Quote Originally Posted by Zavier38 View Post
I took some friends' kids to Pattaya park for an afternoon a few years back and spent the entire time wondering how so few people drowned, injured or killed themselves there.

The water slide dumps people at ridiculous speed into approx 90cm deep water. Really smashed the balls of my feet.
No plobrem, though not exclusive to Thailand it does seem part of the Thai mentality that as long as most people are having fun it doesn't matter if a few are injured or killed. Could be that's the price they're prepared to pay for a good time.

This was rudely brought home to me after my 2nd Songkran, when the road death toll was ushered away by locals as only a bit more than last year.