Police chief put on inactive duty in fallout from "obscene" tattoo contest in Rayong mall

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Police chief put on inactive duty in fallout from "obscene" tattoo contest in Rayong mall

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The chief of police in Rayong has been ordered transferred to clerical duties for 30 days pending an investigation into how a tattoo contest was allowed at a downtown shopping center.

 

The contest featured many young men and women baring all but their essentials to show off their tattoos as children and young shoppers mingled in the crowd.

 

Now a couple of "magical trees" outside the police station are thought to have brought trouble on the force.

 

Though many netizens deemed the tattoo contest a bit of fun many people thought it was highly inappropriate in a public area in conservative Thailand.

 

The owners of the shopping center - Laemthong, now renamed as Passion Shopping Destination according to Thai Rath - said they were awfully sorry about it all. There was no one there to stop it after the contest started, they said.

 

It was held at the weekend.

 

The police have fined four organizers 5,000 baht each - the top whack for offending Article 388 that relates to lewd and obscene public displays.

 

But the police themselves are also under scrutiny.

 

Provincial chief Traisoon Niamsap ordered on Monday that the Rayong police chief should be transferred for 30 days pending an investigation.

 

A committee of inquiry has been set up to investigate the matter while Damrong Uansoongnern is shuffling paper at HQ.

 

The suggestion is that the cops allowed lewd behavior in public in their jurisdiction.

 

But in a further twist Thai Rath added an intriguing layer of "Thai-ness" to the drama.

 

They said that the kerfuffle and the transfer of the chief could all be related to the trimming of a couple of intertwined trees out front of the Rayong police station.

 

The last time - 20 years ago - that the "wandering Jew" and Bo trees were pruned - the chief ended up being transferred. Only after he performed a "graap" (prostration) in a well publicized apology was he able to return to his duties where he remained until retirement.

 

The Thai media called the trees "magical" in their report.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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[rwdrwdrwd]

"conservative Thailand"

Oh bore off. Can't wait for this ridiculous faux outrage at *everything* that's currently prevalent across Thai society to subside. It's like an "I can be more staid than you" competition.

Definitely some "trees" that need pruning though.

[LennyW]

Nothing more than an exhibition of art, i can surely think of many other things that police are much more in the need to be moved to inactive positions!!

[OJAS]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The chief of police in Rayong has been ordered transferred to clerical duties for 30 days

Another addition to the burgeoning number of "clerks" in the RTP, then!

[crazykopite]

But it’s okay for a Thai to pull over on the road throw his roger out and pee up against the coconut tree in broad daylight or to have bar girls hanging around on the pavements selling themselves “ Amazing Thailand “

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

I would be willing to bet that he has done many more things that he should have been suspended for other than this.

[jacko45k]

Just now, ALLSEEINGEYE said:

I would be willing to bet that he has done many more things that he should have been suspended for other than this.

For one, they had to wake him at his desk to tell him.

[sammieuk1]

Shocked that inactive posts are still available. 

[watcharacters]

3 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

Shocked that inactive posts are still available. 

 

 

Perhaps you and Claude Rains share the same  kind of  reaction.

 

 

 

[helloagain]

5 hours ago, rwdrwdrwd said:

"conservative Thailand"

Oh bore off. Can't wait for this ridiculous faux outrage at *everything* that's currently prevalent across Thai society to subside. It's like an "I can be more staid than you" competition.

Definitely some "trees" that need pruning though.

Yes. Double standards all the time

[robertthesculptor]

This response was the obscenity. The choice of venue was poor.nothing more. Learn and move forward.

How about the parking problem where the woman had contacted police who chose not to respond to her not being able to get her car out of her own yard. 

Thatwas obscene. cops should pay for repairs and then respond to calls for help next time

[Borzandy]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

how a tattoo contest was allowed at a downtown shopping center

How someone can doubt?

[NextStationBangkok]

Dirty tattoo no OK. Mai pen rai , Penis whitening is OK for now.

[roo860]

I believe some of the female contestants needed a 'bush trim.'

 

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[Emster23]

Never crossed minds that perhaps a tattoo exhibition might involve showing some skin? Ah, that mind thing again.

[wvavin]

“Inactive posts” have to be made available perpetually to hold the shits of this country.

[EnlightenedAtheist]

It needs to be ascertained if the request had specified that they would be baring it all. If not, would you still chastise the officer for allowing this?

[sawadee1947]

Amazing Thailand. When will it become free of all this "conservative " nonsense 

[natway09]

It really is time Thailand grew up !!!

[NoshowJones]

I thought the police were already on inactive duty except at tea money time.

[Jingthing]

It's often said about porn, you know it when you see it and you know it when you don't. Showing off body art is not pornographic.

[sambum]

"conservative Thailand."   "Magical trees"

 

                                               

[Formaleins]

How on earth can this country ever hope to advance or progress as long as these lunatics are allowed credibility when they keep bringing up this ghost rubbish and spirit tripe! This is the second case in about two weeks involving the wonderful BIB, the previous one was concerning the death / murder of the French guy and the local CHIEF OF POLICE had heard and seen spirits near the police station telling him about the crime. <deleted> is it with this place?

 

Nothing here carries responsibility, it can all be just blamed on outside or external forces, how convenient for them. 

 

The one good thing I have noticed over the years here is that the younger generation are not as willing to buy into this garbage as their parents, they do tend to knuckle down at the crunch, but they are a lot more difficult to convince than the previous generation.

 

 

[BangkokReady]

7 hours ago, rwdrwdrwd said:

"conservative Thailand"

Yes, Thailand is conservative in a special way.  Sort of a "we only care what people think, not what actually happens" type way.

 

It's a little like when Admiral Nelson put his telescope up to his blind eye and said "I see no ships!"

 

I remember once seeing a group of nurses return home from a shift and thinking how cute and respectable they looked in their long dresses and little white socks.  They later came out of their apartment building in short shorts and skimpy t-shirts.

 

A good metaphor for Thailand I think.  Traditional and old-fashioned where they need to be, skimpy AF when they think no one is looking.

[BangkokReady]

 

11 minutes ago, Formaleins said:

the local CHIEF OF POLICE had heard and seen spirits near the police station telling him about the crime. [What] is it with this place?

A reasonable question.

 

11 minutes ago, Formaleins said:

Nothing here carries responsibility, it can all be just blamed on outside or external forces, how convenient for them. 

The answer.

 

In a place where lying to avoid responsibility is the absolute norm, and people believe in magic, ghosts, spirits, luck, fate, fortune telling, etc., the excuses sort of write themselves.  You could say it's deeply ingrained in the culture from top to bottom.

 

It's great for people looking to avoid responsibility for their actions, awful for those who are the victim of those actions.

[BangkokReady]

24 minutes ago, sambum said:

"conservative Thailand."   "Magical trees"

 

                                               

Are you implying one of those things doesn't exist?

 

You are not Thai.  You do not understand.

[quandow]

I think seeing dead people strewn across the roads daily is obscene.

[Bangkok Barry]

8 hours ago, rwdrwdrwd said:

"conservative Thailand"

Oh bore off. Can't wait for this ridiculous faux outrage at *everything* that's currently prevalent across Thai society to subside. It's like an "I can be more staid than you" competition.

Definitely some "trees" that need pruning though.

 

Same thing happening in the West with the over-reaction to women earning a living as hostesses. The Puritans have taken over and turned the clock back centuries.

[Jimbo1964]

"They said that the kerfuffle and the transfer of the chief could all be related to the trimming of a couple of intertwined trees out front of the Rayong police station".

 

Yep them tree spirits are mad at you. Should have known better than to assault the trees !!!!  

[PEE TEE]

Thailand has no double standards  . what about the Aldershot tattoo