I always quite enjoyed the freedom with booze in Thailand, maybe some people take it a bit too far. I am reminded about how we would drive down the street in a motorbike sidecar vehicle that i owned and my two passegers were mixing gin n tonics while we drove down the road (it was very slowly as it was only a 125CC bike and 3 big fellas riding. But they handed me that drink while i was driving the bike. A cop saw us, and didn't even pull us over, he just smiled and gave us a thumbs up.