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

[Jimbo53]

Is it any wonder that this Country is a laughing stock! When you have idiots in charge of  government departments ordering instructions to ban things like this,why would you bother investing your money here,when the goal posts get moved on a whim! TIT.

Edited March 13, 2018 by Jimbo53
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[Kimber]

21 hours ago, poohy said:

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

 

Give it time and each Dart will have to be registered as a weapon. 

 

I see the Dart board ban as just another conduit for the cops scamming. 

 

[Kimber]

29 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

   Just when you thought you'd heard it all........

 

Just when I'm warming up yet again to make the big move, I'm reminded yet again why I shouldn't bother. 

 

[Rickster]

I've just checked my calender and it's definitely NOT April 1st just yet......

[anon537687643]

Crazy hypocritical place


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[huainnews]

  I don't think anybody has mentioned yet but about 15 years ago there was a purge on pool tables by the BIB  

  I think the 'registration fee' for a licence was 500 Baht a month, 1000   if you had two tables.  Fortunately the fees didn't last for long. 

   Hopefully they wil have a change of heart about the need for dart licences but I doubt it, too many senior officers would lose face if they did.

[Jimbo1964]

What about cockroach races ! Ban the cockroach......

[bizboi]

16 hours ago, wotsdermatter said:

Are they looking at the examples(s) set by the US government for their inspiration?  Just curious.

Bit off topic arent we?

[DM07]

...wait...wait...wait....WHAT???

[HLover]

Just jumped on this thread, any mention of the vagina darts being banned?

Asking for a mate, of course.

[TSF]

I know there are some Thais who play darts but it's primarily a "farang" activity played mainly in "farang" pubs & bars in tourist hubs like Pattaya, Bangkok, Samui, Phuket, Chiang Mai etc. So this is just another "lets hit the farang for all we can" move by these ever-increasingly mean-spirited people. 

[gerritkaew]

What next,, pool tables ?

[Kimber]

2 minutes ago, HLover said:

Just jumped on this thread, any mention of the vagina darts being banned?

Asking for a mate, of course.

 

Hard to believe that a guy like you frequents Vag stocked bars mate  555

[HLover]

Just now, Kimber said:

 

Hard to believe that a guy like you frequents Vag stocked bars mate  555

True,I'm here for the pristine beaches and sun kissed sand.

[HLover]

2 minutes ago, gerritkaew said:

What next,, pool tables ?

Butt Darts at Dongtan

[wvavin]

When idiot speaks nobody is listening!

[freebyrd]

30 years of Thailand's nonsense but this has to take first prize for really stupid - thus far that is!

[NextStationBangkok]

So, you are the first target!

[krobert6]

Is the lottery gamblng ? and Rhino beatles ?

 

Edited March 13, 2018 by krobert6

[tigermoth]

Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland along with prayut and co obviously got together to dream up this insane law. The government continues to make total idiots of themselves and the laughing stock everywhere. Unfortunately overseas it reflects back on the country.

[connda]

It always amazes me how a government that has an endemic corruption problem (i.e., amoral from top to bottom) simply wants to crush any form of gambling or <gasp> potential gambling.  They legislate morality and now focus on things that might be gambling It's beyond absurd..  What's next? Nobody can talk anymore because they may make a bet?
"Hey man, I'll give you 2:1 odds that it will rain today."
Yeah, I'll take that for 100 THB.
<sounds of sirens>
"Arrest everyone who talk laew!!! They gamble. Make bet with voice.  Jail for you all."

 

Next up:  A rhinoceros beetle eradication campaign.  Break out the methionine.
Here in the North we have Thai fighting beetles, and people bet on them. Kill them all!

And chickens.  Kill all the chickens too.  Someone may bet on a fighting chicken!!!

 

I really wonder how stupid this can get.  That's a rhetorical question. 
Amazing Thailand!

Edited March 13, 2018 by connda

[webfact]

Officials Swoop In To Seize Unregistered Dartboards

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

  

Image: ann-dabney / Flickr

 

BANGKOK — The national darts association said pubs and sport bars that wish to offer the sport must register their equipment lest they be confiscated by local authorities.

 

The warning came amid complaints from establishment owners in Pattaya that they are being targeted by officials demanding dart permits. Thailand Dart Association chairman Vichai Govindani said the crackdown is supported by a 83-year-old law that lists darts, bingo and numerous other sports as gambling.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2018/03/13/officials-swoop-in-to-seize-unregistered-dartboards/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-03-13

[connda]

Bingo! The scourge of elderly Thais!!!

Wait a minute.  We can't have betting! All that gambling money has to flow though the lottery system so those is charge can rack their share off the top.

[Acemaker]

23 hours ago, johng said:

Totally crazy !

Amazing Thailand! on a par almost with Nigeria.

[ostyan]

If a government comes up with a regulation, it should have a reason. If it has no reason, or people cannot see it it is a big shame on the issuer.

[Acemaker]

11 hours ago, Donotdisturb said:

3rd world at its best again.

Exactly.

[Donotdisturb]

11 hours ago, InMyShadow said:

11 hours ago, Donotdisturb said:

3rd world at its best again.

Those of us live here love it. Never ever predictable. Those who came here expecting 1st world are idiots. Only themselves to blame

Lemme guess: u also found 3rd world love here? ?

[nasa123]

What about all the 1000 +++ of pool table in Thailand ??

[HLover]

1 minute ago, nasa123 said:

What about all the 1000 +++ of pool table in Thailand ??

Does that include the shirtless Somchai snooker dens?

[Shaunduhpostman]

Getting on towards the top of the hour here at WDUH where the government's words are music to our ears.

We started that last set off with last year's number one, "I Got the Grandma's-on-a-Chain-Gang-for-Playing-Bridge-in-Chonburi-Blues" by the Whistling Pensioneers off of their 2017 collection entitled "Baby...If You Goin Back to Blighty...Just Let Me Know,"

followed by "You Cain't Do It, I Dint Sell You No License" by Colonel I. Gotta Fine Them and the Twistin' It Up Quick Inspectors.

And then we heard from The Naked Unicyclist from off of last year's  "Bustin' Out: Public Yodeler #1" with "R U Gay 'r Sumpthin'? How Could U Arrest a Nude Man?," another fine Pattaya beach sports promotion number that seems to just add to that whole millieu provided by Gladys Beachchairrentals and her Swingin' Contradictory Shoehorns with her "I'm Takin My Funky Burlap Apron Off (I'm Just Tryin to Enjoy My Short Life, That's All, You Gotta Problem With That?)." After that X-Tourism Minister with, "I Like It Hot, I'm Fixin' to Ankle Tracker Me Some Tourists!"

And finally, leading in to the top of the hour, we heard  some country music by Bull's Eye and his latest single from off of the album The Good Talking-Dic 'Tater Ship, with a tune entitled, "I Took Away the Dart Boards in This Town, So Then I  Figgered Youse Must Be The Target."