Perfect solution for the annoying backseat driver - Thai style

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

BANGKOK: -- We've all been there - driving a car with the missus banging on about something or other.

 

Now, one driver seems to have come up with the solution - Thai style of course, reported Manager Online.

 

A video on Facebook is doing the rounds of a woman perched on the boot of a car speeding along what is thought to be Rama 9 Road.

 

She seems to have accepted her lot on the back of the car. Though she is no battle-axe - she looks quite young and cute in her short black and white dress.

 

The 1.07 minute long clip was taken by Orrawan Phuakthaisong, thought to be a journalist, as she was driving along after leaving the airport.

 

Apparently an occupant of the car doing the filming was heard to ask in disbelief: "Er, do you see what I'm seeing?".

 

People arguing with their wives are advised not to try this - Thaivisa suggests maybe pay for them to go home in a cab if it is really getting to you.

 

Source: Manager Online

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-11-14

 

Childish, immature and dangerous. If it was meant to be funny I find it the opposite. I imagine if she fell off she would be claiming compensation

2 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Childish, immature and dangerous. If it was meant to be funny I find it the opposite. I imagine if she fell off she would be claiming compensation

 

And no Police around when you want them.

 

 

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That's what the boot is for

 

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13 minutes ago, DaveE13 said:

 

And no Police around when you want them.

So what's new?

Love it how she indicated <Thai language removed>! to the guy filming.

" People arguing with their wives are advised not to try this".....Good advice, she could really get banged up..(and the Mrs, could get hurt too.

2 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Childish, immature and dangerous. If it was meant to be funny I find it the opposite. I imagine if she fell off she would be claiming compensation

"....if she fell off she would be claiming compensation."

If she fell off, the police would be scraping her body parts off the road., and the driver that hit her would be claiming compensation for blood splatter all over the front of his car. 

I merely have a nodding dog on my dashboard.

I think I need to step up my car ornament game.

cheap publicity stunt that can easily wrong and end in a disaster.

32 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

"....if she fell off she would be claiming compensation."

If she fell off, the police would be scraping her body parts off the road., and the driver that hit her would be claiming compensation for blood splatter all over the front of his car. 

how gory

We used to do that on trains. Nothing to see here.

39 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

" People arguing with their wives are advised not to try this".....Good advice, she could really get banged up..(and the Mrs, could get hurt too.

utterly foolish, no insane . behaviour

3 hours ago, webfact said:

....she looks quite young and cute in her short black and white dress.....

 

Will be wearing dark glasses and a hat pulled low over her forehead for tomorrow's wai-ing and pointing photo-op at the cophouse.

Maybe she talked too much...

have to show that to my GF's mom! 

 

There was probably no seat left in the car for her, so....... What's a girl supposed to do? 

One up on six-to-a-seat motorcycling. Now some (un)bright spark will undoubtedly try to outdo it.

28 minutes ago, kkup said:

We used to do that on trains. Nothing to see here.

Could not disagree more.

 

Never seen this on any major road [or minor for that] anywhere.

18 minutes ago, Jedsada3 said:

Maybe she talked too much...

have to show that to my GF's mom! 

 

Got  big balls have you - or like to live dangerously.

42 minutes ago, sahibji said:

how gory

Death on the highway usually is.

No roof racks, no tow ball?

44 minutes ago, kkup said:

We used to do that on trains. Nothing to see here.

Sitting on a freight car or on the doorway of a passengercar /boxcar is a lot easier than perching on the back of a Toyota Vios at speed on a motorway.

She must have had something between her legs for support or I am surprised she didn't slide off. Maybe she was sitting on a luggage rack?

 

Probably why utes are so popular in LOS. Unfortunately people not allowed to sit in the back of a ute back home.

Wow as others said she is lucky she didn't fall off. That and riding side saddle on a scooter is beyond me. Good thing he didn't wax the car that day.

 

4 hours ago, DaveE13 said:

 

And no Police around when you want them.

Whats the police got to do with it.........this is Thailand???

Stoneage behaviour.

I'm aware of a farang (at home) who got so sick of the loud and rude back seat driving comments from an old aunty.

 

He decided to call a taxi for her and give her about half the estimated cost and told the taxi driver the destination address. Then put his family in the car and proceeded to the same destination, usually arriving a few minutes after aunty.

 

Aunty eventually asked another family member 'what's happening, there's enough room for me in the family car?'

 

She was quickly told the real reason and also told 'other family members will probably copy the idea'.

 

She changed many of her behaviors very quickly. 

Only in Thailand we see some like that it is seen to be normal for them to do things that are strange.

41 minutes ago, ujayujay said:

Stoneage behaviour.

No, it was a Toyota in the video.. 

This is stoneage behaviour.

Where does the "annoying backseat driver" part fit in?

Great little ditty about "back seat driver" wives and what men do about it.

This sounds like mindless chatter from a bar or something.

Who approved this article and why? How about just showing a funny video rather

than soiling it with chauvinistic assumptions.