GuestHouse Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Spotted on the way to work this morning. Needs no words really. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 , Come sit in my garden for a beer and see what goes by every day, your pic is nothing, believe me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurwait Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Which one ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBD Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 That's just nuts. Do some people actively want to have a nasty accident? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamescollister Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Today, driving blind bend, solid yellow line. Truck and dog coming the other way, motorbike passes truck. We are in a big SUV no room to pull over. Bike goes between us and the truck. If the space had been any less I would have lost my mirror and rider would have gone under the truck. Up to Buddha. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurwait Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Today, driving blind bend, solid yellow line. Truck and dog coming the other way, motorbike passes truck. We are in a big SUV no room to pull over. Bike goes between us and the truck. If the space had been any less I would have lost my mirror and rider would have gone under the truck. Up to Buddha. Jim Was it this one ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UbonOz Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 TIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot1988 Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 im more afraid of encountering these trucks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Today, driving blind bend, solid yellow line. Truck and dog coming the other way, motorbike passes truck. We are in a big SUV no room to pull over. Bike goes between us and the truck. If the space had been any less I would have lost my mirror and rider would have gone under the truck. Up to Buddha. Jim OMG! What happened to the dog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamescollister Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Today, driving blind bend, solid yellow line. Truck and dog coming the other way, motorbike passes truck. We are in a big SUV no room to pull over. Bike goes between us and the truck. If the space had been any less I would have lost my mirror and rider would have gone under the truck. Up to Buddha. Jim OMG! What happened to the dog? Not from OZ I guess. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 (edited) Today, driving blind bend, solid yellow line. Truck and dog coming the other way, motorbike passes truck. We are in a big SUV no room to pull over. Bike goes between us and the truck. If the space had been any less I would have lost my mirror and rider would have gone under the truck. Up to Buddha. Jim OMG! What happened to the dog? Not from OZ I guess. Jim Actually, I used to have two dogs and sometimes three when off the beaten track south of Longreach headed for Isisford (and nobody was looking). Never lost any but did get one stuck on a fence once. Edited July 23, 2012 by NanLaew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post barky Posted July 23, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2012 Don't sweat it Guesthouse.Stupidity is the norm here. A brain dead adult showing a future brain dead child what to do. The police don't care, The politicians don't care, most of the population wouldn't see what the problem is (and if pushed would see it only as funny). Just try to ignore it...laugh at the stupidity (or alternatively pray for their salvation)...and hope the child doesn't fall off in front of you as you would feel compelled to give assistance. Stupid is as stupid does. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtjforyou Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 What's wrong ? Just normal in Thailand, people have the right to kill their kids in this country it seems... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelmann Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Drying his hair and avoiding the slipstream of the driver, perfectly sensible 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelmann Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Today, driving blind bend, solid yellow line. Truck and dog coming the other way, motorbike passes truck. We are in a big SUV no room to pull over. Bike goes between us and the truck. If the space had been any less I would have lost my mirror and rider would have gone under the truck. Up to Buddha. Jim OMG! What happened to the dog? Surely you mean the mirror??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 (edited) So GuestHouse ... as you can well see by the TiTness of the replies ... nothing unusual in the photo for Thailand. In the first photo, of the 2 motorcyclists ... which is considered the worse crime? The child standing on the back on the bike with no helmet? Or the man and child, neither with a helmet riding the wrong way up the street? EDIT removed a comment and added a few Edited July 23, 2012 by David48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdnvic Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I'm with Guesthouse on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mossfinn Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Last Wednesday, in blinding rain, a car in front of me was driving the conditions, I was behind him keeping a close eye on the traffic and the roads, and an estate car loaded to the gunnels, can't see out of his rear view mirror, overtakes on a blind bend, he can't overtake fast because the roads are flowing with water. I drop back because I know the bend, car coming the other way, on coming car brakes, car in front of me brakes and the car on the wrong side of the road brakes, contra indicatitions, smash somehow avoided, I still don't know how. There are stupid people everywhere. Just take a look on the threads on the front page of General today and the responses to them, generally western posters, not going to kill anyone I suppose, but would you get in a car with them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave2 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 re .. Needs no words really. the kids got a brother and two sisters ... just as stupid... in chiang mai : ( dave2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I saw the first pic and thought, "just 1 kid, that's not so bad," and then it dawned on me that maybe I have been here too long. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post canman Posted July 24, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted July 24, 2012 It's simply the darwinian process in action. In Vietnam I once saw 2 guys on 2 motorbikes transporting a long bamboo ladder. Both had the ladder resting on their shoulders with their heads between the rungs. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Crazy indeed, i see so many crazy things on the road that i only respond to the most dangerous of them all. Usually i check if they are a danger to me or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinnieTheKhwai Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 (edited) im more afraid of encountering these trucks! That's just a very light-weight load, empty plastic bottles or something. The truck doesn't look overloaded, unlike some trucks that carry water bottles or gas tanks or bricks, which are much less in volume, but severely overloaded. Edited July 24, 2012 by WinnieTheKhwai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carra Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 im more afraid of encountering these trucks! That's just a very light-weight load, empty plastic bottles or something. The truck doesn't look overloaded, unlike some trucks that carry water bottles or gas tanks or bricks, which are much less in volume, but severely overloaded. A couple of weeks ago i had a motorcyclist crash into the back of my car while i was turning left, signals on etc, anyway after a few hours of him claiming it was my fault, followed by his colleague turning up and trying to get aggressive, then his boss turning up and being polite, it transpires I am the only one with insurance and eventually after my insurance turn up they admit fault and pay up to the insurance guy, I did have to seize his keys to stop him riding away also, anyway i digress, after this i head to collect my wife from the hospital and just as i am turning into the hospital i hear another bang, i think I have been hit again even though i saw nothing in my mirror before turning., I look to the left and see a pick up so over loaded the rear axle had just snapped as it was passing me. This is in the middle of bangkok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocturn Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 thats nothing. the front wheels are still on the ground. And why cant i type in the quick reply box -- twitter, (which i dont use) seems to have taken that over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thequietman Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Today, driving blind bend, solid yellow line. Truck and dog coming the other way, motorbike passes truck. We are in a big SUV no room to pull over. Bike goes between us and the truck. If the space had been any less I would have lost my mirror and rider would have gone under the truck. Up to Buddha. Jim OMG! What happened to the dog? He was driving the truck I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thequietman Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Today, driving blind bend, solid yellow line. Truck and dog coming the other way, motorbike passes truck. We are in a big SUV no room to pull over. Bike goes between us and the truck. If the space had been any less I would have lost my mirror and rider would have gone under the truck. Up to Buddha. Jim OMG! What happened to the dog? Not from OZ I guess. Jim Actually, I used to have two dogs and sometimes three when off the beaten track south of Longreach headed for Isisford (and nobody was looking). Never lost any but did get one stuck on a fence once. could'nt make up his mind, eh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shot Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 im more afraid of encountering these trucks! That's just a very light-weight load, empty plastic bottles or something. The truck doesn't look overloaded, unlike some trucks that carry water bottles or gas tanks or bricks, which are much less in volume, but severely overloaded. You mean overloaded like this? I think its fertalizer. The truck sounded like a thrashing machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Yes regarding the first picture. It is dangerous to carry a bag the way the student is. There are bag snatchers about who will grab the straps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thequietman Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 (edited) now, THIS is overloaded. Edited July 24, 2012 by Rimmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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