Road Rage In Thailand...

[Maigo6]

The contrast to Thailand is incredible. I was driving around 80-90mph most of the way and felt totally relaxed and never experienced one single incident of bad driving or unsafe manoeuvres, and this includes driving at rush hour out of the airport and on very busy roads. I have read some people defending the Thai driving system and justifying it as an acceptable way to drive, but this is nonsense. There is no reason why the roads in Thailand can not be the same as any other developed country. In time maybe they will, all it takes is education

So you are breaking the UK speed limits yourself and think you're driving sensibly ?

If only Thais drove as sensibly as you................................. hang on a moment, they do!

[Jeddah Jo]

Really nasty getting beaten up for flipping the bird but just remember there are some real low lifes out there who really don't care if they live or die. Life is a lot cheaper out here.

All I will say though is the one thing you do control is your own temper, and losing your temper in Thailand even from within a car is VERY bad news and bad things will always happen as a result. So if you drive out here, accept it is risky but still try and stay as chilled as possible. It is very hard to say 'mai bpen arai' when someone has just tried to kill you, but if you can't deal with it then stay off the roads. 5 years here and I can't say I ever saw a Thai lose their temper behind the wheel.

JJ

[sgunn65]

Could not have happened to a nicer bloke! Maybe if you start to show a little more respect to other nationalities including Thai's life will be better. Having "tons of bucks in the bank" (your quote) didn't help you this time did it? Maybe you can get a film of it made where you come back and kill everyone.

[dotcom]

http://home1.gte.net/res0ak9f/bike.htm

Scroll down to the one where a motorcycle is sitting at a red light with a redi-mix truck behind him. Light goes green. Truck driver honks twice & then runs over said motorcycle trapping it under his truck. Bike catches fire & driver killed. VERY safe in America.

[astral]

its not easy because of the way they drive but be careful some carry a gun

My son borrowed the family car, and when he came back he told me we had had a puncture.

I took the tyre to be repaired and was surprised that the hole was in the wall.

The tyre had to be replaced.

Inside was a 9mm bullet......................

[bonobo]

the last time that I flipped a finger at my tgf after a big quarrel, she gave me a hard punch on me back! I could see the anger on her face. She said and warned, never never do that again in Thailand, to anyone! Well, I learned.

We all learn lessons if we are paying attention. This thread makes me think back to the many years of marine Corp training I received. Can't remember one training manual that showed "giving the finger" as a viable option. But then again, I never trained on Thai highways either. 55555555555555555555555555

There was a Marine friend of mine who got shot down in Greneda. He was laying on the ground outside his helo missing an arm and pretty badly wounded when some Cuban soldiers started approaching him, shooting his way, and with obvious intent. Well , others flew in to intercede and he was not killed, but on one of his medal citations, the official script noted that he "... directed the universal sign for disgust at the approaching enemy soldiers...."

I have never known anyone else in the military to receive a medal for flipping someone the bird!

[ETC]

the last time that I flipped a finger at my tgf after a big quarrel, she gave me a hard punch on me back! I could see the anger on her face. She said and warned, never never do that again in Thailand, to anyone! Well, I learned.

We all learn lessons if we are paying attention. This thread makes me think back to the many years of marine Corp training I received. Can't remember one training manual that showed "giving the finger" as a viable option. But then again, I never trained on Thai highways either. 55555555555555555555555555

There was a Marine friend of mine who got shot down in Greneda. He was laying on the ground outside his helo missing an arm and pretty badly wounded when some Cuban soldiers started approaching him, shooting his way, and with obvious intent. Well , others flew in to intercede and he was not killed, but on one of his medal citations, the official script noted that he "... directed the universal sign for disgust at the approaching enemy soldiers...."

I have never known anyone else in the military to receive a medal for flipping someone the bird!

One time I saw a Navy Seal "Moon" the enemy under fire. Thought that was a bit different. Don't think he received a medal however.

Edited June 16, 2008 by ETC

[cluezo]

the last time that I flipped a finger at my tgf after a big quarrel, she gave me a hard punch on me back! I could see the anger on her face. She said and warned, never never do that again in Thailand, to anyone! Well, I learned.

We all learn lessons if we are paying attention. This thread makes me think back to the many years of marine Corp training I received. Can't remember one training manual that showed "giving the finger" as a viable option. But then again, I never trained on Thai highways either. 55555555555555555555555555

There was a Marine friend of mine who got shot down in Greneda. He was laying on the ground outside his helo missing an arm and pretty badly wounded when some Cuban soldiers started approaching him, shooting his way, and with obvious intent. Well , others flew in to intercede and he was not killed, but on one of his medal citations, the official script noted that he "... directed the universal sign for disgust at the approaching enemy soldiers...."

I have never known anyone else in the military to receive a medal for flipping someone the bird!

Methinks I detect the curious odor of embellishment

Edited June 16, 2008 by cluezo

[NanLaew]

About two days there was an accident on Sukumvit Road at the Theprasit Intersection in Jomtien involving 3 schoolboys who where hit by a pickup while riding their motorbike to school. The bike got creamed and the kids (young teenagers) were all sprawled along the highway. What really spoke volumes about the society here is two of the kids got up and moved to the side of the road but the worst of the 3 was laying in road because his leg was split in half. The traffic behind the accident could not even foking wait for the injured boy to be moved or for an ambulance to come and assist him as they were all just driving around him as he laid in the middle of the highway.

When you look beneath the surface here, under layer is really feudal and ugly and I am strongly considering to just go back home where at least we have laws and people on the most part tend to be decent to each other or should I just let my kids grow up around 3rd Worlders like this?

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Edited June 16, 2008 by NanLaew

[dotcom]

Methinks I detect the curious odor of embellishment

Better stick to the ones ripping you up & calling you "prat".

[Desertexile]

you said you used to be in the army and you could not withstand 2 thais?...

Sounds like a troll to me

So what's your combat experience? I bet you are a real warrior eh? Ever faught more than one person at a time hero?

Surprising remark coming from you. I ain't no hero but during the TET Offensive my squad and I (8) held off some 30 or so NVA. Tit-to-tit shooting followed by fixed bayonets - lotta shit went down that night - I didn't. Yeah I fought more than one at a time - a few times actually. Why are you mocking me?? I don't understand your animosity.

Get over it man, it was 40 years ago. There's nothing more boring than hearing some vet constantly harp on about 'the Nam' at every dam_n opportunity. 'oh, that cooffe reminds me of the Nam', 'Oh that HUGE thai boy reminds me of the Nam' blah blah vietbleedinnam.

Hasnt anything else happened in the last 40 years that you can impress people with?

I served in Iraq and Ireland, so fuc_king what. People dont care.

[Desertexile]

1 Corinthians 13:11 (International Standard Version (©2008))

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

I take it that all posters here are over the age of 13 - physically if not mentally.

Please read the verse at the top of this post and learn something from it! You, by now, should have grown out of 'My daddy's bigger than your daddy.', 'My car's better than your car.' or have you? From a lot of the postings on this thread, it appears not!

If someone annoys you by tooting the horn or similar - just ignore it or is that too much for your macho image? Life is too short for these petty annoyances. I've read on this thread about carrying a gun, screwdriver or baseball bat; what are you trying to do? What are you trying to prove?

Listen to you Gaylord Focker, the biggest cry baby of'em all. That's why all the Ajarns kicked you outta that forum cause your dummy was regularly spat so hard it embedded itself in the forum blackboard.

Get back on ya bike you huge will of flesh.

[GSDIZ]

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Edited June 19, 2008 by GSDIZ

[Maigo6]

Listen to you Gaylord Focker, the biggest cry baby of'em all. That's why all the Ajarns kicked you outta that forum cause your dummy was regularly spat so hard it embedded itself in the forum blackboard.

Get back on ya bike you huge will of flesh.

LOL.............

[Desertexile]

That's unlike Focker, he's usually walks right into them with his spelt check and bandages.

Hey well, must have learnt his lesson on the teachers board when some cun_t did a Bob monkhouse poll and 95% of the readers voted him a total penis.

I always liked Gaylord's 'Im so <deleted> correct attitude' , tickled me it did! Especially coming from a male nurse who sopent 10 years changing bed pans and stitching up manlove victim rings in Saudi.

Then he spends his time trying to lose that excess of 70KG cyling round Thailand telling farangs they are all thick, dumb and wrong and chasing 4 foot Thai birds, screamin'

Get in my belly , get in my belly

[bonobo]

the last time that I flipped a finger at my tgf after a big quarrel, she gave me a hard punch on me back! I could see the anger on her face. She said and warned, never never do that again in Thailand, to anyone! Well, I learned.

We all learn lessons if we are paying attention. This thread makes me think back to the many years of marine Corp training I received. Can't remember one training manual that showed "giving the finger" as a viable option. But then again, I never trained on Thai highways either. 55555555555555555555555555

There was a Marine friend of mine who got shot down in Greneda. He was laying on the ground outside his helo missing an arm and pretty badly wounded when some Cuban soldiers started approaching him, shooting his way, and with obvious intent. Well , others flew in to intercede and he was not killed, but on one of his medal citations, the official script noted that he "... directed the universal sign for disgust at the approaching enemy soldiers...."

I have never known anyone else in the military to receive a medal for flipping someone the bird!

Methinks I detect the curious odor of embellishment

THink what you want.

This was the first US "action" (such as it was) since Vietnam, and there was a push for heros. (The Air Force gave out some thousands of Bronze Stars despite the fact that basically no airmen were even on the island.)

The pilot in question also got the Distinguished Flying Cross for landing his cobra despite losing an arm. But it is his Silver Star which will be remembered most. I even saw a drawing done by one of the artists at the Marine Corps Historical Branch which showed him on the ground with full focus on his extended middle finger.

I am not saying that his finger was the only reason he received the Silver Star. But it is certainly part of the course of events.

[Desertexile]

Check out the documentary 'why we fight'