What does the future hold for fortune telling taxi driver? Will he be fined or let go?

[webfact]

What does the future hold for fortune telling taxi driver? Will he be fined or let go?

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A Bangkok taxi driver has been called in by the authorities after he put up a sign offering a fortune telling service in his cab.

 

The driver has said that he is doing nothing wrong but a post on a popular social media sight suggests otherwise with a female passenger saying she felt threatened.

 

The sign offering fortune telling is draped over a front seat for passengers in the back to read.

 

Driver Mongkhonsin Saengsakudom starts with some seemingly innocuous question that is an introductory spiel for luring people into having their fortunes told.

 

In a recent case he said: "I understand that you have difficulty saving money?".

 

A woman called Pantila Sawadiphap wanted to go from Tiwanon to a market. She didn't really want her fortune told but muttered something about agreeing to placate the driver.

 

He told her future.

 

At the end of the journey she was asked for 299 baht for the fortune telling service in addition to the 71 baht fare.

 

She said she didn't have the money and when the driver suggested she go to the ATM she reiterated she had no money. She handed over 100 baht for the fare. She didn't get any change.

 

Mongkhonsin told Sanook that it was pretty much as the passenger had said. But he was polite and said "never mind" she would not have to pay if she didn't have the money.

 

He put the non-return of her change down to a misunderstanding.

 

The taxi driver smiled as he told Sanook that he was a great fortune teller and had been doing it for the last two years - he made between 40,000 and 50,000 baht a month from driving a taxi and telling fortunes.

 

He said he had been called in by the authorities on Thursday or Friday to explain himself. He had been told not to offer fortunes after a previous complain but he just couldn't stop - he needed the money.

 

Anyway, he said in this latest case he hadn't charged the woman - so what was the problem?

 

"They will let me off" said the driver in an attempt to predict his own future.

 

That may turn out not to be the case if the experiences of a woman who went on the popular fan page of Mem Pho Dam are anything to go by.

 

"Kaem" said that in December 2016 she had got in this driver's cab and he had demanded 299 baht for a fortune telling service she didn't want.

 

It was the same person as the latest case of the other woman with the same modus operandi.

 

He had started off saying: "You know how to sort out the problems in your life?"

 

On a later occasion she got in the same man's cab. This time he started asking her lots of personal details and even began photographing her with his mobile phone when a call came in from her father.

 

She felt he was up to no good and might put a curse on her.

 

In a panic she threw 500 baht at him and exited the taxi in traffic. She said that she took a picture of the license plate and that the driver was spoken to by the authorities and banned for just a week.

 

Stay tuned for the driver's meeting with the Land Transport Department today or tomorrow.

 

Here at Thaivisa we are wondering what the future holds for this Bangkok cabby.

 

Source: Sanook, Facebook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-03

[ezzra]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

In a recent case he said: "I understand that you have difficulty saving money?".

Wow, now this IS a fortune telling par excellence... i mean to tell a Thai

person that they're short on money and having troubles in saving money

you really need to be Hudidni to figure out that...

[Thaiwrath]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

"They will let me off" said the driver in an attempt to predict his own future.

My prediction is........................................ a wai 

[webfact]

The future's bright for fortune telling cabby - fined just 1000 baht

 

Sanook reported that the Department of Land Transport had spoken to the Bangkok cabby who had a sign in his vehicle advertising a fortune telling service.

 

Despite information given online that a female passenger had felt threatened by the actions of Mongkhonsin Saengsakudom the DLT fined him just 1,000 baht.

 

Chief of the DLT Sukree Jaruphoom confirmed the fine Thursday giving no other details.

 

The driver appears to have been spoken to based on a more recent case where a female passenger in his cab was asked for money but the driver said he didn't press for it after she said she had no cash.

 

No change was reportedly given in this case that the driver put down to a misunderstanding.

 

According to online reports this was at least the second time that Mongkhonsin had been spoken to about offering fortune telling services in his cab.

 

A woman went on fan page Mem Pho Dam to say she threw 500 baht at him and reported him after feeling threatened and concerned that he may put a curse on her.

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-03

[DaiHard]

He should have known he was going to be fined, right?

[mok199]

I wonder if he can ''vanish into thin air''.??

[AhFarangJa]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

She felt he was up to no good and might put a curse on her.

 

With this sort of mentality it is not difficult to see how these charlatans prosper.....