Reader Submission: Attention, the Thai police in Bangkok apparently need money again!

Best. Marc the fact that you get that fine has nothing to do with them needing money. The fine for smoking in places where it is not allowed or throwing away your butt is well known. Clear warning signs can be seen at many points. You really owe that fine to yourself by not respecting the rules.

I once experienced years ago when I left a butt on the stairs of the McDonalds.
When I arrived downstairs, I was pointed out by an agent to a sign that said 2000 Bath fine.

I rummaged in my pocket for loose baths and couldn't get past 400 I told him 🙂
After 5 minutes of discussion that I really didn't have anything with me and that I would like proof of payment it was so good and I could continue without proof of payment.

Those 400 Bath went straight into the agent's pocket.
Well, very corrupt, same as driving with a helmet, if you sit in front you have to wear a helmet, especially as a farang. But if you have someone on the back, they can cheerfully come along without a helmet, even if you tear over the road at 60 km / h. Rules are rules, why that is less important.

If you know you're wrong, why throw your butt away?
Apparently no manners? Too lazy?

You don't take into account the fact that many non-smokers are annoyed by the butts on the street and by smokers who pollute the environment with contempt for non-smokers? (Not counting their often smelly clothes, which is good to smell when you're in the elevator with a smoker.)

You don't take the environment into account? Butts thrown away on a seafront promenade or on the beach eventually end up in the sea and poison the fish and thus the fish we get on our plate. Smokers don't seem to care.

In Jomtien, the smokers sit on the boulevard and are too lazy to throw their butts into a bin a dozen meters away… no, that ends on the footpath.

Where do smokers get the right to pollute the environment???

The fines are clearly indicated and justified. I myself am a smoker but a fine will not
yield. Just buy a pocket ashtray and throw your butt in there, problem solved.
You can buy a pocket ashtray in the better tobacconists in the Netherlands and Belgium.
I myself use a nice silver plated one. Perhaps a nice end-of-year gift for smokers.

Make yourself comfortable buy a small folding ashtray to put in your pocket and no more problems, you can find it everywhere in the bazaars.

Why are people so concerned about people who throw away a butt, you know what is thrown on the street every day by their own population? You are more concerned about that than about the Farangs who throw a butt on the street.

Why such a fuss over a cigarette butt being thrown away? And not for all household and industrial waste that can be found left and right in roadsides, street gutters and corners? Throughout Thailand? Even behind the front doors and in living rooms? For example, who does not know the image of the Thai who, while driving in a car or on a moped, lets his rubbish unfold in a plastic bag on the asphalt?
Do as you do in Seoul or Tokyo, for example, I often wish for those Thais (plus a few more things). There the adage applies: “Take Your Garbage Home” and in those cities people actually behave accordingly. In streets, markets and parks: everywhere you can see that leftover rubbish is packed in a plastic bag and deposited in a rubbish bin, which are widely available. Have you ever seen such bins on the streets in BKK or elsewhere in TH? In Hong Kong, another example, rubbish bins are placed at very regular intervals, with the top fitted with an ashtray. People chat in groups and can put out the cigarette after smoking and throw it away at the same time.
None of that hassle with greedily chasing and watching for bad behavior. Everyone knows by now that that's not what it's about! A nice extra income or by-catch, that's what it is. If you as a government/city council want desired behavior, you will have to create the conditions for this. In TH, a saying like “Good riddance” has a completely different meaning.

Hmm that's it. strange for thailand in singapore i knew this will cost you a lot of money but in bangkok apparently a new trick of mafia sorry police i mean.