Thailand News - Online reaction of the German man's death on a recent Lufthansa flight has been over the top, to say the least. Thai online discussion about 'honking' a car horn at a Royal Motorcade is being widely discussed, and carefully reported, including TNT.

 

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Whle I recognise the need for security and safety regarding so-called VIP Motorcades involving royalty, often ad i have been subject to it the extremely long time one has to wait for a one vehicle motorcade with numerous POLICE VEHICLES ,for an extremely long time . OCE stopped as the motoprcade was passing through a nearby town 20 km away and took another 10 minutes to pass me.  t

Seems over the top considering in the UK with planning and sup[port minimal disruotion is caused at anytime and ALL MOTORCADES follow the law and never speed onl;y ignore traffic lghtsd naturally.

Sad the RTP seem incapable of finding out how to move the Royal Family around without the immense disrution they seem to enjoy making the population suffer when all the public really want to do is to go to work, and take care of their families`, Not wait for up to 15 minuites for one person or maybe two to pass by without stop[p[ing or caring the problems caused by the RTP to daily life . ` 

The police resources spent on these types of motorcades is ridiculous. Hundreds or thousands of coppers spread along 50km of roads to allow a seemingly important person to travel at speed whilst the rest of us serfs have stand still and wait for unnecessary lengths of time. Not too bad if you can slipstream them though. 

Just to let the slaves know their actual station in life here.

3 hours ago, Zack61 said:

The police resources spent on these types of motorcades is ridiculous. Hundreds or thousands of coppers spread along 50km of roads to allow a seemingly important person to travel at speed whilst the rest of us serfs have stand still and wait for unnecessary lengths of time. Not too bad if you can slipstream them though. 

Happens in every country doesn’t it?

even in the freest country in the world USA you should see the POTUS motorcade….complete with helicopters and fighter jets above 

Where is the vid of the incident? 
I’ll have to see the clip to form my verdict 

Now honking is also a violation of section 112. I am wondering what the threat was... A pity they overreact on this incident. It seems a big crime, why not hold it small? Overreaction as this can have serious consequences in the future.