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    You guys are right, I suppose, it does no harm, so why not?

    But ... does it lend to the shit driving habits and abysmal safety practices here? Even a little?

    Last week my wife and I were out in the driveway talking to our neighbor around dusk when we heard and awful screech out on the main road about 200 meters away. I got on my bicycle and peddled out as my wife and neighbor walked. I found a guy walking around his crashed moto with blood running down both elbows. There was a giant bamboo chicken cage in the middle of the road and cars slowed to go around it. The guy was muttering in Thai and I was thinking what a daft cnut he was for trying to drive a moto while carrying a chicken cage.

    Wife and neighbor finally approach and the guy starts yelling at them, I presume telling them what happened, as I cleared the broken mirror and plastic parts from the road.

    About one minute later, a truck pulls up to the scene from the opposite direction and the bloody moto driver falls to the ground screaming in pain. Wife and neighbor chuckle -- now I'm really lost.

    Apparantly the moto was driving into town while the truck approached from the opposite direction. The chicken cage, in the back of the pickup, flew out of the bed of the truck and wiped out the moto driver as he casually puttered down the road, drinking his plastic-bag beverage which was now splattered across the road with bits of his beloved bike.

    The driver appeared fine, if not a bit bloody, until the truck pulled up at which time he fell over in agony, yelping.

    I didn't stick around long enough to investigate, but I'd bet they both had their vehicles blessed.

    break/break

    In Japan a few years back, my friend bought a car. His wife demanded he return in the next day -- wrong color according to the monks she confided in while in Thailand earlier that year. She was insistent. She also had to have a license plate tag with the numeral "9" in it. No exceptions, no waivering ... please. (A Petchabun princess she was, horrible!)

    If you're a Buddhist, OK, do what your religion suggests/demands but if you're just agreeing to play, you may find yourself on a slippery slope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat
    But ... does it lend to the shit driving habits and abysmal safety practices here? Even a little?
    Probably does but more likely total lack of traffic law enforcement is the major contributor.

    During the VN war Thai troops that had tattoos of tigers on their chests figured they were invulnerable so on average ended up dead much quicker than those without the tattoos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat
    If you're a Buddhist, OK, do what your religion suggests/demands but if you're just agreeing to play, you may find yourself on a slippery slope.
    How so, I can't see any down side from doing it other than paying a few hundred bht

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    You're right, no down side to having a car blessed. I'll shut up now.

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    ^ Fok that Tex...That's almost 6 chang beers...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalton
    ^ Fok that Tex...That's almost 6 chang beers... I can get drunk and go home early or sleep on the trampalean on that
    yes we have noticed
    Anyway Merry chrismass

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    ^ I think the dessert heat is going to your head Your halucinating mate..

    Merry XMAS...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalton
    ^ I think the dessert heat is going to your head Your halucinating mate..
    I wish bloody cold as fok here until about lunch time each day. Anyway I hit the doc up for some morphine for xmass that should help with the halucinating

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    ^ Can you fed-ex some to me ?? I think I need it for new-year..I've to put up with MtD for two days....

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    Wifey is driving a scooter here in Dk. When she bought it she went to the Wat to get it blessed, but the monks told her that they didn't do it as here in Denmark she had to rely on her insurance.

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    ^ Oh dear

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    I got a new bike blessed the other week... (not mine, the teeraks... my money though, obviously)..

    Anyway, if you believe it works or not it was a nice thing to do and made her feel better about razzing around on it...

    I just got a car a few weeks back for myself and haven't bothered to get that blessed.... It's a 42 year old Beetle so it's probably got too much karma either way by now to be cancelling it out with a little blessing... And I don't believe the blessing thing works, and if you are not of that religion or not Thai then why would you think it worked?


    Oh.. and Merry Christmas to everybody while I'm at it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rigger
    atleast 50 % of amerikans and poms
    Where on earth did you get 50% of Poms from? 10% more like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat
    it does no harm, so why not?
    Errr... because it is a complete crock of shit maybe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    Where on earth did you get 50% of Poms from? 10% more like.
    I thought you mob were like the yanks and believed in that bullshit.
    Now I got that figure from a survey I did here at work I asked all the poms here at work, one said he went to church and the other said fok that so thats 50%

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat
    it does no harm, so why not?
    Errr... because it is a complete crock of shit maybe?
    Don't believe in that BS and I think its contributes to the the laissez faire attitude the Thai treat safety issues.
    Believing that some Nit wit wearing and orange dress drawing pictures on your car to ensure good luck, fvck me, its only a small step away from having a bloke with fat lips and a bone through his nose doing a ritual dance to prevent dogs pissing on your wheels.
    Or that believing a big fvck off medal around your neck will stop bullets.
    Luckily my Mrs doesn't go along with that shit either, so prevents any arguments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rigger
    Now I got that figure from a survey I did here at work I asked all the poms here at work, one said he went to church and the other said fok that so thats 50%
    Well, I guess you can't argue with scientific research like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    Errr... because it is a complete crock of shit maybe?
    Blasphemy...Blasphemy!!. Stone the non believer. The devil has possessed his soul. Out, out vile demon. Leave this man or ye shall be casteth out. Splashed with holy water, expunged by the power of this sliver from the true cross!! Penus erectus, placeus in the poopis shootis. Ye emerald vomit doth not deter me. Begone thou dweller of the underworld. Leave the body and soul of our innocent brother Marmite.
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    Wonder if the monks blessed the skytrains? It would take a special Thai to smash those into each other.

    But I'm sure it's possible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat
    But I'm sure it's possible.
    Lots of special folks employed in Bangkok's transportation systems.

    Remember this?


    UNDERGROUND ACCIDENT: Probe: It was a schoolboy error Published on January 19, 2005
    Driver of empty train released airbrake instead of parking brake as instructed
    Communication problems between a train driver and the control room were the main cause of Monday’s subway accident, a Transport Ministry fact-finding team has found.
    A recording of the conversation between the control room and the driver of the off-duty train that crashed into a crowded passenger train showed that the driver accidentally released the emergency airbrake, instead of the parking brake as he had been instructed to by the control room, the team’s leader Samart Yonlapak said.
    To disengage the airbrake, which is code-named B09, the driver deactivated the automatic braking system, explained Samart, deputy permanent secretary to the Transport Ministry.
    In the recorded conversation, the train driver was heard shouting “I can’t stop it! I can’t stop it!” as his train started sliding backwards on the inclined rails leading to the maintenance depot, Samart said.
    He added that the fact-finding team would need to conduct further investigations to determine whether Bangkok Metro Co Ltd (BMCL), which was awarded the concession to operate the underground system, provided adequate training for its drivers.
    Prapat Chongsa-nguan, governor of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA), the state agency that oversees the subway system, said yesterday that it appeared the BMCL employees involved did not pay enough attention to what they were doing.
    “The driver told the control room that he had released the B09 brake, and one official at the centre repeated what he had said without considering whether it was the correct thing to do,” Prapat said.
    “They worked like parrots – just repeating what others said without thinking about whether it was the correct procedure.”
    The MRTA chief noted that Siemens, the company that supplies the trains for Bangkok’s subway, advised against releasing the B09 brake, except in case of brake jams or other braking problems.
    BMCL managing director Sombat Kitjaluck said yesterday that six company employees have been suspended from work following the accident.
    The empty train had run into problems before the accident, grinding to a halt on a sloping curve leading to the maintenance depot. The driver applied the brakes and was waiting to be towed.
    A rescue train was attempting to connect to the stalled train when the driver was told to release the brakes. It was then that the empty train began to slide backwards before colliding with another train, which was fully loaded with passengers.
    Samart said yesterday that his fact-finding team had determined that instructions from the control room had been conveyed improperly and did not follow company guidelines.
    He said that the probe team would today question the two drivers and the two officers in the control room who were involved in the accident. Conclusions could be drawn tomorrow, he added.
    A source from the fact-finding team said yesterday that team members had discovered flaws in the subway system, including an ineffective communication system and the absence of a device in the depot to prevent a train from rolling back into the subway tunnel.
    In related developments, a police investigation into the accident was underway yesterday, and more than 20 passengers and subway officials were questioned, said Maj General Kamol Kaewsuwan, the chief investigator.
    He added that initial findings indicated the accident was not caused by a mechanical malfunction.

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