"C'est moi! But I'm not a taxi driver" Frenchman tells Samui cops as Thais urged to rat on foreigners

[Gecko123]

36 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Correct and fair game they are too! Why so many try to defend this guy on Samui is amazing to me.

What I think you under appreciate is that when any-and-all work activity is strictly restricted it really can impair one's quality of life and ability to engage in the community.

 

Tutoring a kid in English should you really have to be looking over your shoulder? Helping your wife set up a kanom jin table at the local farmer's market should you really have to worry about possibly being deported? Cutting your neighbor's lawn in exchange for a basket of mangoes, should you really have to worry about being fined?

 

At some point over-enforcement of labor and immigration laws (think TM-30) becomes dehumanizing.

 

Edited May 11, 2019 by Gecko123

[Olmate]

14 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

What you don't seem to appreciate is that when any-and-all work activity is strictly restricted it really can impair one's quality of life and ability to engage in the community. Tutoring a kid in English should you really have to be looking over your shoulder? Helping your wife set up a kanom jin table at the local farmer's market should you really have to worry about possibly being deported? Cutting your neighbor's lawn in exchange for a basket of mangoes, should you really have to worry about being fined? At some point over-enforcement of labor and immigration laws (think TM-30) becomes dehumanizing.

 

Well if you accept the extension conditions for your yearly renewal non of this will concern you.If you bend those conditions to suit yourself, don’t complain when someone reacts. You, me, the guy on Samui, no special deal or quality of life benefits available when it’s not permitted by Imm regs. Dehumanising ? Seriously ?

[DennisF]

22 hours ago, justin case said:

don't you love  JOBS FOR THAIS,  women for THAIS, corruption for THAIS

 

maybe if there was GRAB or UBER, you would pay FAIR prices instead the extortion those pesky taxi drivers dare & can ask as there is NO COMPETITION

 

what about GUIDES that does speak thaiglish you don't understand and again, ask whatever they want

Dont bank on Grab Taxi for fair rates, Phuket 10km = 600bht going, 640bht for return journey, same route.

[ThomasThBKK]

Correct and fair game they are too! Why so many try to defend this guy on Samui is amazing to me.

Sheep [emoji207] [emoji207] [emoji207]

 

Hope they never put you into jail and strip you of your assets for cleaning your own ass with a bumgun, you could have hired a thai to do it for you. You are costing thais money not doing it.

 

Hope you never teach your kids something, that's by their definition also work.

 

 

People who blindly accept all this bullshit, may i ask if you were the same before you came here? I can't believe anyone here from europe that would have put up with that crap and supported it back there...

 

 

 

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[4675636b596f75]

6 hours ago, bristolgeoff said:

taxi or songtou is a mafia  everywhere. in Thailand.they charge the earth and no wonder tourist don,t like the rip off.

You have no faith in the Thai explainers who will make justifications for anything done by Thais.  You obviously don't know this world.  This by virtue of being born in Thailand, have a perpetual license to do bad things.  Tell them you got ripped off by a mafia taxi ride and they will make you feel badly that you didn't get fleeced more.

[4675636b596f75]

14 hours ago, webfact said:

Thais were urged to report any foreigners taking Thai jobs by calling 191 or 07742 1907

Somchai the Village Elder: Hello Boys in Brown, are you there?

BIB: Yes we here.  Pull string more tight please, my paper cup no more soggy since Captain Major General Colonel Lieutenant Corporal Admiral PornForU stopped using telephone as coffee cup.

Elder: I am most esteemed to report to most high BIB of day, that FARLANG  they taking money from most endearing Thai peoples!

BIB: Kee Nok Farlung tell us more! Come to cop shop and tell story please, you do.

Elder: Yesterday I find 50 baht and even though infant grandson need milk, Elder need proper caffeine so go to Mrs. Somchai bean place for cup of joseph. I ask for sugar my table it have no sugar and farlung she gib me a packet of sugar taking job from Thai who can bring me sugar better.

...........

[huberthammer]

11 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

 

People who blindly accept all this bullshit, may i ask if you were the same before you came here? I can't believe anyone here from europe that would have put up with that crap and supported it back there...

 

 

 

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You come up with so much stupid stuff on this topic it really is mind boggling. last I checked working in Europe without appropriate papers was an issue as well. you live here, it is the law so accept it or bugger off. I can't see why the Thais would apply different rules to foreigners than what we do at home.

[Olmate]

15 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

Sheep

 

Hope they never put you into jail and strip you of your assets for cleaning your own ass with a bumgun, you could have hired a thai to do it for you. You are costing thais money not doing it.

 

Hope you never teach your kids something, that's by their definition also work.

 

 

People who blindly accept all this bullshit, may i ask if you were the same before you came here? I can't believe anyone here from europe that would have put up with that crap and supported it back there...

 

 

 

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Always reckoned you were a reasonable poster, what happened?

[Olmate]

1 hour ago, DennisF said:

Dont bank on Grab Taxi for fair rates, Phuket 10km = 600bht going, 640bht for return journey, same route.

What’s fare via grab Patong to airport n back DennisE

[4675636b596f75]

26 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

Hope they never put you into jail and strip you of your assets for cleaning your own ass with a bumgun, you could have hired a thai to do it for you.

Wait a minute there fella, are you saying I could do it myself?  

[Gecko123]

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Edited May 11, 2019 by Gecko123

[ThomasThBKK]

22 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Always reckoned you were a reasonable poster, what happened?

 

Maybe it's a flashback to east german times where we snitched on each other and lived in fear and many went to jail? 

I guess, as others have said already - <deleted> snitches.

 

Publicly humilation some old chap on some bullshit thai news website, of course i defend him. Thai bs laws are only important if foreigners are involved anyway.

[ThomasThBKK]

29 minutes ago, huberthammer said:

You come up with so much stupid stuff on this topic it really is mind boggling. last I checked working in Europe without appropriate papers was an issue as well. you live here, it is the law so accept it or bugger off. I can't see why the Thais would apply different rules to foreigners than what we do at home.

 

You don't need a work permit as a spouse of an EU citizen or resident on a spouse visa.

Your thai wife can just work there without issues.

 

Not sure why you think it's the same as your home country. It isn't. 

[malcoml]

On 5/10/2019 at 11:34 AM, darksidedog said:

And no more than any decent person would do when a friend has helped them out. I have done the same many times when  a friend has taken me to the airport. The locals obviously want every penny in the pot and for friends not to help each other out. A mate doing someone a favour is seen as deliberately taking money out of their pockets, which is a very sad and greedy attitude.

They struggle with the concept of giving someone a few dollars as a thank you for helping out.

[Olmate]

53 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

 

Maybe it's a flashback to east german times where we snitched on each other and lived in fear and many went to jail? 

I guess, as others have said already - <deleted> snitches.

 

Publicly humilation some old chap on some bullshit thai news website, of course i defend him. Thai bs laws are only important if foreigners are involved anyway.

The old chap is doing work illegally and getting paid, transporting tourists in the back of a twin cab Ute with no regard for their safety, then lying to the BIB that they were his friends. All with total disregard for the conditions of his visa . If as has been suggested he owns a guest house there that to me also shows scant regard for the local Thai business operators eg transport on the island . French or not rules are rules and if you blatantly ignore them you will be noticed! The rubbish on here about fuel money for a friend is not valid at all.

[Scouse123]

3 hours ago, Olmate said:

Correct and fair game they are too! Why so many try to defend this guy on Samui is amazing to me.

 

And why are you continuously trying to prove in this thread that the guy giving a lift has committed some capital crime that deserves punishing by hanging, draw, and quartering because that is the tone of your posts?

 

Any other country in the world nobody would bat an eyelid.

 

Bone idle taxi mafia clutching at straws instead of looking and examining their own lazy cheating work ethics. That is why customers won't use them and that is why hotels are providing transport minibusses to and from the hotel destinations.

 

You making a mountain out of a molehill is what is amazing to me, you need to get out in the fresh air more.

[ThomasThBKK]

1 hour ago, Olmate said:

The old chap is doing work illegally and getting paid, transporting tourists in the back of a twin cab Ute with no regard for their safety, then lying to the BIB that they were his friends. All with total disregard for the conditions of his visa . If as has been suggested he owns a guest house there that to me also shows scant regard for the local Thai business operators eg transport on the island . French or not rules are rules and if you blatantly ignore them you will be noticed! The rubbish on here about fuel money for a friend is not valid at all.

 

I even agree with you, he should not do that crap - if he did, which we don't know anyway.

 

But be fair and go after thais who scam too, go after the ones who employee illegal workers and not only the worker.

 

No one here complains about laws, we complain about the double standards and blowing stuff out of proportion....Heck there's a certain rich thai that killed a police guy and is still running around free, how that is not unjust is beyond me.

 

Yet this crap gets blown out of proportion but if some drunk thai driver kills a family no one gives a <deleted>. Pathetic. Fine that guy 20k Baht and throw him out if he does it again, not worth a news article at all.

[jinners]

On 5/10/2019 at 2:34 AM, darksidedog said:

And no more than any decent person would do when a friend has helped them out. I have done the same many times when  a friend has taken me to the airport. The locals obviously want every penny in the pot and for friends not to help each other out. A mate doing someone a favour is seen as deliberately taking money out of their pockets, which is a very sad and greedy attitude.

very sad and greedy attitude.

You missed out stupid.

[theboogeyman]

Maybe it was a misunderstanding but you know there’s usually more to the story than what the article says. And sometimes less to the story when they are trying to sensationalize it. Personally I could care less. They’re just running out of stuff to write about because the former immigration chief disappeared. And there’s currently nothing going on to get everyone scared. What they ought to be writing articles about are the STILL CURRENTLY DELAYED election results. That would be more interesting I’d read about that. The articles they’ve been posting lately such as this one I rarely even glance over anymore. I only know what might have supposedly happened here just from reading a few comments about it. This story wasn’t worth a news article at all, why not cover the election result delay instead? Current events or something not about some dude giving someone a ride who may or may not have been working as an unofficial cab driver who cares.

 

 

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[oldrunner]

I could be wrong but I was led to believe that the number 191 was like the US 911 emergency service request. I'm an American and I have briefed my wife that should I die (which is bound to occur) she MUST call 191 as the Thai Police are required to take my body for forensic examination by the Police (not required should I die in a Thai hospital). I would hope there might be a some other number to be used when reporting Farang taxi drivers.

 

[Percy P]

On 5/10/2019 at 8:35 AM, quandow said:

I'm sure glad these BiB's have nothing better to do than shake down a farang over ฿200.

To over come handing over money have your friend pay for the petrol at the petrol station,that way no money has changed hands.

[Olmate]

7 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

 

And why are you continuously trying to prove in this thread that the guy giving a lift has committed some capital crime that deserves punishing by hanging, draw, and quartering because that is the tone of your posts?

 

Any other country in the world nobody would bat an eyelid.

 

Bone idle taxi mafia clutching at straws instead of looking and examining their own lazy cheating work ethics. That is why customers won't use them and that is why hotels are providing transport minibusses to and from the hotel destinations.

 

You making a mountain out of a molehill is what is amazing to me, you need to get out in the fresh air more.

Late comer, read the OP, then the thread, then engage the brain . Plenty of fresh air here,how,s it there? Winter almost done?

[theboogeyman]

I could be wrong but I was led to believe that the number 191 was like the US 911 emergency service request. I'm an American and I have briefed my wife that should I die (which is bound to occur) she MUST call 191 as the Thai Police are required to take my body for forensic examination by the Police (not required should I die in a Thai hospital). I would hope there might be a some other number to be used when reporting Farang taxi drivers.
 

I believe the emergency number is 1669. Maybe that’s just Korat I don’t know.


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[ZAKY]

This make me remember the night i landed in BKK, i was asked to pay THB 1,500 for a trip to Asok. The driver was a Thai and the car not a taxi one. 

[Scouse123]

17 hours ago, Olmate said:

Late comer, read the OP, then the thread, then engage the brain . Plenty of fresh air here,how,s it there? Winter almost done?

 

Send in the clowns!

 

You are just another wannabe-Thai-because- brigade.

 

Thais are wrong plenty of times, in fact, most times, and it's at the expense of the foreigner.

 

Those poor taxi drivers on Koh Samui, my ass. A bunch of idle, greedy mafia types that don't want to do a day's work but just think it's funny to cheat tourists as often as possible and treat the foreigner as a cash cow.

 

And here you are in constant posts defending them.

 

Jeez, then calling the guy a liar when he says he received some 200 baht fuel money. You then harp on about safety and riding in the back of pickups?

 

The majority of Thais have never passed a proper driving test, drive unroadworthy vehicles, pay no insurance except the compulsory government version, which isn't worth a light. and speed to destinations whilst in the meantime driving drunk or if long distance driving, under the influence of drugs.

 

Wake up and smell the coffee. And I am no latecomer, been here 25 years.

Edited May 12, 2019 by Scouse123

[poohy]

On 5/10/2019 at 5:07 PM, theboogeyman said:

Then we got into the legitimate cab and got to our hotel in less than 15 minutes from the Mo Chit bus station we stayed at the My Bed Ratchada hotel.  The legitimate cab driver was very friendly and he knew exactly what was going on when he stopped for us and he was even telling us during the ride to avoid drivers like that because it’s a scam and I was like “oh yeah I know thank you so much for stopping”.  And he only charged me 200 baht to drive 6K in less than 15 minutes NOT 500 baht like the other scam artist wanted up front.  

Sorry!!

if he was an honest taxi driver he would put the meter on fare should have been 70THB ish 200 THB for 6km you would have had be in the taxi for hours!

Edited May 12, 2019 by poohy

[theboogeyman]

Sorry!!
if he was an honest taxi driver he would put the meter on fare should have been 70THB ish 200 THB for 6km you would have had be in the taxi for hours!

Uh yeah okay what do I know about cab fare in Thailand? I’ve only been using cabs in Thailand for 5 years lol [emoji23].


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[theboogeyman]

Sorry!!
if he was an honest taxi driver he would put the meter on fare should have been 70THB ish 200 THB for 6km you would have had be in the taxi for hours!

I know everyone’s an expert on everything lol [emoji23]


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[Olmate]

5 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

 

Wake up and smell the coffee. And I am no latecomer, been here 25 years.

25 years on Samui, legends are made of that.

[KneeDeep]

On 5/10/2019 at 2:34 AM, darksidedog said:

And no more than any decent person would do when a friend has helped them out. I have done the same many times when  a friend has taken me to the airport. The locals obviously want every penny in the pot and for friends not to help each other out. A mate doing someone a favour is seen as deliberately taking money out of their pockets, which is a very sad and greedy attitude.

 

Back in the day, the locals or anyone else would simply pick you up and drop you off if they were going that way. 

I had people take me from Nathon to Chaweng as they were going that way. No suggestion of fuel money, but then nothing wrong with someone offering. Though... 200 baht of fuel for the journey?

Spirit of Samui probably long gone. Used to be a much friendly place....and the taxis should stop taking the micky.