was getting balls of clay from a stream putting them on short wooden canes and firing them at double decker buses , plo plop plop. Oh what fun we had . Would still enjoy doing that , growing old is mandatory , growing up is optional.

6 hours ago, Vacuum said:

And before that, they should get a few lashes with the old leather belt on their bare behinds from the one in the family that weare the pants.

A bit like China!

This sort of thing happened in the UK in the 1960's with trains.

Take them to a morgue, let them see what they could have achieved. 

If that doesn't make them change their ways nothing will. 

 

Many years ago when 10 wheeled trucks had no doors, they would throw rocks at oncoming vehicles if they did not dim the headlights.  This is on narrow two lane roads.

 

Edited August 13, 20196 yr by Damrongsak

These boys  should all be given a good old fashioned thrashing .

16 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Only in Thailand????

We're only talking about Thailand in this post... no need to bring in the wider picture which we all know exists.

20 hours ago, Greyhat said:

Did anyone here not do something stupid and dangerous as a kid? Hopefully this will be a learning experience for them and they'll straighten up and fly right.

not to "other"  people,  no.

23 hours ago, webfact said:

They took rocks with them. 

Mined directly from their skulls.

23 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

What was a 12-year old doing driving a motor bike?

 

Don't worry. He was very experienced on a bike. Been riding since he was 6 years old

I think it would be fun to tie the kid up by his ankles & give him a good beating. The little siht!

21 hours ago, Handsome Gardener said:

That's not even close to being true is it

I assume you are being facetious.

I will answer you seriously though.

 

It happens 7/24 every day hundreds or thousands of times.

 

 

On 8/13/2019 at 10:47 AM, KhunKenAP said:

What was a 12-year old doing driving a motor bike?

That's old in Thai years to be driving a motor bike. Just go to any Issan village and you will see 6-8 year old little kids driving motorbikes everywhere......One careless screwed upped society Thailand is.

21 hours ago, possum1931 said:

It has happened in the UK too, and by grown men. During the miners strike in the eighties, miners through things from a bridge and killed one of their own.

Brings to mind a truckers strike in the US some years ago.  Strikers stood on overpasses with cinderblocks tied to a rope, the other end tied to the railing.  The rope length was measured to put the block directly into the windshield of any trucks passing beneath the overpass.

 

Labor strikes have a way of bringing out the brutal, ugly side of what are normally decent people. 

Edited August 14, 20196 yr by dddave

On 8/13/2019 at 11:04 AM, Just1Voice said:

Happens 24/7, every day of the week. 

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