webfact Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Children not packed like sardines, driver claimsBy Coconuts BangkokBANGKOK: -- 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chongtak Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 What kind of "game" are the kids playing? Sounds really fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post canopus1969 Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 Even if that were true why were the kids not sitting with seat belts on 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ratcatcher Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 (edited) 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. Edited September 8, 2014 by ratcatcher 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BangkokHank Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 (edited) 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. Edited September 8, 2014 by BangkokHank 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnThailandJohn Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casindonet Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 The game is call "Lets get pack like a sardine". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GuyL Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 (edited) What this Thai school bus driver claims sounds fishy to me! Edited September 8, 2014 by GuyL 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patje Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Even sardines would like this game !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Surprised they were not covered in tomato sauce. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee b Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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 ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurentbkk Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Strange , I see those mini vans everyday FULL of kids ..much more than what a van can contain actually . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacky54 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Nice new 'bus' so no ploblem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Basil B Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 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] 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Prbkk Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulainn Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Good enough for ye!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulainn Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 We used to press our <deleted> against the window!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chainsaw Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhamBam Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bannork Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ratcatcher Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. . 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Patanawet Posted September 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patanawet Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIWIBATCH Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie99 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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 ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claffey Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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??????????? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie61 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 (edited) 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!! Edited September 8, 2014 by eddie61 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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