Thailand dart board ban goes NATIONWIDE - bars urged to get registered

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Thailand dart board ban goes NATIONWIDE - bars urged to get registered

 

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Thailand’s ban on bars and entertainment venues allowing punters to play darts is now in effect nationwide.

 

In January, officials in Pattaya raided bars along Soi 6 to confiscate the ‘illegal’ dart boards.

 

Bar owners and staff were told that venues must now have a dart board license if they wanted to be able to allow customers to play the popular pastime on their premises.

 

One Soi 6 bar owner told Thaivisa of his bewilderment when a uniformed official demanded to see paperwork for his dart board.

 

When no paperwork could not be produced, the dart board was confiscated.

 

The new requirements for a ‘dartboard license’ resulted in the suspension of Pattaya’s popular darts league, which many expats in the town take part in.

 

Initially there was some confusion not only into the crackdown on the seemingly innocent game of darts but how bars could obtain the so called ‘dart board license’.

 

Now more details have emerged as to the reasons behind the darts ban.

 

According to a notice from the Thailand Darts Association [TDA], the requirement for bar owners to register dart boards is linked to Thailand’s strict laws on gambling.

 

Bar owners must now register their darts board if it is in a public space and must ensure that no gambling is taking place when darts are being played.

 

The Thailand Darts Association has shared information on its website on how bar owners can register their dartboards.

 

Once registered, bar owners will receive an official certificate stamped and signed by the president of the TDA, which also includes a registered license number from Office of the National Culture Commission (ONCC).

 

Bar owners can then show the certificate to the authorities in the event they are required to prove their dart board is registered.

 

Failure to register dart boards may result in a fine or the board being confiscated, the TDA warns on its website.

 

The TDA is providing the certificate free of charge and has warned bar owners about opportunists trying to charge for fake certificates.

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-03-12

[Samui Bodoh]

 

I have just wandered through the looking glass...

[PatOngo]

25 expensive watches.....No problem.

1 dartboard.......................No way!

[Thaiwrath]

[johng]

Totally crazy !

[geoffphuket]

News today, forgotten tomorrow... next

[poohy]

Well thats a blow, i have just come back from the 2 year old twins marriage and fancied a relaxing game of darts.

It seems the lunatics are finally running the asylum

[ZeVonderBearz]

I look forward to the pool table ban. If you've ever tried to carry one, they ain't light. Be great to see the BiB struggle to lift one. 

[sn1per]

connect four next?

[impulse]

30 minutes ago, webfact said:

Failure to register dart boards may result in a fine or the board being confiscated, the TDA warns on its website.

 

The TDA is providing the certificate free of charge and has warned bar owners about opportunists trying to charge for fake certificates.

 

Seems pretty reasonable...

 

[Jingthing]

Say it ain't so, Somchai! 

 

[Darcula]

36 minutes ago, webfact said:

Bar owners and staff were told that venues must now have a dart board license if they wanted to be able to allow customers to play the popular pastime on their premises.

 

Is it as difficult to get as a Connect Four license?

[RichardColeman]

Maybe the education ministry should step in here to explain the use of darts calculations can help with maths. But i am sure they would just get a cut and pasted response !

[overherebc]

7 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Maybe the education ministry should step in here to explain the use of darts calculations can help with maths. But i am sure they would just get a cut and pasted response !

Oh you stupid person, you're trying to introduce logic.

Leave here and go home at once.

[worgeordie]

Cards,Dartboards, that must mean the Domino's

will be next on the list,followed quickly by Tiddlywinks.

regards worgeordie

[irishken]

i've seen darts been fired before but not at a dart board.

will these premises need a new licence?

[MaeJoMTB]

2 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Cards,Dartboards, that must mean the Domino's

will be next on the list,followed quickly by Tiddlywinks.

regards worgeordie

 .......... no, don't touch Jenga and Connect4!

[RichCor]

They should save this for April 1st, then post an update.

 

Then again, every day is April 1st in Thailand.

[MaxYakov]

Wow! The month of March just whizzed by or did I sleep through it?

[ezflip]

I've never seen people betting on Darts before. Maybe they do, but I've yet to see it.

 

Meanwhile, the local pool hall is constantly filled with Thais making bets and exchanging money in broad daylight.

 

Then again, confiscating a dart board is so much easier then confiscating a pool table.

[RickBradford]

The Thai authorities always miss the point by a wide margin, so it embarrasses them when they see people consistently hitting the treble-20 and bullseye.

 

Pool tables are safe - Thai police understand big pockets, and things dropping into them.

[Thechook]

Woooh, that was close and glad they nipped this horrendous game in the butt before it got out of control.  Busted the elderly playing bridge earlier and I hear Chess Players are next in Thailand's sights followed by soccer players.   Prayuth is really cleaning the place up

[ukrules]

Snooker and pool tables will be next ?

[Kaoboi Bebobp]

I can see how darts has risen to the forefront of enforcement for the RTP since they have vastly reduced the road carnage, severely reduced domestic violence, shut shoddily built bars and offices, forced baht buses to use road stops,  stopped motorcyclists and drivers running red lights, successfully imposed the mandatory helmet law, rounded up many members of international criminal gangs, stopped the flow of human trafficking and endangered animal species, and jailed Red Bull boy, the construction billionaire poacher, Yingluk and Taksin. Well done. What's an idle cop to do?

[300sd]

Guess no one told them about the cock fights and cow racing. Might want to register those betting games also!

 

Sort of makes me feel unwanted.

[kevc]

So what difference actually does the piece of paper make, wouldn't it have been easier to just inform owners that gambling with darts isn't allowed how is a piece of paper going to stop this.

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[rkidlad]

I remember playing cards with some Thai and foreign friends. Just cards. No money or gambling. Playing purely for fun. One local girl said she didn’t wanna play because she doesn’t gamble. Someone explained we are not gambling. She still said she felt uncomfortable so she wouldn’t play. Being me I couldn’t bite my lip so explained we are just playing for fun. She said Thais usually gamble when playing cards. I tried to explain it was just for fun. No one is gambling. 

 

Looking at her confused face it simply wasn’t computing. She couldn’t quite get her mind around it. Amazing what branwashing and sanctimony will do to a person’s brain. 

[Thailand]

No real clever response available for this one!

[roo860]

One 'numbhead' and eighty!

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[jvs]

30 minutes ago, 300sd said:

Guess no one told them about the cock fights and cow racing. Might want to register those betting games also!

 

Sort of makes me feel unwanted.

The last cow race early in the morning often goes as high as 1 million baht!