3 foreigners caught in Phuket for illegal motorcycle modifications

[AustinRacing]

To police, big bikes and foreigners equal guaranteed payment. Thais riding Honda waves with mod exhaust does not guarantee payment. 
 

In a related matter, I had an aftermarket exhaust on my ZX6R. I put the original ugly one back mostly due to wife’s complaint and also getting fined twice in two years. I miss the sweet melody but …

[Xonax]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

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.

In Thailand half of all delivery riders/drivers are doing their job on/in vehicles with exhaust systems modified to make a lot of noise. Why does their employers not care to inspect, that their vehicles have not been modified????

[newnative]

     Deport all of them immediately, if not sooner.   Nothing worse than those impossibly noisy motorcycles.   Now go after everyone else with the same noisy, illegal bikes--Thais and foreigners both.  Foreigners--deport, and crush the bikes into stylish coffee tables.  Thais, can't deport but crush their bikes, too. 

[wombat]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

At approximately 3.30pm, Monday, February 3, officers stopped a suspicious Frenchman

nothing worse than a suspicious Frenchman

☻👣

[wombat]

9 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

 This is news that's right up there with Trump's attempted takeover of the Gaza Strip. 

throw corn at the chooks and watch them squabble.
AKA
how to handle the media by Sir Joh Bjelke Peterson 101

[Baba Naba]

3 hours ago, watchcat said:

 

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

The boys are just looking for attention (good or bad), not necessarily speed. Not faster, just cooler and head turning. 😎

[soalbundy]

What does a 'suspicious Frenchman' look like?

[mrfill]

2 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

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.

Except, of course, the UN doesn't make any laws and the concept of universal law is false.

[impulse]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Frenchman, 29 year old Mehdi Lamine Chidekh

 

Was that a common French name 25 years ago?

 

[PB172111]

2 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

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.

So you are a sheep. 

[andyman57]

Only foreigners Thais don't modify there bikes then hmmm 🤔 🤔 should live near me 😉 

[PB172111]

2 hours ago, harryviking said:

??? 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!! 

And expats with their Harley’s. There is always a way around a problem.

[NoDisplayName]

1 hour ago, kiwikeith said:

shame on the testing department, they can't even count lpg bottles or test brakes.

 

shame?  it's a money maker.

 

out here the local inspection shops will rent temporary fixes to illegally-modified vehicle owners for the 3-minute inspection.

 

 

[jvs]

2 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

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.

Famous words from Thaksin."The UN  is not my father!"

[Guderian]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

officers stopped a suspicious Frenchman, 29 year old Mehdi Lamine Chidekh

 

Yet another news report involving a Frenchman with a decidedly non-French name. The eldest daughter of the Catholic Church must be in dire straits, no Pierre's or Marcel's or Jean-Paul's left anymore, lol.

[Mukdahan Mark]

2 hours ago, dcalaska said:

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.

 

[BumGun]

4 hours ago, Badrabbit said:

nothing will ever be done to stop it

bring on electric bikes ! 🙂  Quite  few e type step thru bikes in Luang Prabang when I was there, quite as.

[Mukdahan Mark]

I agree that there needs to be a clampdown on excessively noisy bikes (and cars), BUT just targeting farangs who are responsible for probably less than 2% of the problem is ridiculous.  Like everything else that targets farangs, it's just another corrupt, money-generating taxation scheme.  

[Liverpool Lou]

5 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.

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

 

The articles here are aimed at a foreign audience hence the report of the foreign offenders which doesn't mean that Thais weren't also targeted.

[Mukdahan Mark]

1 hour ago, Xonax said:

In Thailand half of all delivery riders/drivers are doing their job on/in vehicles with exhaust systems modified to make a lot of noise. Why does their employers not care to inspect, that their vehicles have not been modified????

I think it's a cunning conspiracy to lull farangs into a sense of belief that loud exhausts are OK (because the majority of Thais have them) then hammer them!!  But hey were all loaded so who cares right?

[Liverpool Lou]

5 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.

 

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

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.

"The police do nothing"?  Huh?  Did you read any of the OP?

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, dallen52 said:

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

Really?...

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

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

 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, schultzlivgthai said:

they can make you take a drug test as you sit at the bar having a beer.

No, legally they can't if you're doing nothing more than legally having a drink at a legally-operating bar.  

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

you do realise that under UN rules that's illegal... Same rules for everyone,

In the context of the article, the same Thai laws apply to Thais and foreigners equally, no "UN rules" are being broken.

[Badrabbit]

11 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

 

"The police do nothing"?  Huh?  Did you read any of the OP?

Oh so the police make you wear crash helmets? Make you have a standard normal sounding exhaust? 

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, RonJr said:

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

"i understand it’s due to a tiny pee pee"

Sadly interesting that you have experience in that area.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, RonJr said:

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

Go on then.  Don't forget to include every foreigner also.

[Frankie baby]

Why stop them at a check-point. They only need to stand on Nanai Road for 5 minutes & take their pick. Nanai Road Patong is just about lawless at the present.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, 2long said:

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

As has already been posted, Thais were included in the checks but this is a foreigner-oriented forum hence the foreigner-centric articles.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

it's actually a joke, picking on European people

As was clearly reported, Thais were also "picked on".