RTP chief says people WILL be allowed to ride in the back of pick-ups at Songkran 2023 - but only FOUR!

[keithcresswell]

Will they have to wear seat belts.

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, 2baht said:

the 40 gallon drum of water!  

With respect, not forgetting the blocks/packs of ice and buckets of white powder!

[prakhonchai nick]

"They would also have to stick to the left and not hog the right lane by barriers."   Shouldn't that be the case year round and applicable to all vehicles?  Why just Songkran?  And after Songkran, as many as can fit in the back of pick up!!!!!!!!?????  The country is run and controlled by total idiots!

[Bert got kinky]

56 minutes ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

 

It's 'their'.

Unless 'their' personal pronoun is 'there'. ????

 

 

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

But only four at a time.

What a laugh, another load of verbal clap trap from the police in Bangkok. It will NEVER be policed up North. During my 20 years of retirement in rural Lanna then Isaan, every Songkran it was the same routine and my duty to drive the family members all packed in the back of my pick-up, along with the iced water drum and water pistols, to join in the water drenching in our local town. As driver and sole occupant of the cab, I always locked the doors and windows to prevent myself from getting wet and covered in white powder. I never drank alcohol doing this so as to keep 100% alert of the many inebriated idiots around me. The windscreen wipers were always active. I relaxed with a beer in our local bar when back home. Such rules coming out of Bangkok some 800 kms away, were usually ignored. I no longer live in Thailand, but I am certain it will be "as usual" this time around. 

[oldestswinger]

1 hour ago, jimn said:

I dont know why the authorities continue to make stupid statements.

Because most Thai authorities are stupid.

[oldestswinger]

1 hour ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

1 hour ago, Robert Tyrrell said:

there flying

 

1 hour ago, Robert Tyrrell said:

there deaths

It's 'their'.

No, it's not . It's "they're".

[dinsdale]

5 hours ago, Andre0720 said:

Sounds logical though.

Towards an objective of fewer deaths on the road during Songkran, by limiting the number of eventual deaths in pick-up trucks to no more than 4.

What about the other 8 squeezed into the cabin who would normaly be in the back. Just more empty nonsense from the empty headed ones that have these thought bubbles. This will be the 1st real Songkran for many years. Maybe in BKK/greater BKK things will not be as much fun. The provinces who knows but I would imagine more than 4 in the back.

[Tropposurfer]

What a dufus he is! 

 

If folks sit on the sides of utes as this pic shows no wonder they get hurt. The vast majority of ute and packs of workers being flung out of the back of trucks like rag dolls is usually speed, overloading, drivers drunk after work, driving clean off the road, and the ignoring of just about every other form of sane driving practices. 

 

Its all same same but different once again.

[scorecard]

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

What about the other 8 squeezed into the cabin?

What about following the actual law and the police stop playing maverick to 'adjust' laws as they please, which they have no athrty to do.  Total joke, no wonder there's tota; confusion about law and order and the rules of the road and all of course opening opportunities for .... and more death on the roads. 

[vandeventer]

So will the 4 be allowed to throw that yellowish pollute water at us?

[dinsdale]

4 minutes ago, scorecard said:

What about following the actual law and the police stop playing maverick to 'adjust' laws as they please, which they have no athrty to do.  Total joke, no wonder there's tota; confusion about law and order and the rules of the road and all of course opening opportunities for .... and more death on the roads. 

Yes. There is ideal and there is reality. Reality is TIT.

[orchidfan]

1 hour ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

 

It's 'their'.

No. It's "they're flying to their deaths"

Sorry but had to correct your correction ????

[aussienam]

2 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

 

It's 'their'.

Partially wrong 555.  Not 'their' for both phrases.  

 

They're flying to their deaths. 

[mrfill]

Glad to have the helpful pic to show what 'only 4 in the back' looks like

[Bday Prang]

 

He expected things to be better than in previous elections when it comes to violence but expected the election laws to be flouted by certain influential groups.

 

About which he and his "team" would  do absolutely nothing, of course, because  he wants to remain in his position, at least until he's got his money back

[IvorBiggun2]

Does 4 0n the back apply to Songthaews?

 

[RichardColeman]

3 hours ago, bbbbooboo said:

Hmmm… So only 6-7 people killed instead of the usual 10-12 . Has to be an improvement?

Not if the pick-up carrying the other 6-7 people is travelling at 120km behind their friends in the first pick up with a 20 ft gap.

[AustinRacing]

Buildings are built but get run down in a couple of years. Asian mentality with grandiose attitudes without proper foresight or follow through. M Ideas just run out steam left half baked. Speaking of which even vegetables are only partially cooked in Asian foods. It’s in their DNA. 

[cracker1]

This is certainly a strange country?

I come from a western democracy where the Government makes the laws and the Police (etc) administer the laws.

It seems here that the Government makes the laws and other departments of the Government are able to change them and administer them as they se fit ?

[IvorBiggun2]

 

The inmates are running the asylum

[3NUMBAS]

a neighbor who was drunk fell out the back of a truck and sustained  a cracked skull from which he never recovered  ..mort

[KannikaP]

9 hours ago, Andre0720 said:

Sounds logical though.

Towards an objective of fewer deaths on the road during Songkran, by limiting the number of eventual deaths in pick-up trucks to no more than 4.

 

I got in too late. SORRY

[owl sees all]

13 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

a neighbor who was drunk fell out the back of a truck and sustained  a cracked skull from which he never recovered  ..mort

This is sad. did you know him well?

 

The BinL fell out of a pick-up, but never hurt himself much. Just a bruised elbow. He hadn't been drinking as far as I know. Reckon he fell simply fell asleep. Good job it wasn't moving.

[3NUMBAS]

he was a nasty drunk so folks     used to lock their doors when he was around

as you could get involved in a fight

[Bjoern]

This is ridiculous, more corruption money to BIB during Songkran. Thailand getting worse with rules and regulations every year, when is this going to stop? 

[IvorBiggun2]

17 years+ and never been scammed. Can't see why/how others get done regularly !!!!

[MrJ2U]

Let em pack them in.

 

If there's an accident it doesn't really matter how many are in the back.

 

Better if they lower the extortionate taxes on buying a vehicle making them more affordable for the common Thai person. 

[IvorBiggun2]

If the police were to knuckle down and enforce all of Thailand road laws there would be major civil unrest and the powers in government know this.

[Paradise Pete]

11 hours ago, jacko45k said:

So what are we saying here... laws can be suspended or modified at the whim of  the Police General? 

Not the laws exactly, but the enforcement of them. Police around the world tend to have some discretion like that. Surely at some point in your life you've technically broken a law that was chosen not to be enforced. More so if you're the right color, of course, but that's a different discussion.