flyaway840@hotmail.com wrote:
> Thailand is in the Water Festival now for about two plus weeks. It
> is very dangerous to be on the roads, so much so that many bus
> services that normally take you to and from the airports etc. close
> down during this time. It is so dangerous because people throw
> water at people in cars and on motor cycles while they race down
> the roads as fast and they possibly can, as per usual. Add on top
> of the normal careless driving in Thailand someone throwing water
> on them, and it spells disaster. I have seen 3 major wrecks today
> where at least one per wreck had to go to the hospital. Does this
> stop them from throwing water after they have cause such damage
> to others? Hell no. They think it was funny, a big whoop comes from
> them as they wreck, then they watch as they pick up their bikes and
> limp off, and some go to the hospital. Another job well done, happy
> days are here again.
>
> What I did was buy enough food and supplies to wait out the
> Water Festival as if under attack by the Bird Flu. Don't come
> to Thailand unless you want to be drenched, smeared with white
> crap all over you and your clothes, and possibly killed in an
> accident on the road.
Is it more dangerous than places where people points guns at you or
bomb your car or kidnap you and then behead you? Given the choice a
little water is not that serious.
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