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Thai Authorities to Impose Sobering-Up Areas to Prevent Drunk Driving Amid 4AM Bar Closings


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41 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Let's pretend this is serious.

What happens if a drunk guy walks out of the bar and they ask him where he goes.

He tells them he will walk around the corner where he will look for a taxi or drive with a friend.

But maybe his car is around the corner, and he will drive himself.

Should the bar employees follow him to verify his story? Should they follow for a minute or 5 or 10?

Onemorefarang is very active today in writing early in the morning. He not drunken yesterday night.

 

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4 hours ago, smedly said:

what legal powers do these people have to detain anyone they think is driving drunk that is a job for police,

No where has it been stated that bar owners, etc., have to detain their drunk customers, they cannot.  It does state that they have to provide areas in which they can sober up or arrange transport home for them. 

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1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

And then I read the venues should call friends of the drunk people to bring them home in the early morning. Wait for that phone call at 4am.

...and wait for the incredulous response, "You must be fecking joking". Click."

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Making bars into surrogate police merely hands a new tea money raising exercise to the real BiB who already extort huge amounts from the nighttime economy. And whoever thinks that bar staff will be able to discipline a drunken customer is dreaming. Who will pay the extra medical bills for staff injured by outraged customers? This whole thing is utterly ridiculous and my partner's bar will definitely not stay open till 4am to sell to the drunken dregs of society.

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They have to create some new requirement to enable police to collect fees based on breaking law as no need to pay any more to keep open 2-4am. But if you don't have this sobering up area (that all parties know nobody will) , can keep open if pay police.  For many clubs that have been open to wee hours since covid based in deal with police, nothing changes in real life, only on paper. 

 

As simple as that, makes full sense. 

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Various scenarios possible: 

  • retired toilet bowl on a brick basement with a rusty metal bar frame left and right to the bowl so the sobering-up customer can easily puke into the bowl
  • comfy old sofa, with torn PU-cover in light blue or smoked-white and the usual array of cigarette burns
  • a collapsible Coca Cola chair, left over from the last monks visit during a house ceremony or simply stolen next door from the neighbour. This version has the advantage that it can be cleared upon closing up into the bar/pub/drinking place
  • the less fancy HiSo place might feature a flower pot with a dead plant into which the sobering-up result may be released 

On a more so(m)bre note, are these government officials pissing all those ridiculous rules and regulations, followed by even more ridiculous fines and jail sentences ..... for real, honestly? 

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2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I know there are beds in those rooms. But I don't know anybody who booked such a room for an hour to sleep. ;) 

If your unfit to drive an hours sleep will do you absolutely no good, even after 7 hours sleep many will still be over the drink drive limit.

Been there and done that, lucky not to have been caught.

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Don't worry. As with many of the crackpot ideas dreamed up by the authorities those in charge of the lunatic asylum, nothing will be enforced as, often, it is unenforceable. It's just the usual case of someone 'doing their job' while actually doing nothing. The announcement has been made, job done. Everyone knows it will be ignored, especially by bar owners who might be a little reluctant to get a good thumping by any drunk who objects to being breathalysed and/or illegally detained.

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2 hours ago, stoner said:

 

back home we had M.A.D.D - mothers against drunk driving. was very effective over the years and cut the drunk driving way down. 

 

it was all over tv and advertised a lot. really got grinded into people over time. 

 

I've long thought they should introduce such messages into the nightly dramas that Thais love so much. It might then get through to a few thick heads far better than any advertising would. They could even have Thailand's finest screamers doing their stuff when seeing her dead lover on the road, rather than when she's being beaten by said lover.

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2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Let's pretend this is serious.

What happens if a drunk guy walks out of the bar and they ask him where he goes.

He tells them he will walk around the corner where he will look for a taxi or drive with a friend.

But maybe his car is around the corner, and he will drive himself.

Should the bar employees follow him to verify his story? Should they follow for a minute or 5 or 10?

 

You tink too mutt, mista.

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7 hours ago, webfact said:

Entertainment venues that are set to stay open until 4 AM in line with the Thai government’s policy have been ordered to set up sobering-up areas to prevent patrons from driving home drunk.

So half drunk at 4 am closing time bar go to the waiting area, legless at a 2 am closing time bar no problem as it doesn't have to have a sobering-up area. Another half thought through idea.

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