DjSilver Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Those stupid Thai taxi scammers. They deserve everything they would get... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geisha Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 I’m sorry, but that gave me a laugh ! What the hell is happening ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attento Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 What was he smoking ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jippytum Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Sme is milking the situation for all it's worth. A real drama queen enjoying the publicity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkymover Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 blimey , the police are earning their money this year with the nutters in phuket,, what the heck are they putting in the beer,, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Tongue Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 8 hours ago, ningnong said: According to the ThaiRath video the driver had locked all the doors and the Farang claims he was just trying to exit the taxi through the driver's door. I think that looks very plausible looking at the video. It looks like the driver may be actually trying to block his exit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOab5OKG-Ks Right! So you think it's plausible for someone in the BACK SEAT to crawl over the driver because he wanted to exit the car while in traffic? The taxi driver refused to let go of his car door because he feared being carjacked. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IamNoone88 Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 The deterioration of Phuket as a quality tourist destination ...... if you pray for rain ... then you deal with the mud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSky Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 What a plonker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANSIAM Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Deport the Prick…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANSIAM Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 8 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said: The deterioration of Phuket as a quality tourist destination ...... if you pray for rain ... then you deal with the mud. If they could only lose their tunnel vision mindset ‘quantity = money’ an impossibility me thinks……definitely bogged down in the mud….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipalongcassidy Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 9 hours ago, ningnong said: It looks like the driver may be actually trying to block his exit. Watch the video again when you are sober... hahaha 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 9 hours ago, chickenslegs said: The Germans from Austria are the worst. Swiss Germans are the worst 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 11 hours ago, herfiehandbag said: For crying out loud, what gets into these people! Must be the high temperatures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gottfrid Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Yet another stupid farang setting the level and class the Thai´s would use to see us as. Whenever is this going to end, instead of just escalating? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PingRoundTheWorld Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 It's amazing how some people think their right to smoke supersedes everyone else's right to breath clean air. This is true for both cigarettes and vapes. Send that entitled POS to jail and deport. Trash out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ningnong Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 1 hour ago, Iron Tongue said: Right! So you think it's plausible for someone in the BACK SEAT to crawl over the driver because he wanted to exit the car while in traffic? The taxi driver refused to let go of his car door because he feared being carjacked. Looks to me he was in desperate need of a smoke. I don't believe he was attacking the driver intending to cause him harm, he was not whacking him on the head, he just wanted out. The driver was clearly not trying to escape as the Thaiger article claimed. Facts from the ThaiRath video: The driver told the Farang no smoking. They drove on for awhile and then the Farang said "please, please" but the driver claimed he didn't know what the please please was for. The Farang attempted to exit the car but found the doors locked at a red light. The driver admits the doors were all locked. The Farang climbed over the seat to exit the driver's door. The driver of the car that was bumped into (the large Thai guy interviewed) said the Farang appeared to be a little drunk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcheech Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 (edited) Don't these Buffalo heads in Phuket know after last month, anything not legal, or claimed to be, is going to get nationwide full metal, publicity?! Edited April 3 by Dcheech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sikishrory Posted April 3 Popular Post Share Posted April 3 Whats the other side of the story? I was locked in the back of a cab in vietnam while the driver tried to extort me. The only way out is through the front in that situation. But who knows. Without any context at all we just have a elderly man sitting on top of a cabbie for some reason 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asquith Production Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 11 hours ago, SingAPorn said: Most of the official thai taxi drivers or tuk tuk drivers are just a bunch of cheats and we all know how they refuse to turn the meter ON and other of their tricks. But that is no reason for farangs to misbehave and be abusive. Many westerners in Thailand have an attitude and think themselves to be in conquered colonised territory. Such people should be plainly deported on the spot and banned from the kingdom on periods of time that depend on the level of their offense. This is to do with smoking in the vehicle and not fares and meters 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roo860 Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 1 minute ago, sikishrory said: Whats the other side of the story? I was locked in the back of a cab in vietnam while the driver tried to extort me. The only way out is through the front in that situation. But who knows. Without any context at all we just have a elderly man sitting on top of a cabbie for some reason 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2baht Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 11 hours ago, snoop1130 said: from Austria Where the kangaroos come from??? 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Zioner Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 11 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Several Thai media outlets reported that the man was a German national but some stated he was from Austria. This debate has been going on for nearly a century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolkandchance Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Cue hiring the Doctors lawyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 11 hours ago, herfiehandbag said: For crying out loud, what gets into these people! Apart from walking around with ridiculous facial hair that makes him look like an extra from an Asterix the Gaul movie, he arrives in Thailand, gets off the airplane and promptly picks a fight! Possibly in-flight cocktails ..... ? And should be promptly put back onto one heading for from whence he came! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesetat Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 11 hours ago, herfiehandbag said: For crying out loud, what gets into these people! Apart from walking around with ridiculous facial hair that makes him look like an extra from an Asterix the Gaul movie, he arrives in Thailand, gets off the airplane and promptly picks a fight! come on.. easy to see the Thai man was attempting to flee the scene of the accident and the foreigner grabbed him to prevent his running away and leaving the foreigner in the taxi. All this bad news about foreigners is making it too easy to accuse wrongdoing even if trying to help. Haha.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Forever Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 9 hours ago, Wobblybob said: Well they did say that smoking damages your health but for one man it seems pretty armless. Not at all funny or clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 11 hours ago, Wobblybob said: What do they put in the drinking water in Phuket, is the public water system connected to the glue factory or something. Hadn't even touched Phuket natural resources yet straight off the plane 🤡 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 10 hours ago, 0ffshore360 said: Is that a "Could have been worse......in another report a man had an arm hacked off for objecting to smoking ! " detraction from the ridiculous behavior or a very sad attempt to attract further attention to another news item? And people still refer to trash editions of printed wastepaper . It's The Thaiger. Better get used to it as the overwhelming news source for AN. We are offered their trash several times a day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 2 hours ago, DjSilver said: Those stupid Thai taxi scammers. They deserve everything they would get... Telling a passenger that he isn't allowed to smoke in his taxi is a scam? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtco Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Can't see the problem ... the German was just trying to get out of the cab and the driver was stopping him. No punches thrown or any other, what I would call, physical violence, can be seen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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