The Bangkok governor has promised to close down three illegal markets operating at the Seri Villa housing estate where two angry aunties attacked a market-goer's parked pickup truck blocking their driveway.
Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang said during a visit to the estate on Wednesday there were five markets there, and three of them were operating illegally.
One of the three sites had a permit for a building that was not a market, and two others had no permits at all. The other two markets had commercial licences and goods could be sold there, he said
The three markets without proper licences would be closed down.
While at the housing estate, in front of the Rama IX public park in Prawet district, the Bangkok governor phoned Boonsri Saengyoktrakan, the owner of the house where the market visitor's parked pickup was damaged by the two axe and metal pole wielding women on Sunday.
She asked him to remove the markets from the housing estate as soon as possible.
Ms Boonsri, 57, and her sister Ratanachat Saengyoktrakarn, 61, became enraged on Sunday after they were prevented from driving out of the gate at their house because a pickup truck was parked right in front of it.
After finding they were unable to move the vehicle out of the way they sounded their horn for about half an hour and then began an assault on the vehicle with an axe and a metal pole. Video clips of the incident went viral and the residence became a spot for selfies. (continues below)
Sisters Boonsri and Ratanachat Saengyoktrakarn had finally had enough on Sunday and attacked a pickup truck blocking the driveway of their home beside the Suan Luang weekend market. (FB/debbie.strakarn)
The family told reporters on Tuesday they had suffered for nearly a decade through such irresponsibly parked vehicles and poor environment due to the markets' presence in the housing estate, and could finally take it no more.
Signs had for a long time been attached to the front gate of the residence telling people not to park across the driveway entrance.
Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit, president of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, said on Wednesday the family filed a complaint with the commission in 2011 and it was investigating the local authorities who let the markets operate illegally in the housing estate.
Tawatchai Thaikeo, permanent secretary for justice, posted on his Facebook account that the issue was about the quality of law enforcement.