Watch Dramatic Police Raid To Capture Renegade Monk (Video)

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

 

NAKHON PATHOM — Officers trundle into a cabin on a temple’s grounds at the crack of dawn, guns mounted and flashlights shining. When no one responds to their knocks, they sledgehammer two doors and catch a monk sleeping under a mosquito net.

 

“Open the door! This is the police,” the officers can be heard saying. “Get down!”

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/videos/2018/05/25/watch-dramatic-police-raid-to-capture-renegade-monk-video/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-05-25

WOW. Like Hawai 5-0, except its Bangkok HI-SO! ?

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

sleeping under a mosquito net

 

I'm guessing the mosquitos in that temple aren't buddhists.

Comical watching the fella with the sledgehammer. Someone who knew what they were doing, would have had that door open first hit. If that was  a serious gang inside, there would have been guns galore pointed at the door by the time he finally got it open.

Hardly dramatic, and why was the guy using a toffee hammer to break down the door ?

11 minutes ago, webfact said:

“Open the door! This is the police,” the officers can be heard saying. “Get down!”

A sad reflection of Thai Buddhism here that the police felt compelled to to go in like this into a so-called Buddhist temple. 

 

 

Are there any honest Monks out there...........

Just now, ThreeEyedRaven said:

Comical watching the fella with the sledgehammer. Someone who knew what they were doing, would have had that door open first hit. If that was  a serious gang inside, there would have been guns galore pointed at the door by the time he finally got it open.

 

Spot on mate, had that been the residence of a serious criminal they would have been long gone.

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At least turn the knob to see if the door is unlocked first. Jeez.

3 minutes ago, Darcula said:

At least turn the knob to see if the door is unlocked first. Jeez.

Dont be silly, trying the door first is too easy, anyway would not make the video look as excit?ing as breaking the door down.?

5 minutes ago, Darcula said:

At least turn the knob to see if the door is unlocked first. Jeez.

Do not post logic.

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He was naked in bed watching T.V
The thing I don't get is that this guy was Suthep's right hand during the 'Shutdown Bangkok' protest. Now he's in prison and Suthep is allowed to form a new political party. All within the space of 24 hours.

I smell something fishy and it ain't Issara's underwear. What is going on behind closed doors? With an election looming early next year, student protests and Thaksin making the headlines. Has paranoya set a chain of events in motion. The junta and the elite conjuring up plans?

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He led 2014 anti-government street protests during which he allegedly extorted a hotel, had his bodyguards beat up police and illegally produced amulets with the royal emblem. For that he was charged with royal forgery, which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in jail.

 

And this little nugget at the end of the above Khaosod article... Kind of suggests where this case is coming from.

 

He should have gone out the back window. it took them so long to access, he would have been long gone.

5 minutes ago, phetphet said:

He should have gone out the back window. it took them so long to access, he would have been long gone.

Good point mate, but he thought he was untouchable, so never bothered to get off the bed.

23 minutes ago, petermik said:

Are there any honest Monks out there...........

Yes, there are. About three. But they're all AWOL at the moment.

What? It's already 6 a.m. and he's still snuggled up in his bed? Aren't "normal" monks out on their alms rounds or gathered in the ubosot chanting morning prayers at that time?

 

And how could he possibly not notice the one-and-a-half-minute-long commotion that was ensuing on his porch? On the other hand, he DID look a little hung-over in the video...

32 minutes ago, Darcula said:

At least turn the knob to see if the door is unlocked first. Jeez.

With all due respect to Max and 99....This is NOT a Get Smart episode.... 

36 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

He was naked in bed watching T.V
The thing I don't get is that this guy was Suthep's right hand during the 'Shutdown Bangkok' protest. Now he's in prison and Suthep is allowed to form a new political party. All within the space of 24 hours.

I smell something fishy and it ain't Issara's underwear. What is going on behind closed doors? With an election looming early next year, student protests and Thaksin making the headlines. Has paranoya set a chain of events in motion. The junta and the elite conjuring up plans?

Do you think the mad monk might be bound for paradise sooner than he thinks?

 

A irritation to Suthep and the future government. Another box ticked on the way to election glory.

don't monks get up before dawn for prayers?

13 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

don't monks get up before dawn for prayers?

'Monks' do, yes. 

Thailand's finest on both sides. Those commandos wouldn't stand a chance in Chicago or Oakland.

2 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Thailand's finest on both sides. Those commandos wouldn't stand a chance in Chicago or Oakland.

 

I loved the hammering the door scene... Priceless...

 

You'd have thought they were trying, and failing, to break into Fort Knox as opposed some some sh**-hole wood cabin in the jungle.

 

A 2 roomed "kutti" and a raised bed for a monk is a little more than the regulations allow.

Then there is air-con and TV, don't those rate as possessions for someone who is supposed to live without possessions?

4 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I loved the hammering the door scene... Priceless...

 

You'd have thought they were trying, and failing, to break into Fort Knox as opposed some some sh**-hole wood cabin in the jungle.

 

Pretty darn entertaining. Sort of like looking at a scrawny little gay guy slap his big strong boyfriend in anger. Also comical was the lead commando talking sooo strong. Priceless you are correct. 

3 minutes ago, Chang_paarp said:

A 2 roomed "kutti" and a raised bed for a monk is a little more than the regulations allow.

Then there is air-con and TV, don't those rate as possessions for someone who is supposed to live without possessions?

Perhaps that being so back in the grounds it is the entertainment room for little boy or women guests.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Dramatic Police Raid

More a plot for a Mickey Mouse episode your kids will tell you it is unrealistic.

2 hours ago, Darcula said:

At least turn the knob to see if the door is unlocked first. Jeez.

 

Yeah, but might they might have caught the dude turning his own knob.

A well known national newspaper had a report which included a line that police looking for one of the suspected were amazed to find a secret exit from the wat to the main road and that they never knew of its existence until then.?

????? payback??