Video: Arrest Thai style - cops and public team up to take down "stressed out man"

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A video is doing the internet rounds that showed the Thai police and several members of the public help to take down a northern Thai man who had come to Bangkok after arguing with his wife and family.

 

The video showed the incident that took place 50 meters from the Phra Ratchawang police station late Sunday afternoon.

 

Chamnan Bunmark, 51, armed with sticks was making a nuisance of himself in the street as the cops and the public encircled him.

 

Whereas many police forces around the world might have used a taser in this case what appeared to be mobile traffic barrier was employed in the arrest.

 

No one was hurt and Chamnan was not even charged - the cops said he was stressed out after arguing with his wife and family in Lampang.

 

He had got on a train to Bangkok and slept out in front of the police station for one night, said Thai Rath.

 

The cops kindly took him to a center for the homeless in Din Daeng to await his relatives.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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I must say the Thai police handled this one rather well.

... excepting of course if the stressed out man happened to be a farang... He’d be up for a big pay off by now.

Tasers are available from street vendors or that Bristol bomb detector bloke .  

I have seen many like this on pedestrian crossing bridges, only stick is missing.

 

If we miss the eye contact with them, you are safe, but they keep yelling at something, or on people.

WOW that was poorly handled, he almost hit members of the public, and the non-human ones in brown clothes too.

Surely a simple.22 shot in the shoulder, just like in the movies!!!, would have worked 5555555555555555555

If this was in the US he would have been shot dead.

Bunch of clowns!

59 minutes ago, sevenhills said:

If this was in the US he would have been shot dead.

That was my initial thought. Then I watched the video. I think he's lucky the BIB didn't shot him. Australia, he'd more than likely be dead. Not just the US.

Wow, really good and effective police work!

Looks like a fracas in the kindergarten playground.

A total farce.

All ended well....

1 hour ago, trianglechoke said:

WOW that was poorly handled, he almost hit members of the public, and the non-human ones in brown clothes too.

Surely a simple.22 shot in the shoulder, just like in the movies!!!, would have worked 5555555555555555555

If it was Toronto he could have had a clip emptied into him in two separate volleys and somehow the officer only convicted of attempted murder, but no brown envelopes?

2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Tasers are available from street vendors or that Bristol bomb detector bloke .  

 

 

 

 

No self defense weapon is available to a falang.

 

 

 

 

Hhehehehe a dramatic systematical end to a well performed circus act I say, What all then guns and no bullits

10 minutes ago, silent said:

If it was Toronto he could have had a clip emptied into him in two separate volleys and somehow the officer only convicted of attempted murder, but no brown envelopes?

 

 

What about, police available, mace/pepper spray  that goes 30'

 

Short of that a taser with a range of ?

 

Then just kill him.   No mercy or care...

4 hours ago, nausea said:

I must say the Thai police handled this one rather well.

Yes throwing metal gates at someone. 555 

5 minutes ago, cookieqw said:

Yes throwing metal gates at someone. 555 

I would prefer that to a couple of 9mm rounds...

9 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

What about, police available, mace/pepper spray  that goes 30'

 

Short of that a taser with a range of ?

 

Then just kill him.   No mercy or care...

For the many cases like this guy and the druggy on the bus in Toronto waving a 3 inch knife, a 2 x 2 meter fish net would probably be more appropriate. It's just not as good an image as a tasering or a good beating, (if a suspect can't be legally shot in public). 

2 hours ago, sevenhills said:

If this was in the US he would have been shot dead.

Yep, that's how a cookie crumble...

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Did they not had those safety nets for these situations  ?

20 minutes ago, Robbess said:

In the U.S. they just shot a guy dead who was carrying a stick, and The guy was also deaf. Bystanders were yelling at the cops “He can’t hear you, he’s deaf!” 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/n

A perfectly credible slight mistake: "Police initially said Sanchez was carrying a stick, but Mathews described it Wednesday as a metal pipe." 

Except I never heard of any with a throw away pipe before

"Hilarious' --- 'Carry on Constable'

if that was the uk he would have been shot or tazered at the least

no compassion or soft tactics

just taken out!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm, agitate him first then take him down. Not sure which rule book that came from however it worked in its own style. :)

 

I like the way they allow traffic to filter past him. In UK they'd have closed the roads and probably all public transit inc airports for miles!

they did a good job in my opinion. no one got hurt and why shoot him if you can take him down without going down that route. well done bib on that one i say. i did love the use of the traffic barriers, funny

What the Thai police need here are Tazers. Not the items that we used to call "cattle prods" which you touch on someone and give you an electric shock, but the ones which fire darts and smash electricity HV into the blood stream! that'd fix him in seconds.

An alternative "weapon".................