6 hours ago, JustinTyme said:

Well, that did not take long ... within the first handful of posts, a demand he be deported. This constant foreigner "input" online that "we" see deportation as a penalty for even the smallest offense is gong to come around and bite the entire Expat community in the a$$. Be careful what you keep publicly wishing for, because someday, a politician looking for "headlines and merit" will happily oblidge.

Ask yourself, would he do that at home ? And if he did and got caught, he’d be stopped, jailed, fined , and loose his license.

8 hours ago, DonniePeverley said:

I've seen idiots like this before.

Hopefully he is deported and not a '500 baht and promise not to do this again'. You can't endanger people and just be on your way. Furthermore this sends a message to others (like the French Arabs) that this behaviour will not be tolerated anymore.

What are you going to do to the thousands of thai drivers who drive like this every day then?

8 hours ago, Front Row said:

“Witnesses reported the driver weaving between lanes, overtaking closely on both sides and tailgating other vehicles in a manner described as frightening and highly dangerous.”

So what’s the problem? I see drivers pulling these stunts about once every kilometer when we go back and forth to Korat. Are only Thais allowed to drive like selfish, crazed morons?

How many Thais come crying for go fund me when they get hurt?

The thumbs down brigade are in form.

Are UK drivers special? Can do what they want, and then cry for mummy when they come unstuck?

WOW... a real young white Brit...... with a name I can pronounce

12 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Wow, from what I had heard regular driving in Samui was pretty bad so Mr Jack must have been exceptional.

fallacious premise – and illogical conclusion.

The road design in Samui is terrible, and it is full of foreigners who can't drive and, worse still, think they are better at driving than Thai people – just a racist assumption.

1 hour ago, p414 said:

WOW... a real young white Brit...... with a name I can pronounce

So a racist perpective is relevent...how ?

6 minutes ago, kwilco said:

So a racist perpective is relevent...how ?

Where's the racist perspective? I feel so sorry for the Brits who see racism in everything, as though that is a bad thing anyway. Totally brainwashed.

6 hours ago, garsmx said:

Oh look .... it's the Brits again, who'd have thought.

indeed it is , and what of it ?

I lived on Samui for 10 years and the degree of recklessness that I saw there exceeded what we see daily on the mainland, as unbelievable as that may sound.

The primary issue was the total lack of law enforcement as the police down there are really lazy and inefficient. The only reason why this guy was arrested was because the videos went viral, had the police seen him driving around the island recklessly they would have done nothing under normal circumstances.

It is incredibly rare in Thailand to see somebody actually pulled over for reckless driving, and it happens every minute of every day, everywhere you look.

Mr. Jack is not an unusual driver. What is unusual is that there is media coverage and that he was stopped. As others have noted, poor driving is common on koh Samui.

6 hours ago, geisha said:

Ask yourself, would he do that at home ? And if he did and got caught, he’d be stopped, jailed, fined , and loose his license.

If he was at home, he most likely would be unable to rent a jeep. Most rental agencies have restrictions or surcharges that make it difficult to rent a vehicle when the renter under the age of 25. Typically, the rentals are restricted to the small low power vehicles, like sub compacts or basic compacts. In Thailand, if you wave some cash, that's all that matters.

6 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Where's the racist perspective? I feel so sorry for the Brits who see racism in everything, as though that is a bad thing anyway. Totally brainwashed.

14 hours ago, roo860 said:

4 hours ago, kwilco said:

So a racist perpective is relevent...how ?

Racist card not accepted, next.

51 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Mr. Jack is not an unusual driver. What is unusual is that there is media coverage and that he was stopped. As others have noted, poor driving is common on koh Samui.

If he was at home, he most likely would be unable to rent a jeep. Most rental agencies have restrictions or surcharges that make it difficult to rent a vehicle when the renter under the age of 25. Typically, the rentals are restricted to the small low power vehicles, like sub compacts or basic compacts. In Thailand, if you wave some cash, that's all that matters.

This doesn't appear to be poor driving, but rather dangerous 'showing off' style driving. If he had clipped a family on a bike, or hit a pedestrian things could have become very serious for him.

This isn't just someone getting drunk and make a fool of themselves, he was doing something very dangerous. So yeah ... i do hope it's not a 500 baht fine and a tap on the wrist.

Glad they stopped him before he killed somebody on a scooter.

5 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Where's the racist perspective? I feel so sorry for the Brits who see racism in everything, as though that is a bad thing anyway. Totally brainwashed.

Racists spend a lot of their time saying things are racist – it's a way of identifying them.

17 hours ago, DonniePeverley said:

Cone on Benidorm get those cider deals back on and get the Brits back.

Of course you are better than that type of Brit.

Looking down on other people is arrogance and snobbery at it’s worst.Guessing you are a Brit too,pathetic .

I am surprised nobody stopped him and gave him a wakeup slap!

18 hours ago, Blueman1 said:

Possibly Mr Jack<deleted> hasn't even got a Driving Licence !!

Oh he likely has, to rent in the first place. It is possible that all he has driven in the UK is some little electric car the size of a fat man's shoe with a 50 mile range. The big SUV was stimulating!

2 hours ago, Keeenok Powell said:

Of course you are better than that type of Brit.

Looking down on other people is arrogance and snobbery at it’s worst.Guessing you are a Brit too,pathetic .

i thought he was American ......even worse

On 5/22/2026 at 2:18 AM, jacko45k said:

Brexit and the Spanish got fed up!

I strongly suspect that many such people were attracted to Thailand when it decided to decriminalise cannabis.

6 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

I strongly suspect that many such people were attracted to Thailand when it decided to decriminalise cannabis.

Considering the UK is awash with cannabis i doubt that very much , Young lads go on holiday together , they let their hair down and do stupid things, often far worse than this , Looking at some of the comments on here most of the coffin dodgers on this forum have never actually had a youth married too young I guess

So what attracted you here then cheap sex with asian prostitutes? Same with me , a much more wholesome reason than a bit of weed, in fact I used to give up the weed when i came here initially, it was still full of nutters back then , just not as many retired school teachers and the like , whinging about them on forums like this

23 hours ago, geisha said:

Ask yourself, would he do that at home ? And if he did and got caught, he’d be stopped, jailed, fined , and loose his license.

jailed? for a bit of bad driving? certainly not in the uk

22 hours ago, emptypockets said:

How many Thais come crying for go fund me when they get hurt?

well in reality, at least in the case of Thai guys, they are a lot more likely to go crying to their mothers

1 minute ago, Bday Prang said:

Considering the UK is awash with cannabis i doubt that very much , Young lads go on holiday together , they let their hair down and do stupid things, often far worse than this , Looking at some of the comments on here most of the coffin dodgers on this forum have never actually had a youth married too young I guess

I:
First visited Thailand when I was 20. (Subsequently lived there for 20 years)
Never married.
Only spent 4 of my 61 years in relationships.
Have tried cannabis on a few occasions (and quite liked it).

I'm now officially a coffin-dodger!😁

9 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

I:
First visited Thailand when I was 20. (Subsequently lived there for 20 years)
Never married.
Only spent 4 of my 61 years in relationships.
Have tried cannabis on a few occasions (and quite liked it).

I'm now officially a coffin-dodger!😁

can't fault you. keep on dodging

21 hours ago, kwilco said:

fallacious premise – and illogical conclusion.

The road design in Samui is terrible, and it is full of foreigners who can't drive and, worse still, think they are better at driving than Thai people – just a racist assumption.

Wow - you went from “white guy driving badly” straight into assumptions about what other people are thinking, then into one of your very typical accusations of racism.

1 - The British lad was driving like an absolute idiot.

2 - The road design in Samui, and in many parts of Thailand, is genuinely poor and often dangerous.

3 - Some foreigners drive terribly on Thai roads.

4 - Some Thais drive terribly on Thai roads.

5 - There are vastly more Thais on the roads than foreigners.

So the real question is whether there’s any actual disproportionality. Are foreigners statistically worse drivers, or are people just reacting more strongly when they see a foreigner behaving badly?

Because while you’re accusing others of racism, what you seem to be drifting into is a kind of reverse bias yourself - where foreigners automatically become the problem regardless of the broader reality.

That loses objectivity just as much as the notorious Pattaya posters who blame every accident on foreigners while ignoring the fact that both Thais and foreigners can be shockingly bad drivers. And that’s not only because of poor road design or weak enforcement - it’s also because many people drive recklessly simply because they know they’ll probably get away with it.

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On 5/22/2026 at 8:52 AM, Front Row said:

I guess my sarcasm went undetected. Sorry about that.

Two wrongs don’t make a right but in cases such as these two wrongs make an accident, injuries, or death.

Driving on Thai roads, it’s what keeps life exciting.

Posts with derogatory trolling nicknames have been removed. Keep it civil please.

22 hours ago, Priorexpat said:

Glad they stopped him before he killed somebody on a scooter.

Whoever gave me the thumbs down here, you would have preferred him to hurt somebody?