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NONTHABURI Rob robbed a bank.
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Police in Pattaya are on the hunt for a male suspect who shot a 35-year-old chicken and rice vendor yesterday. Sakphadung Benjakul, owner of Boss Chicken Rice, located on Pattaya’s Theppasit Road, told police that the shooting followed an argument he had with a customer concerning chicken rice sauce. Sakphadung said that he refused to provide more sauce to the man, who was eating chicken rice with his girlfriend. While Sakphadung was clearing a nearby table, he accidentally knocked over the man’s sauce cup, which precipitated the fight. The patron fled the shop only to return shortly thereafter with a 9mm pistol, which he fired at Sakphadung. Fortunately, the bullet only grazed the vendor’s head, causing him a slight injury. Police will gather more evidence in order to catch the shooter, Channel 7 reported. via Coconuts | Bangkok |.
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PHUKET: Ten tuk-tuk and taxi drivers on Phuket face arrest, say police, after the men intimidated tour counter operators into closing. The tuk-tuk and taxi drivers, based in Kata-Karon, confronted tour counter operators next door to the landmark Dino Park at 8pm on Monday, said investigating officer Lieutenant Rattapon Dee Tongorn. ”They ordered the people to shut down the operation and allegedly held them against their will,” the lieutenant said. Tourism officials say that it’s the second vigilante action by the area’s tuk-tuk and taxi drivers in the space of two weeks. Phuket’s tuk-tuk and taxi drivers in the Kata-Karon area especially have a worsening reputation for thuggery and for maintaining their jobs through intimidation and threats. The number of drivers far exceeds Phuket’s needs and the excessive fares subsidise hundreds of one or two trip-a-day taxi drivers when what Phuket needs are fewer drivers and metered cabs. Police are looking for the tuk-tukand taxi drivers involved in Monday’s incident and will first try to persuade them to negotiate with the tour staff, who are also Thais. ”If that doesn’t work, we will charge them with holdling people against their will and threatening behavior,” Lt Rattapon said. Little is known about the earlier case of intimidation. Another officer based at Karon Police Station, Lieutenant Pachai Nakayah, said that police needed the help of other authorities to deal with the issues raised by the taxi and tuk-tuk drivers. ”These people aren’t big enough to be regarded as mafia,” he said. ”The problem is that as the low season kicks in, there isn’t as much money around for everybody from tourists. ”These people are just trying to sustain their income.” The issue of the number of tuk-tuk and taxi drivers growing without there being a real need and charging extortionate fares is becoming a turn-off for more and more tourists. Visitors who go to both Bangkok and Phuket find Phuket taxi fares are between six and 10 times higher, and the service is not as good. Complaints to embassies are on the increase. Meanwhile, the taxi and tuk-tuk driver pursue a strategy of adding more drivers. but rejecting such practical ideas, in use everywhere else, of metered cabs, call centres and fewer drivers working harder at lower fares. If ever there is a downturn in Phuket’s galloping tourist economy, the social consequences could be disastrous. An illegal cab driver has also been charged this week with abducting a young Chinese tourist and attempting to molest her in his taxi, another case that will further damage Phuket’s reputation. via Phuket Tuk-Tuk, Taxi Drivers Force Phuket Tour Counter Operators to Shut – Phuket Wan.
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A YouTube user has shared footage obtained from a surveillance camera in front of his house, showing an incident in which his car wheels were stolen within the space of two minutes. via Coconuts | Bangkok |.
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When a Nonthaburi couple hailed a taxi to take them to Suvarnabhumi airport earlier this month, they had no idea they were about to fall victim to a scam. Taxi scam runs out of gas | Bangkok Post: news
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At 2pm yesterday, a 20-year-old student at the Bangkok Technical School of Business Administration took his 17-year-old fellow student hostage after seeing that his name was not on the examinee list. Student, unable to take exam, decides to hold woman hostage
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KALASIN – Police raided the home of a renowned tattooist after reports of several brawls involving his "disciples", who wanted to test their "bullet proof" tattoos, reports said. Police on Tuesday arrested Boonyong Luang-Jumpol, also known as “Ajarn Tonâ€, and seized several guns, knives and pornographic CDs from his home in Yanglad district. Ajarn Ton is a well known astrologer and claims to be a “sorcerer†tattooist. Many believed that people bearing his tattoos are invulnerable to gun shots and cannot be pierced by any knife or sword. The raid came after several locals in the area complained to the police that teenage brawls in the area have increased in the past several months. The youngsters also gather in large groups, causing trouble and scaring people in the area, police said. Kalasin police chief Pol Maj-Gen Kanisorn Noi-narth said most of the teenagers involved in the fights claimed to be followers of Ajarn Ton. They said they wanted to try the "power" of their tattoos to see if anyone wielding a weapon can hurt them, he added. Police said the brawls usually occur in crowded areas, like the local markets or during carnivals. Pol Maj-Gen Kanisorn said police officers who raided his home were surprised by what they found. “We expected it to be filled with relics and Buddha statues, but instead we found an arsenal,†he said. Police confiscated nine guns, 121 bullets, 18 swords and a number of fake guns at Ajarn Ton's home, he said. Ajarn Ton and his follower, Somchai Khunsuth, were taken into custody and initially charged with possession of weapons without a licence. Ajarn Ton said he had been in the business for 10 years. Apart from tattoos and telling fortunes, he also offered herbal treatments to villagers. He admitted that his clients were usually teenagers who cannot afford to pay for the tattoos with money. “They usually pay me with guns and knives, so I take it,†he said. “I didn’t know that it’s illegal.†He also claimed that he didn’t know that teenagers like to try out the “power†of his tattoos. "I always teach them to be responsible†Ajarn Ton claimed. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/319815/sorcerer-tattooist-responsible-for-teenage-brawls
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Twenty schoolchildren surround a city bus in central Bangkok. Some get on to confront a 16-year-old from a rival school and, within moments, he is shot dead. Similar altercations have become a focus of public attention, with shootings affecting seemingly ordinary folk. In one incident at a busy intersection, a computer repairman shot dead two people and took a third hostage. Witnesses said it resembled a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster. A tourist haven and regional base for multinational companies, Thailand has the highest number of guns in civilian hands in Southeast Asia -- almost four times more than the Philippines, a country notorious for violent gun crime. Some blame the rise in gun crime on political instability that has gripped Thailand since a 2006 coup that removed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Unrest culminated in a two-month stand-off in 2010 between government troops and "red shirt" protesters backing Thaksin and clashes that killed 91 people. Others say that the seeming impunity enjoyed by the wealthy has prompted some to take the law into their own hands. "Thailand has become a Wild West movie," says politician Chuwit Kamolvisit, a former massage-parlor tycoon who says he used to pay off local police to run his seedy businesses. "People pull out their guns at a moment's notice." Chuwit never owned a gun before this year. He now has three. Escalating gun crime could put off companies looking to set up in a country that prides itself on its friendly image as the "Land of Smiles" and is recovering from devastating 2011 floods. It could also further dent the idyllic reputation, already hit by crime directed against foreign visitors, that will draw some 20 million tourists this year, a mainstay of the economy. Recent incidents include a senator who fatally shot his ex-wife over Sunday dinner, a nightclub shooting spree that left five dead, a Gangnam Style dance-off between rival gangs --inspired by the popular Korean song -- that degenerated into a shootout and 10,000 bullets found at an apartment owned by a former deputy provincial governor. All this underscores a growing sense of lawlessness since the 2006 coup. Gun crime in Bangkok has more than doubled and the new police chief, described by a deputy prime minister as a "thug-catching type", has vowed to take weapons off the streets. Thailand has the highest gun murder rate in Asia, according to http://www.gunpolicy.org, a site hosted by the University of Sydney's School of Public Health in Australia. There were 5.3 murders by firearms per 100,000 people in Thailand in 2011, compared to 0.2 in the Philippines, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported. "DIRTY DEALINGS" Six years of confrontation pitted the yellow-clad, royalist People's Alliance for Democracy against the "red shirts", the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, broadly loyal to Thaksin and his sister, current Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. "Years of political upheaval have encouraged criminal activity because dirty dealings are easier to hide when the focus is on politics and not crime," says Chankhanit Suriyamanee of Bangkok's Mahidol University. Political appointments bring fresh pledges to tackle crime but these are often shortlived, says Chankhanit. Under Thai law, people under 20 cannot own a gun and strict background checks must be conducted before licenses are issued. Despite this, the number of young people carrying firearms has increased 32 percent over the last nine years, says Thailand's Justice Ministry. Nestled among the lanes and alleys in Bangkok's bustling Chinatown is the Old Siam Plaza. Around it, some 80 gun shops operate legally -- some advertise guns with their serial numbers scratched off. Officials, police say, are part of the problem. All Thai government employees are entitled to buy guns at a discount. Some officials declare the weapon lost and sell it on the black market for up to the equivalent of $2,600, says police chief Khamronwit. Others accept bribes to grant licenses quickly, says Chuwit. According to Interior Ministry records, 6.2 million licenses have been issued in a country with a population of 69 million. Over 1,100 km (700 miles) away from Bangkok, in the country's three southernmost provinces bordering Malaysia, a Muslim insurgency that reignited in 2004 brought with it raids by suspected insurgents on army weapons depots. Police say the raids play a small part in the plethora of weapons flooding the domestic market. "Guns are coming through all of Thailand's borders to the north, east and west of the country," said Supisan Pakdinarunat, Commander of Thailand's Crime Suppression Division. In October, Malaysia's home minister blamed increased gun use in his country on smuggling across the Thai border. Carrying guns in public can land offenders with a 10-year prison sentence. But police say punishments are rarely enforced. Politician Chuwit blamed an ingrained culture of taking the law into your own hands. "If a man can't wear a uniform, having a gun is the next best thing," he said. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-21/news/sns-rt-us-thailand-gunsbre89k0ge-20121021_1_gun-crime-thailand-prime-minister-yingluck-shinawatra
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Hallucinating mum killed, ate her sons A woman accused of butchering, cooking and eating her two sons last week is believed to have done so because she hallucinated that they were pigs, Mental Health Department deputy director general Kiattiphum Wongrachit said on Tuesday. "The woman killed her children because she didn't continue her treatment and didn't take her medication," Dr Kiattiphum said. He said mentally ill patients often became violent and experienced hallucinations if they stopped their regular treatment. About 90 per cent of violent cases involving mentally ill patients were due to lack of regular medication. The woman, a member of the Musur hilltribe whose name was withheld, will be kept under close watch in the hospital for a long time, he said. The hospital will check whether she is a drug addict and if she will need to keep her calm when she realises that she killed her children, he said. There are more than 600,000 patients being treated for mental illness by the hospitals under the Health Department, he said. Police last week received a complaint that a Musur woman butchered her two sons, ages one and five years, in Chiang Mai's Mae Ai district. Police said they found her asleep at her home, with several body parts apparently from children near her. They took her in for questioning, but she did not respond to any of their questions. They did a background check on her and found that she had been treated for a mental illness in 2007. She has been charged with murder, but being deemed mentally unfit to fight her case she was sent to Suan Prung Hospital for treatment. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/308684/health-hallucination-caused-mum-to-kill-sons
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This is something I've never seen before! Trying to make profit out of one's proper criminal activities. Well, I'm sure there are some people who don't get it and send their details to Nigeria.... :oops: UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION TO VICTIMS OF SCAM. 15:20 UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION. Von: UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION. ([email protected]) Gesendet: Dienstag, 03. Mai 2011 15:20:36 An: Hello Beneficiary, How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family?, You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the passed 7 months which ended 4 days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS Ban Ki-moon. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of $800,000 USD EACH. This includes every foreign contractors, inheritance, lottery that may have no received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems or scammers etc. We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.You are advised to contact Mrs. Laura George of our paying center in London, United Kingdom, as she is our representative in Nigeria, contact her immediately for your Cheque / International Bank Draft of $800,000 USD, this funds are in a Bank Draft for security purpose ok? so she will send it to you and you can clear it in any bank of your choice. 1) YOUR FULL NAME: 2) ADDRESS, CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY: 3) PERSONAL CELL PHONE AND FAX: 4) OCCUPATION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS: 5) COPY OF YOUR INT'L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE FOR PROPER IDENTIFICATION: Note: Your Personal Contact/Communication Code With BOA Is (011), You Are Advised To Send Your Full Information To Mrs. Laura George, International Remittance Director Headed By Laura George And Make Sure You Speak With Her, With Your New Payment Code For The Release Of Your Payment And Send To Her All Your Information Now. Contact Barrister (Mrs) Laura George immediately for your Cheque: Person to Contact: Mrs. Laura George Un Agent Officer (LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM). Tel: +44-702-408-0484 Fax +44-172-172-4023 Email: [email protected] Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hoping to hear from you as soon as you cash your Bank Draft. Making the world a better place. Regards,Secretary- http://www.un.org/sg/ With Regards, General Jon Wells Geez, before I forget - don't click on any of the links!
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http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-tourists-fight-five-star-intruder-brings-killing-charge-13266/ What is this hotel and why it has so reputation?
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Thailand is a bit of a Utopia for paedophiles - lax law enforcement, poverty and an air of laissez faire. It seems to many that Cambodia are doing more to address the issue than Thailand. Finally, offenders can be punished in their own country for crimes committed abroad. I used to work with an American guy whose tastes ran to the very young - I contacted the FBI and told our employers, but he disappeared before anything could be done. The police attitude was - no complaint has been made (by the teenage boy who shared his room most nights) and the staff of his apartment building stopped talking as soon as the police got involved. While not a perfect guide, here are a few common traits that people should be looking for... Just a quick search on Google will pull up hundreds of stories like the following... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/16/internationalcrime.thailand http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2006/08/22/opinion/opinion_30011609.php http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2010/06/24/us-court-indicts-paedophile-imprisoned-in-thailand/ In all these cases, the paedophiles came to Thailand to abuse young children. And in almost every single case, they took teaching jobs to get close to their victims. It's well known that paedophiles often choose work that brings them into close contact with children - priests, scout-leaders, teachers. One has to ask the question, what percentage of men working as teachers in Thailand are paedophiles? What would bring someone to a very poorly paid job that commands almost no-respect amongst peers? Aren't there a myriad of other jobs that offer more? One might also ask, what can the Ministry of Education do to address the issue? Are there sufficient checks on teachers' backgrounds? What can be done to curb the numbers of paedophiles entering the country and abusing vulnerable Thai children especially in rural areas? Where is the line between civil liberties and genuine caution? Is it OK to check someone's computer for incriminating pictures, movies or websites visited? Surely a basic criminal record search in the teacher's home country would be prudent?
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An interesting take on Thai corruption by BKK Post writer K. Voranai. Source: Bangkok Post
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For some reason i find it hard to believe that they are just a "security firm"So what are they really? And why not just pay regular US troops more to attract more & better recruits rather than over pay private contract mercenaries like Blackwater ? please
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Let's see, now it is 14:29 Thai Time, how long it last 'til this profile will be banned
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A Briton is one of three suspected paedophiles being held by police at a Thai beach resort town. Briton George Stanley Gibbs is among those arrested in Thailand The men were arrested at their homes in Pattaya and charged with sexually abusing children under the age of 15. The suspects are George Stanley Gibbs, 67, from the UK, and Karl Erik Berglund, 60, and Lars Anders Ellerman, 65, from Sweden. Police chief Chaiwat Ketworrachai said officers confiscated sex toys, still and video cameras, computers and a photo album of naked children during the arrests. He said the suspects had co-operated with police, but added: "We cannot give more detail before the cases are filed to the prosecutors." If found guilty, the men could face up to 20 years in jail. Several south east Asian countries - including Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - are popular with paedophiles because of lax law enforcement and poverty that forces children into prostitution. A number of high-profile suspects have been caught in Thailand, including Canadian teacher Christopher Paul Neil. Neil was arrested in 2007 after an Interpol manhunt, sparked by some 200 internet photos showing him allegedly abusing Vietnamese and Cambodian boys. He was sentenced to eight years and three months in jail http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/British-Paedophile-Suspect-Arrested-With-Two-Others-By-Police-In-Thailand-Beach-Resort/Article/200905215280428?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15280428_British_Paedophile_Suspect_Arrested_With_Two_Others_By_Police_In_Thailand_Beach_Resort
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BANGKOK: -- The Supreme Court Tuesday found former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra guilty in the Ratchada land case. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail. Pojaman Shinawatra, his wife, was found not guilty and the court revoked arrest warrant against her. The court found that Thaksin had violated Article 100 and Article 102 of the National Counter Corruption Act, which states that government officials, including prime ministers, and their spouses are prohibited from entering into or having interests in contracts with state agencies under their supervision. -- The Nation 2008-10-21
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Forgive my ignorance - but... I have been informed by our IT Manager that due to ammendments to the Computer Related Crimes Act applicable to Thai Law, I need to install a 'Fortianalyzer'. Estimated costs of the 'Fortianalyzer' is around THB 53,000. As I have no f*cking idea - can anyone confirm, deny or provide me more information?
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Having discussed 'the last executioner' yesterday, the autobiography of the last executioner at Bang Kwang (do i have that correct?) prison to use a gun, thought I would open the question up. Is the death penalty a deterrent? What forms should it take? What checks should there be? What crimes should it be used for? :twisted:
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Have you ever been a victim of a crime? I got rob in vietnam last month.