Bpuumike Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 a group of monks blessed holy water and sprayed the said substance on the road to chase away evil spirits which are believed to have caused frequent deaths and accidents on the road Do I believe this ....? It is crucial not to drink and drive, not to drive too fast, and not to drive while you are too tired, Or do I bring logic into the equation? No, you don't understand yet, TIT. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpuumike Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 It's true that evil spirits are to blame for most road accidents, mostly whiskey. You especially have to watch out for drivers under the influence of Black Cock. Thats a big one you might want to avoid. How do I know if they had some black cock? They usually have trouble walking afterwards So much so that they have to drive instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre0720 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Finally, the Thai officials and myself share the same opinion... There are some evil spirits everywhere here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko kok prong Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Mr Wachira failed to note some salient points; wear a crash helmet look before you pull out from a side road to a main road don't drive at night with no lights don't drive the wrong way down a road , don't overtake a turning vehicle look ahead instead of the 1 meter in front of you don't cover your face with a jacket because it's cold or smokey oh and don't fall asleep,just in case 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy53 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 If they think all the bad spirits have been chased away it will give them a false sence of security and then there will be more accidents . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Posts in all caps have been removed. Turn off your Caps Lock button when posting. Some other derogatory and profane posts have been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Gold Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 And I thought I'd heard it all... Middle Ages mentality with 21st century technology - devastating combination. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laobali Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Stories like this are great fodder for TV Thai bashers. Any guesses how many pages this will run to? Mine is 6 at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Gold Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 "Volunteers from ′Stop Drink Network′ and a group of student reinforced the message by joining the ceremony to promote a campaign against drunk-driving habit during the festive season." But nobody cares... The only thing that works in Western countries is repression, no reason why it should be different here. Whether you have a licence or not is irrelevant in Thailand, so I guess targeting vehicles would be an option: a law by which your car is confiscated when you get caught driving under the influence... That would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laobali Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Mr Wachira failed to note some salient points; wear a crash helmet look before you pull out from a side road to a main road don't drive at night with no lights don't drive the wrong way down a road , don't overtake a turning vehicle look ahead instead of the 1 meter in front of you don't cover your face with a jacket because it's cold or smokey oh and don't fall asleep,just in case How can you expect already drunk drivers to remember all that? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Stories like this are great fodder for TV Thai bashers. Any guesses how many pages this will run to? Mine is 6 at least. So not to be a Thai basher, posters must think that the fodder thrown at us if it is Thai related should be NORMAL, ACCEPTED, TOLERATED, TOOK SERIOUSLY. In future if some topics are ridiculous, say NO WAY we go along with that.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thailand Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 A very good friend of ours in Cyprus gets in her car with her young daughter standing in between the two front seats, no seat belts for either. She then crosses herself in the Greek Orthodox fashion and carries on her merry way, works for her but not something I would recommend for everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsailor35 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 "Bad spirits" yep .............home brewed Sang som 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XpatMike Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Is this serious? I do not mean to belittle the good Bhuddist beliefs - (not faith) but as I have said before - am I missing something, here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 A very good friend of ours in Cyprus gets in her car with her young daughter standing in between the two front seats, no seat belts for either. She then crosses herself in the Greek Orthodox fashion and carries on her merry way, works for her but not something I would recommend for everyone! While working in Kuwait I saw lots of kids sitting on the laps of their driving fathers. We used to call them as interactive airbags. There was plenty of accidents as well.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar God Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 How about awarding drivers licenses based on the ability to drive instead of ability to pay bribes? I asked how much it would cost me to get a Thai drivers license, the answer was "1050฿, unless you don't pass the test, then maybe 4000฿. Mandatory seat belt use would keep drivers in place behind the wheel so they could avoid accidents, rather than sliding across the car to the passenger's side after they try some evasive maneuver they once saw in a cartoon, but were pretty sure they could do. If you're half asleep , quit f*ing driving! An (thankfully incorrect) answer on a Thai practice written driving test about what to do when you're too tired to drive was "B: Take some ya ba". A few street lights on the roads where the most accidents occur would be nice too. I'm sure the prayers will help too though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocN Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 This'll work.....just need to start roadside stalls selling amulets.....buy one get one free....way to go.. They believe this stuff!! It's almost as ridiculous as a Christian believing that a man named Jesus was the son of God isn't it? Or praying to that god, asking for it to perform miracles. The difference is, that most of the ones you mentioned ...or at least a big part...tries prayer AND road safety rules, law inforcement, driving tests... Read post number 23 on page 1. Yeah...ahm...thanks for the hint, but...are you new to Thailand? They SAY there will be other measures...and that means exactly what, in this country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJP Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 How about awarding drivers licenses based on the ability to drive instead of ability to pay bribes? I asked how much it would cost me to get a Thai drivers license, the answer was "1050฿, unless you don't pass the test, then maybe 4000฿. Mandatory seat belt use would keep drivers in place behind the wheel so they could avoid accidents, rather than sliding across the car to the passenger's side after they try some evasive maneuver they once saw in a cartoon, but were pretty sure they could do. If you're half asleep , quit f*ing driving! An (thankfully incorrect) answer on a Thai practice written driving test about what to do when you're too tired to drive was "B: Take some ya ba". A few street lights on the roads where the most accidents occur would be nice too. I'm sure the prayers will help too though.. I kid you not. I was out with the local police one night here years ago. On the way back the off-duty policeman driving the police car (!) was so drunk he fell out of the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angeledge777 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Natural selection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJP Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 DocN, I have suffered many years of this place, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skorchio Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Nice to see a hands-on solution for once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar God Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 A few years back at the Holidazzle parade in Minneapolis an off-duty police officer providing security got into a van left the door open but half his ass on the seat put the car in gear and drove into the crowd and killed three people. He was on (prescribed) narcotic painkillers, he wasn't wearing his seatbelt and no charges were filed. Double standards abound. I kid you not. I was out with the local police one night here years ago. On the way back the off-duty policeman driving the police car (!) was so drunk he fell out of the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJP Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 (edited) A few years back at the Holidazzle parade in Minneapolis an off-duty police officer providing security got into a van left the door open but half his ass on the seat put the car in gear and drove into the crowd and killed three people. He was on (prescribed) narcotic painkillers, he wasn't wearing his seatbelt and no charges were filed. Double standards abound. I kid you not. I was out with the local police one night here years ago. On the way back the off-duty policeman driving the police car (!) was so drunk he fell out of the thing. It would have been funny if it hadn't summed up most of the problems in this country in that one act of a copper opening the car door to throw up a load of Lao Khao and then following the projected Lao Khao unto the floor whilst the car rolled away into a verge. Edited December 28, 2013 by MJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Yo, Officials, hey over here, I'll help you out: Just design a new road sign: no spirits allowed there you go, all sorted, no charge (this time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Just hang ten dozen garlands from the rear view mirror. That'll do it. Oh and a dozen blessed amulets for good measure. Don't forget to let the monks paint up you upholstery. either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Again a topic that attack the Thai religion. Pure hypocrisy if you ask me how is this any more dumb then believing that a guy that was nailed to a cross was the son of god and died for our sins and then came back to life. Sounds just as crazy as this. It always amazes me how religious people can attack an other religion for being crazy as they are all as crazy and there is no proof for any of them. Saying that this is any more stupid as going to church and praying for world peace or that winning lottery ticket is just crazy. There is no doubt in my mind this won't work as none of the religions have proven to work (except for keeping the poor and uneducated down) So please let people believe what they want and if you believe something else your the last to pass judgement as your religion is just as unproven. Buddhism doesn't have anything to do with animism, although the Thai version is conjoined at the hip. However the minority of monks that actually practice Buddhism (forest tradition) will be the first ones to tell you that the rituals and spirit worship has nothing to do with teaching of Buddha, which is essentially a process for ending suffering. Think meditation - not Red Fanta, incense, and candles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belg Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 so rounds up the educational level in this country lets blame the evil spirits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackr Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 monks blessed holy water and sprayed the said substance on the road to chase away evil spirits Could they spare some for the protesters and 'suits' in parliament? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gp2002 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 (edited) They should have called GHOSTBUSTERS!!! "I ain't 'fraid of no ghost" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe93CLbHjxQ Edited December 28, 2013 by gp2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BM7591 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 This must be embarrassing to intelligent Thai people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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