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Old Dec 18, 2016 | 11:31 pm
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Originally Posted by dsquared37

I expect there will be some who claim you should always pay up because of risk of violence, but those incidents are so few as to be not even a concern, especially in a populated place like the airport dropoff area.
And right on cue bringing up, yet again, the one recent incident where someone was killed. Sad really.

Originally Posted by transpac
Every driver here: car, taxi, truck, bus, whatever has at least a machete...and no shyness (cameras everywhere) about using them, even over 100 baht.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/new...taxi-fare.html

Caught on Camera :American killed with machete in Thailand over taxi fare - YouTube
So glad I don't live in fear like some people.
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