papa al Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Is this some bizarre attempt at the press trying to collaborate some equilibrium on the Farang v.s Thai taxi drivers, in what is more commonly known as the number one ''native racist extortion racket'' scam in Thailand? no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapeCobra Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Wrong title. Its more like "Stupid Farang, trying to cheat a cheating taxi driver, caught by Police" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphya33 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 He must be sick of being ripped off, so out to get his own back and make the driver sweat for a little while What an angry little boy you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Perhaps an oversight? Today I bought an item for 60 Baht and paid with a 1000 baht note. The saleswoman gave me back 40 baht. I told the saleswoman that i have given her a 1000 baht note and pronto she gave me 940 Baht back. Perhaps an oversight? ...so you paid 20 baht for a 60 baht item... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovekorat Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Perhaps he was a new teacher practising for his 'Thainess' course. Joking aside we shouldn't really congratulate him even though there is a sort of satisfaction in what he did. If we applaud him aren't we becoming everything we dislike ourselves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon9mm Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I would say this is the exception to the rule...most of us just pay whats on the meter..wouldn't take a lot out of this and really don't think this is news worthy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
off road pat Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Well thats a first !!Farang trying to cheat a Bangkok taxi driver. !! Well done mate. First of all, it's certainly not the first farang to cheat a taxi driver.... Second, It's the farang that initiated the 400 bth trip to the airport.....the taxi driver only agreed on this witch every body would do.... The farang didn't keep his word he is the scumbag here.... I personally have met a lot of very nice taxi drivers....AND A FEW BAD ONES...But the majority were OK.... regards.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piercingpusher Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> I love that attitude here 'a farang person would never do such a thing' Newsflash gents, we are also very capable of being complete rectum holes. Thailand is the trash bin of the western world Shouldn't that read Eastern world or maybe whole world. Nope.. western world and russia.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joboss Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 What a prick. Where does this trash get off trying to rip off a person providing a convenient service and in the process giving tourists a bad name. I live at Cottesloe Beach which is a tourist beach in Pert Australia and have witnessed a few fare evasions from temporary visitors. I imagine they were tourists by their foreign speech. I am proud that I happened to be in the right place to tackle one, a bilious Irishman, who had abused the taxi driver and kicked his wing mirror off. A few jabs to the head sorted him out and he emptied his pockets with a promise of more compensation in the morning to the taxi driver for repairs in exchange for the return of his ID and the police not being contacted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piercingpusher Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> We are expected to take a taxi driver's word that a farang tried to cheat him like that? I find the whole story unlikely at best Why..? Farangs trying to cheat happens every day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jungle Jim Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Very true and it sadly seems to being getting worse every year. The majority not the minority give me the creeps! I love that attitude here 'a farang person would never do such a thing' Newsflash gents, we are also very capable of being complete rectum holes. Thailand is the trash bin of the western world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malt25 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Once, a long time ago .....in a galaxy far, far away...just joking.... I had a 1000 baht note to pay a 76 baht taxi cab fare while the cabbie claimed he did not have change. So I leave him waiting and parked on the street So I go into the Family Mart and buy a 10 baht bottle of energy drink I get to the counter and there are several other people there and the employees are taking their sweet time....slowly taking care of each customer. I get to the counter and hand them the 1000 baht note but they do not have enough change in that till and have to get another employee to open the safe and give the counter employee enough smaller bills. Finally after about 8 minutes or so, or possibly 10 minutes, I get back outside and the taxi is not there. No where to be seen........ FREE...taxi ride that day......ha ha Cheers I don't see the reason for the haha. 1000 baht note for a 76 fare, not all that smart really. Then 1000 baht note for a 10 baht drink. No wonder the Thais try to scam all farangs with the likes of you on the lose. I hope you don't come here & complain when you get ripped off. Proves you don't have to have a long neck to be a goose. Just sayin..... Mal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humqdpf Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Let me get this straight - you are a foreigner and you take a taxi to the airport knowing that it is going to cost US$13 but you then try it on with the taxi driver by giving him $1.30???? I am surprised that this customer did not get a hiding. I wonder how much "fine" he had to pay to the police? And he had, if all the details are to be believed, found a taxi driver who was prepared to go by meter in Bangkok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piercingpusher Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Well thats a first !!Farang trying to cheat a Bangkok taxi driver. !! Well done mate. No thats NOT a first. Good to know you are supporting criminals in Thailand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macapie Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Not the smartest thing to try. Only for the RTP could have been nasty and backfired. DING DONG !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaii69 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Perhaps an oversight? Today I bought an item for 60 Baht and paid with a 1000 baht note. The saleswoman gave me back 40 baht. I told the saleswoman that i have given her a 1000 baht note and pronto she gave me 940 Baht back. Perhaps an oversight? Not at all. Seventy baht (thai) actually means 20 baht the way they say it. I catch them trying to cheat me all the time as I always try to calculate how much items cost before I pay. Promotion items=full price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F4UCorsair Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 An attempt by the pax to speak Thai maybe ? The tolls alone would be B125 minimum, and he made an offer including tolls, so B40 was never on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowsdawdle Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I love that attitude here 'a farang person would never do such a thing' Newsflash gents, we are also very capable of being complete rectum holes. Speak for yourself, lad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowsdawdle Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 The headline here should have read... "Man bites dog." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 load of crap, how about the daily ripping off of normal passengers, the " im not going there" drivers, it still goes on but they dont report that do they. Those bastard foreigners again eh.................good job he wasnt scantily dressed in a bikini too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fullcave Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) "Farang passenger strikes back against Thai taxi driver"? Hmm.. That’s yet another misleading headline... next. Edited February 14, 2015 by fullcave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsailor35 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 The farang did apoligise and paid the Bht400. So think it was just a case of mistaking the money . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louse1953 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Well thats a first !!Farang trying to cheat a Bangkok taxi driver. !! Well done mate. You hypocrite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravip Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 The farang did apoligise and paid the Bht400. So think it was just a case of mistaking the money . Oooohhh, the poor innocent farang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBOP Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 There are some very nice and well meaning taxi drivers out there. One time I took taxi to the airport got half way realized I forgot my wallet. Did a U-turn back home got my wallet then to the airport. When I got to the airport I was 40 baht short (didn't count on doing a U-turn). The taxi driver told me to forget it. I got his phone number and promised to return him the 40Baht. I tried to call him back but his number was disconnected. So they are not all bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louse1953 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Perhaps an oversight? Today I bought an item for 60 Baht and paid with a 1000 baht note. The saleswoman gave me back 40 baht. I told the saleswoman that i have given her a 1000 baht note and pronto she gave me 940 Baht back. Perhaps an oversight? Not at all. Seventy baht (thai) actually means 20 baht the way they say it. I catch them trying to cheat me all the time as I always try to calculate how much items cost before I pay. Promotion items=full price. Get yer ears cleaned out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterdarby Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 If it was an honest mistake by the farang, why were the police necessary? On the other hand, the honest taxi driver did not want to go by the meter, but by a prearranged price of 400 Baht incl. tolls. How much was it on the meter? Why did the police tell the customer to pay the 400 Baht and not the meter rate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyborgx Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 IMO The taxi driver should have used his meter and the farang could have just given the rest as a tip. Exactly so that immediately puts the Taxi driver's story into some doubt (certainly as to its legality), and if the Police actually DID HIS JOB, he should be enforcing the use of the meter, and fining the Taxi Driver for not using it as per the license given to him by the government, and also doing un-metered cash in hand transactions which means he is probably avoiding taxes too LOL Should have put him in cuffs and marched him off to a cell immediately! ROFL Ahhh I long for the day to see it happen.. Sadly I've only perhaps got another 50 years left in me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaiwreck Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Yep every one has a story, even me , I was getting pretty pissed at taxi drivers pulling prices out of you know where for a few trips to the same area 750-900 baht until I got into a taxi and he actually turned on his meter , I thought another efn rip off coming but alas I was soooo wrong he only charged what was on the meter 278 baht , so shocked was I I gave him 400 baht but he refused ????? confused as I was I just said take the tip and left , oh no I thought I should have got his mobile no for repeat service still nearly half price than the other scum bags nice guy too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orosee Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 The farang did apoligise and paid the Bht400. So think it was just a case of mistaking the money . Suuuure... because this: 100, 100, 100, 100 looks so much like this: 20, 20. Or "Roi" is a homonym for "Sip". Nope, the guy was trying to cheat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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