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And this reminds me, whatever happened:

 

1) To the taxi driver who killed an American with a samurai sword over a fare dispute?

 

2) The Western tourist who was tracked down and arrested and made to make an apology for a critical post about a Thai resort?

 

Will be interesting to see what happens in any altercation between a Westerner and a sacred Chinese tourist, won't it? 

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Phuket tour company has licence suspended, faces substantial fine after attacking Chinese tourist

By Peter Roche

 

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A Phuket tour company has had its licence suspended for 6 months and could be fined up to 500,000 baht after one of its employees attacked a Chinese tourist with a knife. The attack was the result of a row over a deposit payment for a trip to the Similan Islands.

 

It’s understood a Chinese family had booked a 9,000 baht day trip to the Similan Islands through the company, which included a pick-up at their hotel. When making the booking, the family paid a deposit of 5,000 baht.

 

On the morning of the trip, the tour guide failed to show at the hotel at 5.50am, as agreed. The family spent an hour trying to contact the tour operator. Eventually, it emerged that the guide had gone to the wrong hotel and at this stage, the family decided to cancel the trip and asked for their deposit back.

 

It was at this point that things got ugly, with the tour company refusing to refund the deposit. The family filed a report with Karon Police, with officers accompanying them to the tour company’s office.

 

The company subsequently refunded 3,000 baht but refused to return the full deposit amount. When the family insisted they wanted all their money back, an employee with the tour company, identified only as 44 year old Ms Wiree, slashed one of them with a knife.

 

Cue another report filed with Karon Police, who questioned Wiree and confiscated a knife found under a motorbike seat. Wiree has admitted to the attack but claims it was in self-defence and that she feared the Chinese tourist would hurt her.

 

The Bureau of Tourism Business and Guide Registration has suspended the company’s licence for 6 months and spokesman Napadol Arwutthakamprecha has warned worse may be to come.

 

“The tour company registration licence will be suspended for 6 months starting from Tuesday February 7. In addition, a tour operator must not do anything that damages the tourism industry, tourism places, and tourists or they could be fined up to 500,000 baht. It is being considered with this tour company for how much they could be fined in this case.”

 

Source: https://phuket-go.com/phuket-news/phuket-news/phuket-tour-company-has-licence-suspended-faces-substantial-fine-after-attacking-chinese-tourist/

 

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2 hours ago, John Drake said:

And this reminds me, whatever happened:

 

1) To the taxi driver who killed an American with a samurai sword over a fare dispute?

 

2) The Western tourist who was tracked down and arrested and made to make an apology for a critical post about a Thai resort?

 

Will be interesting to see what happens in any altercation between a Westerner and a sacred Chinese tourist, won't it? 

If he confessed, probably got an 8 yr sentence as seems to be the standard for murder, no matter how gruesome.   That's what the Nazi got in Udon Thani for stabbing his GF 17 times in front of her daughter.

 

EDIT; he received a 10 sentence, and curious if the is 'the' sentence, or was it cut in half for confessing.   As the Nazi @ UT got 16, halved for confessing.

https://aseannow.com/topic/1090705-report-on-sentence-for-thai-taxi-driver-who-killed-american-with-a-machete/

 

So both, if not already, may be out soon.

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As soon as Chinese started coming, the scam tour operators are at it again scamming tourists. It simple solutions will be to refund the money or rebook them, if they want, for another day. Severe punishments should be imposed on these scammers.

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9 hours ago, webfact said:

Wiree has admitted to the attack but claims it was in self-defence and that she feared the Chinese tourist would hurt her.

 

Surely it would only be self defence if the tourist attacked her. Not because she feared he might.

 

 

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17 hours ago, webfact said:

At this point, the Chinese tourists wanted to cancel the entire trip and asked for a refund. However, the tour operator did not see eye to eye on this request with the tourist, claiming the wrong information was given.

 

 

That's fine.  These Chinese and their friends and acquaintances and the millions that will read all about it on WeChat (with names named!) will stick to zero-dollar tours in the future, unless they bypass Thailand altogether.

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22 hours ago, DJ54 said:

Put the tour operator on a low quality plastic raft used laying around the pool… take him 

out far enough so he won’t drift back…

only on LOS eh slash a customer with a knife and WOW..get your license suspended for 6 months ..what if it had been fatal 12 months perhaps ..law is a ass here  

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