Another one bites the dust

[harrybarracuda]

So I'm in a Grab on my way home having had a few beers, and there's this enormous crash.
The driver pulls over, and I look back and there's a bike across the rode and a body lying there.
I told the driver to call an ambulance - which in fairness he did - and they were there within minutes.
A few Thais gathered and pulled the bike out of the way, and a few more were poking him trying to get him to wake up. I told them to back off. He was already in the recovery position but I doubt he was going to recover.
The damage to the car and bike suggested fatal injuries, especially as he wasn't wearing a helmet.
He'd gone through a red light at high speed and that is most likely the end of him.
I booked another Grab and left the paramedics working on him, but I doubt they were going to get anywhere.
A sad end to the night.

[Reg Dingle]

Did no one run over and shove and leave an inhaler up his hooter?

[Salsa dancer]

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What did he hit ?

[harrybarracuda]

Did no one run over and shove and leave an inhaler up his hooter?

No they were just aimlessly poking him for some bizarre reason.

By the time I left there were two ambulances, four bikes, a police pickup and about eight cops.

It must have been a quiet night.

What did he hit ?

The driver's side door.

And judging from his finishing position he didn't go over the car, but just hit it and stopped dead, excuse the terrible pun.

[misskit]

Which intersection?

[DrWilly]

I’ve witnessed a similar sort of death one time. Left me feeling my mortality a little.

[harrybarracuda]

Which intersection?

At the bridge just up from the Pasta place we went to.

TBH if the Grab hadn't been there and he'd hit the bridge, he would have taken off at that speed.

[Pragmatic]

Did no one run over and shove and leave an inhaler up his hooter?

That happened in an accident I witnessed. I tried to help an unconscious motorcyclist whilst everyone else just stood there looking. Eventually a guy bent down beside me . I thought 'great he's gonna help me'. All he fooking did was take out a menthol nose inhaler, stuck it up his nose and fooked off.

[BLD]

I wasn't laughing at the time but when a couple of meth heads on a scooter made a snatch and grab attempt for my bag that was on my bike frame.causing me to go over the handlebars I put my arms out to try to protect the melon.that sort of worked.next thing ya know i heard a load snap noise that was my arm broken and the bone poking through my skin. Oh shit not good. Plenty of locals showed up and a couple of old girls produced the Vic's inhaler. Didn't help but I appreciated the gesture. That was the time I said fuck exercise it's to damn dangerous.

[tomcat]

If you'd already engaged one Grab car, how did you hire another before your journey was complete? Unless may Grab understands death as complete...

[harrybarracuda]

If you'd already engaged one Grab car, how did you hire another before your journey was complete? Unless may Grab understands death as complete...

I told the driver to end the ride.

After all, we weren't going anywhere.

[Iceman123]

I told the driver to end the ride.

After all, we weren't going anywhere.

Quite right Harry, better to exit the Grab and get a better view for some serious rubbernecking

[harrybarracuda]

Quite right Harry, better to exit the Grab and get a better view for some serious rubbernecking

You sad little man.

We're not all grubby little retards like you.

[DrWilly]

Quite right Harry, better to exit the Grab and get a better view for some serious rubbernecking

It wasn’t immediately clear due to Harry’s breathless school boy reporting tone, but the rider crashed into the grab vehicle he was in. So his grab wasn’t going anywhere, much less complete his trip home for some time.

So essentially he was involved in an accident and fled the scene.

[Salsa dancer]

Yes, since the bike slammed into the drivers door, I'm surprised the driver was still okay, even with anti-intrusion bars in there.

[Seekingasylum]

The problem with Thai, and one exacerbated by their childish belief amulets and Buddhist incantations form a protection against adversity, is that they still have not had time to process the transition from a rural environment to modern urban living. Accommodating a lifestyle that requires motorised transport to sustain it is a case in point and one the Thai find challenging, a fact evidenced by the average road kill casualty list of 25,000 fatalities annually.

But they could reduce this carnage by the simple expedient of grasping the not entirely insignificant fact observed worldwide in most societies that traffic lights are not a guide but mandatory and an integral factor in maintaining successful traffic management.

However there are two problems militating against this obvious requirement: Thai are quite stupid and there is no meaningful coherent enforcement of any rules, regulations or laws anywhere in this silly country.

[Pragmatic]

Thai are quite stupid and there is no meaningful coherent enforcement of any rules, regulations or laws anywhere in this silly country.

I admire their immigration rules. I wish the UK would take note.

[Hugh Cow]

When driving a car in Bangkok you have near misses daily with motorcycles that insist on overtaking on the left, a very dangerous habit practised by 99% of Thai motorcyclists who totally ignore every road law ever made, aided and abetted by an indolent police force who only leave the office after an accident is reported. The lack of any street patrols is obvious with zero accountability for these road law breakers. I however must commend their diligence on the highway where they step out from the police station located on the highway median strip to give a motorist a a speeding ticket. I myself must confess to being caught speeding on the highway driving recklessly at 122kph in a 120kph zone. I dutifully paid the fine for my transgression as a motorcyclist without a helmet rode by on the wrong side of the road.

[Seekingasylum]

I admire their immigration rules. I wish the UK would take note.

Have you been drinking?

They have none.

In any year there are hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants from Burma, Lao and Cambodia facilitated by Thai crooks undermining the Thai labour market, hundreds of trans national fraudsters, thieves and gangsters gain entry annually without any meaningful scrutiny and establish myriad criminal businesses with the connivance of local authorities and corruption is the leitmotif of their law enforcement which in one year alone saw three police generals and 100 immigration officers suspended from duty.

The only immigration enforcement is the usually redundant annual rehearsal of demanding law abiding farang retirees and spouses prove the same thing they proved the previous decade and make them report regularly as if they were on police bail, without the prospect of qualifying for permanent residence.

Christ, Prag, get a grip man.

[taxexile]

I admire their immigration rules. I wish the UK would take note.

Spot on. Their immigration procedures are second to none, it is the selective enforcement that is ar fault.

The UK has weak laws and enforcement is hamstrung by rogue civil servants, blue haired liberals, idiot police and birder force operatives, fears of racism accusations and a backlash from woke activists who seem to be beyond the law, although a couple of heavy sentences were imposed this week on activist ringleaders.

[Seekingasylum]

Now you’re just trolling Tax. The UK immigration rules are strictly enforced and the most complex in the developed world, and the most draconian in terms of denying 70% of British citizens and other lawful residents the right to marry whom they choose.

You are of course alluding to our commitments under the UNHCR 1951 Convention and the tenets of the ECHR, the latter which of course the British helped to establish and is the cornerstone of European civilised societies established in the aftermath of Hitler and subsequent tyranny of the Russian pig.

I can well understand your difficulty in separating the two issues, you are after all of limited experience and have pretty much spent most of your adult life picking around the maw of the hoi polloi.

You are also a fanatical Schnauzer who cannot grasp the universally accepted notion that the genocide of a people in order to facilitate your illegal occupation of another’s land is wrong.

I see many Israelis, if not the majority, are now denouncing Benny the Russian gimp as not their leader and want to see an end to the slaughter of innocents.

Thai immigration law is like all their others, a negotiable instrument generally honoured in the breach according to a material consideration.

[malmomike77]

The UK immigration rules are strictly enforced

We have no system to monitor who the fvck comes and goes in this country, no ID, No finger printing etc, the net migration figures are just guess work by your fellow desk jockeys in the Home Office

[Seekingasylum]

It is mandatory for all carriers to supply to the Home Office API on all passengers leaving and entering the UK.

You ignorant blue collar oik.

[david44]

So essentially he was involved in an accident and fled the scene.

As a passeneger seems his ride was the victim,I'll leave him to refute.

[BLD]

I admire their immigration rules. I wish the UK would take note.

That's a pertinent statement
.I wish Australia would take note. Govt tells Aussies that immigration is needed to boost the economy . Seems they didn't take note of the UK experience. I'm all for a multi cultural society but it is being currently overwhelmed by the sub continentals.