White Fortuner

[monsieurhappy]

Firstly let me apologize if someone as already posted about this but I've been offline ( computer down ) for a week.

Today, whilst driving towards soi Siam CC from the Elephant village, alongside SP 5. I saw coming towards me a white Fortuner.

Nothing special about that you could say except on the roof was something that looked like a large white biscuit tin ( for want of a better description )

I thought it might be some kind of a/c unit until passing the Fortuner I saw in white letters on blue background the word "Police"

This looked like a properly made "dome" that probably is illuminated at night time, as opposed to somebody's idea of a "fake" police car.

Anyway, I thought some of you would appreciate being made aware of this in case one day you see a white Fortuner in your mirror and decide to give em a race!!

Edited April 3, 2010 by monsieurhappy

[uwe_rayong]

Hi,

did the biscuit tin on the roof looked similar to these ones?

That is a mobile sat dish for people who likes to look TV or use satellite internet in a moving car.

I doubt that the BIB invest they hard earnings in such a luxury and useless item.

[LennyW]

Yep, sattelite TV receiver, more and more of them appearing on vehicles lately, just another excuse for the locals to pay even less attention to their driving!!!! , and i thought the TV screens on the dashboard were bad enough on their own....now the opportunity to watch live Thai soaps......aaaargh !!!!

[Phil Conners]

I though they were some kind of GPS things to keep track of vehicles.

[farangpattaya]

UBC/TRUE offers them as mobile satellite TV.

[monsieurhappy]

My story of the white Fortuner wasn't an April fools day joke!

The "dome" on the top looked nothing like your pic.

It had 4 windows, front, back and sides where the word "POLICE" was detailed in white letters on a blue glass background.

It certainly wasn't satellite TV!

No worry! I'm sure someone else will see this before long!

[Heng]

Have seen more than a few police install sat tv's on their cars. It's a grey area as to whether any particular car is personal or gov't use only.

[chickenslegs]

Maybe it was a new police station sign (too big to fit inside the car?-so strapped to the roof bars) and the white fortuner was just the delivery vehicle.