Bangkok

[Sailor]

Just watched a show on driving there. It is chaotic. It seems 30 motorcyclists per day are killed in Thailand. That is right 30 per day!

[Freebird]

Not just motorcyclists, pedestrians also. I spent a month there on business a few years ago. We had a pretty long drive to the business where I was working each day. Several times I would see dead bodies on the side of the road. My company supplied driver told me that it was very common. They would try to cross the street and get hit by cars. It happens so often that they would just be covered with sheets and later in the day, a crew would come by and load them up and take them away.

[dacheedah]

and people talk bad about driving through Chi-Town

[Flyinfool]

The difference is Chi town is trying to kill ME, Bangkok is not.

[Venturous Randy]

I was in Ubon, Thailand in 72 in the USAF and every time I went off base in a taxi to go to town, I wondered if this was where I was going to get it. Right-of-way was determined by who blew their horn first and horns were going all the time. It did not seem like there was any speed limit and to get the most fares in a day, they were wide open.

It helped to be about half crocked to get in a taxi.

RandyA

[icebrrg3rd]

The difference is Chi town is trying to kill ME, Bangkok is not.

 

That's probably because you haven't been to Bangkok...

 

Watching you-tube videos of drivers in other countries reminds me of watching b&w films of US cities in the beginning of the last century, when cars started taking over the streets from horse & carriages. People were all over the road with little regard to others. Difference is that those early cars were lighter & slower, nowadays the cars are quite a bit heavier and a lot faster, and can cause a lot more damage & injuries.

 

-Andrew

[SilvrT]

... and they bring those driving habits with them when they come over here. Vancouver is so full of immigrants these days that I feel like a foreigner.

 

We're heading to the interior for the July1 long weekend ... it will almost be a culture shock to be in areas where the majority of the population is white Canadian rednecks with a good spattering of natives.

[T.J.]

I went to Thailand back in 1968. We landed in Bangkok and stayed for three days before heading up to NKP Thailand where I was stationed in the Air Force. I always said Bangkok ought to be the Capital of the world. Anything and everything you could ever want was there for the taking. I remember the smell of the city. Food being cooked right on the streets in the market place. Didn't know what I was eating but just said, I'll take that and that and that and then would sit down and eat it.

 

That was a long time ago wasn't it? Just a little bit older now.