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Old Mar 14, 2017 | 12:40 am
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It's getting ridiculous up here in Chiang Mai. Tuk tuk drivers and songthaew drivers take pictures of vehicles with foreigners getting out of them, send the photos to the police, and the police then send a ticket to the car owner's home telling him/her to either a pay a fine or prove they're not an Uber driver.

Like this guy, who apparently is not an Uber driver but who gave a ride to some friends from overseas:

"A Thai motorist was puzzled when he was accused of being an Uber driver just because he gave a ride to two foreign friends in Chiang Mai.

A Thai man, only identified as Parinya, sought help from netizens on a Chiang Mai web forum after a ticket was sent to his home — for the charge of using a private vehicle to provide public transport

Attached to the ticket was a photograph of his two foreign friends retrieving their suitcases from the trunk of his car."


https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/man...reign-friends/
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