I was given the middle finger in Pattaya for stopping at a zebra crossing using my hazard lights.

[jack71]

I was driving down the road (on the left side) heading towards Pattaya main beach. The big aeroplane / shopping centre was on the left. I think it was the zebra crossing before the roundabout. Im unsure but maybe that road is 3 lanes or just 2. Anyways we were all driving around 50 approaching the zebra crossing and a guy and his lovely wife assertively walked on the zebra crossing forcing us to slow down and stop. Im in the habit of putting on my beeping hazard lights, when stopping at a zebra crossing, due to the fear of being rear ended. I came to a stop and he looked at me angry and gave me the middle finger. 

 

All I could think of was what a tosser. Lucky I wasn't a Thai national whose foot could have been taken off the brake and alternatively put on the accelerate pedal to run the guy over. 

 

Why was this guy <deleted>? I believe he might have been Russian. He was an obese guy wearing white shorts and white short sleeve shirt. Bad shoes. She was equally unappealing. 

 

What did I do wrong?

[peter zwart]

Was it a foxy lady?

[Hummin]

Karma will take care, do not worry

[KIngsofisaan]

The expat belief that all foreigners are going to behave normally is nothing but a fantasy.

 

There are lots of folks that just wake up everyday hating life.

[Iamfalang]

If I had a satang for every time someone gave me the middle finger, I'd have enough to pay for rent, petrol and food for a week back home!!!  That is 109 million baht, currently.  

[Denim]

1 hour ago, jack71 said:

All I could think of was what a tosser.

That's probably what he thought at exactly the same time , leaving an indelible impression on the surrounding dark matter as our planet hurtles through space on its orbit.

 

Had he known :

 

1 hour ago, jack71 said:

Im in the habit of putting on my beeping hazard lights, when stopping at a zebra crossing, due to the fear of being rear ended

 

That there was a perfectly reasonable and rational reason for the unfamiliar noise , things might have been different. As it is , humanity is always misconstruing the behavior of the other bipeds we are obliged to share the planet with and in extreme cases war breaks out between two nations and zillions die.

 

I wonder if this happens on other planets in our vast cosmos where intelligent life has arisen or are we just a sort of ' <deleted> ' anomaly ?

 

 

 

 

[dj230]

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I was driving down the road (on the left side) heading towards Pattaya main beach. The big aeroplane / shopping centre was on the left. I think it was the zebra crossing before the roundabout. Im unsure but maybe that road is 3 lanes or just 2. Anyways we were all driving around 50 approaching the zebra crossing and a guy and his lovely wife assertively walked on the zebra crossing forcing us to slow down and stop. Im in the habit of putting on my beeping hazard lights, when stopping at a zebra crossing, due to the fear of being rear ended. I came to a stop and he looked at me angry and gave me the middle finger. 

 

All I could think of was what a tosser. Lucky I wasn't a Thai national whose foot could have been taken off the brake and alternatively put on the accelerate pedal to run the guy over. 

 

Why was this guy <deleted>? I believe he might have been Russian. He was an obese guy wearing white shorts and white short sleeve shirt. Bad shoes. She was equally unappealing. 

 

What did I do wrong?

was he old too? probably too much estrogen 

[chickenslegs]

1 hour ago, jack71 said:

Im in the habit of putting on my beeping hazard lights, when stopping at a zebra crossing, due to the fear of being rear ended.

I've heard beeping reversing warnings but not beeping hazard lights. Maybe the old chap mistakenly thought you were beeping your horn at him.

 

 

[richard_smith237]

2 hours ago, jack71 said:

a guy and his lovely wife assertively walked on the zebra crossing forcing us to slow down and stop. Im in the habit of putting on my beeping hazard lights,

Beeping hazard lights ??....    He thought you were beeping the horn and reacted ????

 

 

[richard_smith237]

2 hours ago, jack71 said:

Why was this guy <deleted>? I believe he might have been Russian. He was an obese guy wearing white shorts and white short sleeve shirt. Bad shoes. She was equally unappealing. 

I hope you told him to go and change and stop looking like he’s about to play bowls... and the bad shoes.. I mean, farangs with bad shoes should just be run over... bad shoes make us all look bad...  ????

 

I also hope your significant other is more appealing...  perhaps you should show us your footwear collection and your missus just to make sure you pass muster and don’t give us all a bad name !!!!..  

 

 

 

 

 

[richard_smith237]

I’ve just read the following on another forum... 

 

I’d gone for a walk to exercise in my comfy old gym shoes, I have a thyroid issue and have been battling weight all my life...   I was walking when I saw an old lady trying to cross the road by the big aeroplane / shopping centre....  While I was helping this lady across the pedestrian crossing this ayhole farang screeched to a halt started flashing his lights and beeping his horn....   was I wrong to give him the finger ????

 

????

 

 

 

[PoorSucker]

My experience with hazard lights in Thailand is that Thai drivers use it to indicate that they're going straight in a crossing. 

[bendejo]

You're posting about a Russian giving bad attitude?  For your own mental health you should have been over this by the time you cleared the intersection.

It was probably just his way of saying "ha-ha, you have to stop for me, _ssh_le!"

 

On youtube type in "russia dashcam" for some examples of how they drive in Russia.

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

3 hours ago, jack71 said:

What did I do wrong?

You tink to mut!

[scubascuba3]

It was the hazard lights, angered him

[Skeptic7]

9 hours ago, jack71 said:

and his lovely wife

How'd u figure that out? 

[Lemsta69]

6 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

You tink to mut!

I actually got told this by a Thai bird once in Pattaya so this phrase is not an urban myth. 

 

she said something along the lines of "you think too much. think too much no good, hurt your head."

 

she was in fact correct. I still think too much and I still get headaches ????

[tandor]

..obviously your 'beeping hazard lights startled'...think about it. Maybe you should have given a stop hand signal out of the window to alert following vehicles you were stopping. Just drive for the road rules and not for the users.

[overherebc]

8 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

My experience with hazard lights in Thailand is that Thai drivers use it to indicate that they're going straight in a crossing. 

Or, these flashing lights allow me to double park and block the road for 20 minutes while I go to buy something from the shop around the corner.

[Lemsta69]

maybe he was simply triggered by the sight of a farang in a motor vehicle. I always get nervous when I see you guys around Pattaya, I can't put my finger on it but there's something about the non-Thai way y'all drive that gives me the heebie-jeebies. 

[AhFarangJa]

8 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

My experience with hazard lights in Thailand is that Thai drivers use it to indicate that they're going straight in a crossing. 

I find the main reason they use them here is to give them the right to double or triple park with impunity.

[rwill]

I was staying at a resort that had lots of Russians staying there.  I was talking to an English guy and told him, "Boy, the Russians aren't very friendly."  He replied, "They don't even like each other."

[Henryford]

Russian !! you should have run him over.

[seabass69]

What did I do wrong?

 

You missed them. 

[Inala]

8 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I’ve just read the following on another forum... 

 

I’d gone for a walk to exercise in my comfy old gym shoes, I have a thyroid issue and have been battling weight all my life...   I was walking when I saw an old lady trying to cross the road by the big aeroplane / shopping centre....  While I was helping this lady across the pedestrian crossing this ayhole farang screeched to a halt started flashing his lights and beeping his horn....   was I wrong to give him the finger ????

 

????

 

 

 

Is there another forum other than Asean Now TV?? I wasn't aware of anything outside of Thai Visa. Can I join?

[Moonlover]

Let it go. What's the point of getting 'hot under the collar' about it?

 

Read my sign off signature below.

[jacko45k]

20 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

I find the main reason they use them here is to give them the right to double or triple park with impunity.

Yes, and I always think back to a comment I felt valid. If someone parks illegally with their hazard lights on, they should be subjected to harsher punishments. They broke the law, knew they were doing it, but did it anyway. 

[Thaijack2014]

Well, don't worry... He got angry and it is his bad feeling. Shouldn't concern you as you just did the right thing. 

[Andycoops]

9 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

My experience with hazard lights in Thailand is that Thai drivers use it to indicate that they're going straight in a crossing. 

And mine too. I assume you meant straight on.

I first came across this up here Isaan, at a local village  crossroads.

I thought the guy in front had stalled/broken down so I started to drive around him when he pulled off directly across the road.

[swm59nj]

Your beeping hazard lights.  I’m guessing you just mean they make a beeping noise inside the vehicle when activated. 
If your vehicle was actually making an external beeping noise that could be the issue. 
I would be annoyed if this happened also.   Who knows why he did it. 
Just consider him as another quality tourist or expat in the LOS.