3 foreigners caught in Phuket for illegal motorcycle modifications

[snoop1130]

Photo via Facebook/ Phuket Times ภูเก็ตไทม์

 

By Petch Petpailin

 

Officers from Karon Police Station stopped three foreigners at a checkpoint on a road in Phuket due to illegal modifications to their motorcycles.

 

Karon Police set up a checkpoint outside the Holiday Inn Resort Phuket to monitor both Thai and foreign motorists violating traffic laws.

 

At approximately 3.30pm, Monday, February 3, officers stopped a suspicious Frenchman, 29 year old Mehdi Lamine Chidekh, and inspected his Yamaha TMAX motorcycle.

 

Chidekh’s motorcycle was found to have illegal accessories installed, along with a modified exhaust pipe that produced excessive engine noise. No further illegal items were discovered in his possession.

 

Two other foreign motorcyclists were stopped at the checkpoint at around 8pm. They were identified as 23 year old Russian national Degtiarev Egor and 27 year old Russian national Kosin Denis.

 

 

Egor was riding a Honda CB650R, while Denis was on a Kawasaki Z1000. Both motorcycles were found to violate the same laws as Chidekh’s.

 

All three foreign nationals, along with their motorcycles, were taken to the police station for further legal proceedings. However, details regarding the charges and penalties were not disclosed in the report.

 

Following a previous case, the three may face two charges:

 

• Section 14 of the Land Transport Act: altering any parts of a vehicle to differ from its registered specifications with the Land Transport Department. The penalty carries a fine of up to 2,000 baht.
• Section 370 of the Criminal Law: modifying an exhaust pipe to produce noise exceeding 95 decibels. The penalty carries a fine of up to 1,000 baht.

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2025-02-05

 

 

[Sig]

They're allowed a full on search just for being charged for illegal bike modifications!? That's a bit excessive!😦

[bokningar]

Now, if they could take all Thai kids riding around like crazy with bikes that have excessive noise as well. 

I'm not holding my breath.

[Badrabbit]

The one thing that is bad here is that police do nothing, where I live it seems to be the thing to make your bike as loud as possible, nothing will ever be done to stop it just like everything else crash helmet wearing in particular.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, Sig said:

They're allowed a full on search just for being charged for illegal bike modifications!? That's a bit excessive!😦

But sometimes productive

[Kwausie]

Boys will be boys.

[watchcat]

1 hour ago, Sig said:

They're allowed a full on search just for being charged for illegal bike modifications!? That's a bit excessive!😦

 

Not if you dislike idiots who really think that more noise makes the bike go faster

[dallen52]

What would be worthy news would be

 

Millions of thai people caught with no helmets, no licences, 3 or 4 on a bike, underage school and village kids as young as 8, or cages attached to the sides of bikes with Granny sat on a plastic chair...

 

They target farang because they have money to pay the fines...

 

 

 

[watchcat]

2 minutes ago, Kwausie said:

Boys will be boys.

 

Boys will be idiots as in this case.

[dallen52]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

All three foreign nationals, along with their motorcycles, were taken to the police station for further legal proceedings. However, details regarding the charges and penalties were not disclosed in the report.

No mention of any thais pulled up or do they get the customary wave to keep going...

[simon43]

12 minutes ago, dallen52 said:

No mention of any thais pulled up or do they get the customary wave to keep going...

 

Their country, they make the rules and they break the rules.  As a foreigner, don't break the law - don't have a problem...

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[schultzlivgthai]

What a damn joke! 

[schultzlivgthai]

2 hours ago, Sig said:

They're allowed a full on search just for being charged for illegal bike modifications!? That's a bit excessive!😦

Dude they can search you anytime day or night, they can make you take a drug test as you sit at the bar having a beer. Dont be naive it’s military run country!

[hotsun]

Police here only exist to collect money

[mancub]

So do these 20 yr old foreigners own or rent these machines, and who is responsible for the "modifications" ? 

[Aussie999]

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

 

Their country, they make the rules and they break the rules.  As a foreigner, don't break the law - don't have a problem...

You do realise that under UN rules that's illegal... Same rules for everyone, otherwise how do you expect foreigners to behave differently, they do as Thais do, believing it's ok, perhaps this is hard, for you, to comprehend.

[CygnusX1]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Chidekh’s motorcycle was found to have illegal accessories installed, along with a modified exhaust pipe that produced excessive engine noise.

Congratulations to Thai police, I wish the police where I live in Australia would do the same.

[dcalaska]

It's about time the police do something about this problem. In my small northern town, the police could be raking in 50,000 to 100,000 B per day @ 1,000 B per illegal modification.

[Richardsamui]

2 hours ago, Badrabbit said:

The one thing that is bad here is that police do nothing, where I live it seems to be the thing to make your bike as loud as possible, nothing will ever be done to stop it just like everything else crash helmet wearing in particular.

Same here, it's like anarchie. No police been seen the last 4 months. And all drive like crazy with noise and excessive speeding. Well over 110 km/h. No helmet. 

[harryviking]

??? Since when did the Thai police become allergic to loud sounds from motorcycles??? I hear screaming bikes with Thai kids on them every day and nothing happens!! 

[NorthernRyland]

A Thai person can get a take a restful nap in the dirt next to a highway during rush hour and think nothing of it. Noise does nothing to them. Never have I seen the Thai police stop even a single kid for modifying their bike and making tons of noise. If they actually cared they would enforce their own laws.

 

[RonJr]

3 hours ago, bokningar said:

Now, if they could take all Thai kids riding around like crazy with bikes that have excessive noise as well. 

I'm not holding my breath.

These young thai punks drive everyone insane with thier fart pipes on mini rice 100’s 

i understand it’s due to a tiny pee pee but wish the police would enforce those punk ass kidz and just get the Russians for coke and pushing thier girlfriends off the balcony  😆

[RonJr]

We should start a fb group that post license plates of every Thai kid that has a loud pipe! 

[twizzian]

I’d like to see these deafening soil trucks with bucket size pipes chuffing out the smoke pulled , but never happens

[2long]

So, only the Frenchman was suspicious... but not the Russians?

 

And as many have already posted, how about ALL THE THOUSANDS of Somchais who modify bikes yet get away with it?

[jesimps]

Now if they would tackle the real noise problem here, the playing of excessively loud bass-heavy music for hours on end, I'll be a happy man.

[kiwikeith]

4 hours ago, Sig said:

They're allowed a full on search just for being charged for illegal bike modifications!? That's a bit excessive!😦

It's actually a joke, picking on European people because up to god knows how many percent of bikes, trucks and cars sceam past my house every day at high speed on a dangerous narrow road making unbearable noise because they have been fitted with cowboy straight through mufflers, I have seen 3 so far loose control and crash into car's which drive in the middle of the road, there's going to be a fatality soon, shame on the testing department, they can't even count lpg bottles or test brakes. I know what is wrong, the police are deaf, and colour blind when they see African girls working their streets they don't know if they are thai.

 

And the modifications of mufflers ect is big business, I wonder who owns the supply line?? Anyone know??

[KannikaP]

2 hours ago, dallen52 said:

What would be worthy news would be

 

Millions of thai people caught with no helmets, no licences, 3 or 4 on a bike, underage school and village kids as young as 8, or cages attached to the sides of bikes with Granny sat on a plastic chair...

 

They target farang because they have money to pay the fines...

 

 

 

Possibly a full Bht 3000 each!

[Lung Mark]

Confiscate and crush the bikes and be done