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Home » Living in Thailand » Half past three; primary school is out…. This is Thailand
Half past three; primary school is out…. This is Thailand
Imagine that you are waiting at the primary school at 100 pm to pick up your child. The schoolyard is full of scooters, actually motorcycles because these machines are XNUMX cc or more.
Imagine that a little before half past three the police arrives, smartly dressed and wearing a helmet, because that is of course mandatory.
Then it's half past three, school is out. Children step alone, in pairs, in pairs, in pairs or in pairs on the motorbike and tear off the schoolyard standing and/or sitting without a helmet.
Apparently without paying attention to the other traffic on the busy road. Fortunately, everything is going well, partly thanks to the police officer who is gesticulating the traffic so that all children can safely (..) leave the schoolyard.
Parents are proud that their child can already ride a motorbike at the age of 9 and then best without a helmet or driving license. What do you think about this folk. Police and teachers are involved in this. All Thais without any sense of responsibility. Dummies
I don't like to talk about a retarded folk….I hope for your sake that you don't live here.
I find the arrogance of the Westerner who thinks that only his way of life is the right one reprehensible .
I moved here to escape that sour western world back to the 60s/70s when people were still allowed to enjoy life … well … when we were still retarded … .. why can't everyone lead their own life, why must one always dictate to another how he should live….
Dear Patrick,
You are not going to tell me that a 9-year-old child (see photo) has any idea what a 100 cc motorbike has in it.
I've been riding a motorcycle (of those big boys) for over thirty years and am regularly overtaken by a brat of the age mentioned who without a helmet (I can assume without insurance) also overtakes the other traffic crossing or no crossing (what does it matter).
Over the years I can calculate the odds pretty well and I tell you that these guys go crazy before they grow up and suffer from it for life.
Sorry, I have to say this because I still can't approve of a police officer just letting such a kid (see photo) do his thing.
Dear Patrick, even if you live here, a healthy opinion is not an arrogant attempt by the Westerner to impose our way of life. Everyone in this world should be able to live like this, if he/she wants to. Only when we are talking about whether someone likes something or not, may he still use his mind in his assessment, without wanting to dictate or force change. Certainly we as expats have to adapt and not the other way around, but that doesn't mean that upon entering Suvarnabhumi I have to put my mind on ice and not speak my own word without offending anyone. An expat who wants to live here in Thailand has to adapt, but giving up in such a way that he thinks everything is fine and at the same time sees his homeland as a soured western world is also extremely questionable.
Otherwise, there are only many Thai people who want to exchange their lives for those in the 'soured' western world. For many of them a dream, but some, especially members of the female gender, manage to enter into a relationship with a Westerner…
Among those who don't want to go back to Thailand for gold, even though they don't always agree with our Western way of life, norms and values.
Insults removed
* retarded volske * is a very generalization and of course you cannot tar all Thais with the same brush. YES, it is ridiculous that many Thai children are already riding motorcycles at a very young age. Yes, it is scandalous that the police and the probably proud parents, among others, participate in it. I guess time will tell if it will ever change. It would be a lot better if official driving lessons were made mandatory by the police, for example. And better checks on helmet wearing and the presence of a driver's license could be much stricter... and there are more solutions that can be proposed. Until then…God bless the grip (or Buddha in this case)
I suspect that of all farang tourists who tear up on their rented motorbikes around Chiang Rai, at most 1% also have a valid driver's license. (including myself by the way)
The farang who does not wear a helmet 200 bath. Pay immediately, nothing, no receipt, go in the left inner pocket of that officer.
But pointing it out to kids without a helmet forget it.
In the Netherlands there are so many souped-up 25 km “mopeds”, the driver of which does not wear a helmet, so ………
Well, they'll get that driver's license in their next life. So maybe next year or so. The helmet will come if it ever becomes hip.
Imagine if it were all cars instead of scooters? Then the chaos was completely incalculable.
Maybe things are bad in Chiang Rai, but at a traffic check in Pattaya I noticed that most farangs who were stopped had a valid motorcycle license and could continue driving. Perhaps there should be more control in Chiang Rai and the surrounding area.
Well, they'll get that driver's license in their next life. So maybe next year or so. The helmet will come when it will work as a smartphone with eye movements and wink buttons.
I see that every day here in Hua Hin. Apparently the Thai government accepts the more than 20.000 deaths per year due to accidents with mopeds. Words fail at this attitude.
I don't wish those corrupt police a penny, so I always make sure everything is okay !!! Because of course they try to catch me.
Am I the only one driving there with a helmet and insurance... I look crazy 😉
Wonder when the photo is from? And whether there is a school in the vicinity is also not clear from the photo. Looks more like a through road, where I see one boy of school age (unhelmeted) on a motorbike. I myself have been to many cities on my trips through Thailand and I have found that, especially in the last 5 years, daily checks have been carried out in these cities for compliance with driving licenses and compulsory helmets. In the hamlets in the countryside it is different, there you do indeed see the local population from very young to old touring around without a helmet. Many Thais (wrongly) see no risk in this. Just like a growing number of motorcyclists in the Netherlands see no risk of passing you on the highway at 120+ km per hour without any protective clothing, but wearing jeans and sneakers.
Completely irresponsible behavior and incomprehensible that the police do not act against it.
With us in the dark site of Pattaya, this also occurs at the schools and checks on this. Doesn't matter anyway there are enough Thai young people, a few less if they are involved in an accident, that's part of life here.
The boy next to me who is 12 years old with an American father and Thai mother also rides a motorbike and not so slowly either. Cool, I always give him a thumbs up when he drives by and he always looks at me in a daze. I'm probably wondering what the heck that old man is doing.
I don't understand why parents are so irresponsible. Maybe they also want to get rid of their children soon, who can say and explain what goes on in their heads.
Personally, I find it most unfortunate that those children are of course not insured while driving and if my car is hit, who is going to pay for it. Those pathetic children don't have the money for this and the parents often do the same.
Long live free and irresponsible thinking in Thailand and this will not change in my life.
Those who don't use a helmet don't have a brain and therefore don't need a helmet 🙂
However, I have the impression that helmet use is increasing here in Phuket.
And the helmets also seem to be getting a bit firmer.
Well, that's why I decide not to rent anything here to move around in, despite all the papers I have with me and are in order. The risk of such a brat hitting you is just too great.
How unfortunate I think that is, because I like to drive a motorcycle.
I've been through it even crazier I pick up my son from school and sit in the car waiting a car comes very close to me and hits my car, this person doesn't stop and accelerates my car even more damaged, I call stop but he is full, I crawl out of my window and summon him to stop, this person gets out, drunk, and makes excuses and kneels down in front of me. This person also works in the army and his daughter comes from getting to school, drunk, the police are there and really do nothing, nothing at all. Everything is amicable and this person has paid everything neatly in cash. The strange thing is that the police are at school every day but do nothing in this situation.
@leon, It is not necessary, if it can be arranged amicably, the police will not interfere. Will be different if it turns into fighting, shooting or a death. Completely legal. It is different here than in the Netherlands, fortunately. In many cases, the police do not even come to look if it only concerns damage to the property.
The number of road deaths in Thailand is ranked no 2 in the world. How proud is the parent when he can bury his child as a result of his (moped) motorcycle accident. Also in Thailand "if only" is too late!
I sometimes see some of those high school students, so younger than 16 years, even riding a Honda CBR 250 cc, of course also without a helmet.
While in Thailand you have to be 18 years old just for your moped driver's license.
The police do nothing.
Only comes if there is an accident.
Sometimes a check and always in the same place, may I see your int driver license, they then ask me.
If I don't have I just say in Dutch, but is a valid Thai driving license also good then.
It's a big sham on this topic here.
But when another school - going child dies in a traffic accident , the parents also cry .
In all the years that I have lived here, I have experienced this many times, including with one of my husband's nieces.
Jan Beute.
Welcome to Thailand. Can it be something different?
I've lived here for a little over five years now, bought a moped because it was easy to go shopping quickly
on a certain day my wife's son came to visit with his child of 2 years old, he wanted to do a tour with the moped with the child in front of course
i asked him, do you have a driver's license
no was the answer
so no from my side
of course sour faces from him and my wife
my explanation was quite simple, in case of accident who is going to pay for it
the mother
no the farang
voila, that's how I do it
Here in Trat it is the other way around. EVERY day helmet and papers check at one of the access roads. Because I drive by daily, I usually get to drive through with a nod. Everyone else, Thai, child or not, has to pay.
Recently, a photo was even taken on the scooter of me and my 6-year-old son - of course also wearing a helmet - in front of the local paper.
So it is indeed being worked on – not least because it is lucrative!
Q: Do you know when Somchai will finally start paying attention in traffic?
Answer: In his next life.
Experienced in Thailand
One day a 12-year-old student dies in an accident. No helmet on the scooter and no insurance or driver's license, he hits a car head-on.
The whole family wails and cries, etc.
After 2 days the cremation was.
More than 150 peers from his school attended the cremation.
But of the 150, at least 100 did not have helmets, etc.
And the boy was then cremated amid loud wailing.
The police and municipality teachers stood by and watched.
Who will be next?
Those parents, teachers, etc. know perfectly well that their child is racing around without a helmet, insurance or driver's license.
But it is the disinterest of these educators that keeps them from worrying.
Has nothing to do with customs but only with raising children. Children are allowed to do everything in Thailand. And the police do not enforce anything.
If they told everyone who wasn't wearing a helmet to keep walking, the economy of this fine country would quickly come to a standstill.
Jan