Taxi driver fires stone from catapult at Thai celeb Mario Maurer in Porsche

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Taxi driver fires stone from catapult at Thai celeb Mario Maurer in Porsche

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Police were called to the Pratunam area of Bangkok after a road rage incident involving a taxi driver and a heartthrob Thai actor.

 

Mario Maurer was driving his Porsche when there was a "cutting in front" incident on the road. Apparently the taxi driver - by the name of Udorn, 37 - took aim with a catapult and a stone.

 

The side window of the black Porsche was completely smashed.

 

Phayathai police later spoke to both the celeb and the taxi driver at the station.

 

Mario was tight-lipped with reporters telling Sanook he didn't want to make a big deal of it.

 

Police have charged the taxi driver with criminal damage.

 

A video of Mario using his phone by the side of the road was shared from the "Park Bo Bo Be Be" page to "Yousharehotnews".

 

It showed many people taking selfies with the handsome actor.

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-01-09

 

 

[Kerryd]

If taxi drivers are running around armed with these things, I'd say that the time loop has definitely been screwed with !

 

[wirat69]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

The side window of the black Porsche was completely smashed.

Looks like the passenger window of the taxi is completely smashed.... making it very unclear who fired the catapult.... Great reporting, poor clarity

[Darcula]

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

a catapult and a stone

 

They should introduce jousting on thai roads soon.

 

[mok199]

nice 80's 911 carrera

[Just1Voice]

This is what Thai call a "catapult" 

 

[DLang]

The samurai sword was in the boot. 

[jvs]

7 minutes ago, DLang said:

The samurai sword was in the boot. 

Who is wearing boots?Oh yeah,different meaning.

[JoePai]

3 hours ago, mok199 said:

nice 80's 911 carrera

A Targa 

[connda]

I think the concept of dueling should be reintroduced.  If you're enraged at someone, instead of being a coward and either using a weapon or group beatdown of a individual, the authorities should set up a duel. 
Two individuals, two seconds, choice of weapons, clear terms of engagement, witnesses. 

[Machiavelli]

3 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

This is what Thai call a "catapult" 

 

This is called a catapult or slingshot everywhere. 

Edited January 9, 2018 by Machiavelli

[Beats56]

4 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

This is what Thai call a "catapult" 

 

Sling shot 

[German farang]

2 hours ago, connda said:

I think the concept of dueling should be reintroduced.  If you're enraged at someone, instead of being a coward and either using a weapon or group beatdown of a individual, the authorities should set up a duel. 
Two individuals, two seconds, choice of weapons, clear terms of engagement, witnesses. 

Great suggestion, would like to, sometimes ???

[dunroaming]

5 hours ago, mok199 said:

nice 80's 911 carrera

Targa at that!   Could be looked at as a classic by some or just a clapped out old Porsche by others 

[Just Weird]

6 hours ago, wirat69 said:

Looks like the passenger window of the taxi is completely smashed.... making it very unclear who fired the catapult.... Great reporting, poor clarity

...only if you disregard what was in the report.  Why would the Porsche driver smash his own window using a catapult resulting in the taxi driver being charged?

[lonewolf99]

It is only a Sling shot in America - the rest of the world calls it a Catapult except the Kiwis and Ozzies call it a Ging and a Kettie in South Africa....they were used extensively in the last street riots in Bangkok.

 

[whaleboneman]

Slingshot in Canada.

[observer90210]

Another remarkable Thai taxi driver, who should have his operating licence plainly revoked.

 

 

Edited January 9, 2018 by observer90210

[timendres]

Kudos to the actor for not going off the deep end and expressing his desire to not make a big deal out of it.

[richard_smith237]

Thai news reports that the Taxi driver fired a stone with a catapult (slingshot - semantics) through his own window and the window of the Porsche.

 

That a stone fired via a catapult could penetrate through two tempered safety glass is somewhat questionable... I wonder if the Taxi driver actually fired a gun in anger and then quickly back-pedaled... 

[sawadee1947]

it's a very old model......time to buy a new one

[Enoon]

 

Apparently the taxi driver only meant to scare the Porsche driver.

 

He said he didn't think the catapult was loaded and it went off accidentally.

 

 

 

[Jonmarleesco]

4 hours ago, Beats56 said:

Sling shot 

Not a sling shot. Those were the biblical things , one of which David used to take down Goliath.

[Jonmarleesco]

1 hour ago, sawadee1947 said:

it's a very old model......time to buy a new one

The catapult?

[Jonmarleesco]

9 hours ago, Kerryd said:

If taxi drivers are running around armed with these things, I'd say that the time loop has definitely been screwed with !

 

Metered?

[lensta]

10 hours ago, wirat69 said:

Looks like the passenger window of the taxi is completely smashed.... making it very unclear who fired the catapult.... Great reporting, poor clarity

Maybe the taxi driver forgot to lower his window before firing off the sling shot lol

 

[Destiny1990]

Not to many gentlemen on these roads here..

[Stargeezr]

Thanks for the lengthy video, good to see that there were no

serious injuries, and to hear the city sounds of Bangkok again.

Geezer

 

 

 

[lonewolf99]

18 hours ago, whaleboneman said:

Slingshot in Canada.

Canada is America..............so is Mexico and Patagonia.......

[whaleboneman]

8 hours ago, lonewolf99 said:

Canada is America..............so is Mexico and Patagonia.......

Well then, you're mistaken twice. Canada is in North America. And Spanish speakers don't use slingshot they use honda. But some people are never wrong...