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Police shake-down. Advice?


bigrobtheactor

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15 hours ago, Briggsy said:

You're 20,000 down and you will remain 20,000 down. No refunds possible here.

 

Get a police colonel as a good friend, so much of a good friend that you can phone him up next to you encounter a 'dragnet'. If you have been here since the eighties, you know this and don't need dudes on Thaivisa to tell you this.

That's interesting. How would one do that?

Obviously it might be possible to meet one by accident and become friends. But searching for such a friend and make sure he remembers you might require constant donations or something else to make him happy. All this so that he might be able to help you not paying 20k? And after he did that you are obviously in his debt. Will he ask you for a favor in the wrong moment?

 

I think the problem with knowing influential people is that they are influential people. I know a foreigner who had a Thai friend who's best friend was the leader of a Thai SWAT team. My friend was pretty proud of that connection. He could kind of order a SWAT team to do what he wanted. Yeah, great connection. That was until that moment that he upset his Thai friend and the friend reminded him about that SWAT team. It could hit you...  Be aware of influential people!

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If you are talking BKK, on Suk, there are regular randoms at Ekkamai and Thong Lo for the dunks and regular cash taking and <deleted> testing under the Phra Khanong bridge. Be forewarned.

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OP, you're telling us that you've been here for so long, but you neither know how to spell Sukhumvit, nor do you know how to write Sawasdee khrap? 

 

If you'd be familiar with them, you'd at least have tried to get away a bit cheaper, considering that you weren't really "hammered." 

 

It's somehow like buying a shirt at the night market in CM. When they first say 900 baht, you finally pay 200, innit?

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

   

 

     

 

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20 hours ago, bigrobtheactor said:

I blew a "seven" in their device and the legal limit is two.

 

20 hours ago, bigrobtheactor said:

about a half hour after having pulled me over and handed back my keys.

That´s Thai logic. 2 are allowed, you had 7 and 30 minutes later they handed back your keys. For sure your level didn´t drop to 2 during this time. Crazy!

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Convenient that the going rate for a DUI offence is always 20K Baht, the exact amount that most ATM cards issued to farangs here are limited to withdrawing in one day. Let's hope that the banks never raise the limit to 50K Baht!

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10 hours ago, robblok said:

Have you ever had a drunk or someone drinking agreeing with police readouts. I used to follow Dutch reality tv and they all claimed they drank just a bit and made up excuses. Why would it be different here. 

Same in Australia but they will take away your keys and make you walk home

and if they accept a bribe you can sue them

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I think they usually have 2 breathalyzers. The first one which shows you're over or not and then they take you over to the one that gives a detailed reading. If they don't have the second one there, they may just be trawling to see what they can get.
20,000 baht is also, I believe, what you'd have to put up for bail so that you didn't sit in a cell overnight. As someone else said, the court would give you a much smaller fine and you definitely would not go to jail for a year. 

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The exact thing happened to me that night at the food court remember what you said in your post “(where the vendor charged me 15 baht for rice instead of the usual 10 on my second visit - another of the ceaseless petty ripoffs)“ so I was upset and drank 7 beers and 5 shots of tequila and off I went  on my bike and got stopped at same check point and registered a 10. I told the officer about the extra 5 baht ripoff and he was absolutely completely outraged by it. He immediately escorted me to the food court and made the vender give me back 5 baht. I was so happy. 

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My pal was pulled with 20 tabs of extacy...15 k to pay. He was in a taxi. I suggest you dont drive when you have been drinking. At the time you were drink driving there was plenty of cheap public transport available.  Why didn't you use it. You are a danger to us all when you get on a motor bike <deleted>. Apparently you have been doing it for years and think its normal. Its not and its not acceptable. Do you drive drunk in your own country?

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10 hours ago, Guderian said:

Convenient that the going rate for a DUI offence is always 20K Baht, the exact amount that most ATM cards issued to farangs here are limited to withdrawing in one day. Let's hope that the banks never raise the limit to 50K Baht!

Incorrect and fallacious.  The limit on most ATM cards is not 20k. There is no such thing as a farang issue ATM card. Most foreigners travelling in Thailand use their foreign ATM cards.

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On 10/23/2019 at 3:32 AM, BestB said:

Shake down was it not. Promise of jail was just an empty threat.

But you would have been locked up for a day or two then off to court, pay a fine of 5000-8000 and then the possibility of visa troubles.

 

Some claim to be able to pay 5000 and i do not believe them, 20 000 is about the going rate.

 

By law you allowed 2 beers to be under the limit, so 3 wine coolers would be put you over the limit

Happened to me 10 years back , ans I was only standing next to my bike ( tho I did intend to ride it ).

No way were they negotiating a price.

Even back then it seemed cheap compared to what would happen back home.

 

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