Water gun "war weapon" latest: Top official confirms traders face ten years jail!

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Water gun "war weapon" latest: Top official confirms traders face ten years jail!

 

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A top Thai consumer protection official told the media that anyone selling high powered water guns for use at Songkran faces a decade behind bars.

 

The public were urged to call 1166 to report sellers of the weapons.

 

Piknet Tapuang a deputy at the Office of the Consumer Protection Board was speaking to Channel 7 TV news and other media after a raid on a bottled water factory in Bang Plee near Bangkok.

 

He said the high powered guns adapted with PVC pipes could cause blindness.

 

He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye.

 

Tourists could be injured as well as Thais and the public needed to be protected from harm.

 

He stated that traders should not sell the guns - if they do they face ten years in jail and or a fine of one million baht.

 

Members of the public should use the 1166 hotline to inform inspectors of violations.

 

The news followed a raid on a toy factory in Thonburi when an incredulous trader was informed she faced jail for importing what she thought were harmless toys not war weapons.

 

Source: CH7 TV

 

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[robblok]

Seriously ?

 

 

He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye.

 

How high powered are these things are they connected to fire hoses ?

 

I seen plenty of water guns like the one in the picture in supermarkets too.

 

[Thian]

5 minutes ago, robblok said:

Seriously ?

 

 

He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye.

 

How high powered are these things are they connected to fire hoses ?

 

I seen plenty of water guns like the one in the picture in supermarkets too.

 

I've also been sprayed with real firehoses pumping up klongwater with a dieselmotor powered pump.

 

[coulson]

10 years for selling toys, but drink driving however.....better watch out or you'll get community service.

[colinneil]

Just a load of BS.

Edited April 11, 2018 by colinneil

[mike324]

10 year for water guns, yet how many countless drunk drivers and murders are still off the hook? or doing less 10 years?

[Greenside]

"He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye."

 

Hmm...  I don't think so.  Neither does Google as far as I can see.

 

 

Maybe they could track this guy down and ask him 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2018 by Greenside

[VocalNeal]

14 minutes ago, Greenside said:

"He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye."

How long have you spent talking to the Thai whiskey drinkers at a village table.  Conversation goes in one ear and out the other so why shouldn't sprayed water?

[stanleycoin]

10 years in jail for a water pistol.

 

Crash a red lights and kill people, all ok         

Speeding and kill people, all ok.

Drive the wrong way up a carriageway kill people, all ok.

 

Loony people in charge.   

Truly shameful.

Edited April 11, 2018 by stanleycoin

[smedly]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Top official confirms traders face ten years jail!

and what penalties for those using them ?

[Darcula]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye.

 

It won't go all the way if you have a sponge for a brain.

 

 

[AGareth2]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye.

vacant skull syndrome?

[DrTuner]

1 hour ago, robblok said:

Seriously ?

 

 

He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye.

 

How high powered are these things are they connected to fire hoses ?

 

I seen plenty of water guns like the one in the picture in supermarkets too.

 

The blue pvc pipe guns can easily break an eardrum if shot from close distance. A guy with muscle can discharge it in a second or so, pressure must be 10bar+.

[PatOngo]

Ten years for selling water guns! I shudder to think of the penalty for staging an illegal coup in this country

[robblok]

27 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

The blue pvc pipe guns can easily break an eardrum if shot from close distance. A guy with muscle can discharge it in a second or so, pressure must be 10bar+.

Yes, but they are not talking about those, i really get it if they went after those pipe water guns, i said as much in an other topic. 

[dinsdale]

Water gun "war weapon" latest:

If all wars were fought with these weapons of war this world would be a paradise also it would make these two beauties soldiers. I'd be signing up today.

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

Put them down for 10 year jail with all the people sen in Chiang Mai vapping openly.

[DM07]

Good to see, that - once again- Thailand has all its priorities in order!

Welcome to BS- country, where the sellers of water- pistols get 10 years, because their products are too dangerous, but killers, rapists and other low- life are running free!

[Valentine]

I think the jails are not big enough to accommodate all those selling these dangerous weapons. I wonder if they will also arrest for possession.

[Muhendis]

2 hours ago, Greenside said:

Hmm...  I don't think so.  Neither does Google as far as I can see.

Quite so. There is no direct way that water entering the ear can go anywhere without first crashing through the eardrum causing deafness. There is then no direct route from the middle ear to the eyes.  Piknet Tapuang never went to medical school that's for sure.

[Lupatria]

If I had a say, this would be the day I would seriously consider another procedure to nominate clowns as 'top officials'. 

[fakename]

Maybe never went to any school!

[kannot]

How about a bucket of water with ice in? thats not dangerous at all eh, Theyre all such dicks!!

[losername]

I think the official is quoting the law in respect of pipe water guns which are banned. Clearly the toy water guns which were the subject of this story when it started are not banned, are they?

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[Dap]

 Riiiiiiight!!  

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

10 years in jail for selling plastic water pistols!!! Sad that the Monty Python gang has stopped making movies, Thailand could have provided endless material for them.

[CantSpell]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

high powered guns adapted with PVC pipes

Chille out people

Badly written maybe but article is not talking about Songkhran water guns that are sold everywhere but about high power made of pvp pipes...

 

 

[chrisinth]

5 hours ago, DrTuner said:

The blue pvc pipe guns can easily break an eardrum if shot from close distance. A guy with muscle can discharge it in a second or so, pressure must be 10bar+.

But this isn't what they are showing on this thread or the original one where they showed boxes of flimsy cheap children's toys.

 

IMO unless the importers found a way, by using blue PVC piping on these toys, to modify the pressure, we are going to see the "top Thai consumer protection official" Piknet Tapuang eating humble pie within the next couple of days.

 

If the factory was manufacturing the pvc pipe guns, then that is a different story. But still wouldn't be described as a 'war weapon' by any reasonable means except perhaps by someone who doesn't know what a war weapon is.

[DrTuner]

5 hours ago, robblok said:

Yes, but they are not talking about those, i really get it if they went after those pipe water guns, i said as much in an other topic. 

Lost in translation I think...

 

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He said the high powered guns adapted with PVC pipes could cause blindness.

 

He stated that the water could enter someone's ear and travel through the head to the eye.

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The gist seems to be about those pvc cannons, breaking eardrums and optic nerve infections. Obfuscated by Somchai the Master Translator. 

[robblok]

33 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Lost in translation I think...

 

 

The gist seems to be about those pvc cannons, breaking eardrums and optic nerve infections. Obfuscated by Somchai the Master Translator. 

I was confused because there was an other article about normal water guns that linked to this one.