Fired! But netizens and witnesses stand up for driver after altercation with farang

 

 

Manager reported on the case of a Chiang Mai city bus driver who was fired after he was caught on a video assaulting a foreigner with a bicycle. 

 

But there was quite a back story. 

 

The video from the incident near the Tha Phae gate on Saturday prompted immediate action by the Regional Transport Corp who are responsible for the service. 

 

The driver was fined then appeared to have been sacked from his job. 

 

Netizens and witnesses were in agreement that the driver was in the wrong but they said that the foreigner had been making a great nuisance of himself. 

 

He had tried several times to stop the progress of the bus and had made the driver let him on in an area outside the bus stop. 

 

He had then blocked other passengers on the bus. 

 

He was described as bad mannered with the bus driver being described as "jai yen".

 

Calm, that is, until he snapped. 

 

Exasperated, he was caught aiming fists in the direction of the foreigner.

 

Another witness said that the foreigner also appeared to be annoying a female foreigner on the bus who he followed when she got off. 

 

He had been trying to get her email to report the matter, they said. The witness wondered why he had apparently let the matter go at the scene only to want to report it some time after. 

 

Manager reported that the two warring parties had got together at the bus station where the driver was fined and subsequently stopped from working. 

 

Manager said in their headline that he had been sacked for what happened. 

 

Source: Manager Online

 

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I maybe wrong but it looked like he was using his bike to keep the driver away to stop him from being hit .

Some people will video anything. 

OK, I'll ask. Why would you take a bike on a city bus? Isn't the idea exercise?

20 minutes ago, sungod said:

OK, I'll ask. Why would you take a bike on a city bus? Isn't the idea exercise?

Did anybody say the bike guy had brains and engaged them?

26 minutes ago, sungod said:

OK, I'll ask. Why would you take a bike on a city bus?

Maybe he was extremely tired from a long hot ride  or got a puncture in a tyre ?

31 minutes ago, sungod said:

OK, I'll ask. Why would you take a bike on a city bus? Isn't the idea exercise?

To avoid city traffic?  Out of town is fine for riding, but into the centre is full of traffic & pollution.

Just now, Samuel Smith said:

To avoid city traffic?  Out of town is fine for riding, but into the centre is full of traffic & pollution.

Not a good enough answer.

So according the netizens if you are making a nuisance of yourself - being punched is an appropriate response? Is that the basic gist. If he was making a nusience of himself, stop the bus, if he refuses to get off, call the police and they can remove him. 

3 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Some people will video anything. 

Bizarre timing that someone was waiting for the bus to stop, at the correct door just to film it. Staged  or fake?

4 minutes ago, legend49 said:

Bizarre timing that someone was waiting for the bus to stop, at the correct door just to film it. Staged  or fake?

Probably the "incident" had been going on for quite a while before the video was taken.

The bus was stopped in the right hand lane..the male voice (maybe who was videoing) 

tells the driver to calm down and stop hitting the farung or he will inform the police

he also at the end tells the driver he is stopped/parked illegally ( in the right hand lane)

It's perfectly OK for passengers to take bicycles on city buses and encouraged with special racks inside.  As mentioned, it's not safe to ride in the city.  

 

I don't understand why the driver stopped illegally in the right lane and opened the door.  He simply should have kept going, despite the passenger wanting him to stop, and not opened the door.  It was totally unsafe for the passenger to leave the bus in the middle of traffic.  But, perhaps the passenger had been heckling him and definitely other passengers as mentioned in the story.

 

The city buses will, at times, stop at unauthorized places along their route if you ask nicely, but only if it's safe to do so.  They shouldn't be expected to pick up or discharge passengers in the middle of traffic.   

 

 

oh, my mailman forged my signature for important court papers, but he did not get fired for that

2 hours ago, jonclark said:

So according the netizens if you are making a nuisance of yourself - being punched is an appropriate response? Is that the basic gist. If he was making a nusience of himself, stop the bus, if he refuses to get off, call the police and they can remove him. 

 

Agree. No excuse for violence and assault. Wonder what these "nietzens" would be posting if the farang had assaulted the driver?

Don’t do a video if you can’t handle the camera....

Why didn't the driver use his machete? 

a city bus driver gets fired over a self entitled moron who thinks the world should revolve around him, and people wonder why some Thais get fed up with the antics of foreigners..

2 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Agree. No excuse for violence and assault. Wonder what these "nietzens" would be posting if the farang had assaulted the driver?

These reckless bus drivers are just as dangerous as the rest of them on the wheels switching lanes from right to left and viceversa that being said I can only assume that the westerner may have annoyed a passenger with his bike ( I personally wouldn’t bring a bicycle on the bus anywhere for that matter especially here ! ) Then the situation escalated at the point that the bus driver had to  intervene but stopping in the middle of the road ?!!! This would confirm just what I’ve said about driving dangerously but indeed violence doesn’t help even in this scenario and needless to say the Thais do stick together like superglue even if they’re tons of times wrong they’d never admit their fault-s !

I wonder why the guy who took the video lower his phone down unless he had to watch out for his life as well ????

I hope that bus driver does really lose his job because if his conduct and needless to say endangering everyone else by stopping where he did..????

Not clear what really happened, but I suspect the foreigner was being rather unpleasant. Thais generally don't react this way unless provoked.

 

9 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Some people will video anything. 

Specially the street surface you mean??

7 hours ago, sungod said:

OK, I'll ask. Why would you take a bike on a city bus? Isn't the idea exercise?

Exhausted vegan; just a guess.

5 hours ago, legend49 said:

Bizarre timing that someone was waiting for the bus to stop, at the correct door just to film it. Staged  or fake?

Yes, really bizarre as so few people have the high-tech facility to video these days.

 

1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

Not clear what really happened, but I suspect the foreigner was being rather unpleasant. Thais generally don't react this way unless provoked.

 

Jeezus,Mary and Joseph...

21 hours ago, webfact said:

Fired! But netizens and witnesses stand up for driver after altercation with farang

No matter how badly a passenger behaves on your bus you do not start a fist fight... you quietly sit up front in your drivers seat, take out your mobile phone & call the police... let them deal with the guy.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

No matter how badly a passenger behaves on your bus you do not start a fist fight... you quietly sit up front in your drivers seat, take out your mobile phone & call the police... let them deal with the guy.

This is Thailand buddy, you were mostly right,

 

'No matter how badly a passenger behaves on your bus you do not start a fist fight... you quietly sit up front in your drivers seat, take out your mobile phone & start videoing. '

Not knowing the story, I suspect they were both in the wrong, but suspect the asshat with the bike more so. It takes quite a bit to make somebody snap like that. 

 

Not Chiang Mai, but I cycle daily  in Bangkok, and getting through traffic quickly and efficiently is one of the reasons I do it. For exercise I will ride to a park - suan rot fai, lumpini, queen sirirkit - where I can ride a measured loop in relative peace, for errands, I share the road with everyone else. My experience is that drivers are used to motorcycles and give a bicycle a pretty wide berth. In most cases, if congested, you are moving much faster than motorized traffic, even motorcycles. 

 

I question how it is more unsafe, especially since things move much more slowly at rush hour. 

 

Cycling at night is a different story especially in traffic as it is harder for drivers to see you coming unless you are lit up very well, the danger evening's and after dark is more of being hit by an opening  door than a moving car. 

 

If you take a bike on public transit, the onus is on you to be as unobtrusive as possible. 

 

Again speaking from Bangkok experience, I used to take my daughter to school mornings on Skytrain with my bike in tow, once I dropped her off, I would do 20 km or so on the way home. Without her accompanying me, I can't imagine why I would undertake the hassle 9f public transport. 

13 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Yes, really bizarre as so few people have the high-tech facility to video these days.

Especially considering how long it takes to set up the camera... 

 

I honestly believe some folk on here will type any random, ill-considered nonsense, just to contribute. 

 

Staged indeed. 

I guess somebody got thrown under the bus.

Another "quality" tourist, possibly under the influence, who took his bike onto the bus because he was unable to ride it properly?? 

On 10/30/2019 at 2:49 PM, Baerboxer said:

 

Agree. No excuse for violence and assault. Wonder what these "nietzens" would be posting if the farang had assaulted the driver?

But he didn't.