Australian Woman in Battambang /Phnom Penh Bus Crash
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Well, using your example and this new crash, seems the Capitol Bus is the safer of the 2 with also a larger number of people on board.Kampong Spooner wrote:I wonder who that was?
Just over a year ago the Crapitol bus crashed on same route with crazy N on board, he got a couple of broken ribs.
Why anybody takes these lurching piles of shit when it's only a tenner for the minibus is beyond me.
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Re: Australian Woman in Battambang /Phnom Penh Bus Crash
? Wut?General Mackevili wrote:Well, using your example and this new crash, seems the Capitol Bus is the safer of the 2 with also a larger number of people on board.Kampong Spooner wrote:I wonder who that was?
Just over a year ago the Crapitol bus crashed on same route with crazy N on board, he got a couple of broken ribs.
Why anybody takes these lurching piles of shit when it's only a tenner for the minibus is beyond me.
Maybe English/maths aren't your strong point today
2 crashes on Crapitol (+other companies too) in 18 months on same route - $5 and around 7 hours +
0 crashes (of which I'm aware) on various minibus services - $10 and 4 hours.
These coach turdpiles regularly breakdown without crashing and put an extra couple of hours onto an awful trip. I was very happy when the VIP bus route started. Real happy.
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Right you are! I thought I read that your friend crashed on a minibus.Kampong Spooner wrote:
? Wut?
Maybe English/maths aren't your strong point today
2 crashes on Crapitol (+other companies too) in 18 months on same route - $5 and around 7 hours +
0 crashes (of which I'm aware) on various minibus services - $10 and 4 hours.
Thx.
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Re: Australian Woman in Battambang /Phnom Penh Bus Crash
Gulp, I did that journey last trip with Capitol when I was travelling around, glad nobody was killed. Took the Giant Ibis smallish bus from PP to SHV and the big Giant Ibis from Siem Reap to PP, on the basis that their coaches look relatively new and reports suggested their drivers weren't out and out speed merchants.
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It's finally made the Khmer news outlets.
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Re: Australian Woman in Battambang /Phnom Penh Bus Crash
Noted. As always.MekongMouse wrote:How many locals though?
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LoL, he was trying to call me out for only reporting on foreigners and not mentioning locals, when in fact I was only told about the Australian woman because her mother contacted me directly.flying chicken wrote:Noted. As always.MekongMouse wrote:How many locals though?
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That was my initial reaction.General Mackevili wrote:LoL, he was trying to call me out for only reporting on foreigners and not mentioning locals, when in fact I was only told about the Australian woman because her mother contacted me directly.flying chicken wrote:Noted. As always.MekongMouse wrote:How many locals though?
Public transportation are fiercely competing against one another. The vans are just waiting for many accident to happen. They pride themselves to clock the PP-SR route in less than 5 hours. The way the management here works like, the faster you arrive at the destination the faster you get off work, thats the main incentive.
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Re: Australian Woman in Battambang /Phnom Penh Bus Crash
I wasn't trying to call you out, so much as I wanted an answer to the question. I do think some expats care more about expat lives than khmers or at least empathise more with westerners, but this is not just Cambodia. In US papers, American deaths are always reported in the first paragraph and then you might read about out the rest towards the end of the article. I do think that you running the story without seeking that additional information is suggestive of a wider cultural problem, but again, I really just asked to get an answer. I don't want to engage in another argument about this, so we can just agree to disagree.General Mackevili wrote:LoL, he was trying to call me out for only reporting on foreigners and not mentioning locals, when in fact I was only told about the Australian woman because her mother contacted me directly.flying chicken wrote:Noted. As always.MekongMouse wrote:How many locals though?
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Ok, if you are saying it's a "wider cultural problem" then I can see where you're coming from, in a small way.MekongMouse wrote:
I do think that you running the story without seeking that additional information is suggestive of a wider cultural problem,...
It must also find it strange we don't try to report every death in New Zealand either because, as you seem to suggest, someone must not think as highly as others if they done report on them.
This site is operated and visited mainly by foreigners, therefore stories naturally involve them more often. Does that suggest we think any more of expats than locals? Not at all, but the theme is this site is about foreigners (hence our url, wink wink).
I love Burmuda, but I've yet to post a story about the place. Somehow it doesn't seem quite as relative to a site called Cambodia Expats Online, does it?
And besides, as already stated, I was directly told about the story from the mother of a young Australian woman on board. That's all the info that was handed to me.
And I happen to love Cambodia and its people. So rest assured you won't see anything like what you're insinuating here coming from me.
Next you'll be accusing us of running this week's story of the Oknha who was assassinated in Phnom Penh because we assumed he was a foreigner, LoL.
All that said, I see your point I just think you directed it to the wrong people.
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