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Overtaken by a skateboarder on Pratumnak Hill

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Driving down Pratumnak Hill today I noticed a blur in my rear view mirror and it was not a motorbike, it was young guy on a skateboard. He overtook me and disappeared from view in the busy traffic ahead. I only caught up with him again at Siam Bayshore. He was really gunning it down the hill and I have no idea how he would have stopped if faced with a truck pulling out of the construction site half way down the hill.

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If you look closely at the picture, you will see that he is looking down. He actually has a mobile phone in his hands. Presumably updating his facebook status or checking in on Foursquare.

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They are tough as old boots a measly lorry pulling out is nothing to them.

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Maybe JT finally abandoned the baht busses?

Russian Roulette

Using an Automatic.

A Darwin Award candidate again as we often say.

Patrick

How would he stop if a lorry pulled out? The lorry would have stopped him, job done!!! No need for brakes ya sissy!

How would he stop if a lorry pulled out? The lorry would have stopped him, job done!!! No need for brakes ya sissy!

Come on guys - get with it, skateboarders have ways to stop. You'd be surprised how fast good skateboarders can stop.

Here, a tutorial on how to stop:

http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-a-Skateboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB68QKwf-kk

Looks like he's riding a longboard, way easier to stop/avoid an obstacle than on an actual skateboard

Maybe JT finally abandoned the baht busses?

I needed that - thank you. The mental image is the best thing that's traversed my neural pathways in the last 48 hours :D

Look at me Ma, without ha...teeth

probably a motorized longboard--release the throttle trigger and the brakes engage (quite rapidly and vigorously I might add) tongue.png

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