hehehoho

I just remembered that retired police officer in Pattaya last year who went back to his old station in Pattaya with a meat cleaver and ended up closing the station. Will try to find a link.

Edit:

From Pattaya One newspaper:

Knife-wielding Retired Police Officer forces temporary closure of Pattaya Police Station

28th January 2010

PATTAYA: -- On Wednesday Night at Pattaya Police Station there was drama as a retired Police Officer forced the station to close for a time as he was threatening People with a meat cleaver. Retired Police Senior Sergeant Major Pairort who finished his career with the Marine Police, came to the station and demanded a meeting with Police Lieutenant Colonel Sutum, the Deputy Chief of Pattaya Police. The reason for the meet was not given by the retired officer who realized he would not be granted his wish and then produced a knife and made his way to the car park and claimed he would not back-down until he saw the senior officer. Eventually the other Deputy Police Chief, Police Lieutenant Colonel Chonapat arrived and ordered the man to place the knife on the ground. He complied and was led up to the cells to give him a chance to calm down. He was later released with no charge.

I wonder was the ex-cop who went on a shooting rampage in Bangkok last week was drunk too, or all his pent up anger and resentment happened to come out at once.

http://www.tannetwor...?DataID=1051178

Metropolitan police have arrested a former police commando who allegedly fired at cars on the streets of Bangkok last Friday night in a drive-by shooting that injured three people.

The 28-year-old former crowd control policeman, Police Lance Corporal Tirayu Phetmika was arrested by the metropolitan police after he randomly shot at cars on the streets of Bangkok last Friday night.

Six cars were shot at and three people were injured.

The most critical victim is tourism police officer, Police Corporal Suriya Jantraj.

People complaining about being hit from behind.

I was front-ended on my motorbike, by a car that reversed right over me as opposed to checking their mirrors.

I find that the average driving I see here would only be done by very, very, dumb and simple people, that possibly have the IQ of a not fully developed adult or suffer from some sort of mental retardation.

Better take a train,

Like the one derailed, injuring 129 passengers yesterday?

Married and I get hit on a lot.

2 women I see most days really stepped up their interest since I got hitched, little minxs.

After seeing them go after it a guy who works with them laughed that he should get hitched as he read that married men get hit on 2-3 times more than single men. Plus those two minx are very hot, sexy, and seductive.

^ True.

The Border Patrol Police allegedly have more control of the drug and human trafficking trade, and their job positions cost more if a local wishes to become one.

I believe that the RTP also have to buy their own motorbike, which is offered tax free, as well as buying their own guns.

I believe they were able to buy the Tiger 200 you see them on at around 44,000, which I think were around 65k to the public.

Speaking of guns it was reported that the officer used a HK33 to massacre him colleagues.

Eh?

I believe that in 2008 the pop. of the US was just over 300m.

Has it really increased by 50% in the past three years?

I also believe that the pop. of Thailand you give is short by over 10%.

HEY hehehoho, Did you get the meaning of my post, so we take your 100% accuracy --????

Yes, I gave the correct number of police employed in each country rounded to the closest thousand.

60 mill and 300 mill-------- so we still have double the amount of police approx here than USA--per population. agree roughly,

We most certainly do not.

per 100,000 head of population there were 337 Thai police compared to 233 US police in 2008.

now comment on the jist of the post, and stop nit picking re population............... too many BiB here per population---------Thanks.

No.

btw, per head of population the numbers of police are almost identical to the UK, and less than most European countries, in most cases, far less.

Also the bike is accelerating much more better as it is 10-40 and better for high temperatures of Thailand.

that's the same as the Honda red top.

The blue top is 10-30, and the red top 10-40, which should be used in the cbr250.

Had it for around 10,000km.

Then had to replace the headlight assembly and front farings.

Which immediately cured it.

Comes back slightly from time to time. Cleaning lubing the chain and checking the bolts around the dash and front sections usually fix it. There's a lot of fancy multi layered plastic going on in this 250cc single.

Let's take this moment to reflect on the father of the modern day police force. Phao Sriyanond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phao_Sriyanond

Can you please explain in what context I was 'pretending Thailand to be different' then?

It wasn't with regards to police officers shooting, murdering, and maiming others?

Thanks.

This is a good report of alleged Thai police abuses.

If you haven't just eaten and don't mind reading of systematic torture, murder, and teenagers having their testicles crushed before being hung.

http://www.chiangmai...wfa.php?id=2121

Reading that I beleive it would be either a very stupid person or a very brave person who decides to act and try and change the culture of the police. Something certainly needs to be done so that people do not fear thier police and they have confidence in them.

But they're no different than Western police forces.

At Nisa:

From your last sentence:

But don't feel bad for having blinders on and pretending Thailand is so different because you are far from alone.

I challenge you that Thailand is in fact different. Very very different in fact.

The Royal Thai Police commit murders, massacres, and mutilations far, far more commonly than any Western police force when comparing factual and statistic numbers.

So I'm afraid that I and others are not pretending that Thailand is so different in this regard, because it is, and you are grossly incorrect on this.

Yes?

compare the countries population. approx again, 55 million--USA 455 million.

Eh?

I believe that in 2008 the pop. of the US was just over 300m.

Has it really increased by 50% in the past three years?

I also believe that the pop. of Thailand you give is short by over 10%.

This is a good report of alleged Thai police abuses.

If you haven't just eaten and don't mind reading of systematic torture, murder, and teenagers having their testicles crushed before being hung.

http://www.chiangmainews.com/ecmn/viewfa.php?id=2121

His Children will always have land, and a job...

Then he says his wife owns 27 Rai of farmland.

That is less than 10 rai each that they will inherit. How much baht does 10 rai bring in p/a on average? about 1k per rai?

They'll always have jobs? What jobs, toiling in the sun for 200b per day if they're lucky?

The Bazzaz z-fi gets good reviews from the states. And probably more reliable than the Thai made ones (if they're actually available yet).

At $309 they're only a thousand or two baht more than the local ones, with cheap taxes and no duty (?).

That's the route I'd take.

I cannot recall ever seeing a report of a police officer executing his colleagues in my couple of decades in the West.

I can recall about half a dozen reports of such in my half a decade in Thailand.

I believe that many Thais have repressed anger due to the culture, and that they never get to practice it in a rational manner, thus it builds up and up and up.... while they are culturally forced through conditioning to smile....

It's really quite unhealthy emotionally.

It is actually happens in the west too where police carry guns. They kill themselves, their families and colleagues as well as going on shooting sprees from time to time. Simply do a Google search and you will find numerous stories of all of these instances from just the last year. But don't feel bad for having blinders on and pretending Thailand is so different because you are far from alone.

Please excuse me as I totally dismantle your post.

I'm really not sure if you're only playing dumb to try and mislead, or actually are of such a state.

Firstly as opposed to making massively vast comparisons you'll need to make a statistical and numeral comparison based on similar population bases to actually have a point (and not look a tad silly.)

The Royal Thai Police is a population base of 213,000.

You mention 'The West', let's just narrow that down to say America, which is to your advantage as it is quite a gun friendly society. The US police force population base is 708,000. Numbers from a UN Survey of international police forces in 2008.

So now one of the population bases is 3.3 times larger than the other.

So you can either show reports of US police officers going on murderous rampages, hacking off women's arms, executing each other etc etc, and be able to show us over three times the reports of US police officers doing such, that we could easily show you of Royal Thai Police officers doing.

You also have the added advantage that these reports will be easy to find through the English language media.

Or you can admit that you are grossly incorrect if you think such killings and mutilations happen on the same scale (or anything close to it) by Western police population bases as it does in Thailand.

Which one will it be Nisa?

And btw, feel free to work on any Western police population base as long as you ratio it back to the number of Royal Thai Police.

Thanks.

Quite an intense outlook on life. Which is fine if it doesn't really effect anyone in a major way.

I think him refusing to give his three children something that could, and would likely be of great benefit to them, the English language is beyond a bit selfish.

I agree about the bike.

2011 Honda bike.

It has to be repaired by a Honda dealer.

They want to take it to some 'mechanic' who will bend as much pieces as they can back into place as opposed to replacing them.

I cannot recall ever seeing a report of a police officer executing his colleagues in my couple of decades in the West.

I can recall about half a dozen reports of such in my half a decade in Thailand.

I believe that many Thais have repressed anger due to the culture, and that they never get to practice it in a rational manner, thus it builds up and up and up.... while they are culturally forced through conditioning to smile....

It's really quite unhealthy emotionally.

Afraid I can't answer any of your Q's, but good luck with it all. Many times here the van (and it's insurance) would have been gone, or the police report would assign it as 50/50. I was in an accident a while ago and was impressed with the police, hospital (no injuries but full check-ups) and insurance.

I am heartened to see that at least this did not involve a drunken police officer assaulting a civilian or driving drunk and running down someone.

Isn't the 'running someone down' a Thai Army Officer speciality?

Behind every smile is an angry Thai.

Seems like many of them wear brown uniforms.

Thinking back to the Royal Thai Police officers who executed the backpacker in Pai, the one who executed two of them in Kanchanaburi, the one who cut off the arms of that karaoke girl, the one who executed another cop and his wife at a roadstop.... etc etc.

They are not allowed in the culture to show anger, so it stays bottled up till they get drunk, and that is the only time they are forgiving for showing negative emotions. That said some bottle up way to much, and have access to lethal weapons, like this BiB and the assault weapon.

Loss of face, pent up anger, weapons and alcohol are very dangerous combined in this culture.

I agree completely.

And believe it is the case with all who are conditioned under Thai culture, and are forced to totally repress anger and negative emotions, especially in a hierarchical society where those below you are likely to be treated like crap.