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\"Thailands
After writing this article I walked down to Dolphin Circle where I only had to wait five minutes to get a picture of a car nearly running down two pedestrians in the cross walk.\u00a0 A few days before a tour bus nearly killed a friend and me by\u00a0 running through the same cross walk when the sign signaled for us TO WALK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thailands Killer Buses and the explosion of Chinese tourists are \u00a0terrorizing the country’s residents<\/h3>\n

and devastating Thailand\u2019s infrastructure\u00a0\u00a0with no end in sight. \u00a0Let me give you a few keywords and phrases for why this terrible state of affairs is unlikely to change such as:<\/p>\n

Chinese tourists, greed, police incompetence, money number one, fearless leaders of Chinese tour groups, Thailands Killer Buses<\/p>\n

Here in Thailand tour buses are completely out of control. \u00a0 And the number of rampaging tour buses is exploding along with the numbers of Chinese tourists who ride them. \u00a0In Thailand’s cities, notably Pattaya where I happen to live most of the streets are too narrow to accommodate them while the cities planners never created enough parking for the 1.3 billion wanna bee Chinese tourists who want to come here. \u00a0Traffic problems are getting to be horrendous due to the vast increase in tour buses and the total incompetence and greed of government officials and police.<\/p>\n

So just how deadly have these tour buses become?<\/h3>\n

Just two examples should be enough to give you the real picture of Thailands Killer Buses :<\/p>\n

\"pedestrian<\/a>
We get the go ahead that it’s safe to walk.\u00a0 But the cars keep coming.\u00a0 We\u00a0 must dart around like rats in the pedestrian cross walk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week, a friend and I were crossing North Pattaya Road on the Best Supermarket (East) side of Naklua Road. \u00a0There’s a traffic light here where motorized vehicles need to stop when the light turns red. \u00a0There’s also a cross walk for pedestrians and a pedestrian walk\/don’t walk light. \u00a0 So my friend and I walking in the cross walk with the pedestrian sign giving us the “Walk” go ahead.\u00a0 But are we\u00a0 crossing the street in safety?<\/p>\n

No way. \u00a0In seconds we become rats darting between the speeding cars running the red light.\u00a0 Suddenly a tour bus speeds through the light,\u00a0 and around the corner.\u00a0 We freeze in the middle of the intersection hoping that the morons driving Thailands Killer Buses will spare our lives.\u00a0 Our insides turn to quivering jelly.<\/p>\n

\"Pedestrian<\/a>Two days later we are once again crossing North Pattaya Road at the same pedestrian cross walk.<\/p>\n

And sure enough, we find ourselves pathetically dodging all those cars again. \u00a0Luckily we emerge unscathed on the other side of North Pattaya Road where Naklua Road suddenly becomes Second Road. \u00a0But this time there’s a police officer just thirty meters away from us on the other side of Second Road.\u00a0 The authorities have stationed policeman here for one purpose alone.\u00a0 Which is to to stop motorcyclists who are not wearing their helmets or other “victimless crimes”. \u00a0\u00a0 Such as having a license plate that is 2 days out of date. \u00a0But is he doing anything about all the out of control motorists across the street? \u00a0No way.<\/p>\n

\"traffic<\/a>
Pattaya’s city planners would have been better off not putting in such lights in the first place. The same thing goes for the cross walks down on Beach Road. What they fail to\u00a0\u00a0comprehend is that neither the law or the authorities respect human life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My second example is the death of a\u00a0friend\u00a0who died a few months ago from his injuries after a tour bus mowed him down.<\/h3>\n

(note that I did not use the phrase Thailands Killer Buses here). \u00a0The man was driving his motorcycle to the Tiger Zoo in Sriracha<\/a> with his son sitting behind him. \u00a0I wasn’t there\u00a0 And I never had the chance to talk to him about it later. \u00a0 But a very good friend of mine back in the United States who was a very good friend of the victim and the victim’s wife reported by e-mail:<\/p>\n

How Thailands Killer Buses gunned her husband down<\/strong><\/p>\n

“yes the details were and are sketchy…but he’s bk at home reading a lot of ebooks…but is terminally..due to brain tumor…on his accident..I got a broken thai\/English message that said he and his kid were on motorcycle..tour bus pulled out in front of him..no way to stop…kids was sitting in front but marty<\/span> leaned over and took the hit with his head so the kid didn’t get hurt…during this time they found or it caused another tumor”<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe that the official position on the accident was the victim fell\u00a0 asleep while driving his motorcycle and that he rear ended the tour bus. \u00a0Yeah, right! \u00a0When’s the last time you ever fell asleep driving a motorcycle?\u00a0 You can chalk this up to the authorities\u00a0 giving Thailands Killer Buses a license to kill.<\/p>\n

Massive invasion by Chinese tourists put Thailands Killer Buses out of control<\/h3>\n

The Chinese have recently replaced the Russians as the single largest foreign visitor group coming to Thailand. \u00a0But here’s the key difference. \u00a0Russian tourists just like their American, British, or German counterparts are not nearly as driven by the herd instinct as the Chinese. \u00a0Like their fellow Westerners from the U.S., Europe, etc Russians are not typically herd animals. \u00a0 Unlike the Chinese, the Russians are not herd animals.\u00a0 Most of them arrange\u00a0 their own transportation and\u00a0 use taxis, baht buses, or motorcycle taxis. \u00a0The Chinese are different and travel everywhere in large groups.\u00a0 I condescendingly refer to such groups as the “Chinese Army”.<\/p>\n

Here’s the way such Chinese Armies work.<\/h3>\n

A company that arranges tours in China books a tour for a group, and this company is out to make the largest profit possible. \u00a0Either before or after the tour group of Chinese reaches Thailand Chinese authorities assign a “Fearless Leader”\u00a0 to shepherd the flock of sheep to all the tourist attractions, restaurants, bars and hotels that either he or his bosses decides the herd cannot do without. \u00a0 Commissions or kickbacks are given to the fearless leader from all the bars, restaurants, hotels, and other tourist attractions the herd is taken to. \u00a0It is the fearless leader’s mission in life to get the maximum amount of commission money from his flock (I mean herd).<\/p>\n

Let me give you a couple of examples. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in 1982 I was on a tour of Americans<\/h3>\n

visiting Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok. \u00a0When we got to Hong Kong from Japan, we picked up, Larry, \u00a0our fearless leader, a young Hong Kong Chinese, who quickly became a good friend of mine. \u00a0Our group went practically everywhere by bus. \u00a0In our group there were a number of Jews from Los Angeles who all knew each other quite well. \u00a0There was another Jew from New York, named Al, who no doubt detested his Jewish brethren \u00a0who probably despised him just as much in return. \u00a0Now all these people might have been Jewish but there was a huge difference between Al and all those West Coast Jews.<\/p>\n

When we went to the Royal Palace in Bangkok, everyone went on the bus except \u00a0Al. \u00a0Everyone of us had to pay a bus fee and an admission fee to the Royal Palace. \u00a0When our tour group got to the Royal Palace, our fearless leader, Larry, handled everything for us. \u00a0Meanwhile Al arrived on his own, having figured out early on how to use Bangkok’s taxis and bus services. \u00a0And at the Royal Palace, Al went up alone to the ticket counter where he paid his own price of admission at half the price the rest of us had to pay through our fearless leader.<\/p>\n

Al made is a point to learn how to get around in every city he visited. \u00a0And more often than not, he’d choose his own restaurants at one third of the cost or even less \u00a0that the rest of us were paying at the restaurants that had been chosen for us by our fearless leader.<\/p>\n

Then there were all those handicraft shops and factories<\/h3>\n

we’d visit as a group. \u00a0We’d go somewhere to see jade figurines being made in a small factory. \u00a0The next time we’d go to another outlet where glass objects were being made. \u00a0The next stop would be where clothing was being made out of silk. \u00a0And you should have seen all those West Coast Jewish women went wild in all those factories and handicrafts shops. \u00a0Their eyes were literally bulging out with greed as they all went on a spending frenzy. \u00a0But not Al and his wife. \u00a0If they bought anything at all it was at other shops that had not been carefully picked out by Larry or his bosses which sold comparable goods at one third the costs these pre-selected shops were charging.<\/p>\n

Later Larry told me about all the commissions he was getting for his boss back in Hong Kong. \u00a0The man had two, not one Rolls Royce limousine at his opulent home on Victoria Peak, Hong Kong’s most prestigious and expensive residential area.<\/p>\n

Well guess what—Times have not changed. \u00a0All those “fearless leaders” of tour groups are still raking in all those commissions<\/h3>\n

and all those Chinese with their herd mentality are just foolish enough to go along with it. \u00a0(Not that those L.A. Jews weren’t or that Al proved the complete outcast of any such herd).<\/p>\n

Now here’s a real classic. \u00a0 A Thai woman I’ve known for years owns a bar that’s close to my condo.\u00a0 She typically charges 85 baht for a bottle of beer. \u00a0One day a Chinese man stopped in and the bar owner asked him if he wanted a beer.<\/p>\n

“No Thank. \u00a0I wait for Fearless Leader. \u00a0Then we decide.”<\/p>\n

Along comes the rest of the tour group. \u00a0The fearless leader draws the bar owner aside and asks her what she charges for a bottle of beer. She tells him 85 baht.<\/p>\n

“I want you charge special group price he tells her. \u00a0We pay 145 baht one beer, Okay? \u00a0You give me 50 %..”<\/p>\n

“Fuck off the \u00a0bar owner tells the Chinese Army Fearless leader”.<\/p>\n

And off trudges the Chinese Army as each Chinese carefully places his foot in the footprints of the Fearless Leader. \u00a0I suppose that’s why many of us Thailand expats have been going to this Thai woman’s \u00a0bar for the past nine years. \u00a0 It’s like a small island in an ocean where money is always number one. \u00a0Gotta love the old gal.<\/p>\n

Thailand’s Money Number one ethic unleashes Thailands Killer Buses<\/h3>\n

But here we must step aside for a moment to consider that here in Thailand money is truly number one.\u00a0 And the Chinese live by the same lack of ethics. \u00a0Speaking for Pattaya, which is the only place in Thailand where I”m actually living and can therefore be writing about from the perspective of having a lot of first hand knowledge, the government officials and police have zero respect for public safety or even human life.<\/p>\n

If the authorities had just a little love for their own countrymen–If they possessed only a modicum of self respect for doing their jobs well–they would immediately expell Thailands Killer Buses from the city as soon as they discharged their passengers to whatever hotel the group was staying at. \u00a0All those Chinese would then be reduced to the same sorry state as all those Russians, Germans, Canadians, Japanese, Americans, etc who somehow \u00a0manage to\u00a0arrange their own transportation whether it’s by baht taxi, motorbike taxi, mini bus or by just plain having to walk.<\/p>\n

And just think about this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Thailand’s cities such as Pattaya actually started to enforce its traffic laws,<\/h3>\n

it might actually become reasonably safe to cross the street. \u00a0Driving motorbikes would become much more safe if all these city officials and police ever got their faces out of the cesspool bucket of money number one excrement. \u00a0Shops either at the hotels or at outside shops could start renting both bicycles and small motorbikes. \u00a0Unless it’s raining, what better way is there to get around? \u00a0For that matter I can drive my motorcycles 365 days a year, even on those days it is raining so long as the downpour is not too severe.<\/p>\n

But oh well, I am just a visitor here. \u00a0I am not Thai so it’s not up to me to tell Thais how to do things. \u00a0For that matter I cannot get my fellow Americans to stop voting for the Traitorous Republican Party which is now being led by\u00a0the Neo Nazi lunatic fringe. of the Far Right wing.<\/p>\n

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