Just wondering the strangest things you have ever seen in Thailand?

I have to many and could write a book of them but for me one strange thing I saw (or maybe not so strange) was when I first got to Thailand 10 years ago I was people watching over a frosty and saw a Police man driving his 3 children home from work on his motorcycle, none that had helmuts on and what did he have in his left hand but a bottle of open whisky dangling below his ear because at the same time he was driving he was also talking on his mobile.

Ok so maybe having one child in front of you, two behind you, no helmuts, drinking whisky and talking on the phone isn't so strange as long as your a police man? haha

And the policeman had probably just come from issuing tickets to scooter drivers for not wearing helmets...with the proceeds going into his pocket...

edit: I have also seen too many to remember. But the one this week was kinda funny. A farang, no shirt on, the obligatory tattoos, walking down the road wearing only 1 flip flop. Walking right past many Thai stores selling the cheap replacements...the bottom of his foot being completely black...

Edited September 14, 201015 yr by craigt3365

Years ago in Bangkok on the highway passing Don Muang I saw a pick up grossly overloaded with a huge elephant - it looked surreal!

Seven years ago...a small tornado going along Maenam, Samui high street......at first i thought it was snowing...i was in a shop looking out...first tornado.....there are so many but this is the one that stays in the mind....

I am sure that everyone on TV has seen something out of the ordinary. The one that sticks in my mind was a a fat, very fat with a large beer belly German walking around Bug C with just a pair of tiny underpants at 11 am. Everyone was staring. He was speaking German to those looking at him so I couldn't understand what he was saying.

don't know if the is the strangest i've seen, but strangest that happened to me was walking along minding my own business, and some small young woman i'd never seen before when running past me and punched me in the shoulder ...took a few more strides and looked back at me without the slightest hint of any sort of smile and kept on running down the street... i looked to a few thai people who had witnessed it and asked "tom ai?" ...they didn't know either.

wouldnt call it that strange or at all that shocking either, having been in the LOS long enough prior to my visit to the local wat/temple to arrange all the details when my wife and i got married. but, i must admit that i was a bit taken back when entering one of the monks private quarters for a chat, to see in the next room along a group of young monks sitting on the floor playing on a sony play station, drinking a bottle of whiskey between them and sharing a packet of fags.

Edited September 14, 201015 yr by tigerfish

Last year I saw a crazed Thai man with no clothes on sprinting through the town's high street with his penis in his hand at about 8am..

a street cleaner spent forty minutes yesterday trying to get my cat to pick the lottery numbers.

Edited September 14, 201015 yr by nocturn

Whats The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen Here? It must be the army killing Red-shirts; because it is NOT possible at all, as the army are instructed NOT to shoot using REAL bullets.

Years ago in Bangkok on the highway passing Don Muang I saw a pick up grossly overloaded with a huge elephant - it looked surreal!

Yes - I have seen the 'elephant carrying truck' here on Samui as well. Including the mahout on it's back to lift up the overhead cables.. However, that was beaten by the two guys on their two motorbikes - one each end of a bamboo pole that was 10 - 12 meters long. (They were turning right at Bo Phut traffic lights. One went through on green - the other went through on red. That was fun.)

Whats The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen Here? It must be the army killing Red-shirts; because it is NOT possible at all, as the army are instructed NOT to shoot using REAL bullets.

I thought I would click on the red one for you. you seem to like red!

will you be happy when they start making trouble again in a few weeks time? you obviously dont have a business here that will suffer because of it all.

Funniest thing I ever saw wasn't here but in Hong Kong New Terotories back in 1978. Driving at night and by the side of the road is a group of people standing round a fire with an oil drum on placed and a guy busy getting into the said oil drum. I always wish I had stopped to find out what was going on as it still has me thinking 32 years later.

Strangest thing ?....a scuffy pot belly farang in shorts and singlet holding the waist of a young thai girl..

Last year I saw a crazed Thai man with no clothes on sprinting through the town's high street with his penis in his hand at about 8am..

Sounds painful! I hope it was still attached to his groin!

a pickup truck overladen with cooking gas tanks, failing to make it up a slope and having to call another pickup to pull the stalled pickup. Would have thought taking a few gas tanks off would have been easier!

Whats The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen Here? It must be the army killing Red-shirts; because it is NOT possible at all, as the army are instructed NOT to shoot using REAL bullets.

Schools still on holiday?

Whats The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen Here? It must be the army killing Red-shirts; because it is NOT possible at all, as the army are instructed NOT to shoot using REAL bullets.

Somehow I accidently clicked on you for positive reputation for this post when I didnt mean too ......so thats left me with no other option other than to post to tell you to grow up.

Mods please edit that GREENIE, at once

Edited September 14, 201015 yr by neverdie

Whats The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen Here? It must be the army killing Red-shirts; because it is NOT possible at all, as the army are instructed NOT to shoot using REAL bullets.

Somehow I accidently clicked on you for positive reputation for this post when I didnt mean too ......so thats left me with no other option other than to post to tell you to grow up.

Mods please edit that GREENIE, at once

Just give him a red one to cancel it out.

S'ok ND, he just got a red one from me.

(can't stand it when people try to turn a jovial thread into a political rave)

Whats The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen Here? It must be the army killing Red-shirts; because it is NOT possible at all, as the army are instructed NOT to shoot using REAL bullets.

Somehow I accidently clicked on you for positive reputation for this post when I didnt mean too ......so thats left me with no other option other than to post to tell you to grow up.

Mods please edit that GREENIE, at once

Just give him a red one to cancel it out.

S'ok ND, he just got a red one from me.

(can't stand it when people try to turn a jovial thread into a political rave)

THANKYOU gentleman.......(and i use the term gentleman very loosely)

I saw some Thai guy standing at a bus stop outside Hua Lamphong railway station with his flies open and his tackle handing out. Everyone pretended not to notice.

Strangest thing? As an invited speaker, attending an English Camp for about 300 young men from the local technical college in Isaan. That, in itself, wasn't so strange.

However, it was my first year in Thailand, and I wasn't prepared to be exposed to all the hands-on others' thighs, arms around waists, hugging, sniffing your neighbor's neck, and hand-holding that went on among the assumed "straight" majority of students!

Going through my head: "This sure ain't Kansas!"

Since then, I've learned that the sexual orientation lines are considerably "more blurred" in rural SE Asia than in Topeka.

Edited September 14, 201015 yr by Fookhaht

I saw some Thai guy standing at a bus stop outside Hua Lamphong railway station with his flies open and his tackle handing out.

Perhaps just trying to even-out his tan lines? Innocent enough.

Years ago in Bangkok on the highway passing Don Muang I saw a pick up grossly overloaded with a huge elephant - it looked surreal!

I was actually going to post the same thing.  Saw it on the way to Korat:  a smallish pickup with a huge elephant crammed into the bed.

On the river kwai, a make-shift raft made of inner tubes, complete with cup holders for their beer/whiskey, 2 thais speer fishing with snorkel masks, heads under water.

I was at a temple in bkk and walked past a lady who was undressing. When i turned to look back, she was naked and had climbed up onto a small statue of a temple. She straddled the spire top and then lowered herself onto it.

a street cleaner spent forty minutes yesterday trying to get my cat to pick the lottery numbers.

Loved that.

Once saw a dirt covered Thai man, naked except for a loin cloth, covered in religious tattoos with long hair and a beard pacing up and down the middle of a busy road.. Was in Bangkok not far from Makkasan.

A Thai female once offered to buy me a drink about seven years ago in Bangkok.

Now that's strange!!

On the main Mittraparp Highway in Khon Kaen there's a recently opened small tunnel so you can avoid a major traffic junction. Entering the tunnel it's a 4/5 lane highway funneling into 2 lanes.

About a month ago I was following a pick up into the tunnel and halfway through he stopped and did a U-turn. Now the oncoming lanes are separated from us by a concrete barrier so he had to exit the tunnel on the on the wrong side of the road and then face 5 lanes of fast moving traffic coming towards him.

Edited September 14, 201015 yr by mca