Boo Radley
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Actually, I think in the UK, drivers often get off with similarly lenient sentences for such 'accidents'.
Anyway, RIP.
Cross-posted with Mekong.
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Thai truck driver who knocked down and killed British couple on 23rd country of their round-the-world cycling trip escapes with £18 fine (Daily Mail 27/05/14)
Peter Root and Mary Thompson were knocked down by a truck in Thailand
The couple, both 34, had cycled through Europe, the Middle East and China
Truck driver, Vorawong Sangkawat pleaded guilty to driving with negligence
Was fined just £18 and given a two year suspended prison sentence
Inquest into their deaths gives an accidental death ruling
A Thai truck driver who knocked down and killed a British couple who were on a round-the-world cycling trip was fined just £18.
Peter Root and Mary Thompson, both 34, left Guernsey in July 2011 and had cycled through Europe, the Middle East and China before reaching Thailand, their 23rd country.
But the couple were killed when they were run over by the driver of a pick-up truck while riding their bicycles on a road 70 miles east of Bangkok in Phanom Sarakham, Chachoengsao in February last year.
The couple were travelling on the hard shoulder when a pick-up truck veered from its lane and struck them.
The truck driver Vorawong Sangkawat lost control when he bent down to pick up a hat off the floor of his Toyota truck, according to Thai police.
The lapse in concentration sent his vehicle swerving into the hard shoulder, where it knocked down and killed the couple.
The 25-year-old was arrested and charged with killing them both through negligence.
However, he was given a suspended two-year prison sentence and fined 1,000 Baht, the equivalent of just £18.
A post-mortem examination in Guernsey confirmed that the couple had both suffered severe head injuries consistent with a road traffic accident.
The examination was delayed because of difficulties in obtaining details of the driver's prosecution.
Eventually officials discovered that when Sangkawat appeared in Chacheungsao Provisional Court last year, he pleaded guilty to an offence of causing death by negligence.
The single offence violated several laws and carried a potential sentence of up to 10 years in jail.
But he left court with a two-year suspended sentence because of his guilty plea, remorse and previous good character.
He was also placed under probation service supervision for one year and made to attend a seminar relating to the country's Land Traffic Law.
Mr Root, was an acclaimed artist and lecturer born in Jersey but grew up on the Channel Island of Guernsey.
He met Bristol-born Ms Thompson when they both attended art college in Falmouth, Cornwall, 14 months earlier.
In the wake of their deaths, Peter's father Jerry described them as a 'golden couple' who 'loved life'.
Both of them were highly acclaimed artists who had put on exhibitions all over the UK and as far afield as Istanbul and Bolivia.
Mr Root had work displayed in the Saatchi gallery, while Ms Thompson exhibited at the prestigious Waterman's Gallery in London.
She was also a highly regarded jewellery designer, while Mr Root taught digital media and design at the Guernsey College of Further Education.
An inquest in Guernsey heard they had cycled through the whole of Europe and a number of dangerous places including Iran and Afghanistan.
Their online blog, 'Two on Four Wheels' described how they faced extreme weather conditions and even came under gunfire during the 19-month trip of a lifetime.
Judge Philip Robey recorded a verdict of accidental death, saying the medical evidence was consistent with severe head injuries caused by a traffic collision.
In the wake of their deaths, family members set up the Peter Root and Mary Thompson Charitable Trust for the future promotion of the arts and other charitable interests.
Mary's brother Ben, from Bristol, said at the time of their deaths: 'Mary was a ray of sunshine - a hugely positive, gentle person who just loved people and making friends.
'Equally, Pete's dry wit, irreverent sense of humour, generosity and boundless enthusiasm won him friends everywhere he went.
'Many people just talk about their dreams - Mary and Pete actually went out there and lived them.
'The world is undoubtedly a much poorer place for their passing, and they leave behind two heartbroken families and countless friends.'
Thailand is well known for its perilous roads, with more than 13,000 killed and almost 1million injured each year in accidents.
http://www.dailymail...ed-just-18.html (27/05/14)
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I seem to remember CHUH-EE CHUH-EE เฉยๆ - to have no feelings one way or the other, I don't care...etc can also be used here. Although maybe it's more for feelings than an opinion?
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Apparently Gordon Ramsay has a recipe for this out in the ether somewhere. This recipe's on my to do list of the next to try and cook!
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No women present lol
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Third placed Sunannipar Kritsanasuwan’s crown decided it had enough of the whole affair and dropped to the ground during a recent interview.
http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/05/22/nampetchs-words-wisdom-her-broken-crown
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[Warning graphic images of assault].
Came across this story in the Thai Daily News today of a mob vigilante attack on a pickup truck by a group of about 30 Thai motorcyclists. The driver was dragged out from his car and violently assaulted. What sparked the attack was initially uncertain, but according to the Dailynews, the pickup truck had earlier accidently knocked over a child and fled the scene without stopping.
However, the later article in Springnewstv went on to give more details and a slightly different and updated version. The attack took place on 20/05/14 in Charan Sanit Wong Road in Bangkok's Bangkok Noi district and the three passengers in the car were followers and disciples of the local 'Nok' temple in Bang Waek. The driver of the pickup, 35 year-old Sophon Chinthai, had earlier got into a fight with Suraphot Chantiyanan (sp?), a 55 year old monk at the temple. The fight was sparked by the monk, who had a drink problem and was regularly violent, swearing at Sophon. The monk ended up hurting his back in the fight. A meeting was arranged later in the day at the police station to clear things up between the two, but the aggrieved monk had rallied round his supporters who were waiting at the station.
Sophon turned up at the station, and when he saw the waiting mob, he took flight, accidently knocking over some of their motorcycles, which further enraged them. They gave chase and took revenge.
http://www.dailynews...)&videoId=24510
http://news.springne...ารุมยำเจ็บสาหัส
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Apparently the winner, 22-year-old Weluree “Fai†Disayabut, is being criticised on line in Thai forums for being overweight.
http://bangkok.cocon...ailand-universe
Third place Sunannipar Kritsanasuwan’s (Ami Namphet) past sexy photos have also been condemned online. It was discovered she has a past history as a 'pretty' at some of the motor shows.
http://www.thairath..../content/423965
There was also another contestant, 'Top' Fongphikun Thonglin, who was removed from the competition earlier on in the beginning of May after the beauty contest committee discovered she'd posted up a risqué picture of a diseased penis on her Twitter account with the caption 'Shall we eat some ice cream?' and felt it damaged the reputation of the competition.
http://www.thairath..../content/420277
Seems it takes so much to be Miss Thailand nowadays!
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Blade Runner - Tears in Rain
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That verification process on Hotmail is a pain. Am caught up in the middle of it myself now.
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I have a Win XP laptop, that *WAS* my travel machine.
I'm using a new Celeron-powered (translation: UNDERpowered) Windows 8.1 laptop on this trip.
For basic web browsing, and the occasional PDF download, it is OK. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a reliable technology for whitelisting Flash Player, and multiple Flash streams routinely bring the machine to a dead crawl.
I have not tried to do serious development on it. (I did break down and load GNU Emacs, and it appears to be working at least minimally.)
Spywareblaster has a built-in flash killer in its Tools section.
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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.â€
- Charles Bukowski
Some bring happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
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Tony Benn
3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqOvBKnKdk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Khj7ZHMSo
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Reminds me of this young Russian Guy caught fooling around with a Thai's girlfriend, which was in the news last year. "You know?!" ๆ...
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Tata Motors MD left 'suicide note': Thai police
BANGKOK, January 27, 2014 (AFP) - A top executive of India's Tata Motors who plunged from the 22nd floor of an upscale Bangkok hotel left an apparent suicide note, Thai police said Monday.
Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, 51, died early Sunday at the Shangri-La Hotel in the Thai capital where he was attending a board meeting, the company has confirmed.
"Initially, we can only assume that he committed suicide", Thai Police Lieutenant Somyot Boonnakaew told AFP.
"The window was small and he had to try hard to get through it."
The apparent suicide letter, found at the scene, has been sent for analysis to confirm it was written by Slym, he said.
Police believe his wife was in the room at the time of his death but said she was too "shocked" to answer questions on Monday.
"She still cannot accept what has happened," said Somyot, adding the executive's body was with forensic scientists.
Slym's body was found by staff on a fourth floor balcony at the five-star $200-a-night hotel, which said the "circumstances of the accident are under review by authorities."
On Sunday the carmaker said he had died in a fall, while Indian press reports said Slym may have lost his balance and plunged to his death.
The Briton had been Tata's managing director since joining the country's leading car making group in 2012.
In November Tata Motors, part of the giant steel-to-software Tata Group, said its quarterly net profit surged by 71 percent on the back of booming sales of its British luxury marque Jaguar Land Rover.
Slym had led Tata's operations in India and international markets, excluding the Jaguar and Land Rover businesses.
At midday trading in Mumbai, the stock was down 16 rupees to 354.50 rupees, a fall of 4.32 percent while the main Bombay Stock Exchange index was down 356.75 points at 20,776.81.
Explaining the stock drop, an analyst in Mumbai said the death of the Stanford University graduate could raise fears over the "timeline for new projects."
"In addition, the market is down today in general. So the stock is getting hammered," said an analyst who did not wish to be named.
Slym had previously been executive vice president of SGMW Motors, China, a General Motors joint venture, and been president of General Motors in India.
In a statement late Sunday Tata chairman Cyrus P Mistry paid tribute to "valued colleague".
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/thai-police-say-tata/969632.html (27/01/14)
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Photo of the balcony at the Shangrila Hotel, BKK. Looks fairly high.
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The British boss of Indian car giant Tata Motors has died after falling from a hotel in Bangkok.
Karl Slym, 51, was discovered at the foot of the towering Shangri-La hotel in the city’s upmarket Yannawa district yesterday morning after falling from his 22nd floor bedroom.
The executive, originally from Derby, had checked into the five-star hotel with British wife Sally on Friday and had been due to check out yesterday.
An unconfirmed report in Thailand claimed police found a suicide note in the room. It added that his wife was being treated for shock. But sources close to the company have told India’s Economic Times that Mr Slym’s death was the result of an accident after he ‘lost his balance’ and fell from his hotel room window.
Police have launched an investigation into his death and a post-mortem examination will be carried out in Bangkok today.
Mr Slym joined ailing Tata Motors in 2012, giving up the role of executive vice-president of SGMW Motors China, a General Motors joint venture. He had headed General Motors in India before that.
He was head-hunted for Mumbai to overhaul Tata’s lacklustre manufacturing, sales and distribution operations, including the ultra-cheap Nano car.
As well as being in charge of the car maker’s operations in India, Mr Slym was responsible for Tata Motors’ interests in South Korea, Thailand and South Africa. He had travelled to Bangkok to attend a board meeting of Tata Motors’ Thailand unit.
He had recently announced a huge retirement programme that would lead to thousands of job losses. Last night, Tata Motors chairman Cyrus Mistry paid tribute to Mr Slym and offered his sympathies to his family. He said: ‘Karl joined us in October 2012 and was a valued colleague, who was providing strong leadership at a challenging time for the Indian auto industry.
‘In this hour of grief, our thoughts are with Karl’s wife and family.’
A spokesman said the company ‘deeply regrets to announce the untimely and tragic death of Mr Slym’. Renault India executive director Sumit Sawhney said: ‘It’s a big personal loss. He was a close friend. We were like family members. It’s really sad. He was one of those people who would go out of their way to help out a friend.’
A car industry analyst said Mr Slym had been instrumental in leading Tata Motors out of its troubles.
The firm recently brought out a new petrol engine and is planning to launch new hatchback and saloon models later this year.
Anil Sharma, of HIS Automotive, said: ‘His death comes before his efforts bear fruit. We should be able to see the results of his work in a year or two.’
Born and raised in Derby, Mr Slym remained a loyal fan of Derby County Football Club despite a flourishing career that saw him travel around the world.
He and his wife have lived in seven different countries.
However, he told Forbes India that the couple had found it difficult to settle in there.
‘Both my wife and I have said that India is the most difficult country to get used to. There are some things you fight and you don’t accept when you get here,’ he said.
‘Normally, it takes two to three weeks to set up our house and start living a normal life. But here it took probably two months before our set-up became OK.
‘We do immerse ourselves. We have one house in the world and that’s in India. We don’t have my wife going to her hometown every six months.’
Tata Motors is part of the vast business empire controlled by India’s Tata family, an entrepreneurial dynasty with interests in everything from retail to steel-making.
The Mumbai-headquartered firm employs 60,000 staff and racked up sales of £21billion in the financial year 2012/13, making it India’s biggest car manufacturer.
http://www.thairath.co.th/content/oversea/399088
http://www.dailymail...ip-Bangkok.html (26/01/14)
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Comes back to me now. I remember when that story was in the news in 1974.
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i drooled over her during her hey-day...
Me too lol
Any New Jokes
in The board bar
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Romantic Weekend
A husband and wife go on a romantic weekend to a hotel. Their double room reservation has been messed up and instead they are given an attic room with two single beds which has a raised beam on the floor between the beds which they have to step over to avoid stubbing their toes. When they go to bed the husband switches the light off and after a short silence amorously murmurs to his wife: “How about a bit of nookie then, sweetie?†She agrees and makes her way across the room in the dark but unfortunately stubs her toe on the raised beam. Her husband hears her cry out in pain and promptly comforts her by sweetly cooing: “Oh diddums, did you stub your little tootsie-wootsie? Come and lie in my bed and let me rub it better for you honeykinsâ€.
She gets into bed with him and they spend the next hour having wonderful sex. The wife then gets out of bed and starts to cross the room to return to her bed but accidently stubs her toe on the raised beam again. On hearing her cry out in pain once more her husband snaps back at her: “Jesus! Can’t you watch where you're bloody going woman!"!!!