It happened again, this morning walking along side the road, more on the sidewalk than on the road and I was hit from behind by a motorbike. Two silly Vietnamese girls abroad a Honda something or other clipped me on my right side, lost control of the bike, bounced over a cage where a hamster or some little rat looking creature was being housed. Then the out of control motorbike, silly girls still hanging on paused against a tree where a couple of security men from the building we were in front of, grabbed the controls and shut the thing down.

Interesting – the folks gathered around kind of gave me a look of apology and concern but not the driver. I’ve been through things like this before and it seems some Vietnamese care less about the damage they cause than the damage sustained to their image.

It’s become so crazy that it isn’t just foreigners who are at risk; I’ve seen locals get clipped also, one by a bus, along with seeing a bunch of close calls. The traffic is getting so thick that motorbikes are not only being parked on the side walk but are using the walks as an extension of the roadways, which as you can imagine really increases the hazards for walkers. Recently I’ve even read about concerns by the government because of traffic police being injured by motorbikes running into them.