Taxi motorcyclists ignore passengers to block Grab rival

By The Nation

 

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The latest battle in the war between traditional motorcycle-taxis and the upstart Grab service appeared to end with no one getting a ride.

 

A Facebook user posting as “Enfant Tunglamae” live-broadcast the Thursday evening stand-off from in front of the Central Rama IX mall in Bangkok.

 

It showed taxi motorcyclists ignoring a long queue of would-be passengers while they ganged up to block a Grab motorcyclist from picking up a limping rider.

 

About 41,000 people watched the broadcast.

 

Enfant could be heard arguing with the taxi motorcyclists, pointing out that people had the right to choose which service to use.

 

She told her viewers that the Grab rider had been summoned by phone by the person with a leg injury that prevented him from walking to the motorcycle-taxi stand.

 

But the taxi motorcyclists surrounded the man from Grab, blocking him in.

 

Enfant pointed out the long queue waiting for a bike ride while the drivers were wasting time harassing the Grab man and his passenger.

 

A taxi motorcyclist told her to mind her own business.

 

The broadcast ended in a cliff-hanger when Enfant’s friend turned up on a bike and she rode off.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30353423

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-08-31

 

The epitome of Thainess. 

I think I am now getting close to a proper definition: a polymorphic mental disease.

Must have been on the happy pills, no one tried the old 5 on to 1 punch up.

Those taxis should be charged 500 baht for harrassment to others

Taxi weak scum bags. Drunken dirty useless men.

The taxi drivers can't be protesting on the grounds that Grab take their business, as they happily ignored the passengers who were waiting. So what is their grip again?

Edited August 31, 20187 yr by Bangkok Barry

Fu__ing morons! Maybe getting hit for threatening behaviour would sober them up. But somehow, I doubt it.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Enfant pointed out the long queue waiting for a bike ride while the drivers were wasting time harassing the Grab man and his passenger.

Perhaps the queue should have had words with the idiots, as opposed to waiting patiently for things to play out.

Is holding someone against their will breaking the law ??? Maybe the Grab bike isn’t legal but holding someone against their will certainly is. FK these guys for thinking they are above the law. They should be arrested on the spot. Problems like this and the police doing nothing is why foreigners think there is mafia in Thailand. Shame on the authorities for doing nothing. 

13 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

The taxi drivers can't be protesting on the grounds that Grab take their business, as they happily ignored the passengers who were waiting. So what is their grip again?

Competition!

If those Wins would just pee all around their territory, the Grab guys would definitely stay away.

This is just plain stupid. Instead of joining grab and getting more rides = more income they are threatening the clever people who have understood this principle.

22 hours ago, webfact said:

 

It showed taxi motorcyclists ignoring a long queue of would-be passengers while they ganged up to block a Grab motorcyclist from picking up a limping rider.

Morons. 

Technology  has arrived.  

In spite of the moral panic AI will,  and MUST, advance. It must because the genie is already out the bottle. If we don't advance it our enemies will. 

The upside is, we can expect self driving everything, and 5G being rolled out everywhere within ten years. 

The redundant drivers can learn to maintain the trillions of 5G nano routers that will appear. 

Edited September 1, 20187 yr by Small Joke