Drink driving crackdown?
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I was buying a coffee in the neighborhood on Sunday and there was a bit of a wreck going on across the street. There's this pavement where someone sets up a stall and glass cases in front of a villa, selling sour fruit and whatever. One of their cases was on the ground smashed along with loads of smashed bowls and ruined fruit. There was one of those guys who might work for the sangkat or be an off duty cop or whatever and a serious looking cop in a bottle green uniform. The tuk-tuk driver who had smashed the stuff was nearby, out of his fucking mind on booze at 10 am, and keeping busy shouting profanities and dumb drunken shit at everyone. There was no attempt to reign him in and I ddn't feel interested enough to see whether the drunken prick got arrested. It's no problem being drunk and driving here unless you smack into someone a bit richer than you.
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Nothing to see yesterday, at 10pm on Sihanouk, with no helmet and 10 50c Angkor drafts pumping through the veins , guess I got lucky.
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Baffles me why someone would share info like this.newnewnewbie wrote:Nothing to see yesterday, at 10pm on Sihanouk, with no helmet and 10 50c Angkor drafts pumping through the veins , guess I got lucky.
Maybe he just wants everyone to know that he is an irresponsible, thoughtless idiot.
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Yeah, one lucky fool, like most other foreigners surviving for longer than a few months here.
note, I wasn't speeding, just the usual stroll home from the riverside, no reason to get all revved up about it.
cheers
note, I wasn't speeding, just the usual stroll home from the riverside, no reason to get all revved up about it.
cheers
Ewww yahh! Tewtally.ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote:Baffles me why someone would share info like this.newnewnewbie wrote:Nothing to see yesterday, at 10pm on Sihanouk, with no helmet and 10 50c Angkor drafts pumping through the veins , guess I got lucky.
Maybe he just wants everyone to know that he is an irresponsible, thoughtless idiot.
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Great banter. Loving it.
I know it is done are there are degrees of being pissed. But I don’t understand why in Cambodia where it so easy and cheap to make alternative arrangements do people drink drive.
Use Passapp/Grab or a guesthouse... ask the bar owner to look after your moto for the night....
I do admittedly have a prejudice against this due to something that happened as a teen and I couldn’t care less if people want to risk their own lives. But drink driving has the potential to harm other, innocent people.
Why do it?
I know it is done are there are degrees of being pissed. But I don’t understand why in Cambodia where it so easy and cheap to make alternative arrangements do people drink drive.
Use Passapp/Grab or a guesthouse... ask the bar owner to look after your moto for the night....
I do admittedly have a prejudice against this due to something that happened as a teen and I couldn’t care less if people want to risk their own lives. But drink driving has the potential to harm other, innocent people.
Why do it?
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I understand your point, but keep in mind that most vehicles in PP are traveling less than 40-50km/h an hour, it's not like a typical LA highway,
so if you play it nice, go with the flow, chance of messing up is small. The drunk drivers I see crash here, have many times been speeding needlessly, thinking to be driving 'Asian style' and forgetting about themselves being drunk, and possibly driving places they don't know too, so they end up on the side of the curve, instead of staying ahead of it. What can I say, its one of the things we like about this place, the freedom to once in a while 'give a fuck'.
cheers!
so if you play it nice, go with the flow, chance of messing up is small. The drunk drivers I see crash here, have many times been speeding needlessly, thinking to be driving 'Asian style' and forgetting about themselves being drunk, and possibly driving places they don't know too, so they end up on the side of the curve, instead of staying ahead of it. What can I say, its one of the things we like about this place, the freedom to once in a while 'give a fuck'.
cheers!
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Saw this happen in April this year in Rawai, sonkram season. A father and son pissed off their brains, the father actually fell off his stool before they both started climbing on their bike, the staff even helped the old man on the back and before they took off, they both fell over with the bike landing on them. I got up and went over as they were scrambling to their feet and offered to pay for a cab pulling out $10. The young shirtless tattooed tough guy shaped up to me and told me to 'fuck off!'
The other punters watching just shook their heads, one saying 'save your money mate, their fkn dickheads anyway'.
Sure enough, 10 mins later an ambulance with siren blarring went in their direction, might have been a coincidence but regardless, what can you do, get involved in a drunken brawl to try help someone?
The other punters watching just shook their heads, one saying 'save your money mate, their fkn dickheads anyway'.
Sure enough, 10 mins later an ambulance with siren blarring went in their direction, might have been a coincidence but regardless, what can you do, get involved in a drunken brawl to try help someone?
Never mind.
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http://phnompenh.gov.kh/en/maps/location/district/
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Baffles me that this is frowned upon nowadays, this used to be the norm when I spent my winters in Cambodia.ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote:Baffles me why someone would share info like this.newnewnewbie wrote:Nothing to see yesterday, at 10pm on Sihanouk, with no helmet and 10 50c Angkor drafts pumping through the veins , guess I got lucky.
Maybe he just wants everyone to know that he is an irresponsible, thoughtless idiot.
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Still looking for it tooMèo Đen wrote:Anyone encountered any of the checkpoints yet?Miguelito wrote:Apparently there are only 12...Playboy wrote:Which are the 12 districts
http://phnompenh.gov.kh/en/maps/location/district/
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