Video: Thai man arrested after threatening minivan passengers with a gun

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Video: Thai man arrested after threatening minivan passengers with a gun

 

 

Police in Nakhon Nayok north of Bangkok said they had arrested a 26 year old man who was filmed on a Facebook video threatening fellow passengers on a minivan.

 

He told police that he was high on drugs but admitted that it was him.

 

"Manut Pa" had posted the footage saying that the man was a fellow passenger who started talking to him and his friend on the journey from Future Park Rangsit to Ban Na. After a stop at a gas station the situation escalated as the man asked who they knew in Ban Na.

 

He was filmed threatening the passengers with a gun and using abusive language. The posters said they did not know him or recognize him at all.

 

 

 

They reported the matter to Ongkharak district police who found him shortly after in his room near the university in Klong Yai.

 

He was named as Sorawut or "Tom", 26. He admitted that it was him in the video.

 

He blamed Ya Ba. 

 

Police told INN that he has a history of violence against his mother and other relatives.

 

He has been detained as police seek the posters of the clip to confirm him as the gunman. He had a Thai made gun in his possession.

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-02-17

 

[AGareth2]

nutter

[chrisinth]

20 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

He blamed Ya Ba.

 

If he had pulled the trigger he could also have blamed Ya Ba for that and all would be good..................

 

Absolutely no excuse for being intoxicated with a firearm. Legally held or not.

[robblok]

15 minutes ago, chrisinth said:

 

If he had pulled the trigger he could also have blamed Ya Ba for that and all would be good..................

 

Absolutely no excuse for being intoxicated with a firearm. Legally held or not.

Should be extra punishment for those who commit crimes while intoxicated. Its not an excuse its something that makes it worse.

[Tilacme]

Police should toast guys like this.

[bluesofa]

4 hours ago, Tilacme said:

Police should toast guys like this.

Cheers!

[NCC1701A]

" He had a Thai made gun in his possession."

 

So the bullets come out the wrong end?

 

Lucky to be alive.

[scorecard]

4 hours ago, Tilacme said:

Police should toast guys like this.

 

The justice system / process (not the police) should punish this type of behavior strongly as a deterant. 

 

[Henrik Andersen]

Let him go meny years in monkey house good rehab 

Scumbag Thai 

[Bluespunk]

10 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

He told police that he was high on drugs but admitted that it was him.

As far as excuses go, that one’s not great. 

[Rhys]

Bailiff whack his pp.

 

[Fish Head Soup]

14 hours ago, Tilacme said:

Police should toast guys like this.

Oh they used to do just that under Thaksins leadership. It was great, and Bangkok had never been as safe for normal law-abiding people in years.

[djayz]

Scary s***. Imagine you're sitting in one of those minivans minding your own businesd and some monkey pulls out a weapon!

I despise drugs and what they do to people/make people do. 

 

[maccastime]

He blames ya ba?? And he was driving the minivan?? 

[stanleycoin]

3 hours ago, djayz said:

Scary s***. Imagine you're sitting in one of those minivans minding your own businesd and some monkey pulls out a weapon!

I despise drugs and what they do to people/make people do. 

 

Hide if you can !!!!!!!!!!!!! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-WSM0xTyE

 

[farcanell]

22 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

He told police that he was high on drugs but admitted that it was him.

 

22 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

He has been detained as police seek the posters of the clip to confirm him as the gunman.

So a confession doesn’t cut it.... thai police work at its best.

[robblok]

1 minute ago, farcanell said:

 

So a confession doesn’t cut it.... thai police work at its best.

Just make an airtight case... but seems to me confession and video evidence together should make a strong case already. I can't see this guy as someone with power or money... wonder why they are stalling.

[jacko45k]

22 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

He told police that he was high on drugs but admitted that it was him.

Add that to the list of charges then!

[whaleboneman]

3 hours ago, maccastime said:

He blames ya ba?? And he was driving the minivan?? 

He was a fellow passenger so that means he wasn't the driver. I like to help out but people - please read the story at least twice before posting as I'm a busy guy.

[Falcon]

Even if they send this guy to jail, they’ll probably enrol him in the prisoner gun making club that’s been spoken about quite a lot recently! 

[hobobo]

18 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Cheers!

You mean like BBQ? 

[Raymonddiaz]

Small people with guns is a dangerous mixed.

 

[mikebell]

On 17/02/2018 at 1:42 PM, AGareth2 said:

nutter

Thai male.

[The manic]

10 hours ago, Fish Head Soup said:

Oh they used to do just that under Thaksins leadership. It was great, and Bangkok had never been as safe for normal law-abiding people in years.

That is an outright lie. Many innocents were killed and selling drugs does not the death penalty anyway. But many many non users were set up and murders by proxy to settle scores.  Only deranged and damaged people believe in such shoot to kill policies. They should be locked up for life as they are more dangerous than recreational drug users. Such sociopaths and facsists should be closely monitored.  The history of the pursuit of oblivion is thousands of years old. The repressive  drug laws less than a hundred years old. And it was a gun he was waving around, not a banana. He is the kind of person who was hired by Thaksin and now Duerte and in the past American paid death squads.

[wvavin]

High on drugs can misuse of firearm in Thailand. Noted!

[speedtripler]

10 hours ago, Fish Head Soup said:

Oh they used to do just that under Thaksins leadership. It was great, and Bangkok had never been as safe for normal law-abiding people in years.

It was more fun back then too.... 

[nausea]

It's the exception rather than the rule, which is why it makes the news. Ten years of travelling daily on minivans and I've only seen one instance of violence, seen a few people dead or injured by the roadside though.

[Tilacme]

If a miscreant has no money, why arrest him, no profit in that.  

[Fish Head Soup]

2 hours ago, The manic said:

That is an outright lie. Many innocents were killed and selling drugs does not the death penalty anyway. But many many non users were set up and murders by proxy to settle scores.  Only deranged and damaged people believe in such shoot to kill policies. They should be locked up for life as they are more dangerous than recreational drug users. Such sociopaths and facsists should be closely monitored.  The history of the pursuit of oblivion is thousands of years old. The repressive  drug laws less than a hundred years old. And it was a gun he was waving around, not a banana. He is the kind of person who was hired by Thaksin and now Duerte and in the past American paid death squads.

All that post shows is that you weren't living in Bangkok at the time.

[ujayujay]

Kick this moron out of a helicopter over the golden triangle Jungle.....