Pattaya: Deputy mayor admits mistakes after two surf skaters need 500K surgery each - no helmets were worn

[Chongalulu]

1 hour ago, connda said:

Getting out of bed in the morning and living life is fraught with risk.  Accidents happen.  Does that mean you wrap yourself in bubble-wrap and wear a helmet 24/7 because you might fall down.  If it wasn't head injuries that it would be an elbow or knee.  So body armor is needed, right?
So to safely navigate life, one should wake up and don bubble-wrap, body-armor, mouth-guard, and a helmet - oh, and a face-mask, ear-plugs, and goggles. 

Or you just accept living is a risk and carry on.

 

Or have the intelligence to understand‘mitigation of risk'...

[Chongalulu]

No helmets,but masks....? ????‍♂️ 

I presume the brain surgery was thus microsurgery...

[Freddy42OZ]

I skateboarded (ramp and street) and did inline skating (ramp and street) from about age 10 to 45 and never once wore a helmet, I sometimes wore knee pads on the ramps.  The only safety equipment I always used were wrist guards so I wouldn't break them if I had to use my hands to break a fall. 

If I could find good inline skates here I'd start skating again.

 

[ujayujay]

Its hopeless! They never will learn! 

[scubascuba3]

5 hours ago, Xonax said:

You know that Muang translates to City:  https://www.facebook.com/inter.pattayacityhospital/?rf=161809467320243

 

You realise this is an English language forum and that hospital is generally known as Pattaya City Hospital, see the sign outside

[scubascuba3]

3 hours ago, Greenhill said:

It's the hospital in central Soi Bukhaow, which was in the news recently, requiring major refurbishment after being only open for 7 years!!

Ah the one called Pattaya City Hospital not the other central ones, International and Memorial. 9 out of 10 tourists wouldn't know what Muang hospital was

Edited April 1, 2021 by scubascuba3

[KhunBENQ]

4 hours ago, jaiyen said:

It must be a cultural thing to not wear protective gear. 

They drive ride motorcycles doing 100 km/h without any gear.

So they thought how could I have a problem on such a low speed skating board.

"protective gear": good to point out.

Bet they didn't count the minor injured (torn up knee/elbow)?

Edited April 1, 2021 by KhunBENQ
"ride" of course :>)

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, KhunBENQ said:

They drive motorcycles doing 100 km/h without any gear.

So they thought how could I have a problem on such a low speed skating board.

Yep...you can see the(ir) logic.

[jacko45k]

6 hours ago, petermik said:

 

Anyone who has been visiting/living here aught to know Muang means in the City...therefore Muang City Hospital is as you rightly point out is the City Hospital here on soi Buakhaow and scuba fully knows that...he`s just being pedantic.

It might be pedantic, but if they are going to use the English alphabet to represent a Thai word for 'City', they should do it for hospital too! 

[rtco]

On 3/31/2021 at 2:08 PM, webfact said:

 

But so many people turned up that it was impossible to monitor properly

B@ll@cks ... you should've just stopped them if they had no helmet on ... easy

[Cake Monster]

Note to self.

Do not, for any reason enter into any Thai organized Events.

Safety is, and never has been, of any importance to the participants

[jacko45k]

13 minutes ago, rtco said:

B@ll@cks ... you should've just stopped them if they had no helmet on ... easy

There were no foreign tourists there so the police were frozen into inaction!

[Elkski]

This skating trend is being promoted as fun by many IG hotties.  They don't wear protective gear. 

[Stargeezr]

Helmets?  Heck even the motorbike riders do not wear them. It is Thailand  right?  Some things

seem like they will never change.

Geezer

[Greenhill]

22 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Ah the one called Pattaya City Hospital not the other central ones, International and Memorial. 9 out of 10 tourists wouldn't know what Muang hospital was

Exactly!!????

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, Greenhill said:

Exactly!!????

Anyway I doubt they went to Pattaya City Hospital for brain surgery

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Anyway I doubt they went to Pattaya City Hospital for brain surgery

One guy went to have some heart tests and they could not supply a specialist.... is there a list of what one can go there with, ie stab wounds, broken limbs and the clap, and for all else, it is BHP?

[scubascuba3]

19 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

One guy went to have some heart tests and they could not supply a specialist.... is there a list of what one can go there with, ie stab wounds, broken limbs and the clap, and for all else, it is BHP?

I bet 10 baht they went to Bang Lamung, govt hospital and very busy so lots of experience unlike Pattaya City

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

I bet 10 baht they went to Bang Lamung, govt hospital and very busy so lots of experience unlike Pattaya City

The post I read listed Pattaya City Hospital, and Memorial and the poster had to go to BHP to get what he wanted. Someone I knew went to Banglamung Hospital with chest pains, wasting valuable time and was sent on to BHP where he sadly passed. My point is only that some of these places cannot handle some issues.