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BANG SUE Police in Bangkok are investigating a video clip that went viral on the Internet in which two motorcycle taxi drivers are seen attacking a man who tried to stop them from using a bicycle lane near Chatuchak Green Market.
Police have summoned the two suspects.
Acting Metropolitan Police chief Lt-General Sanit Mahathaworn said yesterday the incident to place on September 3 at about 4pm.
more Motorcycle taxi drivers meet police over assault video - The Nation
The 1992 Act on Maintaining the Country's Cleanliness And Tidiness states motorists are prohibited from parking or driving on footpaths unless at the entrance of a building. Offenders can be hit with a fine of up to Bt5,000.
The same law states that people who witness such an offence should report it to police and split the fine with the
officer who issues the fine.
Motorcycle taxi drivers meet police over assault video - The Nation
Only in Thailand...:rolleyes:
The fines are ridiculously low and are not a deterrent.
5K bahts or even 1K would be a good deterrent for a motosai, if that was applied by policemen on the spot ... after 2 or 3 fines like this (it could happen in just a few hours), the guy would quit this habit quickly ... but that's not how things work here, police have connections with the motosai, they their eyes and ears in the neigbourhood... they won't be as benevolent if they were charged such amounts ...
Ok then 1K bahts for this one because it went viral, what about charging the guy for assault? Can't let walk free/unpunished guys able to attack anyone talking to them ? Or may they can ..
I read somewhere that the majority of fines handed out for traffic offenses go unpaid. So water off a ducks back when getting a ticket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Farang Ky Ay
Hitting the cnuts with a nice bit of rebar when they ride on the pavements or cycle paths might be a better deterrent.
I nearly ushiro empi a pizza delivery rider one day rode past me at about 50 mph on the pavement he was so fast didn't quite have enough time react.
It was a busy pavement between soi 22 and Benjasiri Park bastard almost hit me.
When i got to the pizza shop i tried to work out what bike it was but a couple of the bikes engines where hot,so couldn't really be sure who it was.
In some countries they impound vehicles when several fines are not paid, moreover they could do it on the spot for professionals who, contrary too regular riders, are supposed to carry some cash and are working in team so could gain access easily to cash if their in lack of cast at the moment when they get caught...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pragmatic
Being authorised to make money by offering transportation services should come with some duties such as not considering the soi as their own place, let alone the pavements ...
But well that wouldn't look like Bangkok anymore if they do this ...:)
some might find this interesting.
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/h...pdf?sequence=1
Quote:
This dissertation offers an ethnography of motorcycle taxi drivers: Bangkok’s most important and informal network of everyday mobility.
Drawing on over eight years of experience in the region, six months of archival
research, and 24 months of fieldwork, I analyze how the drivers, mostly male rural migrants, negotiate their presence in the city through spatial expertise, bodily practices, and social relations.
Their physical mobility through traffic, I argue, shapes their ability to find unexplored routes in the social, economic, and political landscapes of the city and to create paths for action where other urban dwellers see a traffic jam or a political
gridlock.
My narrative builds up to the role of these drivers in the Red Shirt protests that culminated in May 2010 and analyzes how their practices as transportation and delivery providers shape their role in political uprisings and urban guerilla confrontations.
My main finding is that when the everyday life of the city breaks down the drivers take advantage of their position in urban circuits of exchange to emerge as central political actors in contemporary Bangkok by blocking, slowing down, or filtering the circulation of people, goods, and information which they normally facilitate.
I just hope Prag keeps posting cos that's a nice top shelf :)