1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

 

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

 

At 1.02 it appears the ambulance tried to put him in the wall.

7 minutes ago, LennyW said:

At 1.02 it appears the ambulance tried to put him in the wall.

Ambo shoulda tried harder.

23 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Pattaya police have fined an unnamed British man for reckless driving after he cut in front of an emergency rescue vehicle, made an obscene gesture at volunteers and later crashed into a local resident’s motorcycle.

Another halfwit on the road, too bad he hit someone instead of a brick wall or a utility pole.

22 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 😂

 

You have said all to be said about the attitude of many of the foreigners here, unfortunately..

14 hours 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 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. 

 

 

 

To be fair Pattaya probably exhibits the worst of the worst in many aspects  -  driving certainly being one of them.

 

Be warned though.....when you come to Isaan you will experience less aggression but there are dimwits who should not be allowed on the road. If people drove in Pattaya or Bangkok like they do in many areas of Isaan they would die....notably joining a main road and not looking right... you live with the fact that they love to hog right hand lanes and you have to learn to overtake on the inside.

 

BUT......they are usually more polite.

Please deport this arrogant pr**k.

Just now, Taboo2 said:

Please deport this arrogant pr**k.

 

 

Calm down.......if all arrogant pr!cks were deported Pattaya would be severely depleted.

 

 

A fine for being an ar5e is sufficient.

1 minute ago, Taboo2 said:

Please deport this arrogant pr**k.

& broadcast his name, face and AN profile name.

1 minute ago, hotandsticky said:

A fine for being an ar5e is sufficient.

No it’s not.

2 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

if all arrogant pr!cks were deported Pattaya would be severely depleted.

Now that would be a good thing, wouldn’t it?

1 minute ago, novacova said:

No it’s not.

Now that would be a good thing, wouldn’t it?

 

I agree with the second comment, not the first.

33 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

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. 

They also removed a roundabout here in Jomtien, soi Wat Boon and installed traffic lights. 

 

21 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

To be fair Pattaya probably exhibits the worst of the worst in many aspects  -  driving certainly being one of them.

 

Be warned though.....when you come to Isaan you will experience less aggression but there are dimwits who should not be allowed on the road. If people drove in Pattaya or Bangkok like they do in many areas of Isaan they would die....notably joining a main road and not looking right... you live with the fact that they love to hog right hand lanes and you have to learn to overtake on the inside.

 

BUT......they are usually more polite.

I fly to Roi Et most months, I drive a car and ride a motorbike there, occasionally drive to other close by cities, Kalasin, Yasothon etc.

It's chalk and cheese, very different to Pattaya, all the Thai's wear a helmet, stop at red traffic lights, they obey the road rules.

I rarely see a foreigner on the road but when I do they are always riding safely, courteous, not aggressive or hostile. 

 

It's like you said early, Pattaya, the worst of the worst.....Thai's and foreigners. 

 

 

 

15 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

They also removed a roundabout here in Jomtien, soi Wat Boon and installed traffic lights. 

 

 

 

At the Second Road junction ?

 

I don't remember that. I remember Second Road being built and sometime later I stayed at Amazon.

 

The giving way to the right seems to be the issue for many non-westerners (because of not being taught properly) and even in a small town like Bang Saray, the small roundabout there causes confusion. 

47 minutes ago, actonion said:

A Drowning at 04.30, ?   Maybe an early morning exercise

 

This just in... nobody has been known to drown during the hours of darkness in Thailand. Ever.

 

More at ten...

7 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

At the Second Road junction ?

Yes, many years ago it was a roundabout. 

It wasn't there for long, bloody disaster. 

 

20 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

55 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

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. 

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They also removed a roundabout here in Jomtien, soi Wat Boon and installed traffic lights. 

 

Amazing.

 

Up here in Udon Thani, we are blessed with nine roundabouts within the city. Sometimes, when I feel that pressing need to correct Thailand's societal wrongs, I go for a drive and navigate all nine of them. I studiously and earnestly enforce the correct 'right-of-way' as taught to me in the UK, on the few 'courteous' local drivers who stop on the roundabout when they see me coming. I'm usually back home within the hour.

 

Here's my wheels.

 

 

3 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

I studiously and earnestly enforce the correct 'right-of-way' as taught to me in the UK,

 

Not so much UK but US drivers tend to see things in black and white or right and wrong. Whereas for Thai drivers , as is everything in life, it is more of a negotiation. UK drivers will pick their gap long before the roundabout. Thai drivers just arrive and then start the negotiation. If US drivers can figure out a 4-way stop how come roundabouts or traffic circles present such a problem.

11 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Amazing.

 

Up here in Udon Thani, we are blessed with nine roundabouts within the city. Sometimes, when I feel that pressing need to correct Thailand's societal wrongs, I go for a drive and navigate all nine of them. I studiously and earnestly enforce the correct 'right-of-way' as taught to me in the UK, on the few 'courteous' local drivers who stop on the roundabout when they see me coming. I'm usually back home within the hour.

 

Here's my wheels.

 

 

Ha ha, you belong in Pattaya, that's a favourite for the angry, aggressive foreigners here. 😂

 

Do you drive around, window down, fag hanging out of your mouth, yelling and screaming at other drivers/riders. 

 

Sorry mate, I'm sure you don't, seeing your vehicle brings back memories for me. 

23 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Being British he should have known better, giving way in the UK has been a law for a long time. 

and giving way to emergency vehicles should be common sense, anywhere in the world...

On 8/11/2025 at 10:55 AM, 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 😂

 

I live in an area where there are very few foreigners, only 5km from Pattaya Central, and if you saw how many of the Thais drive around here, you'd take back your comment. Most of them don't wear helmets.

51 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Ha ha, you belong in Pattaya, that's a favourite for the angry, aggressive foreigners here. 😂

 

Do you drive around, window down, fag hanging out of your mouth, yelling and screaming at other drivers/riders. 

 

Sorry mate, I'm sure you don't, seeing your vehicle brings back memories for me. 

 

Funnily (or not funnily) enough, over the decades, I have done three extended tours of duty in Pattaya. The only prang I ever had there was with a foreigner who expressed his Thainess by illegally cutting into my lane from his right-turn only lane at a traffic light... and I didn't give way. Nice solid side-swipe, scrapes, bent panels, flying wing mirrors etc. The first thing he asked me was why didn't I just let him in, to which I asked him to reflect on why he didn't just use the correct lane. That's when he went off with the,"How long have you been here?" retort that didn't elicit any further response from me as we waited for the insurance chaps to front up. Pointing out that I was in Pattaya long before he opened his real estate business would have only upset the Fortuner-driving idiot further. That's when I reckoned I needed something a bit more substantial than Mrs NL's CRV.

 

On my second Pattaya rodeo, and now driving my own 'sports lorry', I invested in a couple of accessories. The first being a 22" LED flood bar mounted low, below the bumper, behind the air vent. The second was an imported (hand-carried) dual air-horn kit. Not your plastic Italian La Cucuracha rubbish either but steel 22" and 18" horns with dual compressors. This was installed mainly for the overnight drives from Udon to the beach and back for the benefit of the buses that hogged the right lane or wouldn't dip their headlights. It was used infrequently in either city as the 'shock and awe' aspect made the dozy saleng drivers have a heart attack when my intended target was the muppet (probably in a bloody Fortuner) cutting me up.

 

There is a different way of driving between Pattaya and Udon and I found that I was more pushy in Pattaya, as I brought the Isaan way to Chonburi. Local drivers would mostly defer to my road presence... unless they too had up-country regos. Having said that, I am also a lot older now and wouldn't feel the need to challenge the foreign Fortuner driver. You know, the ones that "drive around, window down, fag hanging out of your mouth, yelling and screaming at other drivers/riders."

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

You have said all to be said about the attitude of many of the foreigners here, unfortunately..

reminds me of all the immigrants pouring into western countries - the foreigners here act like they are still at home while basing those immigrants acting as if they were still in their homeland.

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

 

 

Sorry mate, I'm sure you don't, seeing your vehicle brings back memories for me. 

 

He does not own a Dodge Ram in Thailand with a boomer bullbar fitted.

17 hours 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 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. 

 

Half cut people on motor bikes is not a recipe for safety

Does anyone have any idea as to how much he was fined?

7 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

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

 

 

"They are not a Chinese volunteer service"

 

"They are just one of hundreds of independent volunteer emergency services".

 

 

They are a Thai-Chinese Buddhist Humanitarian Charitable Organization founded in 1948. They have a temple very near to Naklua Fish Market in Pattaya, Thailand.

5 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

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. 

 

That is not what their highway code states, so they were wrong.

 

Ignorance and poor education tends to breed an arrogance and self-belief that can ultimately prove fatal as we see daily here.

5 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

They also removed a roundabout here in Jomtien, soi Wat Boon and installed traffic lights

 

The roundabout was good   100%  better traffic flow...there was of course "teething troubles"   and a few crashes due to idiots that should never have been allowed on the road in the first place..and sadly after a few months they removed the roundabout and went back to traffic lights...notice how lots of motorcycles do the double turn left on red trick  to avoid the

loooooong red light wait....  roundabout was much better.

45 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

"They are not a Chinese volunteer service"

 

"They are just one of hundreds of independent volunteer emergency services".

 

 

They are a Thai-Chinese Buddhist Humanitarian Charitable Organization founded in 1948. They have a temple very near to Naklua Fish Market in Pattaya, Thailand.

 

Yes, I know. I have attended events there.

 

Thanks for looking up the wiki though. Your post confirms that they are NOT just a "Chinese volunteer service" but more correctly a Thai-Chinese Buddhist Humanitarian Charitable Organization. They provide a necessary service and do good work for the community, like most all of these charitable emergency services in Thailand.

 

Middle-aged Englishmen on big Honda's? Not so much.

On 8/11/2025 at 10:50 AM, Ohyesuare said:

 

Yup, I don't know why I always get them mixed up when Urs Fehr comes up on here. I apologize to any Swedes on the forum.

If being a as hole was a sport Mr fehr would be an honoured citizen of any country as it is Switzerland has the privilege 😀 of producing a world class one