A bad start to the new year :(

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Originally Posted by SIPNGAS

I *just* saw this...don't know how I've missed it. Sorry about the accident....and glad you and the bikers are ok. What about legal problems? You eluded to something about being a foreigner and getting into trouble. Is that all ok?

Not really any legal trouble, but well, let's just say in cases like this it's easy for some people to see a foreigner as a big walking bag of cash

Thankfully it was right in front of the office so my Thai partner came over to help negotiate, as well as the insurance guy, plus the guys on the bike were pretty friendly and not toooo pissed off, so in the end I was extremely lucky.

Similar thing happened to my mom years ago, she was turning in to a parking spot and a dumb lady on a motorcycle was trying to squeeze past, of course ran into the side of the car. Girl got off the bike and told my mom "you give me 3000 baht (about $80)". Lucky there was a cop right there, basically told her to f*ck off