US couple arrested, fined Bt5,000 for writing graffiti on Silom Road pole

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US couple arrested, fined for writing graffiti on Silom Road pole

By The Nation

 

 

Police arrested a young American couple at a Bangkok hotel after a viral Facebook video showed them writing graffiti on a Silom Road advertising pole and public telephone booth on Wednesday.

After police were alerted to Vorathep Charoenpornpanich’s Facebook video at 4pm on Wednesday, they conducted an investigation and found that the two were staying at a hotel on Surawong Road near Silom Road.

 

They were arrested on Thursday and taken to the Thung Mahamek police station where they were fined Bt5,000 combined.

 

The two were identified as Baizer Bruce, 29, and Joness Ristin, 22. (the spelling is derived from police pronunciation of their names).

 

Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpal, deputy tourist police commissioner, told a press conference at the police station that he had reprimanded the two tourists.

 

Surachet said the two apologised to Thailand and said they did it just for kicks.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30334517

 

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[Rimmer]

"and said they did it just for kicks". 

She must have gone out and bought that giant green marker with intent to deface Thai public property, how does that give you kicks? I dont get it..

 

I hope she is made to clean it all off as well

 

 

[Dave67]

Spoiled little Mummies boy with his little rich kid bird, showing the world what rebels they are by scribbling on a public phone, 

[cornishcarlos]

Wrong what they did but...

 

Again, fine out of all proportion to normal fines here for much worse offences. GBH, 500 baht.. Vehicular manslaughter, 500 baht... 

 

Wait, they beez white folk :)

Edited December 22, 2017 by cornishcarlos

[mok199]

im sure this couple will be back real soon...remember the thai woman who trampled through park boundaries in Oregon  and denied it (refused REFUSED to even take responsibility)...OR  the thai students who wrote thai graffiti on sacred temple stones in the middle east...but this is somehow different...oh yes..the call of the thais '' THIS IS THAILAND''...

Edited December 22, 2017 by mok199
speliing

[sfokevin]

They were able to catch them because it took them 20 minutes to remove enough flat tire repair ads to make a spot big enough to write... 

[berybert]

5 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

Wrong what they did but...

 

Again, fine out of all proportion to normal fines here for much worse offences. GBH, 500 baht.. Vehicular manslaughter, 500 baht... 

 

Wait, they beez white folk :)

The fine for graffiti is about right.

I expect those who were after life in jail + a public flogging will be a little disappointed with it tho. 

 

The 500 baht Thai fines are wrong but theres nowt we can do about that.

[George Bowman]

 Forget the CCTV, living here is much like being in a goldfish bowl. I am always amazed how quickly the 'falangs' can be tracked down via the bamboo network.Regardless, I am glad that these kids have been tracked down.

[AGareth2]

but, but, but

no butts!

[MadMuhammad]

4 hours ago, Rimmer said:

"and said they did it just for kicks". 

She must have gone out and bought that giant green marker with intent to deface Thai public property, how does that give you kicks? I dont get it..

 

I hope she is made to clean it all off as well

 

 

What a pathetic, uninspired existence if this kind of thing gives you ‘kicks’. 

[MadMuhammad]

33 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

Wrong what they did but...

 

Again, fine out of all proportion to normal fines here for much worse offences. GBH, 500 baht.. Vehicular manslaughter, 500 baht... 

 

Wait, they beez white folk :)

Very much in proportion to take home salary though compared to the average Thai income. 

[anon789561]

i actually think 5k each would have been more appropriate. costs fortunes cleaning that crap off and makes places look like a ghetto. i was in Malaga last year and the amount of graffiti or this tagging rubbish was unreal, really makes the place look uninviting. young and stupid i guess, and i was that too but never felt the need to scrawl shit on walls. sad numpties

[johncat1]

All graffiti is wrong and Thais are the worlds worst with their fly posters they stick everywhere . Make these brain dead Yanks  clean their graffiti off then clean all other graffiti in that road......That should give them a real buzz 

[colinneil]

Brain dead idiots, they like kicks, well kick the clowns out of the country.

See if they like that.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

2 things

 

He looks 19 yo. Must be on all organic food and avocado sandwiches from Starbucks.

 

Doesn't police require a passport? Would take any guesses about their names.

[lemonjelly]

Doubt the original phone cam stalker would've bothered at all if it'd been a couple of Thai kids..... just another muppet who needs some attention trying to get "likes" on his FB page through some xenophobic trivial curtain twitching and gossip. 

[moe666]

They did it for kicks how about someone giving them a kick in the ass and a 10,000b fine each. Why do idiots come here thinking it is ok to show your ass, or write graffiti on the public streets. For those here who seem to think it is ok, or cute

you need a good kicking as well

[ezzra]

I would make them done a hi-vis jacket, give them a broom and a bucket

and make them sweep and clean Silom Rd. for all to see, that would have

sent the message home for the next would be 'artists'.....

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, Dave67 said:

Spoiled little Mummies boy with his little rich kid bird, showing the world what rebels they are by scribbling on a public phone, 

 

And sad that they have nothing more interesting to occupy they time.

[01322521959]

They are guests here. Terrible to think they feel they can do this. If I see something wrong here, I'll kick up a stink about it, but there are no excuses for this sort of thing. Disgusting behaviour!

[cyberfarang]

Dumb and dumber.

[MyFriend You]

I may have found a new hobby, just follow some tourists around and wait for them to do something illegal, film it find out what hotel they are in and turn them in...............tourists smoking on the beach, rich kids writing on public places, Chinese taking a dump on the sidewalk..........the possibilities are endless.  We could turn this into a TVF  contest and keep score.

Edited December 22, 2017 by TunnelRat69

[manarak]

again one of those stocking cap wearing lamers

[Dave67]

41 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

Rich kid? Seriously? He's 29 years of age. He's a man. A kid is under the age of 18.

How do you know he's rich? He wasn't staying in a high end hotel.look at their clothes. Old Navy or Target fashion.  They are slime. Pure and simple. If you didlike wealthy people, that's your option, but don't equate being rich with being a jerk.

 

Or maybe they are part of the low IQ brigade that offer petty trolling  comments. How about they were  arrogant  jerks? One doesn't need to be a supporter of Trump to be a jerk. Just ask some of the antifa vandals.

 

 

 

Calm down Jesus wept stop taking everything so literally. Bet you're a right barrel of laughs down the pub putting everyone straight.

[Destiny1990]

Idiots..

[Get Real]

Morons, A big kick of a size 44 foot in the butt would probably be liked. They like kicks, so why the heck, give ém two.

[Matthew2027]

Been said.... All graffiti is illegal - generally, whatever nationality, whatever country your in, it is in my opinion, wrong ugly and if caught make the perpetrators pay $ and do some community cleaning..    

[Just Weird]

3 hours ago, Dave67 said:

Spoiled little Mummies boy with his little rich kid bird...

How did you deduce that nonsense from the thread?

Edited December 22, 2017 by Just Weird

[Ron19]

Troll post removed.

[Dave67]

23 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

How did you deduce that nonsense from the thread?

Because I wanted to