Thai social media was rife with comment after a rich old police constable driving a Mercedes Benz slapped a student after he scratched his car.
The cop was turning into a soi in Samut Sakhon but didn’t indicate.
The student – in a scout’s uniform – went into the back of the Mercedes and came off.
But no sooner had the frightened teen dusted himself off and got up, the driver of the car gave him a whack around the head.
The story was reported on Facebook by a man called Padiphon Chaiyabut who said that he was driving behind the Mercedes and saw it all – nearly running over the student himself.
When the old man in the car had hit the student and taken a photo of his his ID he started filming as others in the vicinity came over to help calm the situation.
Padiphon said that the old man in the car was going on about how rich he was but he still wanted money from the boy’s mum and dad for the damage.
The boy wai-ed a lot but there was a lot of bad language.
However, after some time he relented and drove off.
Padiphon wondered why he didn’t call the cops but was told later that the man was in fact a police constable who owned a timber yard in the area.
The story was shared thousands of times with comment all over Thai social media.
(Source:Daily News)