5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai police unveil the answer to the New Year carnage: The Dummy Ca

This is great now the Police put all the dummies on the road so they can go on Holidays .

I've got a better idea. Get the police to actually do something other than play on there phones, a dummy car when no one is scared or worried about the non existant police, I'm sooooo worried lol  

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

why don't we just fire all the officers and have dummies

6 hours ago, webfact said:

To complete the illusion that the police are actually doing their job

Says it all

I’ve come to the conclusion that this is not so much a country as a comedy show. ???? 

How can you tell?

Well another bad idea to avoid working!
I have done many kilometers in Thailand, I have seen real police cars stopped on the side of the road and even on the road, I have never seen any Thai slow down or change the way of driving.
This country is populated mostly by small and large children who always like to play!

A dummy's car...any car driven by a Thai who doesn't have a license, insurance and MOT/is drunk/has bald tyres and no brakes/is overloaded to the point of suspension collapse/intends to run away after an accident caused by his bad driving, especially if there is loss of life*

 

* delete as appropriate (if at all).

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These are only effective in countries that regularly have REAL police patrols, speed traps, side of the road enforcement. Otherwise, they are just another billboard. 

China uses these which also has a image of policemen with speed guns.., people pay attention most the time

Well, yet another dummy idea by the authorities - stupidity seems to have gone overboard in the LoS. 

IF, repeat IF the police would be doing their job they are paid for they would do breathalyzer checks, impound the car on the spot and release it against a cash payment fine of say THB 10'000. Car would have to be collected within 48 hours, otherwise a daily parking fee of another THB 1'000 would apply.

That at least is how such problems would be dealt with in the normal world resulting in a carnage all over Europe which is smaller than in the LoS alone. 

But ordering another 10'000 dummy cars with real flashes of course makes another few people filthy rich while hundreds of people will die and thousands will get injured because of some drunk d1ckheads combined with the police NOT doing the job! 

Go figure! 

"Pol Col Ekkarat said that the dummies (the cars) were used by police forces all round the world."

 

That's true.

 

But in Thailand, they ALSO use dummies for the police force.

Anything to get out of doing their jobs-sad they don’t care about their countrymen

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the Dummy Cars will be sited at forty accident blackspots nationwide

Just the 40 then? That'll do it. Meanwhile, 15 million people continue to drive inebriated. 

Ah, The BiB at the highest intelligence level must have come up with this.

Cardboard Cops! What a joke, or was it Big Joke that came up with this brilliant idea?

Death and serious life changing injury by the many hundreds every day, not just NY and SK and nothing is done by the real dummy cops.

 

 

How are they a deterrent when the real ones don't do anything anyways.... daily I blow past them like they are standing still on the motorway and its like they did not even see me.

4 hours ago, outsider said:

"Pol Col Ekkarat said that the dummies (the cars) were used by police forces all round the world."

 

That's true.

 

But in Thailand, they ALSO use dummies for the police force.

Not in Australia, !

17 hours ago, SymS said:

Thailand 4.0 is real guys. It's happening.

Should read 0.4

All Thai people will tell you: New Year is the period during which police gives the most fines... for getting a New Year bonus.

The "dummies" will therefore have a dangerous negative effect, by pushing motorists to accelerate to avoid to pay the bribe !

18 hours ago, bri1guy said:

How about a dummy,    gogo dancer in bikini ? I would slow down for a look at different ones!!! 

How about a real girl?

On 12/23/2019 at 12:51 PM, Chazar said:

more  like drive into it smashing it to pieces!!!

You beat me on that one.

Unbelievable. 

On 12/23/2019 at 12:29 PM, webfact said:

highway police have come up with a cunning way

 

On 12/23/2019 at 12:29 PM, webfact said:

that the dummies (the cars) were used by police forces all round the world. 

I am a bit confused - if these dummy cars are used around the world then the highway police didn't 'come up' with the idea. 

13 yrs here, I have never seen a red police car. 
White, brown, black but never a red one. If Im correct and there are no real red cars, then this will only alert traffic that there is another ''sign'' to ignore. 

 

On 12/23/2019 at 12:29 PM, webfact said:

To complete the illusion that the police are actually doing their job comes a flashing light. 

I love the writer's sense of humour.

All Thailand knows that cops are self-serving, lazy, corrupt bandits who do nothing to lower the daily casualty figures and/or crime stats.

5 minutes ago, mikebell said:

I love the writer's sense of humour.

All Thailand knows that cops are self-serving, lazy, corrupt bandits who do nothing to lower the daily casualty figures and/or crime stats.

I see them daily on the  7 motorway pulling over pickups loaded with people in the back.

On 12/23/2019 at 6:59 PM, nchuckle said:

I’ve come to the conclusion that this is not so much a country as a comedy show. ???? 

As in Land of Smiles ?

Hardly cunning and their idea. USA doers this all the time. Typical to take an idea and call it their own.

USA and Europe this idea has some effect as drivers are conditioned to reacting to police patrol cars simply because they know they 'will' get a ticket and substantial fine/lose licence etc for speeding.

Don't think I need to add more to this post. ????