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**qilmuz6v** · 03-07-2008, 05:15 AM

There was a law enacted but never enforced to stop throwing water on vehicles in transit, A lot of people living here take their vacations and trips out of the country during that time, and most just stock up so they do not have to leave their homes or stay at nice hotels where they can get what they want and feel safe and secure on hotel grounds.

Not only people throwing water out of barels along side the roads, but have a few filled with water in pickups and throw water on people from the back at 80 KPH and if that slug of water at such speeds hits someone in the face or even from behind on a scooter, they are going down.
I think I read somewhere last year that 700 people were killed on scooters during songkran, I myself was knocked down a few years ago in Chiang Mai riding my scooter and got a slug of water and ice in the face.

There is no shortage of policemen in Thailand and could very well stop it, but they can do no good setting on their duffs at the policeboxes and gambling on cards and board games and collecting their pay or walking around BKK and issueing 200 baht tickets to farang for dropping cig butts in the gutters.

03-07-2008, 05:15 AM	#12
qilmuz6v Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 518 Senior Member	There was a law enacted but never enforced to stop throwing water on vehicles in transit, A lot of people living here take their vacations and trips out of the country during that time, and most just stock up so they do not have to leave their homes or stay at nice hotels where they can get what they want and feel safe and secure on hotel grounds. Not only people throwing water out of barels along side the roads, but have a few filled with water in pickups and throw water on people from the back at 80 KPH and if that slug of water at such speeds hits someone in the face or even from behind on a scooter, they are going down. I think I read somewhere last year that 700 people were killed on scooters during songkran, I myself was knocked down a few years ago in Chiang Mai riding my scooter and got a slug of water and ice in the face. There is no shortage of policemen in Thailand and could very well stop it, but they can do no good setting on their duffs at the policeboxes and gambling on cards and board games and collecting their pay or walking around BKK and issueing 200 baht tickets to farang for dropping cig butts in the gutters.
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