Can't make this sh!t up. When you think you've seen it all, they always have a way to surprise you.
One of a myriad of things that tells the world whose side they're on. Cobra Gold? US navy port calls? Mere facades and smoke screens that does nothing more than to keep $$ flowing in.
If you're going to shoot someone, that would be the proper way. Crippling can come back to haunt the shooter in different ways. For one, in the US, the bad guy can sue and potentially win.
Singapore and many other first world countries have inbound auto gate systems. I guess they are not as concerned about their national security as Thailand.
Don't seem to be any different than the current ones. At least visibility-wise.
They are too occupied putting out scandals-du-jour and addressing b.s. issues like these to deal with the real problems.
How often do safety protocol questions need to be prompted for the same problem before something is actually done about it?
But then Thai football has been jystifying one humiliation after another in extra-Asean international plays as "to gain experience for the future" in the last 40 years while actually going backwards. Tiny Estonia awaits eagerly tonight, btw.
They are civilian peace officers and not military. The purpose of uniform regulations is to enforce good order and discipline but they've proven over the decades that that's not working.