"It's our way of life!" : Villagers in pick-ups beg police not to issue fines

[jerojero]

A car expert. Obviously not a safety expert, but definitely a risk taker and has little common sense.

[elgordo38]

On 4/6/2017 at 1:20 PM, Jonmarleesco said:

So put the belts on during 'take off', then, with progress underway, and anything from fifteen to twenty minutes, up to a few hours of travelling to go, take them off again? Intelligent thinking.

Once your up there kissing the angels feet and something goes wrong nothing will save you. Its enough to give a person religion. 

[fstarbkk]

On 4/7/2017 at 5:35 PM, Paul944 said:

A law like this needs a grace period without fines but just warnings to give people time to arrange alternative transport. If people are stopped every day and told for 1 month, next month it will cost 200 baht and you have to get out of the car and stay here. Maybe, only maybe, they start thinking of an alternative.

 

If they want to save lives just enforce sober driving by fining drunk people behind the steering wheel. No need for a grace period here because it does not require investments for the people involved. In the contrary, they save money by not drinking alcohol.

The law has been on the books since 1979! How much of a "grace period" did you have in mind? 38 years not enough?

[dcnx]

This guy thinks the laws of physics do not apply here.

 

Oh well. Let them die. Let every single one of them die. If they don't care, I certainly don't. Get rid of seat belts, stop signs and red lights while their at it. Buddha and the spirits will protect them.

[samsensam]

On 06/04/2017 at 6:10 AM, Loaded said:

It's easy to criticize Thais for stuffing as many people as possible into pick ups and on motorbikes but many working class Thais cannot usually afford more than one vehicle per family and certainly can't afford to rent cars or pay for taxis every time they want to travel. This new law penalizes them.

 

i guess it depends how much you value the lives of your family and friends.

[Loaded]

9 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

i guess it depends how much you value the lives of your family and friends.

I guess you didn't understand my comment

[faraday]

Does anyone really think that this is enforceable?

 

Too  many Police will have to be involved, & while they're stopping pick ups, crime in other areas will go up.

[Rhys]

....what they did not use:  Because I am Thai...directly....'

 

[gmac]

In a country where workers don't get paid enough to eat properly, how can you expect them to be able to afford their own transport as well?  Pickup travel is dangerous but without a significant increase in wages to catch up with the rise in the cost of food and other essential expenses this kind of crackdown is absurd.  Keep them alive to die of malnutrition, good thinking!

[Johpa]

The enforcement of this law will become an unintentional gift to the "red" forces who predominate in Lanna Land and Isaan.

[YetAnother]

'this is our way of life' can be used to justify anything and thus means nothing; it does however examplify the general regard here for laws

[54321]

On 4/6/2017 at 9:09 AM, Oleg57 said:

this is all what poor people can afford in thailand. anybody who want to help - ask Thai government to spend more money on roads construction instead of buying submarines and wasting a lot of money on enforcement of stupid regulations. small government, small army and fewer police - happy citizens.

If you can afford a pickup you can afford a car. A small car can fit 5 people, so if you need to transport more than 5 people, then I suspect you need to choose who will travel and who will stay at home, or indeed take a bus or train?

[tuktuktuk]

18 minutes ago, 54321 said:

If you can afford a pickup you can afford a car. A small car can fit 5 people, so if you need to transport more than 5 people, then I suspect you need to choose who will travel and who will stay at home, or indeed take a bus or train?

You can't get very many bags of chicken shit in the back seat of a car. 

[steven100]

It's a safety issue  .....    pay the 100 baht and move on .....

[sharktooth]

Why not just put the passengers in the boot of a sedan?

[Oleg57]

On 4/17/2017 at 1:34 PM, 54321 said:

If you can afford a pickup you can afford a car. A small car can fit 5 people, so if you need to transport more than 5 people, then I suspect you need to choose who will travel and who will stay at home, or indeed take a bus or train?

Ridiculous. We used to transport 30 Cambodian workers in our ISUZU pickup truck. 8 persons in a 4 doors cabin and the rest were siting and standing in the truck body. It was a short journey though - about 30 km long from our farm to the Cambodian border.  And it is not a record. Thai people do not mind to transport even more Cambodian workers in pickup trucks with double deck construction. It is Thai way to travel. I bet you never was in rural areas of Thailand if you are talking about a train.

[Oleg57]

On 4/8/2017 at 7:34 AM, maewang99 said:

the poor people of Thailand.... in the poor country...

 

where more money spent on.... roads... teachers.........and not on this or that .... that is the answer!

or.... maybe they should just be invited to join the Sapien Club....

but the Sapien Club requires at least a minimal and non deminis portion of folks to "practice" literacy..... not just some kind of very limited capacity to do it a few times when you are a "student".... that's what we call "technology".... and it makes us different from non club members. that might even be helpful for more than just the mind numbing horrific vehicle fatalities, eh?

 

life of poor people is cheap in Thailand. In Thailand poor folk is destined to stay poor. There is no way to get better life for them. So called elite care only about to keep poor people in line. In part, they get it with education system that prepares serfs.  Nobody cares about serfs.

[Tom9999]

On 06/04/2017 at 11:09 AM, Oleg57 said:

this is all what poor people can afford in thailand. anybody who want to help - ask Thai government to spend more money on roads construction instead of buying submarines and wasting a lot of money on enforcement of stupid regulations. small government, small army and fewer police - happy citizens.

Nothing wrong with the Roads in Thailand.

They are quite OK for most places.

 

[Oleg57]

17 hours ago, Tom9999 said:

Nothing wrong with the Roads in Thailand.

They are quite OK for most places.

 

Common! I am talking about country side roads. Heavy trucks with sugarcane crash roads and they are full of pits. Also, road sides are covered by dirt, pebbles and weeds. Somebody has to care about road maintenance.

[YetAnother]

typical thai logic; never mind law and order

[canuckamuck]

Until I buy a van, I am going to be firmly against the enforcement of this law

[Bill Miller]

Will this apply to songkeaws as well?

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