No I didn't. I said we all (generally) take advantage of the corruption system here such as paying a roadside fine for drink driving, for instance. I'm not advocating drink driving.Dannie Boy wrote:then SJ said that one of the advantages of living here was that you could get away with all and sundry including drunk driving by giving the BIB "tea money".
What would you choose should you/your wife be unfortunate enough to have a serious accident where you were speeding or doing a u-turn where you shouldn't, pay a relatively (to us) small compensation payment to the family... or say you want to go to court to get sentenced to jailtime? Or a grown up son/daughter visits here and smokes something they shouldn't on a drunken night out, pay 50k so they can go to the airport or 'x' years in jail, lose their job, family, home potentially?
We all buy our Lacoste polo shirts in Grand Market for 150Baht instead of going to the Market Village outlet and paying 4,500 Baht, just as we buy our pirated DVD's down there instead of the 500Baht originals. From land/property purchases to going for a drink in the bars (no minimum wage for staff) to getting a cheap meal down the night market where the 10 year old daughter is collecting & washing the plates... it's all us taking advantage of corruption here when it suits us to save a few bob.
But then as soon as it goes against us in the shape of a 200 Baht fine, all you hear is...
SJ
