Phuket Taxi Mafia Confronts Tourists Over App-Based Ride

[Bjoern]

The Taxi / MC taxi / Tuk-Tuk mafia in Phuket is getting worse every year, how will this crime syndicate survive when here is no more tourists to scam or extortion money? Will they just move to another tourist destination in Thailand? Shame on the thai Police who is payed to look the other way.

[RonJr]

On 1/18/2023 at 3:20 PM, Klonko said:

DLT Banglamung 12/22: passport with 2 copies of front pages and visa page, medical certificate + 1 copy, 2 copies of residence certificate, one copy each of front and back of existing driving licenses.

 

I made my copies with a color laser mfp and they were happy with the copies of my residence certificate from my embassy, so I could keep the original for obtaining the international driving permit.

Everyone hates traditional scam taxis who refuse to use a app but insist on scamming desperate and often niave tourist, ban taxi ques and fine and fire these prices of human trash, they are the same the world over, waiting for desperate tourist who don't speak the language to charge ten fold market value by being deceitful and deceptive I fkn hate old school taxis and walk, despite how much it cost because the very nature of their business model is the same as a Bell in the farang Bar 

[geisha]

14 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

A five year prison sentence might send a statement to these vermin. The issue is that the taxi mafias have always been more powerful than the police and the army. They seem untouchable. Perhaps it is time for the people to take control and show the authorities what discipline, punishment and control look like. 

I left Phuket because of them. I lived practically opposite the taxi parking lot in front of the beach . Around them piles of empty bottles of beer and Mekong. One afternoon a tourist with his family parked on the side rd to the beach. He didn’t realize that those thugs «  owned » all the roads. They beat the driver with an iron bar in front of his child and family !!! The things that happened in Kata Beach , unimaginable.  The city hall set up a bus service going from Karon beach to Patong. On the first day, the driver hadn’t gone 300 m , with tourists inside, when the thugs stopped the bus , a few nasty threats and the driver ran like hell leaving the terrified tourists inside. This is why there is no bus service on Phuket, except the crawling one an hour open wooden bus to Phuket town that is  a danger in itself.  Nowadays there is one Airport Bus that circulates . Too late for me. Gave up my beautiful condo and left.

[geisha]

13 hours ago, gravity101 said:

What did he say that was wrong? I agree with all he said. Phuket is becoming a millionaire's playground, like it or not. And why is it becoming that you should ask? Top notch shopping, dining, environment, hospitals, regional connectivity as well as excellent sailing grounds for our yachts with a myriad of beach

destinations to choose from. And yes, loads of Singaporeans and Singapore expats do 5 days offshore 2 days on here, because it has a better lifestyle and its cheaper for them to do that in terms of housing and schooling.

You obviously don’t know any real millionaires paradise.  And neither does Katatonic.  I do, and it doesn’t look a bit like Phuket. Most of the foreigners that have money there are criminals. And the rest are warmongers. I lived 20  years  in Kata so I do know it well.