Late-Night Street Racers Disrupt Pattaya Residents

[webfact]

Pattaya residents are calling for action from police after street racers caused late-night disturbances on Jomtien Second Road.

At 3:00 AM on October 2nd, The Pattaya News reporters received complaints from local residents about a group of street racers causing a disturbance by racing motorcycles on a public road.

The racing was so disruptive that people living nearby were unable to sleep. The incident occurred on Jomtien Second Road.

 

Upon receiving the complaints, the Pattaya News reporters went to investigate the area around Sukhumvit-Chaiyapruek Road heading toward Jomtien Second Road. They found over ten motorcycles driven by Thai teenagers, who were engaging in reckless, high-speed racing with loud modified exhausts.

 

By Aim Tanakorn

 

Full story: THE PATTAYA NEWS 

-- 2024-10-03

 

 

[jacko45k]

So Thai teenagers now? The Kuwaitis gone back to school?

[mikebell]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

loud modified exhausts.

This is to convert them into Look-at-Me bikes.  It has a two-fold result; it gives poorer fuel consumption; it alerts any cop within two square kilometres.  Unfortunately deafness is a prime quality to enter RTP.

[bkk6060]

Same on Beach Road.  Add, the boom boxes partying at the beach till 6 am.

 

It is all annoying as hell.  But, what did I do as a teenager?  Had a muscle car with a modified exhaust the louder the better.

So, teenage testosterone driven stupidity.

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[jacko45k]

50 minutes ago, mikebell said:

This is to convert them into Look-at-Me bikes.  It has a two-fold result; it gives poorer fuel consumption; it alerts any cop within two square kilometres.  Unfortunately deafness is a prime quality to enter RTP.

I was thinking along those lines as I followed a modified bike the other day... all noise above substance. The bike making a racket had no real power and was a bit of a wreck, but the kid looked happy to be making a lot of noise. 

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Upon receiving the complaints, the Pattaya News reporters went to investigate the area around Sukhumvit-Chaiyapruek Road heading toward Jomtien Second Road. They found over ten motorcycles driven by Thai teenagers, who were engaging in reckless, high-speed racing with loud modified exhausts

Crush em... and then confiscate the bikes.

[pelagicpete]

I totally agree, I live with a Thai family in a View Talay Condo on Thappraya Road and it is a nightmare from early evening till morning, with racers and also bikers racing from one set of lights to the next.

The noise is shocking when that happens and we have four children in our apartment. School days are here so they suffer.

[richard_smith237]

3 minutes ago, pelagicpete said:

I totally agree, I live with a Thai family in a View Talay Condo on Thappraya Road and it is a nightmare from early evening till morning, with racers and also bikers racing from one set of lights to the next.

The noise is shocking when that happens and we have four children in our apartment. School days are here so they suffer.

 

The real issue of course is that 'if you already know about it'... so do the Police.... 

If its being reported on, the police definitely know about it...      So the issue isn't the racers... its the Police, they just dont care to deal with it. 

 

Simple solution - Put up checkpoints on any stretch of road the try and race on.

[OneManShow]

City of angels 🤔

[dddave]

I live in a 10th floor Jomtien Condo that overlooks 2nd Rd. The noise of motorbikes/cycles going through the gears like a Silverstone race start is a constant. 

Last night, I awoke around 2AM and noticed it was unusually quiet. Must be raining, I thought but a glance from my balcony revealed a police check-point set-up on both sides of 2nd Rd, next to the Rimhad Condos.  

Quietest it's been since Covid lock-down. I hope they come often.

[lordgrinz]

There is no effective police force in Thailand, and no active enforcement, so what do they have to fear?

[Umlungu]

3 minutes ago, dddave said:

I live in a 10th floor Jomtien Condo that overlooks 2nd Rd. The noise of motorbikes/cycles going through the gears like a Silverstone race start is a constant. 

Last night, I awoke around 2AM and noticed it was unusually quiet. Must be raining, I thought but a glance from my balcony revealed a police check-point set-up on both sides of 2nd Rd, next to the Rimhad Condos.  

Quietest it's been since Covid lock-down. I hope they come often.

Thappraya Road is terrible. It seems a mad race from the Thepprasit Rd intersection up the hillto the axis / Pratumnak intersection/lights. Dreadful. It seems mostly those larger farang rental bikes. More police checkpoints required, confiscate the bikes, fine the riders, fix the bike within a week and present it to the police afterwards. No compliance? cancel registration and insurance and sooner or later they will be caught and the bike is history.

[jacko45k]

6 hours ago, Umlungu said:

No compliance? cancel registration and insurance and sooner or later they will be caught and the bike is history.

We are a ways off such restrictions.... look at the tragic schoolkids incident in Bangkok......

In an interview with public broadcaster Thai PBS, bus company owner Songwit Chinnaboot said the bus was inspected for safety twice a year as required and that the gas cylinders had passed the safety standards.

Although it had 6 cylinders more than registered. 

[KhunBENQ]

Build race tracks through populated areas and you will have races.

[lordgrinz]

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

We are a ways off such restrictions.... look at the tragic schoolkids incident in Bangkok......

In an interview with public broadcaster Thai PBS, bus company owner Songwit Chinnaboot said the bus was inspected for safety twice a year as required and that the gas cylinders had passed the safety standards.

Although it had 6 cylinders more than registered. 

 

Thai Regulator standards? The manufacturers standards? ....or Somchai's standards?

[watchcat]

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Although it had 6 cylinders more than registered. 

But ut only one came loose which caused the leakage, and the fire.

[jacko45k]

20 hours ago, watchcat said:

But ut only one came loose which caused the leakage, and the fire.

From what I saw on the news reports video the pipework did not look like it could survive a collision.... no foresight here at all. 

[mikebell]

On 10/3/2024 at 7:55 AM, jacko45k said:

I was thinking along those lines as I followed a modified bike the other day... all noise above substance. The bike making a racket had no real power and was a bit of a wreck, but the kid looked happy to be making a lot of noise. 

He wants to be noticed.