What a hypocritical Country!

ronrat · Joined: 22 May 2006 Location: Thailand

This happens all the time here. All the time. In many cases the rider is inexperienced, no helmet. drunk, on drugs, and the alpha male "I must ride, I am man" to pillion passenger.

What also is little known is the owner of the bike will be after compensation and so will whomever or whatever it hit. Even if not injured if you owe money you may be detained at the airport. The unwritten law here is "If you not come here, Thai not hit you".

Travel insurance is iffy at best. Even health insurance. You have preexisting condition when I have blood clots was an example and I still owe 10 grand. I broke my arm getting on a boat. Not covered, boat owner to pay. (Never going to happen). The only time I got anything back was when a dog bit me. And that was from owner of dog when I threatened to call police.

This go fund me trend is a worry. It is a bit like this bint Cocaine Cassie. Let others raise money for my dofence. If you are on a small island you do not need a scooter to get anywhere. Walk. Use local transport. Hire a bycycle.

Now before I hear he had travel insurance etc the policies clearly state what activities are not covered

Can you imagine the outcry on here if one of our players did this and ended his footy career. The fault would be in no particular order Buckley, Nathan, Figjam, Bucks, Eddie, Pert, and Hine.

I see 12 year old kids riding motorbikes every day with no licence, training or helmets. So how the bloody hell is a tourist going to forsee all the things they do. No indicators, lane swerving, wrong ways, straight through intersections. The DFAT warnings say don't do it. They are right. 20000 people die a year on Thai roads and those are the ones that are dead on the road. Dying in hospitals do not count. If you need a scooter to get 2 kms to the party scene every night then are clearly a dickhead for picking that resort. If you want to explore do it with a group or on bycycle or foot. Thais will ride 100 metres rather than walk to pick up a can of beer or an icecream. The roads are not good and not maintained and in rainy season treacherous.

When I stayed in Koh Chang we were talking to some othe people at the resort who had motor bikes. They had not noticed after 7 days a troop of monkeys at the end of the street and were not aware that for less than a dollar you could get a runabout ride across the bay to the seafood restaurants in the village that took half the time of the motorbike and would pick you up at the restaurant and saved you the 300 metre or so walk along the jetty.

watt price tully · Joined: 15 May 2007

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

Organised chaos on the roads here. Family and friends are raising the cash to get them back home. It was their first trip away and the first day in Bali. They appreciated my assistance as did their family who have contacted me a few times.

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

It's going to end up costing around $27,000.

stui magpie · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:19 pm

^

Ouch, Expensive life lesson.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Shit. Ah well, as long as he makes a full recovery and is still breathing, it's only money. But ouch.

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

Lucky it was a clean break. Mum offered to give me some money for being on the scene and giving assistance straight away. I refused and said as long as he is OK. They will keep me up to date.

stui magpie · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:32 pm

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

I'm walking about 12km's a day and the things I see. Today's fun was two drunken Australians with Bintangs in hand arguing about something. The bottles smashed on the ground and it was on. Punches thrown everywhere but none hitting. The sweat was building up and they were stuffed within two minutes. I said, "right, now you have that out of your system you guys can pick up all the broken glass". They told me to, "**** off". My reply, "I've seen you guys attempt to fight and I have seen better punches at a junior football match between the mothers, if you don't want me to embarrass both of you I suggest you pick up the glass". They looked at me, I'm in runners ready to go and I must have looked to big to handle so they apologized and picked up the glass. I said well done, now let's go get a beer and we did. They were cousins, doh!!!

stui magpie · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 9:59 pm

Good stuff there, but you need to watch out for the punch to the head if you turn your back. I would have just kept walking personally, but if they thought you were too big to handle at around 5'10' in heels................ Wink

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

For sure Stui, my judgement if the situation was pretty good. Normally I don't intervene. These two reminded me of Abbott and Costello.
Been a few snatch and grabs on the street. One Tourist was knocked down by a scooter and had his iPhone 7 stolen. Witnesses got the rego, he was caught. 14 years old an on full display to the media. No jail, they have a system to deal with young offenders to help them. They say the shame of him being on display is punishment.