Phuket tuk-tuks Conquer US Navy

[shygye]

Even renting a car you can still run afoul of the tuk-tuks.

 

... The family, an elderly couple on holiday with their 44-year old son, his wife and their three children, aged 14 months, seven and nine, claim they were attacked when they parked their rented car along the Kata Beach road.

 

The family claims they were confronted by a man outside the Karon Municipality offices, at the southern end of Kata Beach.

 

He was aggressive and told them to move the vehicle, the family said.

 

After checking the area for no-parking signs, and seeing none, the family refused to move their car and began unloading their beach items.

 

Moments later, the man returned and assaulted them with the shaft of a beach umbrella, breaking the 44-year-old man’s arm. The 68-year-old father also sustained numerous bruises in the attack.

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[LizardKing]

I've heard the stories, but luckily have never seen that kind of shit. But we usually only stay near Nai Yang and make only a one afternoon excursion to Patong and/or Kata when in Fook-it (we do hit Rawai and Phuket City to see friends tho').

 

Go there to get away from it all we do. The thing to relax crowded tourist places are not.

 

[Guest lazyphil]

i'm not going to argue the toss about parking, just smile and move on...

[pasathai1]

send a few pisses off bargirls to deal with the tuk tuk drivers, much more fearsome that the seals

[cardinalblue]

My biggest complaint about phuket is the cost of tuk tuk and sontaew drivers...

 

Absolutely a rip off with no market mechisms in place...

 

A small example of why democracy will not be possibly reached in our life time in LOS...

 

Corruption rules the roads there..

 

lets burn a phuket tuk tuk to the ground!

 

CB