Finally the story is known…
Health, Motorcycling, Personal, Stupidity, Thai Girls, Thailand, Travel April 5th, 2010
After what? Two months? I now believe I know almost the entire story of the events leading up to, and immediately following my impressive motorcycle accident. I still do not know what actualy caused the accident, the police insinuated that somebody walked out in front of me, but the police report simply states that “an accident happened”. I do know the combination of a broken collar bone, two broken ribs, and a broken cheek bone, along with the cuts and bruises hurt like a bitch. So without further ado let me tell what I do know with the aid of pictures…
So, lets start with what I was doing just before the accident. I was in a guesthouse/bar named Ban Luk Kha on Soi Chaiyapruak in Jomtien. I had been drinking a few of these it seems:
I then received a call from a young lady I was kind of involved with for a while, at around 2am, asking me to go and pick here up from Soi 6 just off Jomtien Beach Road, so then I got on this bike:
I then drove down to the beach road, turned right and rode at a steady pace towards Soi 6 to pick up this young lady:
Now this is where it goes blank, I never made it to Soi 6, the next thing I remember was waking up in this place:
This is Pattaya Memorial Hospital, where I stayed for almost 2 days, and was presented with a hospital bill for17,500 Baht when I left, thank god I came around enough to discharge myself before they bankrupt me!
So I left the hospital looking like this:
I then checked myself into a really grotty hotel room, and stayed there for about the next 10 days, eating handfuls of this stuff:
And that’s it, as much as I know, I guess I will never discover just what caused the accident, although I am certain it could not have been my fault. The reasoning for this is simple, nobody came knocking at my hotel door asking for compensation for their broken body/car/motorcycle/dog, and in Thailand nobody would miss the slimmest chance to make some money out of the misfortune of another.
Tags: Broken Bones, CBR 150, Jomtien, Pattaya Memorial Hospital, Tramadol
A few facts that have been reinforced in my mind over the last couple of days:
- History always repeats itself.
- There is no smoke without fire.
- BCC needs to be exploited.
- Most farang working in Thailand are lazy.
- I no longer like the taste of beer.
- Facebook can actually be useful.
- My collar bone is slowly mending.
OK pretty random I know, but you might enjoy trying to puzzle some of these out!
Very suspicious
Home Life, Stupidity, Surin, Thailand August 13th, 2008
There is a children’s playground right next to my apartment block, it also has a running track, and most morning there are a few people jogging around it, trying to keep fit. At one end of the park is an open storm drain, not very big, not very deep, take a look at this picture below.
You see that white concrete bridge? Well that’s the storm drain underneath it. This is about 100 metres from my house, I took this picture from my balcony. This morning at 6am, a jogger discovered three dead children in the storm drain, supposedly drowned. They were a pair of brothers and a friend, quite young about four or five years old.
Now what the hell are three kids of this age doing out on their own at 6am in the morning? Why didn’t anyone see them? How did all three manage to die? Surely if one fell in the others would shout or go for help? There are shops just across the street, and this is a fairly busy road, the chances of nobody seeing three boys get into this kind of trouble is extremely slim even at 6am.
I think there is something suspicious about all this, it just does not add up to me, I don’t believe it is possible that this could have been an accident.
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