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Home » News from Thailand » Two killed in Bangkok after fight between groups of motorcycle taxi drivers
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A brawl between two competing groups of motorcycle taxi drivers has cost the lives of two people. The incident took place at 103 1-2 Sukhumvit Soi in Bang Na District, Bangkok.
The two groups attacked each other with various weapons including firearms, knives and iron bars. During the fight, a Kerry Express delivery driver was hit by a stray bullet. He died in front of his house. Three others were also hit by bullets and taken to the nearest hospital. The second fatal victim died in hospital. Two were also injured.
According to the police, the motorcycle taxi drivers clashed because the group that has a stand at the beginning of the street became angry with another group that had taken up residence at the Siam Commercial Bank not far from them. As a result, the first group of customers would have been lost.
According to Commander Mongkhol, both groups did not have permits for the base they claim.
Source: Bangkok Post
A friend of my wife said when she was already informed about the event via social media (she lives at BTS Udomsuk): “Thai cannot control themselves. If they are in a bad mood, you have to look out.” And that's right. Many who are familiar with TH know that they are by no means masters of conflict management, let alone conflict management, as this example again demonstrates. Hence all that twisting and turning to meet the other, until it all becomes too much. It would be good if TH became more assertive and less aggressive. That starts in primary education. Teach children to deal with emotions and feelings. In TH, the standard still applies that emotions are a personal matter with which you do not burden the other person. The relevant incident also shows that this reasoning is incorrect.
You could wait for it / Live very close to it / There are far too many and several drive without a permit.
There is no control whatsoever
Why didn't the police throw tear gas / then deaths could have been avoided /
I saw the images on TV and it always remains strange that the police are there and especially watch the fight unfold. Would the question occur to such officers that if they acted an innocent person might still be alive or would they really not give a damn?
The answer is of course the latter.
And the dispute; someone had the power to make one group pay for a pitch and at the other pitch you were free and that did not make the paying group happy.
Dear Johnny, have you ever seen the gendarmerie at work here in Thailand? The next time we go somewhere by car or bike, I always say to my wife, have you seen a police officer today?
The answer is, with very few exceptions, no, none seen.
Only if someone important comes by, there is a police officer at every dirt road and hazepad.
If I were born here, I would choose to be a monk or a policeman as a profession, as they can both get through the day with little physical effort and effort.
Jan Beute.
Coincidentally, I saw a group of police officers checking the permits of the motorbike taxi drivers at their location this morning.
Just because you don't see the police in the land of "nothing is what it seems" doesn't mean they aren't there. The traffic controllers (not always from the "real" police) and the officers at checks are the visible officers.
In addition, you also have the civilians who use informants / contacts so that they really know in Bangkok, for example, what kind of people live in a neighborhood and with too much unwanted behavior they subtly let you know that people are being watched…. I know.
At that point there is also room to negotiate to turn a blind eye, which in turn has consequences for the bosses who have allowed it as soon as another unit interferes….I think hhh
And that's why I take a Grab taxi, the motorcycle taxi drivers often ask too high an amount or they are lame and a thank you is not possible if you pay them.
If there is a fight or misery they are always in the front, I never quite understand, take over a kind of task from the police but they do it rather badly.
Well,
It was coming, you could just wait for it,
Cause no government check on those motorboys.
Registered have to lose out to illegal with a big mouth.
Who even make it so bad that they new registered motorboys,
ask for 100 Bhat per day to be allowed to stand in their “place”.
In recent years it has become more of a motorcycle mafia, also in Pattaya, it used to be a laugh, nowadays what a crook most are now.
What a negative response all about the moto-boys.
No doubt there will be a few "bad apples", but most of them are hard-working fathers, who have families at home that they work for.
Know a few personally and there's nothing wrong with that.