It can just happen to anyone. One moment you feel nothing, while the next you are in great need to poop. It happened to a Chinese woman in a taxi in Bangkok last Wednesday. She was forced to relieve herself on the probably rubber mat in the back of the taxi, but then refused to pay the taxi driver anything for tidying up and cleaning his taxi.

The story comes from Sanook, who says that the woman took a taxi from the shopping center Terminal 21 to her home in Ratchadapisek Soi 7. On the way she was urgently urged and asked the driver to stop at a gas station. However, that station was not accessible due to certain traffic measures on site and the woman, who could no longer hold it in, relieved herself in the car

The taxi driver then pulled over, ordered the woman to get out and pay him a fee for cleaning the taxi. She refused, could she do anything about it? And still demanded to be taken to her destination.

A policeman was brought in to resolve the conflict, but he said there was nothing he could do about it. There is no Thai law that deals with this kind of “violation”. In the end, the woman walked away, leaving the driver behind with a stained taxi.

Postscript Gringo: Sanook's story also appeared on Thaivisa, where someone responded with the comment that something like this is arranged in London. There the standard fine for pissing, pooping or throwing up in a taxi is £100.

I looked up how something like this is solved in the Netherlands. On the website www.taxipro.nl/ there are many comments in the comments, which mainly concern vomiting in a taxi. I found the best solution, you pay a certain compensation (no fine) for damage and lost income, ask for a receipt and claim it back through your liability insurance. Isn't that beautiful Dutch?

9 responses to “Doing a big errand in a taxi in Bangkok, is that allowed?”

  1. l.low size says up

    Next time grab the mat from the taxi and knock on the woman.
    The taxi driver could not do anything about it because there was no pole in the area.

  2. lung addie says up

    I have also read this story. I think it is only normal that the taximan asks for a fee for cleaning his vehicle. He can hardly charge other customers with a dirty taxi. According to the story read, he is also not to blame for the fact that he could not stop in time to let the lady out. But you, the Chinese apparently have a different view on this and shit where it suits them best, even on a temple site.

  3. Henk says up

    If she doesn't have diarrhea then it won't be too bad. You can just dump a big solid pile from the mat into the sewer, yes, sorry, whether they are Chinese or another nationality. Sometimes the need is so great that you absolutely cannot can wait, not pleasant, but you can make a LOT of fuss about anything.

  4. Fransamsterdam says up

    In the past, when I was a student, the cleaning fee for a vomited taxi was Hfl. 50.-. Very reasonable, whether it was in law or not.
    What makes the story of the driver in Bangkok a bit implausible is that he called the police. In general, taxi drivers in such cases send a report via mobile phone or to the control center, after which they can count on peer assistance within a very short time, which usually proves to be more effective than that of a few police officers.

  5. Gerd says up

    Nasty Chinese poop

  6. tonymarony says up

    You have to do that in Amsterdam, then the turnips are done, you will get that heap of shit thrown in the middle of your face, believe me, as an old taxi driver from Amsterdam and Frans here, they do not call each other over the mobile phone, because that does not only work in the big cities in the netherlands and something else it is in the taxi regulation polluting the taxi, but the chinese have a different culture, so none.
    I have experienced it myself that a customer stepped in who had stepped in the shit, solved it well with the best man who found it very annoying, I threw the mat out at the garage, bought a mat from the man who gave me 100 guilders, yes, that is also possible, just ask simon deun.

  7. brabant man says up

    In Singapore they installed CCTV cameras in the elevators of public buildings, hotels and shopping malls years ago. Not only for safety but also because many Chinese had the habit of lowering their pants in an elevator. Nothing strange about that, if you visit China regularly then you know that they are a bunch of incredible bastards. Spitting, gurgling, it's the most normal thing in the world for them.

  8. brother69 says up

    I'm here to laugh

    Of course, Mother Nature can be nice sometimes, we can't blame her.
    Not that she asked to stop, to let nature do its job.

    Medically speaking, the sphincter of the anus is sometimes difficult to control in humans, so with
    all the consequences, a lot of gunk and an unpleasant smell.
    Yes, what does one do if it pretends to be an accident, I would just clean it up myself.
    Also, if it's a solid stool it's pretty easy, a loose stool, yes then you already have a tablespoon
    necessary to remove the case.

    Man, I do have temporary incontinence of my urinary bladder, I almost piss my pants laughing.

    Bon, at least clean up yourself, give a sorry and some inconvenience baths.
    People are now people, body and mind are sometimes difficult to control.

  9. Jack S says up

    Whether it's a Chinese or someone from another nationality, I think it's super rude what that woman has done.
    I have not experienced it myself, but a colleague (stewardess) once experienced that a woman came from economy to business class to go to the toilet there. She was in dire need, it was just after dinner and all the toilets were occupied. Then she grabbed a pillow and peed on that pillow in front of the bathroom door. Not exactly pleasant.
    Even worse, a guest who had shit on a table… that also happened.
    Or our Indian guests, who don't know how to use a Western toilet and then squat on a Western toilet and shit all over that thing.
    What we did? The toilet was closed.
    I can still understand preschoolers and toddlers, but adults? No, no understanding. Give a hefty fine and pay the cleaning fee, no less.


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