Pattaya: Dangers lurk everywhere as foreigner and girlfriend come off motorcycle

[Sticky Wicket]

20 minutes ago, Tounge Thaied said:

It seems you've found your facet. This is what you signed up for Mate. Get over it or go home where all is better. Sick and tired of the petulance displayed in these forums... Like my grandmother used to say, if you don't have something nice (constructive) to say, don't say anything at all... It's not welcome. You're living in the wrong place if you want everything neat and tidy for you all the time. It's part of the adventure... embrace the suck!!

People have a basic right not be garroted or caused to crash due to utter negligence and laziness on the roads

 

Do you think that a society with absolutely no personal responsibility or regard for life is something to praise?

 

Highlighting these matters may eventually bear fruit, in another millennium or so. Plus there are a lot of constructive comments on here, mixed with a bit of fun and jest!

 

Maybe when you come a cropper to such imbecility you will change your tune. 

Edited January 22, 2020 by Sticky Wicket

[hobobo]

3 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I agree.

Experienced riders avoid them especially when they are wet.

Pattaya hasn't had rain for many weeks now, and motorbike taxi drivers were told not to urinate there ????

[JustAnotherHun]

6 minutes ago, hobobo said:

Pattaya hasn't had rain for many weeks now, and motorbike taxi drivers were told not to urinate there ????

And if it rains better use a jetski.

[Chazar]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

555

What do they want? Warning signs all over the resort?

Maybe every 50 meter or how often would be convenient?

If they know the hazards are all over the resort maybe they should drive accordingly all over the resort.

correction ,,,,,,,world  class  resort

[Beggar]

2 minutes ago, Chazar said:

correction ,,,,,,,world  class  resort

It is a world class FAMILY resort !!! If you correct please do it correctly. 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai media "We Love Pattaya" said on Facebook that dangers are everywhere in Pattaya as the authorities bury cables and dig up roads

Thailands roads are a mess full-stop... expect anything to snag you when out on two wheels. 

[DJ54]

Driving conditions change and people should know how to adjust and change at moments notice... 2 wheels and wet can be dangerous ... 

[Tropposurfer]

Concur about dufus rider ... no sympathy at all.

Anybody who actually knows how to ride a bike knows that steel plates on roadways are slippery slides and if they cannot be avoided need to be ridden over very slowly and with bike absolutely vertically with no , no direction changes,  braking or accelerating while crossing them. Was the d...head wearing a helmet at all as well? 

[DrTuner]

Lucky, let's see the next driver cut in half when the metal sheet bounces up a bit.

[JustAnotherHun]

1 hour ago, Tropposurfer said:

Concur about dufus rider ... no sympathy at all.

Anybody who actually knows how to ride a bike knows that steel plates on roadways are slippery slides and if they cannot be avoided need to be ridden over very slowly and with bike absolutely vertically with no , no direction changes,  braking or accelerating while crossing them. Was the d...head wearing a helmet at all as well? 

Agree copletely maybe except the "very slowly". Just stay exactly straight, never brake and let you hands realxed.

(And then hope that the sneaky xenophobic metal shield does not bump up one meter and cut you into pieces).

 

It looks like he had a helmet. The thing in front of him at the ground could be one. Hopefully he wore it instead driving it around in the shoping basket of his hell machine.

[Leaver]

It's the local Evel Knielvel ramp.  ????

[ericthai]

Tourists come to thailand for an experience and then complain about everything. They want everything just like home. I hope Thailand dont become another nanny state in the future 

[Tounge Thaied]

12 minutes ago, ericthai said:

Tourists come to thailand for an experience and then complain about everything. They want everything just like home. I hope Thailand dont become another nanny state in the future 

Thailand needs to embrace itself and not rely so much on Tourists... Tourists and the greed for money from tourists will ruin Thailand. 

[Geordie59]

18 hours ago, JustAnotherHun said:

Look at the street, dumbhead.

Maybe he never drove a motorbike before. Plenty of old farang here tumbling around on ther Honda Waves without having a DL.

But as always: The Thais are to blame.

Those large metal sheets are dangerous and unfit for purpose. Even when dry they are a skid risk and when wet are lethal for motorbikes. 

They should at least have a textured top surface so they don't act like a permanent sheet of ice waiting for the next victim to come along. 

[Gandtee]

19 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

Be fair,at least they covered it.

Well, part of it.????

[Kinnock]

13 minutes ago, Geordie59 said:

Those large metal sheets are dangerous and unfit for purpose. Even when dry they are a skid risk and when wet are lethal for motorbikes. 

They should at least have a textured top surface so they don't act like a permanent sheet of ice waiting for the next victim to come along. 

And they move.  There's a few on my regular commute in Bangkok, and I notice the action of the traffic makes them creep a few inches each day, eventually uncovering the hole.

 

But it may be the tarmac rippling torque of my powerful Honda Supercub that's causing them to move?

[scubascuba3]

13 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

Concur about dufus rider ... no sympathy at all.

Anybody who actually knows how to ride a bike knows that steel plates on roadways are slippery slides and if they cannot be avoided need to be ridden over very slowly and with bike absolutely vertically with no , no direction changes,  braking or accelerating while crossing them. Was the d...head wearing a helmet at all as well? 

I reckon he panicked, grabbed the front brake and bike went down, rest is history

[tinca tinca]

21 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

Be fair,at least they covered it.

can not see any twigs/branches to indicate that there is a problem ahead !!!

[Rimmer]

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[jacko45k]

21 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Falang 75% to blame

Thais know the lack of safety measures here. Tourists get off the plane unaware. 

[Jip99]

7 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Thais know the lack of safety measures here. Tourists get off the plane unaware. 

 

 

Knowing and understanding are 2 different concepts.

 

 

Road death stats tell us a lot.

[scubascuba3]

17 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Thais know the lack of safety measures here. Tourists get off the plane unaware. 

so is getting on a motorbike without that awareness stupidity? Let's say yes. Most tourists wing it and get away with it

[morrobay]

On 1/22/2020 at 4:00 PM, Sticky Wicket said:

People have a basic right not be garroted or caused to crash due to utter negligence and laziness on the roads

 

Do you think that a society with absolutely no personal responsibility or regard for life is something to praise?

 

 

 

 

Right nice try telling one of these Thai apologists, IE. It happens everywhere, it's so quaint, if you don't like it... Ad- nuaseum. That come out of the woodworks every time someone calls spades spades. 

[hansnl]

On 1/22/2020 at 12:52 PM, JustAnotherHun said:

Look at the street, dumbhead.

Maybe he never drove a motorbike before. Plenty of old farang here tumbling around on ther Honda Waves without having a DL.

But as always: The Thais are to blame.

Oh, come on, maybe the man had a driving license, maybe a steel plate over a hole in the road without any signs is a very bad idea, maybe yes, the Thais are to blame?

How are things done in JustAnotherHun country, then?

 

[JustAnotherHun]

1 hour ago, hansnl said:

Oh, come on, maybe the man had a driving license, maybe a steel plate over a hole in the road without any signs is a very bad idea, maybe yes, the Thais are to blame?

How are things done in JustAnotherHun country, then?

 

In JustAnotherHun's country the once very good streets are crumbling apart piece by piece. BUT, we have an overwhelming huge bureaucrazy there which loves to put warning and prohibition signs wherever it is possible or even not :-).

 

Have a look at the picture. The shield is huge, the street is straight and dry. There's no way to go down if you don't make a driving fault.

The rider may  have seen it too late and panicked, overbraked, teared the handlebar sharply to avoid the shield in the last moment instead of keeping his speed and go straight on.

So he must be unexperienced, distracted, drunk or all together.

Fortunately Thailand is not  Europe or US. If the farang was an expat, he should have known about Pattaya's steadily "under construction" streets and Thailand's streets and drivers.

As tourist and as unexperienced with or without DL driver one should not ride on two wheels.

But as you see here, the haters, complainers and whiners will use every chance to put the blame on Thailand and the Thais.

Edited January 23, 2020 by JustAnotherHun

[androokery]

The roads are a mess here and I don't know this driver, but according to the photo he was driving in flip-flops (facepalm, shaking-my-head, all-at-the-same-time)...

[impulse]

On 1/22/2020 at 12:01 AM, VYCM said:

Yep, it takes a special breed to survive on Thai roads.

 

People think they can hop off the aeroplane and ride these roads.

It takes a unique skill set. 

 

Most of them survive by sheer dumb luck and the statistics that say even in crazy dangerous traffic, only one in 3,000 people die each year. 

 

There but for the Grace of God...  (Luck of the draw for you atheists...)

 

[scubascuba3]

9 hours ago, androokery said:

The roads are a mess here and I don't know this driver, but according to the photo he was driving in flip-flops (facepalm, shaking-my-head, all-at-the-same-time)...

yeah blame the flip flops

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

yeah blame the flip flops

I won't wear them because they can slip off when riding, as can many other shoe types like crocs. Anyhow, all the controls are on the handlebars for scooters. Only need feet when you stop... that is when you loose such a poor choice of footwear. 

[scubascuba3]

7 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I won't wear them because they can slip off when riding, as can many other shoe types like crocs. Anyhow, all the controls are on the handlebars for scooters. Only need feet when you stop... that is when you loose such a poor choice of footwear. 

Flip flops are the least of the worries. Helmet first, then upper body armour then leg, hip and knee armour, might as well get a car