please help SOS especially humanbeing :P

[bikerdoc]

Thanks ZMC888 and bikerdoc but i think i might take the risk lol

OK meaddict, just so you fully appreciate the possible consequences and risks involved of riding/driving illegally. A local resident very recently spent a compulsory period of time in lock up for riding a unlicensed/plated motor scooter, without a DL and while doing so riding the local streets near my neighbourhood, and while attempting to avoid a set of traffic lights, cut over the wrong side of the road to take a corner into a side street. He hit a child. A foreign child. I dealt with that child in the ER in the hospital I work in. That child was fortunate not to be more seriously injured. So was the rider!

The rider aside from loosing his liberty for the entire October vacation as well as several days before hand, he also lost his only means of transport albeit unlicensed and uninsured. He also has to still face the financial penalty, which will be no less than 5K (a bond the Traffic PSB officer has already taken from the rider). That is before he is dealt with the 'justice system'. But then being a local he might have some Guanxi to play yet.

The rider also suffered some deep abrasions though I can't make a comment to the extent of his injuries.

So 'meaddict' before you go out and buy your intended set of wheels, ask yourself, are you willing to take the risk? Ride a set of wheels knowingly illegally. More importantly, are you willing and able to take on the consequences should the situation go tits up? Are you willing to sacrifice your ride to confiscation should you be stopped while riding in locales you shouldn't? If you are involved in an accident especially one involving injury or damage - then the consequences may not be so easy to get out of lightly. Think mandatory jail time, confiscation and confiscation, restitution and possible deportation as has happened to other 'unfortunate' foreign riders. Even some foreign riders have ended up having to pay what might amount to extortionate like compensation sums.

To say nothing of the possibility of permanent injury or even death.

Round this area many foreigners/locals who've been riding illegally for a variety of reasons, are reconsidering their legal riding status with many going legal. Enforcement actions are getting tougher, and what was considered to be once minor traffic infractions have been upgraded to the more serious criminal offences.