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As the title of this video suggests, this is kind of a "Foreigners Behaving Badly" video. It's also frankly a video I'm kind of, not exactly a tribute to my late friend I guess you could say although I didn't go on that well, but I had met with him, we were on very friendly terms, and we communicated over the years. Barry Kenyon was recently killed as a result of somebody hitting him in traffic while he was on the road. In fact, I am fairly sure I know exactly where he was, but that said, this is as the title of this video suggests, unfortunately far too common.

I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, pattayamail.com, which was the place that the late Mr. Kenyon used to write for by the way. Quoting directly: Tourist on rented motorcycle hits pedestrian in Jomtien, a familiar sight on Pattaya streets. Quoting directly: "A Chinese tourist riding a motorcycle collided with a Thai woman who was crossing the road in front of The Now Hotel on Jomtien Beach Road on October 28, leaving her with minor injuries and reigniting concerns about road safety and reckless driving in Pattaya's tourist zones. The incident occurred late at night when the tourists reportedly failed to slow down as the woman was walking across the pedestrian area. Officers from Jomtien municipality quickly arrived at the scene to control traffic, while rescuers from the Sawang Boriboon Foundation provided first aid. The injured woman declined to be taken to a hospital, saying she would seek treatment on her own. Local say such accidents are far too common, particularly in tourist areas where foreign visitors frequently rent motorcycles without experience or proper understanding of Thai traffic laws. Quote: "Many tourists ride without helmets, under the influence, or even on the wrong side of the road," one resident said "It's a miracle more people aren't killed."

Yeah, the only point of this video is look, Thailand has got enough road problems; we don't need to be importing people to add to them. So if you're going to drive in Thailand, and honestly kind of one of my tips I tell people, especially in their first year or two, is to avoid driving because look, the way Thailand traffic - and it's important to point out, to re-quote here: "without experience or proper understanding of Thai traffic laws." There is a way Thais drive; there is sort of a cadence to the driving in Thailand. There's sort of an element of, there's that great movie Pirates of the Caribbean, the original one, not the umpteen sequels and spin offs they did after, but the original one was quite a tight, coherent, cogent little movie, I rather liked it actually, in many ways, but there is that great scene where I think it's Barbosa the Pirate is talking to somebody else and they're talking in parley about negotiations and all the rules of negotiations. Finally the guy says, "hey they are more guidelines than rules okay", and you do have to understand that when driving here in Thailand, there are certain things that are kind of guidelines; there's certain ways of doing things; there's a cadence to driving that frankly foreigners are not really oftentimes all that aligned with in a sort of rhythmic sense, I'll put it that way. As a result, we see these kind of situations pop up where there are accidents involving foreigners.

Look, the best piece of advice for this is get yourself a Thai driving license to begin with, if you're going to be driving in Thailand. Know what you're doing. Obviously don't drive under the influence but just make generally good decisions because again these probably lead to more problems especially for the foreign Expat Community here in Thailand where we see new requirements get added on because authorities start saying, "hey, we have a problem with this," and oftentimes it seems like they might use a mallet to swat a fly kind of thing, and it results in just more onerous rules for other expats who want to drive in Thailand, other foreigners who are looking to drive in Thailand; it makes things more problematic for them.

Hopefully we'll see this situation sort of self-correct. That being said, we will certainly be keeping you updated on this channel as the situation evolves.