VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in HCM City and neighbouring Binh Duong Province have continued urgent measures to prevent criminals from scattering nails along highways as a means of charging exorbitant fees to repair flat tyres.

Saigonee travelers wretched with nails on roads

HCM City, Binh Duong province’s police raid nail spreaders

Police collect scattered nails with mobile magnetic boxes towed on the back of their motorbikes in Binh Duong Highway in HCM City's Thu Dau Mot Town. (Photo: VNS)

Meeting participants planned to make random investigations of motorbike repair shops on highways and look in on nail production enterprises.

An initial investigation revealed that four out of seven motorbike repair shops had collaborated with criminals to scatter nails on roadways for economic gain.

Meanwhile in Binh Duong Province, a mobile puncture mending team was established to fix flat tyres free of charge along the Binh Duong Highway.

The team was founded by members of the Phu Hoa Crime Prevention Team and the Phu Tho Ward Youth Union.

Stranded motorists can call 0922056166 or 0984771525 for help, said team member Tran Hoang Anh.

Since the Lunar New Year, the Binh Duong Youth Union has collected more than 20kg of nails from local streets.

On Sunday, police in Binh Duong caught one nail scattering ring at work along the Binh Duong Highway.

Leader of the five-member ring, Pham Van Canh, 32, admitted to scattering nails to benefit not only his repair shop, but also 10 other shops along the highway.

His four accomplices, aged from 24 to 31, were arrested by the provincial police.

The police also confiscated a number of tools used to make nails from their shops.

At the beginning of this year, the Thu Dau Mot Tribunal imprisoned five people for scattering nails along roadways.

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