Traffic Cones

[crusty]

Motorcyclists be very careful when approaching a line of traffic cones. Several bad accidents between motorbikes and cones at the lake road junction have the cones winning 12-4. To stop wind gusts or traffic moving the cones, our traffic cops have now filled them with cement. Yesterday some tourists were so amazed at this Samui traffic solution, they took photographs for the folks back home. It makes you feel so proud....

[carmine]

A true demonstration of unbelievable stupidity

[gotlost]

Come on. Post the photos. Pleeeease.

[goldfish]

Thanks for the warning here, always appreciated, but I'm not sure what the problem is. It is routine to use sand or cement in cones in the UK on dual carriageways and motorways. If one sees cones, one should go around. If people are deliberately riding into them then they need an IQ test before being allowed out unsupervised. Maybe this is why we now get warnings on boomerangs (warning; could come back) or a packet of nuts (may contain nuts).

The police are trying to do their job, and a stationary cone should be safer than one which is affected by wind.

[dominator]

Thanks for the warning here, always appreciated, but I'm not sure what the problem is. It is routine to use sand or cement in cones in the UK on dual carriageways and motorways. If one sees cones, one should go around. If people are deliberately riding into them then they need an IQ test before being allowed out unsupervised. Maybe this is why we now get warnings on boomerangs (warning; could come back) or a packet of nuts (may contain nuts).

The police are trying to do their job, and a stationary cone should be safer than one which is affected by wind.

Precisely Goldfish.

[carmine]

Thanks for the warning here, always appreciated, but I'm not sure what the problem is. It is routine to use sand or cement in cones in the UK on dual carriageways and motorways. If one sees cones, one should go around. If people are deliberately riding into them then they need an IQ test before being allowed out unsupervised. Maybe this is why we now get warnings on boomerangs (warning; could come back) or a packet of nuts (may contain nuts).

The police are trying to do their job, and a stationary cone should be safer than one which is affected by wind.

I hear what you are saying and sure its used and works in the UK. But, you have quite correctly mentioned "IQ" test, and no supervision. Everytime one goes out on the roads here the most noticeable thing to see is a total lack of road awareness and gung ho driving by people that have had no proper tuition either in using a vehicle or the "laws" on the roads.

[Obiwan]

Right! and a bit off topic; i think the new tar road is very very black at night without the lines, accidents are waiting here..

[PEP]

Right! and a bit off topic; i think the new tar road is very very black at night without the lines, accidents are waiting here..

Goodness! A "Tar Road" being Black! What next?

[Gatorade]

Thanks for the warning here, always appreciated, but I'm not sure what the problem is. It is routine to use sand or cement in cones in the UK on dual carriageways and motorways. If one sees cones, one should go around. If people are deliberately riding into them then they need an IQ test before being allowed out unsupervised. Maybe this is why we now get warnings on boomerangs (warning; could come back) or a packet of nuts (may contain nuts).

The police are trying to do their job, and a stationary cone should be safer than one which is affected by wind.

I hear what you are saying and sure its used and works in the UK. But, you have quite correctly mentioned "IQ" test, and no supervision. Everytime one goes out on the roads here the most noticeable thing to see is a total lack of road awareness and gung ho driving by people that have had no proper tuition either in using a vehicle or the "laws" on the roads.

Off topic but a lot of these people you mention are Moronic Farangs with the IQ of a slug. God knows how they got a licence back in their own country. Easily spotted peering dimly at a map in the middle of a busy intersection and wearing a plastic helmet which is usually half way down their back.