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As the title of this video suggests, and likely the thumbnail, we are doing another one of these videos on so-called 'foreigners behaving badly' here in Thailand. I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Phuket News, that is thephuketnews.com, the article is titled: Taxi drivers brawl with foreign tourists. Quoting directly: "Wichit Police have confirmed officers were called to intervene in a brawl between five foreign tourists and three taxi drivers after a video of the incident was posted online." Quoting further: "The brawl erupted in Wichit Songkram Road near the Darasamut intersection. A 26-second video clip of the incident was widely shared on social media accompanied by the caption: quote "It's famous again #Phuket is very hot, taxis vs tourists in front of a famous shopping mall." The video captured a brawl involving several foreign tourists and taxi drivers. According to a netizen's account, the incident began when three Iranian women stood in front of a taxi. The car's owner, a local taxi driver approached them and asked them to move. The women reportedly became irritated and informed their husbands who, along with their friends, were allegedly intoxicated. The situation escalated into a physical confrontation with punches and bottles being thrown. After the fight, the intoxicated individuals fled the scene, leaving behind a family group of three or four, who later reported the incident to the police. The video also showed a woman whose necklace was snatched during the altercation. The incident sparked heated discussion online, with comments reflecting a mix of frustration and criticism. Some users blamed the behaviour on unruly tourists, while others called for stricter enforcement of the law to prevent such incidents." Quoting further: "In response to the incident, Wichit Police Chief Pol Col Chatree Chueakaew ordered patrol officers to intervene and brought five foreign tourists and three taxi drivers involved in the fight to Wichit Police Station for questioning. According to the police investigation, the altercation began when the tourists leaned against a parked taxi while waiting for a ride back to their hotel in Patong. After reviewing CCTV footage, investigators determined that both parties were mutually involved in the fight. Consequently, they were charged with “colluding in a loud fight in a public place or public area, or engaging in behaviour that disturbs public peace and order.” Despite the charges, both parties agreed to move on without holding any grudges." 

So yeah, I mean this is another one of these, I don't know where this comes from but foreigners, one, I don't know how it comes about that okay there are taxis sort of in line and then you are sort of sitting on the taxi? The point I'm trying to make is I don't know how all of this went down, but just generally speaking foreigners tend to come over here and I don't know what it is. It's like they lose their minds or something and they don’t ever operate, I question whether or not any of these people would have done the same thing back home. Who knows? I don't know. I don't know what goes on in Iran, but long story short, we see this a lot regarding all kinds of foreign tourists here and it's not just this, it's sort of like, the same thing happens, I remember reading years ago one of those pulp fiction novels that you would see in the Thai airports here involving the usual horror stories of foreigners that have come here and tried to do business, or buy a house with a wife or something, and everything went wrong but I remember once they described it as it's like foreigners check their brain in at the airport before they leave into greater Thailand. I'm not saying this to be sort of insulting, it's just odd to me. I have never seen any other place and what's even weirder is, in a sense, things were kind of oddly more normal under COVID because we didn't have all these people that were just pouring in, apparently checking their brains at the airport, and then wandering around and doing all these things and causing all these problems. I'm starting to wonder if this whole epidemic if you will of 'foreigners behaving badly' roughly this last year, I don't know what it's from but for whatever reason, people come to Thailand and they just sort of don't operate with the same paradigm that they operate anywhere else. I've never understood why that's the case and quite honestly they should probably stop doing it and they'll get into less problems here in the Kingdom of Thailand.