Children not packed like sardines, Thai school bus driver claims

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Children not packed like sardines, driver claims
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- Following complaints made after an image circulated showing about 20 children crammed into a school bus last week, police Friday said the students were just playing around.

After police tracked the vehicle from its license plate, van driver Wirat, whose last name was withheld, reported to police Thursday and claimed there were only 12 students in the van.

All of them, he said, decided to gather their backpacks and cram onto the back seat to play.

The name of the school was withheld. [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/09/08/children-not-packed-sardines-driver-claims


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-09-08

[chongtak]

What kind of "game" are the kids playing? Sounds really fun.

[canopus1969]

Even if that were true why were the kids not sitting with seat belts on

[ratcatcher]

I like this bit. : "In the end, he was fined THB1,000 for not registering the van as a school bus,...."

1000 baht. No insurance for the carriage of passengers, I am sure. SSDD.

Actually, they were probably packed like anchovies.

[BangkokHank]

Technically the driver was right as sardines are packed lying down whereas these children were standing, and sardines are packed in oil whereas these children clearly weren't.

[JohnThailandJohn]

Even if that were true why were the kids not sitting with seat belts on

Private vehicle. I don't believe seat belts are required for passengers in non-public vehicles.

[casindonet]

The game is call "Lets get pack like a sardine".

[GuyL]

What this Thai school bus driver claims sounds fishy to me!

[Patje]

Even sardines would like this game !!!

[Thaddeus]

Surprised they were not covered in tomato sauce.

[lee b]

Looks like they have seen a snake at the front of the bus and they are all trying there best to get away from it !

[laurentbkk]

Strange , I see those mini vans everyday FULL of kids ..much more than what a van can contain actually .

[jacky54]

Nice new 'bus' so no ploblem

[Basil B]

Funny how this sort of thing is so wrong in BKK, just get out of the cities, where traffic moves faster and the school buses are bigger, kids have to ride on the roof...

[OK none on top in this photo, but if ever you you have been out in the sticks you would be blind not to see kids riding on top of these buses]

[Prbkk]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

[Cuchulainn]

Good enough for ye!!!

[balo]

What kind of "game" are the kids playing? Sounds really fun.

They play the sex game, as reported earlier is what thai kids do these days.

[Cuchulainn]

We used to press our <deleted> against the window!!

[Chainsaw]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

A stale crust for lunch? Each? You were lucky! In my day all we got was a picture of a lamb chop to eat. Bet you weren't even barefoot in the snow.

[WhamBam]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

Lucky you, getting a stale crust as well!!

[bannork]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

Walk to school? You was lucky... we yurs to crawl to school through mud an puddles with nout but crusty cold semolina porridge for lunch.The edmaster woz stand over us with snooker cue saying, 'eat every last piece of stodge you ungrateful sissies, there's kids in Africa who'd die for a plate of this'

Aye, they would have, god knows how we survived, but we woz happy.

[ratcatcher]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

Walk to school? You was lucky... we yurs to crawl to school through mud an puddles with nout but crusty cold semolina porridge for lunch.The edmaster woz stand over us with snooker cue saying, 'eat every last piece of stodge you ungrateful sissies, there's kids in Africa who'd die for a plate of this'

Aye, they would have, god knows how we survived, but we woz happy.

School!!! Aw you looky buggers, when I were a lad my old man sent me straight to work 'ouse at half past five int mornin'. We had to catch our own food if we wanted the luxury of eatin'. Cockroaches, mice and an occasional fat rat if we was lucky. School, you dunno 'ow lucky you was.

But we managed a smile even when we was walkin' five miles 'ome at nine at night in't pourin' rain. .

[Patanawet]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

Trudging home??!!!!!!

 You were lucky.  We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in    a septic tank.  We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the    morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down    mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out.

[Patanawet]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

A stale crust for lunch? Each? You were lucky! In my day all we got was a picture of a lamb chop to eat. Bet you weren't even barefoot in the snow.

Reminds me of a guest house I once stayed at in Blackpool ----- for breakfast, we were given a slice of bread and allowed to wipe it on a kipper nailed to the breakfast room door.

[bkkjames]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

LOL PR., sounds like straight out of Monty Python.

I only had to walk 1-2 km in the snow but when I got home my father would make me shovel the walks twice just to make sure.

Back on topic, private van, not registered, what kind of school allows this one asks?

[KIWIBATCH]

Hell, lamb chops and stale crusts......all we got was the smell of peppermints......Dad would munch on a packet of them...and we would all sit around his tongue and sniff

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

A stale crust for lunch? Each? You were lucky! In my day all we got was a picture of a lamb chop to eat. Bet you weren't even barefoot in the snow.

[Johnnie99]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

A stale crust? You were lucky to have that.

All I had were a few stale crumbs as I trudged 40 miles each way every day to get to school and back ...

School? You were lucky to have a school to go to ... all I had was an empty room which used to be a schoolroom ...

[claffey]

What kind of "game" are the kids playing? Sounds really fun.

They play the sex game, as reported earlier is what thai kids do these days.

I don't get this joke! This is surely inappropriate???????????

[klauskunkel]

A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

...uphill, both ways!

[eddie61]

Dit no hab in Thailang. I neber see kid him tewenty peepen in but songtheaw, No, dit neber happen in dit cuntly. Dit cuntly sibilite too mut!!