Crash involving two schoolgirls aged 16

[Cing Jai]

Guys, the compulsory isn't worth jack. If you want the insurance companies to fight for you in a real serious accident you have to have comprehensive because then it's their money on the line.

Well it's their money on the line when it comes to paying medical bills anyway?

Yes, I guess it's a matter of degrees I'm talking about, with comprehensive there is a lot more of their money on the line so they are much more motivated.

[sargeant]

... the simple mindedness of expat farangs rather than that of the Thais.

And this applies to many other areas of life in Thailand.

and those simple minded farangs makes me beg the question why are they here.

Yes there is corruption here but it doesnt apply in every case

it just seems that way when you are on the end of it

[Takiap]

... the simple mindedness of expat farangs rather than that of the Thais.

And this applies to many other areas of life in Thailand.

and those simple minded farangs makes me beg the question why are they here.

Yes there is corruption here but it doesnt apply in every case

it just seems that way when you are on the end of it

I agree 100%. I have been living in Thailand for roughly 12 years now, and so far, I have never been on the receiving end of corruption. I've had to pay a 500 baht fine for flicking a cigarette but in the road, but I have seen Thais nabbed for the same thing. My Thai wife was once nabbed and fined as well, and that for dropping peanut shells in the road while she was walking and eating peanuts.

A friend of mine was involved in a minor accident with a Bangkok Thai in Takiap, and the Thai was ordered to pay him 5000 baht, so yes, Farang are not always in the wrong.


The "You are a farang" line is in my mind much the same as the "I need money for my family's sick buffalo" line. I personally don't know one person who is married to a Thai and had such a request. It's much the same as "all Thai women will sleep with you if you offer them money".......total bullshit.


Maybe many of the police here are corrupt, and maybe they don't always do their job, but on a street level basis, I much prefer the Thai police to the stuck up self centered idiots in the west who are barely even human.


So, my advice is, if you feel the Thais are gunning for you, simply get on the next plane out of here. Well, that's what I would do.

[sargeant]

Takiap

So, my advice is, if you feel the Thais are gunning for you, simply get on the next plane out of here. Well, that's what I would do.

me to

[charlesh]

The highly trained cops in Oz are so good that in order to stop a person from self harming themselves on a roof or in a park they shoot them dead. I would pay the fine ha, ha.