Smokey and the Bandit

Move over Gordon Ramsay?????

"The drivers claimed the tourist’s app-hailing van driver could not pick up passengers at the port and told the tourist to drag her suitcase out of there if she intended to use app-hailing services." So the so called 'drivers' can just make up any rules that suits them? The taxi mafia are taking things to a new level and what do the police and governor do? NOTHING!

That is exactly what will happen!

Absolutely correct, only once!

You would only need to pay the 5 or 6k once. I opened an account at Bangkok Bank using that method!

"If prosecuted in Thailand, Bullman risks between 10 and 15 years in prison, with Thai prison conditions considered among the worst in the world" In the unlikely event he was found guilty in Oslo, they have the best prisons in the world, more like a hotel?

Maybe the police are scared of getting shot?????

Well i sincerely hope all the Chinese drug users were arrested and will be deported and blacklisted for good! When they come out of jail!

I suppose it depends on how long you live?

Renting a condo or property is lost money! If you get a decent estate agent, buying is usually no problem as thousands will testify, but there are also crooks around?

And "Influencers", whatever they are?

You were very very lucky! Although I agree divorces do not have to be contentious, when they are it can get get ugly!

Definitely agree with your sentiment! I fear there is too much corruption ingrained into the social fabric, police, courts, government etc. I would have though that Covid would have given them pause, but no its back to their old tricks as you have said!

From the OP "An Australian man was fined 10,000 baht and paid 40,000 baht for damages after a road rage incident with a minivan in Wichit, Mueang Phuket. He also faced imprisonment for two months but he received suspension of his imprisonment sentence with one year probation." Now if the Australian had been Thai, would the fine and damages have been the same? That is the question? The unequivocal answer is no. this kind of thing happens every day and we do not here about it? Justice in Thailand is a joke, especially in Phuket apparently if you are a foreigner? The Thai minivan driver is laughing all the way to the bank!

Especially in California!????

Totally agree. These road rage incidents happen every day, maybe not damaging mirrors etc, but arguments and being aggressive etc. Surely if the Australian paid for a new mirror to be fitted that would be the end of it, why go to all the trouble of charging the guy and going to court, pretty sure the cops must have better things to do in Phuket?

You may be correct, but as the scanners only cost a couple of hundred dollars each, every Immigration office should have them?

Found it! Looks like an argument, maybe the Australian shouldn't have smashed the mirror, but nobody got hurt, apart from the mirror?????

From the OP: "The Australian man reportedly admitted that he was angry after the minivan driver honked his horn repeatedly while chasing after him. The Australian man also stated that the minivan driver was in his opinion the initial aggressor, having got out of his vehicle to confront the foreigner." Can't find any video of the confrontation! Do you have the link which proves it?

I tend to agree with you, but I guess its who the police believe?

"Australian Man Faces Several Legal Charges After Road Rage Incident in Phuket" Should read, from the article: 'The Australian man is facing two charges which are damaging other people’s property and threatening others, after road rage incident in Phuket' ?

What would the moderators do?????

You speak the empirical truth!

Absolutely correct, males ride in the males category and females in the females category? A trans women is a biological male! "Under a new participation policy that the governing body said was "predicated on fairness", such athletes will compete in an 'open category' with men. The female category will be "for those whose sex was assigned female at birth". Its not rocket science!

So you must have information alluding to that? Would you care to elucidate?