Accident Foreign National Crashes Car Into Songkran Revellers in Pattaya, Injuring Seven

[Ctkong]

8 hours ago, J Branche said:

Not sure what happened here.  This type event could have happened when someone falls a sleep for a second then wakes up, panics and hits the gas instead of the brake.

 

Lived in Florida and there were stories once a week of older people confusing the pedals and driving through the front of a shop.

More likely the foot not following the mind in that person or the person mistakenly put his foot down the gas pedal instead the brake pedal. Mild parkinson?

 

 

 

 

[Brian Hudson]

I hope to god he’s not from Manchester!!!

[richard_smith237]

59 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

I should have said drunk and incapable, but I still say that people who are drunk and INCAPABLE in public should be arrested on the spot and jailed.

 

Its usually 'drunk and disorderly' that face legal difficulties, or here in Thailand, a retaliation of sorts from local thugs.... 

 

... But, If someone drinks so much they become unable to walk etc and thus 'incapable' as you mentioned, they haven't really done anything wrong, other than making themselves a burden because they can't look after themselves - I don't think that in itself is worth of arrest.

 

 

[NoshowJones]

20 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Its usually 'drunk and disorderly' that face legal difficulties, or here in Thailand, a retaliation of sorts from local thugs.... 

 

... But, If someone drinks so much they become unable to walk etc and thus 'incapable' as you mentioned, they haven't really done anything wrong, other than making themselves a burden because they can't look after themselves - I don't think that in itself is worth of arrest.

 

 

If people are that drunk they can hardly walk then of course they can cause danger to other people, ie walking out on to the road without looking, traffic having to swerve to avoid them.

[richard_smith237]

6 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

If people are that drunk they can hardly walk then of course they can cause danger to other people, ie walking out on to the road without looking, traffic having to swerve to avoid them.

 

I think you're over egging it with a lot of whatifery....    

 

Your example of people walking into the road without looking happens to non-drunks too - it just happened to two german tourists.

 

 

As long as drunks don't actively cause trouble - then they are harmless or nothing more than a passing nuisance - hardly worthy of arrest.

 

The other issue is the discretion of the 'arresting officer' - who decides who is 'excessively' drunk or 'incapable' due to being drunk ??

 

 

 

 

 

[Karlik Pu]

On 4/20/2025 at 3:46 AM, Gottfrid said:

Another stupid foreigner mess up their life in Thailand. Good Job! Free food and accommodation awaits. 😂

 

Must be Puti-russian for sure 55

[NoshowJones]

2 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

I think you're over egging it with a lot of whatifery....    

 

Your example of people walking into the road without looking happens to non-drunks too - it just happened to two german tourists.

 

 

As long as drunks don't actively cause trouble - then they are harmless or nothing more than a passing nuisance - hardly worthy of arrest.

 

The other issue is the discretion of the 'arresting officer' - who decides who is 'excessively' drunk or 'incapable' due to being drunk ??

 

 

 

 

 

I nearly always agree with your posts Richard, but this time we will have to just agree to disagree.

[richard_smith237]

5 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

I nearly always agree with your posts Richard, but this time we will have to just agree to disagree.

 

I also  like to see people so drunk out of their minds that they don't know what they are doing... 

 

Nevertheless, I just don't see that its an offence at all, let alone something worthy of police intervention...

 

 

We / 'society' goes down a dangerous road when we start compromising peoples freedoms in such a manner (IF they are not disorderly).

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NorthernRyland]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

I also  like to see people so drunk out of their minds that they don't know what they are doing... 

 

Nevertheless, I just don't see that its an offence at all, let alone something worthy of police intervention...

 

 

We / 'society' goes down a dangerous road when we start compromising peoples freedoms in such a manner (IF they are not disorderly).

 

This is hard one, I agree with both of you. If a person is drunk enough it's probably reasonable to get them off the streets as soon as possible before they get hurt or hurt someone else, no? Same for drunk driving too but the bar is much lower if they're on foot.

[radiochaser]

On 4/20/2025 at 10:05 PM, J Branche said:

Not sure what happened here.  This type event could have happened when someone falls a sleep for a second then wakes up, panics and hits the gas instead of the brake.

 

Lived in Florida and there were stories once a week of older people confusing the pedals and driving through the front of a shop.

I had an elderly neighbor across the street from my house (in Pennsylvania) that did something like that when he attempted to back out of his driveway.   Going backwards he hit four different buildings before the car came to a stop, in the back yard of his next door neighbors house.  

[radiochaser]

On 4/20/2025 at 10:40 PM, XB12X said:

It's supposed to be a mandatory ten years for this kind of thing, isn't it? I'd rather he got twenty. My sister's daughter was killed by a drunk driver in England. I hate drunk drivers.

I also hate them.    

One killed my cousin and his son.  

[Chris Daley]

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