Liverpool Lou

Thanks for posting that! The bloke with the black hair, grey shirt and black trousers, i.e. the one in the screenshot shown in the OP of whom you said had a white face and was, therefore, a farang, is the taxi driver! Q.E.D.

" So many failed barristers here" Including you, clearly!

Really? Are white-skinned, foreign Korean, Chinese or Japanese farangs? You didn't know that your guess was accurate before you saw the recently posted FB video!

Glad you appreciate it but it's so sad that you actually counted them.

On a running taxi meter, after the first B35, the fare increases in increments of B2 every 100m so the distance for a B10 increase would be 500m, not 2km.

Not the one pictured in the OP!

You only know it's a farang now because you've seen the FB video just posted! You didn't know that before, in fact, the person that you were claiming had white face (the person in the pic in the OP) and was, therefore, a farang, was actually the Thai taxi driver!

You really think it should of [sic]?

I've just checked comments before mine. They said farang, that's what I read. And the video clip shows a white face. And he's described as a foreigner. Is that not farang then? Why do you get your jollies jumping on others posts here (not just mine) ? No, you have no idea whether he was a "farang". Do you know what a farang is? I don't get any "jollies" from doing anything here but, as it's a forum, we are permitted to comment on other posters' comments and, if you're making inaccurate assertions, why shouldn't your posts be commented on, just as you are commenting on my posts?!

So, because some posters (who weren't there) referred to the foreigner as a "farang", you assume that they're correct when it wasn't mentioned in the actual OP? The issue is, he may not have been a "farang"!

25 pct? It was B10, 20% of the fare.

"lets put aside the bitching and moaning " Well, if you say so we better all obey! By the way, let's put aside your assertion that he was a "farang", unless you know different to the rest of us.

I don't believe that for a moment if he was a Bangkok taxi driver, perhaps he just didn't know the best way to get to Sukhumvit from wherever he picked you up. Several times a driver has asked me whether he should turn left or right out of my soi, it just means that he's asking which is the best way from where he is.

"It is the taxi driver's fault...I refuse to pay taxi drivers that try to rip me off" Why is it "the taxi driver's fault"? Do you know something that the rest of us don't? The dispute was over B10, the only people who are calling that huge amount a "rip off" are posters here!

The "long route"? The difference was B10, how much longer than usual could it have been?!

Maybe you don't know that since the Covid restrictions and the consequent lack of customers refusing to use the meter and risking losing the fare is very unlikely in Bangkok.

Perhaps that's exactly why the taxi driver wanted the correct fare to be paid.

Some know-alls are assuming that the foreigner is a farang, wonder why?

I agree but where did it say that the foreigner is a 'farang'?

There is no suggestion in the OP that the meter was not being used. I use taxis every day and since the Covid restrictions over the last year or so I've not come across one single taxi driver that wouldn't use the meter, nor one who refused the destination regardless of weather or traffic.

Was he a "farang"?

I think that your calling it "fare padding through a detour" is a bit of a dramatic overstatement considering the dispute was over B10!

Don't forget the vast majority of members here who, in general, prefer to heap approbation on any Thai.

Probably anyone is allowed to join. Except you. I would hope that would be the case! To steal someone else's line, I wouldn't want to be a member of a society that would have me as a member.

All Bangkok public taxis are metered. If the meter shows B50, B50 had to be paid regardless of how cheap it may have been. If it was an agreed fare, it had to be paid regardless of how cheap it may have been.