Car falls down the black hole at Erawan Hotel Bangkok

[fstarbkk]

My guess , the driver did not hear any whistle blower park-aid and therefor assumed it was safe ......

...or misinterpreted the frantic whistling behind him a "go go go go!!!!"

[draftvader]

Coconuts News seems to be running with it...

I've only just spotted the body (I hope it's not a sunbather!) in the first image...

[greenfox]

^ Looks like the driver exited through the side window.

[WhizBang]

Glory hole?

Really? My guess is the author does not understand the meaning of what he said.

[Johnnie99]

Stupid is as stupid does

[evadgib]

There's a brand new white suzuki just 25m from my computer chair under a tarp where it's been for weeks. The owner purchased it without bothering with the usual formalities like lessons or a test, & managed to have 2 accidents like the ones above in the first week. Now she's too scared to drive it

Edited November 11, 2014 by evadgib

[Ace of Pop]

Mistook it for Black Canyon.

[55Jay]

There's a brand new white suzuki just 25m from my computer chair under a tarp where it's been for weeks. The owner purchased it without bothering with the usual formalities like lessons or a test, & managed to have 2 accidents like the ones above in the first week. Now she's too scared to drive it

Your comment made me think of this guy.

[DLock]

Actually one of the YouTube links at the end of that clip had 5 minutes of Scooter Accidents...some scrotal spasms watching these crashes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzl98EEkGOk

[LindsayBKK]

Oh come on people!

can't you see they were just trying to park under the shade, unfortunately that's not an entrance to the underground car park.

[Bluespunk]

...onto the hotel’s glory hole.

er...seriously? Does this author even understand what they've just submitted here?

---EDIT---

Reference for those with English as a 2nd language...and a big degree of innocence in the modern world...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_hole_%28sexual_slang%29

Maybe I'm giving may age away but it's on my profile anyway but when i was young a ' glory hole ' was a cupboard etc where things not wanted, needed , to be hidden etc were thrown into.

Not as exciting as current usage. Ooh I'm getting old.

Though 'things not wanted, needed, to be hidden, etc" being thrown into a glory hole could to a certain extent be applied to the current meaning of the phrase.

Well one thing anyway.

Edited November 11, 2014 by Bluespunk

[Bluespunk]

Only in Thailand, eh?

Oh.

No body lying at the side of the road in that one though, thankfully.

[SinCityGr8One]

My guess is that they had both hands off the steering wheel to wai the shrine at the hotel.

There are times when it is best not to wai, driving being one of them.

Spot On! Beeping the horn will suffice.

[CapeThai]

And for a moment there I thought I have it all in this country, but obviously I was soooo wrong !!!

[joepattaya1961]

Glory hole?

Really? My guess is the author does not understand the meaning of what he said.

Same for me.......I do understand the meaning of "glory hole" in the old-fashioned style and the newish sensual style, but what is a glory hole with regards to the hospitality branch?

[jabis]

The hub of black holes & glory holes - can't stop laughing

[jspill]

Coconuts is deliberately sensationalist, raunchy topics for clickbait etc., they know what glory hole means

[SoiBiker]

Surely if it was clickbait, they'd have put it in the headline?

[namdocmai]

Tssss even the quality tourists from the Erawan can't drive cars.....

[shaggy851]

555+ love the articles written by this person at coconuts BKK - car fell down the hotels glory hole. Subscribe to coconuts there's some funny stuff

[Sviss Geez]

Lets not all start bashing Thai driver's just yet. Wait till there are more TVF members online.

It wasn't a Thai driver.

[JOC]

Glory hole?

Really? My guess is the author does not understand the meaning of what he said.

Same for me.......I do understand the meaning of "glory hole" in the old-fashioned style and the newish sensual style, but what is a glory hole with regards to the hospitality branch?

I am not sure, that you really want us to answer that question!!

[The Deerhunter]

I think that the modern World has come on too soon for these people.

You can't go from 1000 years of buffalo and cart to a Modern city of 10 million cars, pick-up trucks that can do 200kph, and mini-vans that allow you to earn twice as much if you squash twice as many school children in then earn twice as much again if you go really fast and get back in time to do a second run, in one generation.

Besides, buffalo and carts were easy, these weird Western things, full of lights and sounds and buttons can go backwards if you select the wrong setting.

Too much, too soon.

There are idiots like this in every country. Youtube videos of intersections in China, and India. Videos of tunnels in Russia and dashboard cams in Russia (and everywhere else). In New Zealand they until recently even had a weekly TV program, "Road Madness" of out-takes from truck dashboard cams of dangerous passing etc. The biggest point about this news item has to be the idiot journo's absolute howler of referring to a large hotel having a "glory hole." I hear on good authority that this is NOT a recognized use of the term.

[mikemac]

Note to self - Do not drive car into black hole when staying at Erawan Hotel

[mikemac]

I think that the modern World has come on too soon for these people.

You can't go from 1000 years of buffalo and cart to a Modern city of 10 million cars, pick-up trucks that can do 200kph, and mini-vans that allow you to earn twice as much if you squash twice as many school children in then earn twice as much again if you go really fast and get back in time to do a second run, in one generation.

Besides, buffalo and carts were easy, these weird Western things, full of lights and sounds and buttons can go backwards if you select the wrong setting.

Too much, too soon.

There are idiots like this in every country. Youtube videos of intersections in China, and India. Videos of tunnels in Russia and dashboard cams in Russia (and everywhere else). In New Zealand they until recently even had a weekly TV program, "Road Madness" of out-takes from truck dashboard cams of dangerous passing etc. The biggest point about this news item has to be the idiot journo's absolute howler of referring to a large hotel having a "glory hole." I hear on good authority that this is NOT a recognized use of the term.

..............."The biggest point about this news item has to be the idiot journo's absolute howler of referring to a large hotel having a "glory hole.".....................

It's the only reason I read the op !

[SoiBiker]

It's the only reason I read the op !

How did you know it said that before you read it?

[Jazofobe 101]

One assumes he thought he saw a Thai cop down there.

By the way, whatever did happen to the Ferrari-driving hero that wiped out the somchai cop near Thonglor? No really, he got away with it............?

[MrY]

Just the mental image of someone Googling "glory hole bangkok hotel" got me to Google it myself. Erawan (this thread) is number one...

[surangw]

high tek cars, low tek drivers

[mutha289]

...onto the hotel’s glory hole.

er...seriously? Does this author even understand what they've just submitted here?

---EDIT---

Reference for those with English as a 2nd language...and a big degree of innocence in the modern world...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_hole_%28sexual_slang%29

You seem to be well versed in this term, is there something else you would like to tell us???!!!