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12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

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Photo via Facebook/ เหยี่ยวข่าว ภูเก็ต Newshawk Phuket

 

By Petch Petpailin

 

A viral video showed two foreign men attacking a Thai taxi driver outside a supermarket in Phuket, allegedly over a fare dispute.

 

Several Facebook news pages in Phuket shared the video of the physical assault today, December 3. In the video, one of the two foreign men, both wearing white T-shirts, is seen kicking the taxi driver, who was standing next to his red-and-yellow taxi.

 

The two foreigners immediately walked away from the scene after the attack but continued to complain to the driver in their native language. The driver was heard speaking with witnesses at the scene…

 

“They refused to pay the fare. They gave me only 50 baht.”

 

Witnesses and a person who recorded the video suggested the taxi driver report the matter to the police. They also expressed their disapproval of the foreigners’ violent actions.

 

The news Facebook page, Phuket Hotnews, reported that the incident occurred outside a supermarket on Thep Kasattri Road in the Thalang district of Phuket. The news agency then questioned officers at Thalang Police Station for further details.

 

 

 

According to the police, the taxi driver did not file a complaint with them initially, but they summoned him to the station for questioning after the video circulated on Thai social media.

 

The taxi driver told police that the two foreigners had booked his service through the Bolt app. They travelled from Patong to their accommodation in Thalang, with the fare being 570 baht.

 

However, the two foreigners had only 200 baht in cash and requested to pay the remainder in foreign currency. The taxi driver refused the foreign cash, and the foreigners asked him to take them to a supermarket for a currency exchange, to which the taxi driver agreed.

 

After the exchange, the driver requested an additional 200 baht for the trip to the supermarket. The foreigners refused to pay and argued with the driver before the physical assault occurred. The driver insisted that he would not take any legal action against the two foreigners.

 

Following the release of further details, opinions among Thai netizens were divided. Some urged the taxi driver to take legal action against the foreigners, while others sided with the foreigners, suggesting that the driver might not have informed them about the additional fare for the supermarket trip.

 

Taxis deserves it what fare is 570 in Phuket almost the length of the island 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2025-01-03

 

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Posted
10 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Regardless, thats no way to behave and the tourists were aggressive ayholes...  Ayhole tourists - ayhole taxi drivers

Seems like it was inevitable that it was going to end up in a sh!t fight. 

Posted

Once long time ago, I was on Samui for the first time and needed a ride, so I booked a Grab. And the distance of around 6 km that can cost around 70 baht in Bangkok, took 398 baht on Samui... The same application... Never been to either Samui or Phuket after the COVID, and not going to..

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Posted
26 minutes ago, Aleksey75 said:

Once long time ago, I was on Samui for the first time and needed a ride, so I booked a Grab. And the distance of around 6 km that can cost around 70 baht in Bangkok, took 398 baht on Samui... The same application... Never been to either Samui or Phuket after the COVID, and not going to..

Since you booked a Grab it can't have been too long ago.

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Posted
13 hours ago, Centigrade32 said:

Good.

Of course he doesn't want to press charges, likely due to him threatening them first, added to the insult of him trying to rip them off. First for the ridiculous Phuket fare and then trying to charge them another 200 baht on top of that. Sounds like he got 620 baht and still wasn't satisfied. Greedy barsteward.

he got 50 baht, do you know how to read

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Both sides are in the wrong.

Entitled passengers should have had the cash or not got in the cab. This goes both way though. The amount of times I have got a taxi that said "sorry I don't have change" is basically a scam in itself.

Taxi guy should have mentioned there was a further fee. 

I doubt they struck him because he was being overly polite. Argument escalated.

Also never seen a Bolt metered taxi. Don't they require different plates as well.

There seems to be a real us vs them vibe in the media in the last few years. Magnified by social media.

 

 

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