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That's harsh.

In my personal experience over years Thai policemen usualy politely refuse bribes (handing back my 1000 baht bill) and still giving me a pass.

Also (and I have seen this many times) on one of these rural police checkpoints when idle Thai policemen usualy swipe the road with brush. Just to keep busy. I have never seen a policemen swiping the road or doing something useful in any other country in the world.

As for monarchy there were massive student protests that focused also on monarchy and kings enormous wealth. This is indeed very sensisitive but also political and generational issue in Thailand.

I have also seen thousands of situations where farangs had been behaving terrible (for various reasons) and Thai people taking that very patiently.