After a German man claimed that he needed to pay a site visitors fine of two,000 baht in Phuket final month, Chalong Police say there isn’t any action to take over the accusation, since there isn’t any report of the fantastic. Reports mentioned that on February 20, the person had been riding a bike via the Chalong underpass.
The man said that when he exited the underpass, a policeman immediately stopped him, and advised him that it was unlawful to experience a motorbike by way of the underpass. The officer ignored the man saying that he noticed no signal indicating that it was unlawful to experience a motorbike via the tunnel.
The man mentioned the officer requested him to pay a 5,000 baht nice. Since the person didn’t have that much money on him, the officer asked for 2,000 baht as a substitute, which could possibly be paid there on the aspect of the road. The man agreed to this.
The chief of Chalong Traffic Police, Pol Lt Col Jeerasit Noopayan, advised The Phuket News yesterday that the incident had been investigated, and that he had known as the tourist.
Chief Jeerasit stated that the man’s solely concern was with the lack of signage warning folks that it is unlawful to journey a motorbike via the underpass. He mentioned the person “did not mention the arrest and fine.” Chief Jeerasit went on to say…
“He didn’t point out the arrest. His concern was solely about the prohibition signal that cannot be seen anyplace near the underpass.”
The chief also famous that the man didn’t post the video of the incident on-line himself. Chief Jeerasit mentioned the one that recorded the video used Google Translate to communicate with the person, which may have brought on a misunderstanding.
Chief Jeerasit stressed that the man didn’t intend to say that the police acted towards the regulation, however quite, he simply needed to say that there was no sign prohibiting bikes from going through the underpass. Easy Jeerasit said…
“We have already checked and there’s no record of the arrest of the German man that day… He did not say where precisely the incident happened on the cellphone. He said he went by way of an underpass and he didn’t say which underpass. He solely said he was going to the Big Buddha Temple. It is feasible that it was the Chalong underpass, but he didn’t affirm.”