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Originally Posted by Slappin Fish
It is ok in Pattaya and places where cops have enough foreigners to go by.
Try driving in BKK, after you've been stopped for the 100th time you might not love it so much.
Every time I drive past a cop in BKK I hear "farang, farang..." they will find any excuse to fine you.
Here is a few from the past couple of months (i am excluding the obvious one like no helmet)
- not driving in the left lane (I was but 10 cops were standing in it with their arms outstretched what was I suppose to do? Drive through them?)
- Having my front tyre on the line at a red light (At least 3 Thais were completely in front of the line)
- Turning left at a red light not waiting for green (never seen anyone wait)
- Starting too early at a red light (was green and I was about the third to go)
- Having a licence but not an international licence
- Having an international licence but the wrong kind (so they say)
- Sitting in the wrong place on the motorbike (I was carrying a box from homepro)
- Dangerous driving (yes yes it is possible, this one made me laugh the most, I was going at 40 in a strait line in the middle of the afternoon if you know how Thais drive you would laugh to)
There is at least half a dozen more I can't quite remember them all...
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yeah I hear you.. never went to Pattaya but all in all I got pretty good treatment in comparison. I was in Chang Mai for most of the time, never had any issues up there except for that one time.
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Originally Posted by RayBonga
It's fucked up, some tourists pay small bribes happily and soon enough any western is a walking atm for these guys
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that's pretty obvious that tourists rather pay $10 and go about with their business then go downtown for some bs in a foreign country.