Extremely expensive accident, anything/what I can do?

[jomtienisgood]

On 2/14/2022 at 10:45 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

"Extremely expensive accident"

Just relax and be happy that you didn't ruin a Ferrari or something like that. 

 

 

55555 but he didn't mention the brand.......

[wprime]

14 hours ago, arick said:

Your so mistaken this is Thailand it is an accident 

He doesn't have to pay <deleted> 

Culturally Thai people are very forgiving over recklessness, but he should hold himself to a higher standard.

[arick]

4 hours ago, wprime said:

Culturally Thai people are very forgiving over recklessness, but he should hold himself to a higher standard.

He is rechless for leaving bathroom cleaner on the washing macine? 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

1 hour ago, arick said:

He is rechless for leaving bathroom cleaner on the washing macine? 

 

20 hours ago, arick said:

Your so mistaken this is Thailand it is an accident 

He doesn't have to pay <deleted> 

No, it is not recklessness. Recklessness would require a conscious decision to ignore the risks of one's actions. I don't think this is what is described.

 

This is more like an instance of negligence: a failure to exercise ordinary prudence in one's actions (or inactions). In this case, leaving an open container of bleach where it could be blown over and its contents damage others' property may be construed as a negligent act.

 

Either way, one can be held liable for damages, even in Thailand. Whether it clears the economic threshold to justify legal action is another matter.

Edited February 17, 2022 by Etaoin Shrdlu

[merijn]

On 2/15/2022 at 7:54 AM, jak2002003 said:

It will cost the owners nothing if they have car insurance.  

 

If they dont then they are stupid.

 

Op did not intentionally vandalise their cars.

 

 

If I was the victim and had first class insurance I probable wouldn't want to involve my insurance for this.

Just to eliminate the risk that my premium would go up for the next year.

I would be sorry for the OP but insist on a paint job via the car dealership.

[Neeranam]

10 minutes ago, merijn said:

If I was the victim and had first class insurance I probable wouldn't want to involve my insurance for this.

Just to eliminate the risk that my premium would go up for the next year.

I would be sorry for the OP but insist on a paint job via the car dealership.

Says a lot about you as a person if you would make an ESL teacher pay out of their 30k a month salary. 

[Andre0720]

Buddha works in mysterious ways.

So he should take responsibility.

But seriously, the insurance covering the cars will pay. Just wait and see if they will come knocking on your door...

[merijn]

4 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Says a lot about you as a person if you would make an ESL teacher pay out of their 30k a month salary. 

Who says that he is a teacher earning 30 K ?

Besides that why would the victim has to suffer (potentially) financially for sometimes outside his responsibilities.

[HauptmannUK]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

Says a lot about you as a person if you would make an ESL teacher pay out of their 30k a month salary. 

But the victim could be an English teacher on 30k a month?

[Neeranam]

55 minutes ago, merijn said:

Who says that he is a teacher earning 30 K ?

Besides that why would the victim has to suffer (potentially) financially for sometimes outside his responsibilities.

It's called 'compassion', and it is practiced in Buddhism. 

[Neeranam]

15 minutes ago, HauptmannUK said:

But the victim could be an English teacher on 30k a month?

Then they have a cheap car, and shouldn't care about a bit of paint. 1/2k should cover it. 

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/14/2022 at 11:04 PM, underthesky said:

Go Thai style. Come up with a new realisation that it was neither you, nor your drain cleaner, that caused the stains.

Go underthesky-style, come up with a new realisation that it was neither you, nor your drain cleaner, that caused the stains.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/15/2022 at 1:17 AM, The Hammer2021 said:

Lucky it didn't fall on a person

On the other hand, if it had he wouldn't have to cough up for two full resprays!

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/15/2022 at 8:27 AM, swm59nj said:

 I see by some of the responses , some would have acted they knew nothing about it.  And shed responsibility .  Nice to see we have some quality expats living in Thailand. 

That's a bit of an unwarranted slur on expats in general, it would have been more accurate to say "Nice to see we have some quality expats on Thaivisa"!

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/15/2022 at 8:44 AM, The Fugitive said:

got it done via a second hand car dealer who is also a friend for 11,000. Time to call in a favour, if the vehicles aren't new or cherished and you go about it the right way you could reduce your outlay considerably.

Nice of you to offer to call in a favour from your dealer friend for the OP.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/15/2022 at 9:59 AM, daveAustin said:

That sucks op. Keep cool head and try to get a Thai friend of good standing to negotiate with you. Think yourself lucky it didn’t hit someone. 

Yes, just "call on that Thai friend with good standing" that we all have on hand!

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/16/2022 at 7:06 AM, ESLTeacher1989 said:

Well it gets even worse, it rained heavy overnight in phuket and, there was still bleach on condo wall, and a different car was parked below last night.........and so now a third car is now damaged, Condo didn't put a CONE out to stop people parking there (To be fair I didn't cross my mind either) but unlucky to really unlucky.................so total damamge is looking at 120k baht at least

I was with you at first but now your OP is looking very odd. 

 

How could anyone know that there was dried bleach on a wall from a few days earlier and then know that heavy rain, instead of washing the diluted bleach down the wall, managed to dump it, still concentrated on to another car?     

[HauptmannUK]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

Then they have a cheap car, and shouldn't care about a bit of paint. 1/2k should cover it. 

What kind of car they have will be evident by looking.  Its a case of 'you break it, you pay for it'.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/16/2022 at 7:11 AM, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yes, it's a shame the Juristic manager didn't barricade the area. 

It's also a shame that rain was able to reconstitute unnoticed, two-day old dried bleach from a wall into concentrated bleach again and dump it off the wall onto a car as opposed to washing it, diluted after tropical rain, to the ground.

[daveAustin]

21 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Yes, just "call on that Thai friend with good standing" that we all have on hand!

It was a bit reaching, wasn’t it. Clearly many of you in Thailand don’t mix or speak a lick of the lingo. Oh, the cynicism!

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Says a lot about you as a person if you would make an ESL teacher pay out of their 30k a month salary. 

Why shouldn't he insist on restitution, what's the OP's chosen job or salary got to do with it?   Perhaps the victims' salaries are less than the OP's?

[ESLTeacher1989]

We settled in the end, I had to pay them 40k baht cash at the police station

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

2 hours ago, HauptmannUK said:

But the victim could be an English teacher on 30k a month?

Then they have a cheap car

How would you know that?   Plenty of low-salaried people have nice (financed) cars.

[The Fugitive]

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Nice of you to offer to call in a favour from your dealer friend for the OP.

Might be possible depending how many vehicles the OP has previously purchased from my second-hand car dealer friend?

[balo]

40k was cheap. 

[In Full Agreement]

On 2/15/2022 at 6:15 AM, arick said:

Why did you open yotr mouth to begin with or did everbody know you had drain cleaner 

 

Believe it or not, some people actually try to do what they feel is the proper thing to do.

[overherebc]

On 2/15/2022 at 1:17 AM, The Hammer2021 said:

Lucky it didn't fall on a person

If it fell on a clergyman you might have charged with bleach of the priest.

[Lancashirelad]

Without pics to aid I'm still trying to figure out how this happened. Just about every condo balcony I've ever been on in Thailand has a surface water drain. Why didn't the drain cleaner run down the drain?

 

For it to land on the cars they must have been parked half in and half out under the balcony. (unless the wind blew it as spray?).

[merijn]

10 hours ago, ESLTeacher1989 said:

We settled in the end, I had to pay them 40k baht cash at the police station

In the end a good outcome for you i guess.

[vinny41]

On 2/14/2022 at 3:15 PM, arick said:

Nothing to do with you the wind blow it off a balony their insurance will fix the damage not you. If the insurance companies want to sue you up to them.  You can move in the next six months. Why did you open yotr mouth to begin with or did everbody know you had drain cleaner 

If the Op hadn't have come forward and owned up, the car owners would have reported to the police as a crime. It could have been caused by the vandals spraying drain cleaner over the cars deliberately or by a careless action by one of the condos owners.

I am sure the police would quickly find if the bottle of drain cleaner had any fingerprints on the bottle and a quick check via records would identify the owner of such fingerprints.

I do wonder what the op employer would think if the local police turned up at the op's school for questioning