monspencer

eljeque, on 2011-09-23 11:43:28, said:

Sit on the beach instead...just don't hire a jetski!!!


What an extremely lucky couple. It could have been so much worse.

As a Travel Agent, I trust the wife will be advising her future clients of what not to do, when they come to Thailand

If she were to become PM, I would start watching Thai political broadcasts on TV. I still wouldn't understand anything but the viewing would be more pleasing to the eye.

Very watch-able  

Why are so many posts in this thread   ?

It is about an English guy called Richard Hewitt who recently found himself in a very bad situation in Pattaya Police Station, which I am glad eventually worked out for him.

It is not about the long deceased Lady Isobel Barnet, neither is it about any profession which he had back in the UK.

Keep to the topic please, if you are going to post something

Yet another thread brings out the Pattaya knockers. While I know this may be off topic, I can not let certain comments go without commenting myself.

The opposite to 'quality tourists' is 'low quality tourists', and I therefore take great exception to the Pattaya knockers here, e.g softgeorge and samran, though there are no doubt others who agree with them, like craigj7, for saying that Pattaya should be bulldozed down or that an atomic bomb should be dropped on it.

Shame on you all.

In making such stupid comments, and in agreeing with them, you are insinuating that I and my many friends who live here are low quality human beings, and likewise all those who come out to visit us must be as well, I and my friends who live here were tourists once, before we decided to retire and live here in Pattaya.

p.s I see that craigj7 is knocking the Americans as well now. Jeez, what is wrong with you? I am British and know many really decent Americans here in Pattaya. Grow up will you, please.

Why all the inane comments about whether or not the unfortunate victims were tourists or not? Jeez!!!

Without reading every comment in the (so far) 7 pages of this thread, and without wanting to judge the driver, I have to say that I hate driving at night time here, Why? Because of the idiots coming towards me with their main beams on, blinding me, as this minivan driver said happened to him. However, I do slow down and I flash my beam at them, though usually to no avail.

And as for the other idiots driving without rear lights (usually motorbikes or those motorbikes with side bits attached) along poorly lit or unlit roads,... a recipe for an accident

Amazing though that the driver escaped as the front of the minivan was 'crushed', after 'hurtling' towards and 'slamming' into the back of the truck.

But whatever the reason for this tragedy, and as I said, without wanting to judge the driver, my thoughts go out to the families of the dead and injured.