Drunken Sailor Crash Puts 5 People In Hospital

[Rimmer]

Suspected Drunken Sailor involved in serious road crash in Sattahip

SATTAHIP: -- A drunken sailor was involved in a road accident in the Plu Ta Luang area in Sattahip District early on Saturday morning which led to 5 people sustaining injuries, two of which are currently in a coma in Hospital. The accident occurred on the Sukhumvit Road and according to witnesses a Blue Isuzu D-Max pick-up, driven by Petty Officer 1st Class Wichit aged 30 was speeding up on the hard shoulder as if he was about to enter the main carriageway but failed to see two motorbikes and a bicycle travelling towards him. Police suspect the sailor was concentrating on his side-mirror to make sure no other vehicles were approaching on the carriageway and failed to notice the bikes.

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-- Pattaya One 2011-11-26

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[kennalder]

My motto for driving, riding in Thailand.

Always assume that within 50 yards someone is about to, or is already in the act of, doing something really stupid and dangerous.

Often there is more than one and sometimes they meet.

[billd766]

A song I remember from the old days

What shall we do with a drunken sailor

What'll we do with a drunken sailor,

What'll we do with a drunken sailor,

What'll we do with a drunken sailor,

Earl-aye in the morning?

Chorus:

Way hay and up she rises

Patent blocks o' diff'rent sizes,

Way hay and up she rises

Earl-aye in the morning

1. Sling him in the long boat till he's sober,

2. Keep him there and make 'im bale 'er.

3. Pull out the plug and wet him all over,

4. Take 'im and shake 'im, try an' wake 'im.

5. Trice him up in a runnin' bowline.

6. Give 'im a taste of the bosun's rope-end.

7. Give 'im a dose of salt and water.

8. Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster.

9. Shave his belly with a rusty razor.

10. Send him up the crow's nest till he falls down,

11. Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under,

12. Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.

13. Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts flippers.

14. Put him in the guard room till he's sober.

15. Put him in bed with the captain's daughter*).

16. Take the Baby and call it Bo'sun.

17. Turn him over and drive him windward.

18. Put him in the scuffs until the horse bites on him.

19. Heave him by the leg and with a rung console him.

20. That's what we'll do with the drunken sailor.

*) A relative of the cat-o-nine-tails