Foreigner Breaks Police Lock on Illegally Parked Bike in Phuket

[Liverpool Lou]

4 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Why wonder that?  Police do not remove offending vehicles' registration plates.

Did it have a registration plate?

I've no idea, neither does the poster to whom I made that comment!

[Photoguy21]

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I've no idea, neither does the poster to whom I made that comment!

Exactly.

[CanadaSam]

Molehill = Mountain.

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, yannyoun said:

Maybe dont want to go police to pay because overstay or another crimes.

Not necessary to go to the police. Just find a motorbike taxi and have them go to the police station.

[Peterphuket]

1 hour ago, paul1804 said:

Parking, traffic rules and most actions associated with driving in Thailand is a shambles, motor bikes park in car designated parking zones, all vehicles park in designated no parking zones, many vehicles park partially on the driving lane and sometimes as much as a meter blocking the lane for traffic to pass. They even sometimes park fully blocking the lane so they can go into a shop to make a purchase! They drive in the wrong direction in 1 way roads sign posted & flashing no entry lights displayed with arrows painted on the road! The entire scenario is a total shambles and all of a sudden in tourist high season the RTP decide to erect No parking signs, chain up bikes and fine people, why would they do this as parking in many tourist areas is often difficult to find. Property owners have also got on the racket and put road cones and barriers in front of their properties which is again just typical stupid Thailand, they dont own the road, its public property and the police do nothing about controlling this. What a joke!

And if you park your car and they don't like it, when you come back you have a scratch from front to back, it happens me once in Patong.

[mancub]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I read it to mean what you read.

 

To take a license plate means to remove it.

 

Unless you watch old Gangster and Cop movies on TCM (Ted's Classic Movies channel)...maybe....

 

 

If you ever get stopped. be careful that they don't "take" your name then !😁

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The video's uploader indicated the man chose to buy a cutter from a nearby shop instead of paying the fine at the Phuket City Police Station, a decision that spurred public discussion due to the cutter price being higher than the fine.

Logic doesn't always apply.

[Deli]

Well done, man !

[Grusa]

Could it be, it's not the parking, it's the illegal silencer amplifier?

[Cabradelmar]

For sure, not the sharpest tool in the shed (but certainly a tool)... police record plate numbers when they lock up a motorbike... he's going to be caught, and regret, the now even steeper, fines and penalties. Let's hope he also gets deported 🤞 

[In Full Agreement]

2 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

Although the cutter cost more than the parking fine, superficially it’s a cost effective alternative because the cutter can be used again in the future, so he need never pay a parking fine again.

 

 

That's really not very good advice in the long run.

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

37 minutes ago, stevenl said:

2 hours ago, yannyoun said:

Maybe dont want to go police to pay because overstay or another crimes.

Not necessary to go to the police. Just find a motorbike taxi and have them go to the police station.

You think that the police will release a clamped vehicle to someone who clearly does not own the bike nor is the renter?

[Rimmer]

A personal attack has been removed.

[Liverpool Lou]

22 minutes ago, Grusa said:

Could it be, it's not the parking, it's the illegal silencer amplifier?

How do you know that his bike had an illegal exhaust?   

Even if that was the case, he'd have to be caught actually using the bike, just owning/renting a bike with an aftermarket exhaust isn't illegal.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

A personal attack has been removed.

Thank you.

[Nemises]

2 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

it took ages to find out what I was supposed to do to get unclamped. The ticket is all in Thai, as you would reasonably expect.

No Thais around to ask? 

[2long]

Up to 10 years in jail!? Can you imagine what the punishment would have been if he had dragged a policeman to his death in an exotic sports car then fled the country?

Although he should have just paid the fine, there's a chance that other law breakers were ignored nearby at the same time, and this was an easy catch. And maybe, just maybe, the cop who put that chain on wasn't wearing a crash helmet, or may have been drunk and/or corrupt..... so who's more wrong?

[Tom Parkinson]

Has anyone confirmed that the man who cut the lock and drove away on the motorbike is actually the owner? 

[Bday Prang]

I Don't know which concerns me the most,

                                 The "shocking" crime itself and the fact that the heinous perpetrator is still at large Or  The currently predictable attempt to sensationalise a very minor incident. Or the also currently predictable comments of outrage and indignation from the usual members of the "

sanctimonious community"

                                 The attempted exploitation of  "public uproar",   is the sole reason for this article,  However there was no public uproar, so the unidentified author , simply decided to invent some, it was a  lie, the purpose of which was nothing other than  to promote a strong  reaction from the  small but very vocal sanctimonious community who patrol this forum. The writer discreetly corrected himself in the final paragraph where the public reaction was changed to "mixed" but by then the damage was done as many on here never read past the headlines 

                                 Then there was the usual reeling off of the maximum sentences applicable to reinforce the serious nature of the crime, and further embed into impressionable minds how seriously the authorities view this sort of behaviour    10 years or 1/2 a million or even both. Whipping up the outrage among the right minded members with calls for stronger and stronger punishment including of course deportation

                                  So sure was the author in his journalistic prowess, that he even predicted what the response to the article would be like when he wrote

                             " Calls for maximum punishment, including prison, a hefty fine, and deportation, have surfaced."

 

  I know its a free country and a public forum an all that, indeed nobody forced me to click on it , and people are all entitled to have theie say etc etc  But can't those getting their panties in a bunch over all these events see that they are just being played by the media, How many of the "outraged community" here from the UK for example, when back in the UK  would devote most of their day to scouring the lowest elements of the UK gutter press for scandal, and then the rest of the day getting so worked up about it that they feel the need to make a public statement on an internet forum or maybe a radio Phone in , or daytime TV even.    None is the answer, because they all had better things to do, 

                       So I guess what really concerns me the most is how easily some are influenced by the media, and how english speaking expats are so willing to turn on each other at the slightest provocation.  The devil makes work for idle hands it seems

                         Many expats on here complain of the way the Thai authorities treat them with disdain, What do they really expect when expats are incapable of presenting a united front, People should take a leaf out of the muslim book of expat behaviour, events like the one in this article should be dismissed and a dignified silence maintained, Sticking together has worked quite well for followers of the religion of peace, in the UK for example they are not just tolerated but accommodated, and most of the indigenous population particularly those  in authority or woking for  the media go out of their way not to upset them.

                        Imagine life here like that? 

 

             

                                 

[stevenl]

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You think that the police will release a clamped vehicle to someone who clearly does not own the bike nor is the renter?

I see it all the time in my street.

[john donson]

The video's uploader 

 

 

so where is the video?? same same as every other article

[Thumbs]

Too lazy to take the bike to the local police station?

[CecilM]

I know Thais who haven't paid their speeding and parking violations in 20 years. And are proud of it.

Still, dumb tourist. Should know and behave better. 

[stevenl]

56 minutes ago, Thumbs said:

Too lazy to take the bike to the local police station?

Which bike?

[stoner]

5 hours ago, paul1804 said:

Parking, traffic rules and most actions associated with driving in Thailand is a shambles, motor bikes park in car designated parking zones, all vehicles park in designated no parking zones, many vehicles park partially on the driving lane and sometimes as much as a meter blocking the lane for traffic to pass. They even sometimes park fully blocking the lane so they can go into a shop to make a purchase! They drive in the wrong direction in 1 way roads sign posted & flashing no entry lights displayed with arrows painted on the road! The entire scenario is a total shambles and all of a sudden in tourist high season the RTP decide to erect No parking signs, chain up bikes and fine people, why would they do this as parking in many tourist areas is often difficult to find. Property owners have also got on the racket and put road cones and barriers in front of their properties which is again just typical stupid Thailand, they dont own the road, its public property and the police do nothing about controlling this. What a joke!

 

but net citizens are outraged. 

[Toby1947]

I earn a decent living in the UK, with my mobile cash only company Clampbuster UK. 😂👍🤣

[stoner]

2 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Whipping up the outrage among the right minded members with calls for stronger and stronger punishment including of course deportation

 

click click click click click click click click click

[Perhaps2more]

Don't worry! We are superior. We can do whatever we like in this cheap little country. They need to respect us. ~ New location but the same mindset as when they were at home.

[Bday Prang]

38 minutes ago, Perhaps2more said:

Don't worry! We are superior. We can do whatever we like in this cheap little country. They need to respect us. ~ New location but the same mindset as when they were at home.

who are you referring to, the sanctimonious members on here?

[orchis]

23 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

To take a license plate means to remove it.

And if someone takes your phone number, he removes what?