Crime British Man Fined for Cutting Off Pattaya Ambulance

[Ohyesuare]

23 minutes ago, 2long said:

True karma would be that when this muppet crashes his bike next time and needs an ambulance, one will not arrive in time to help him.

 

He'd probably continue flipping them off while on the stretcher if they did. Idiots like that never learn. 

[Photoguy21]

4 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

I would love to see them interviewed whilst being asked to explain what was going through their minds....if anything.

Rash assumption to assume he had a mind

[Photoguy21]

5 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

This is your typical foreigner on our roads in Pattaya. 

 

Reckless, selfish, antagonizing and arrogant. 

What a goose. 

 

It was fun to watch him go down 😂

 

It is when they are out in the early hours.

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[SAFETY FIRST]

3 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

It is when they are out in the early hours.

NOPE 

 

I was riding back from Soi Buakhou, around 6pm, up soi 17, just a couple of hundred metres before 3rd road. I was riding up the outside of the cars, approaching a foreigner riding his bike in the opposite direction, he was in the lane by himself, he wouldn't pull to the left to let me through. 

 

Seriously, most foreigners here in Pattaya, are the riders to keep away from, they have a poor, very poor attitude, full of aggression, bloody WEIRDOS. 

 

I'm fit and healthy, a larger guy, the foreigner who was not willing to move left was a smaller person. It makes me wonder, you smaller, elderly, fragile guys, do you get bullied by these arrogant foreigners in Pattaya? 

 

I'm done with Pattaya, it's been my home over 20 years but it's no longer Thailand, I've got plans to move to Isaan soon, with mostly normal foreigners. 

 

[hotandsticky]

15 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

NOPE 

 

I was riding back from Soi Buakhou, around 6pm, up soi 17, just a couple of hundred metres before 3rd road. I was riding up the outside of the cars, approaching a foreigner riding his bike, he was in the lane by himself, he wouldn't pull to the left to let me through. 

 

Seriously, most foreigners here in Pattaya, are the riders to keep away from, they have a poor, very poor attitude, full of aggression, bloody WEIRDOS. 

 

I'm fit and healthy, a larger guy, the foreigner who was not willing to move left was a smaller person. It makes me wonder, you smaller, elderly, fragile guys, do you get bullied by these arrogant foreigners? 

 

 

 

You seem to mix with/experience the wrong company.

 

That has not been my experience and the only scar on my body came from a Thai cutting across me at the Lengkee/Buakhao junction.

[SAFETY FIRST]

32 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

You seem to mix with/experience the wrong company.

 

That has not been my experience and the only scar on my body came from a Thai cutting across me at the Lengkee/Buakhao junction.

Oh, I understand, it's why your comments are always anti Thai. 

 

I've had 3 serious accidents, all foreigners at fault and one my fault (total 4). Around 20 years ago, Songkran, heading home, riding down soi Kophai 10, there was a lake (now a football court), just before Camel Toe. Anyway, I fell asleep, falling in the reeds, my mate riding behind couldn't stop laughing, he helped me up, we continued home. 

 

 

 

[hotandsticky]

7 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Oh, I understand, it's why your comments are always anti Thai. 

 

I've had 3 serious accidents, all foreigners at fault and one my fault (total 4). Around 20 years ago, Songkran, heading home, riding down soi Kophai 10, there was a lake (now a football court), just before Camel Toe. Anyway, I fell asleep, falling in the reeds, my mate riding behind couldn't stop laughing, he helped me up, we continued home. 

 

 

 

 

Now I see why your posts are anti-Farang.

 

 

I am not anti-Thai. Having been here for almost 20 years I take a balanced view, based on extensive experience.

 

If anyone believes that the Thais are good drivers then they are morons (generalisation, of course there are some good ones) . This a delightful country and most of the citizens are friendly and welcoming.

[save the frogs]

20 hours ago, TimBKK said:

Should be a deportable offense

 

a bit harsh.

 

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

10 hours ago, TimBKK said:

Should be a deportable offense

 

a bit harsh.

 

Suggesting inappropriately harsh and Draconian punishments such as deportation on an internet forum should be a deportable offense.

[Mr Meeseeks]

Not excusing the Brit but...

 

If you watch the video, the rescue vehicles were driving very dangerously and aggressively, and then had time to stop and approach the Brit after he crashed.

 

It appears they were looking for a fight with the Brit.

 

So they were not attending an actual emergency, and they were not ambulances, they were modified vehicles operated by that Chinese volunteer service, the 'Sawang Boriboon'.

 

Much more to this story than is being revealed.

[jacko45k]

10 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

a bit harsh.

 

I believe any criminal offence can include deportation......

Why should Thailand tolerate guests in their home who effectively scoff at the laws?

[watchcat]

21 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

a foreign motorcyclist riding a chopper suddenly swerved in front of the ambulance,

 

Member of an illegal mc club?

[NanLaew]

8 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Not excusing the Brit but...

 

If you watch the video, the rescue vehicles were driving very dangerously and aggressively, and then had time to stop and approach the Brit after he crashed.

 

It appears they were looking for a fight with the Brit.

 

So they were not attending an actual emergency, and they were not ambulances, they were modified vehicles operated by that Chinese volunteer service, the 'Sawang Boriboon'.

 

Much more to this story than is being revealed.

 

Sawang Boriboon is not a "Chinese volunteer service."

 

They are just one of hundreds of independent volunteer emergency services nationwide that are the legally recognised first-responders. They are an integral part of Thailand's emergency medical services.

 

The following includes a non-pixelated video so you can easily identify the idiot having a midlife crisis.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/viral/british-motorbike-rider-58-fined-for-blocking-ambulance-taking-patient-to-hospital/vi-AA1KjH7s?cvid=B045EF8DA05940BDBB577915A3E4C17A&ocid=hpmsn

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

12 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

If anyone believes that the Thais are good drivers then they are morons (generalisation, of course there are some good ones)

I've never said Thai's are good drivers. The Thai's have been driving that way before you and I arrived, we put up with it and we change our driving habits. 

The Thai's have a unique technique of riding their motorbikes, it's a dangerous way of riding, not the safest but it works, reducing congestion, traffic tends to flow. 

 

I like the way they manage intersections, very courteous. 

 

In Pattaya I regularly see foreigners yelling and screaming at motorists, they can be so aggressive, lots of road rage. 

 

[JAG]

4.30 in the morning, driving like that, did the police not think to test for alcohol?

[thesetat]

9 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Not excusing the Brit but...

 

If you watch the video, the rescue vehicles were driving very dangerously and aggressively, and then had time to stop and approach the Brit after he crashed.

 

It appears they were looking for a fight with the Brit.

 

So they were not attending an actual emergency, and they were not ambulances, they were modified vehicles operated by that Chinese volunteer service, the 'Sawang Boriboon'.

 

Much more to this story than is being revealed.

You must have seen a different vdo than the rest of us. This foreigner should have been arrested, not just fined. He clearly jumped in front of the ambulance and began fingering them. It does not make a difference if you think the ambulance was aggressive in driving. That is their job to get the person injured to the hospital as quickly as possible. In the same respect, it is the other peoples job to make a way for the ambulance to pass quickly, which clearly the foreigner did not want to do. 

It is too bad the foreigner did not have more serious injuries. His actions could have caused the death of the person in the ambulance racing to get to the hospital. 

It also would not matter if it was an ambulance or some other rescue vehicle. They had their sirens on and lights flashing as well as the vehicle ahead of them. The foreigner did not heed to them. 

[Presnock]

21 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

Thank goodness the Thais are so better disciplined.

why change the subject...it is about foreigners disrespect for Thailand laws...we already know about how the locals feel on the subject.

[hotandsticky]

22 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I've never said Thai's are good drivers. The Thai's have been driving that way before you and I arrived, we put up with it and we change our driving habits. 

The Thai's have a unique technique of riding their motorbikes, it's a dangerous way of riding, not the safest but it works, reducing congestion, traffic tends to flow. 

 

I like the way they manage intersections, very courteous. 

 

In Pattaya I regularly see foreigners yelling and screaming at motorists, they can be so aggressive, lots of road rage. 

 

 

 

I didn't say that you said Thais were good drivers - I know that you are not stupid.

 

I have also adapted my driving 'style' to the extent that my missus has told me not to try and be "too Thai" (she probably said that when I was driving 50 metres against the flow of traffic).

 

just because the Thais have their "unique techniques" does not make it right, safe or desirable. Approaching junctions at 45 degrees (and invariably into my path) is the most frustrating.

 

I agree about junctions and that is typical of the 'greng jai' that they are taught in the videos at the the test centre. It can cause issues in situations like roundabouts where they will often stop on the roundabout when they have priority.

 

My criticisms are not against individual Thais, they are against the lack of education, training and testing. 

[hotandsticky]

3 minutes ago, Presnock said:

why change the subject...it is about foreigners disrespect for Thailand laws...we already know about how the locals feel on the subject.

 

It is called broadening the discussion.

 

 

You will understand one day.

[Presnock]

1 minute ago, hotandsticky said:

 

It is called broadening the discussion.

 

 

You will understand one day.

I think I understand thai bashing already especially when it comes from foreigners.  After all it is their country.

[pixelaoffy]

It's Pattaya a big cocktail of money grabbing  SE Asians and Foreigners who visit to act stupid .

[WorriedNoodle]

The title suggests the ambulance was cut off going to an emergency but the video looks more like a hunt.

[SAFETY FIRST]

31 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

I didn't say that you said Thais were good drivers - I know that you are not stupid.

 

I have also adapted my driving 'style' to the extent that my missus has told me not to try and be "too Thai" (she probably said that when I was driving 50 metres against the flow of traffic).

 

just because the Thais have their "unique techniques" does not make it right, safe or desirable. Approaching junctions at 45 degrees (and invariably into my path) is the most frustrating.

 

I agree about junctions and that is typical of the 'greng jai' that they are taught in the videos at the the test centre. It can cause issues in situations like roundabouts where they will often stop on the roundabout when they have priority.

 

My criticisms are not against individual Thais, they are against the lack of education, training and testing. 

I agree with everything you said 👍

 

Yes, roundabouts, the Thai's seem too courteous, they don't understand you have the right of way once in the roundabout, they tend to give way to everyone. 

 

Yes, lack of training and testing, this causes issues, drivers driving without licence, tax or insurance tend to be over careful (women especially) holding traffic up. 

 

[bendejo]

No drink driving citation?

 

[hotandsticky]

29 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I agree with everything you said 👍

 

Yes, roundabouts, the Thai's seem too courteous, they don't understand you have the right of way once in the roundabout, they tend to give way to everyone. 

 

Yes, lack of training and testing, this causes issues, drivers driving without licence, tax or insurance tend to be over careful (women especially) holding traffic up. 

 

 

Yes, the roundabout is a classic example - I have sympathy with them because nobody has trained them.

 

In Buriram they took out a roundabout and replaced it with traffic lights because it was causing so much confusion.

 

Years ago I realised that I needed to dilute my western thinking when I almost had a collision with two lads on a motocy. I was indicating to turn right into my small soi and moved to the centre of the road to turn. Fortunately, I glanced in my mirror as the the two lads overtook me. Not impolitely, they gestured that I should have been on the left hand side to take the right turn.......that is what they believed and that is what Thais do. 

[Purdey]

Several years ago my driver had the habit of not giving way to screaming ambulances behind us. The sound was annoying enough but why he wanted to extend the time we had to listen was beyond me. 

I explained that one of his relatives might be in the ambulance so move to the side to let the emergency vehicle pass. Now he always pulls over.

[actonion]

21 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Ok,. Why am I the only one noticing the inconsistency here. The ambulance was described as  transporting an unconscious victim, from a near drowning incident, to a nearby hospital, and yet managed to chase the motorcycle and then pull over after the driver wiped out? There was another rescue vehicle on scene. Why did the ambulance not continue to the hospital instead of stopping to converse with the  driver? If this was a critical case, surely they would have gone to the hospital asap?

A Drowning at 04.30, ?   Maybe an early morning exercise