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Phuket jet-ski operators face insurance scheme
KATHU, PHUKET: Phuket’s jet-ski operators will soon have to insure their craft for damage, the Phuket governor told a crowd of industry representatives at a crisis meeting at Patong Municipality offices yesterday.
The measure is aimed at ending the island’s infamous ‘jet-ski scam’, in which unsuspecting tourists are made to pay thousands of baht for spurious repairs to the vehicles after they are returned.
The meeting followed the arrest earlier that day of a jet-ski operator for threatening a group of British Royal Navy Marines with a gun during a dispute over 'damage' to one of the vehicles............
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