News Forum - Truck overturns carrying 2,560 crates of beer in central Thailand

[Thaiger]

A beer delivery truck overturned on the Rangsit – Pathum Thani Road in central Thailand last night, strewing 30 tonnes of booze across thebusy road. A forklift was needed to clear up the mounds of bottles and broken glass. Around 61,440 small bottles of a leopard-themed beer, which shall not be named due to Thailand’s archaic and strictly enforced anti-alcohol-advertising laws, were sadly obliterated when the 22-wheel truck lost control and turned over in Pathum Thani province’s Mueang district. The 28 year old truck driver Kittipong Pansuk and his 4 year old son Chakkrit Pansuk were both injured in the […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

Why was there a 4 year old child in the truck? Isn't it illegal to have children on commercial vehicles? By they way the passers by might have some fiesta with the free beer on the way....

[Totoro]

Generally I would be sad. But then again it is Thai "beer". I have to admit though, they make excellent Corona fighters. 

Your immun system will be impregnable

[HolyCowCm]

Article quote: Police said that once the driver has recovered he will be taken to the station for further questioning. He may face prosecution or be liable to pay a fine for causing traffic jams or damage to the road, said police.

WTF? Laws here need to be relooked at and updated. But then again that won't help because this is Thai Police logic to leave an opening into anything they can get their hand and fingers into and the revamping would probably have the same outcome.

[Chatogaster]

11 hours ago, Thaiger said:

[…] which shall not be named due to Thailand’s archaic and strictly enforced anti-alcohol-advertising laws […]

 

Right now, 28% of the member states of the WHO European region have a total statutory ban on all alcohol marketing across TV, radio, print media and point of sale and that percentage has (slowly) been increasing since the conception of the initiative. It's just matter of time for that percentage to keep rising and for on-line media to be made inclusive. If anything, Thailand is not archaic but progressive in this respect.

However [before you get the false impression that I might actually welcome that "progression" and even the way it has been established in Thailand], Thailand wouldn't be the Thailand it has been for the past decade if it doesn't invariably try to impose a military-like discipline upon the population just by simply (and lazily) writing overly broad clauses and ridiculous fines into law (and then having civil servants take care of it while moving on to other ways of further imposing discipline). 
 

 

[Grumpish]

15 minutes ago, Chatogaster said:

Right now, 28% of the member states of the WHO European region have a total statutory ban on all alcohol marketing across TV, radio, print media and point of sale and that percentage has (slowly) been increasing since the conception of the initiative. It's just matter of time for that percentage to keep rising and for on-line media to be made inclusive. If anything, Thailand is not archaic but progressive in this respect.

Now that they have the smokers on the run, alcohol consumption is the next target. 

[HiuMak]

16 hours ago, Ramanathan.P said:

By they way the passers by might have some fiesta with the free beer on the way....

A deliberate act of kindness? Christmas comes early to the villagers.