Alcohol ban from midnight tonight for 24 hours - lawbreakers to be jailed and/or fined

 

 

The alcohol ban for the Visakhabucha Buddhist holiday will last for 24 hours from midnight tonight until midnight on Tuesday.

 

The holiday is perhaps the most important Buddhist day and a national police spokesman said that the alcohol ban will be strictly enforced.

 

There is to be no selling or distribution of alcohol in shops, restaurants or entertainment places, reported TNA.

 

The only place where you can legally get a drink are in the international airports.

 

Those breaking the law will be fined up to 10,000 baht and/or jailed for up to six months said Pol Col Krisana Pattanacharoen.

 

Anyone who sees illegal alcohol sales can call 191 or 1599 to make a report to police.

 

Visakhabucha celebrates the birth, enlightenment at age 35 and death at age 80 of the Buddha. 

 

Source: TNA

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

Anyone who sees illegal alcohol sales can call 191 or 1599 to make a report to police.

Should I tell them about the village shop?

Better not, I won't have a peaceful life thereafter.

 

A good thread to add the obvious: not only alcohol ban but also all government offices closed.

 

 

'Those breaking the law will be fined up to 10,000 baht and/or jailed for up to six months said Pol Col Krisana Pattanacharoen'

 

There is absolutely no correlation within the crime committed and the sentence you 'could' receive, I state 'could' as we all know in a corrupt third world there is often the option to bribe your way out of trouble but come on, six months for having a beer on a 'Buddhist' holiday!!!!

 

No expert but wasn't Buddha a kind of live and let live kind of a chap, does seem slightly skewed when you can beat the living <deleted> out of somebody and receive nothing more than a B500 fine and a slap on the wrist so long as you are Thai obviously, different set of rules again if you are one of those damned interfering foreigners......

 

 

I wonder how the monks in the temples would react if every shop owner said that they had to cut their donations due to the inability to sell alcohol on a Buddha day ! Probably double tomorrow

Every mom and pop shop I know and go to will sell you a beer tomorrow, they're just trying to make a living, so no I won't be calling your hotline. IMO its a nanny state  law for grown thai buddhist men/women and why can't non-buddhists have a drink anyway?

4 minutes ago, YouYouYou said:

Every mom and pop shop I know and go to will sell you a beer tomorrow, they're just trying to make a living, so no I won't be calling your hotline. IMO its a nanny state  law for grown thai buddhist men/women and why can't non-buddhists have a drink anyway?

Totally agree......and you can add 7/11 and Family Mart I know in some areas of Pattaya that if I needed a beer I can get one...

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The odour of sanctity.

 

And what's the bet that the upper classes will refrain from enjoying the contents of their private liquor cabinets.

 

Sanctimonious bastards

In the name of religion we will tell you what to do or you will go to jail. You cannot possibly think for yourself, that's not allowed. 

Ah, time for a cup of tea then. Fortified, as the prohibition day tradition here calls for.

1 minute ago, DrTuner said:

Ah, time for a cup of tea then. Fortified, as the prohibition day tradition here calls for.

There will certainly be a few wobbly coffees drank in Pattaya tomorrow that's for sure...

One could highly doubt that the shops will respect the law.

 

However, don't give the BiB a chance to racket any cash in the street, so obviously, don't provoke and carry your groceries with a family size bottle of Jack Daniel's well visible in the front of the bike hamper !!

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The alcohol ban for the Visakhabucha Buddhist holiday will last for 24 hours from midnight tonight until midnight on Tuesday.

 

This may be a good time to meet some sober monks.

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Those breaking the law will be fined up to 10,000 baht 

Anyone who sees illegal alcohol sales can call 191 or 1599 to make a report to police.

When alcohol turns into tea money. I wonder how many shop owners will call these 'emergency numbers' to get rid of their competition.

Just to test this, I will go later today to the local mom/pops shop and buy 2 beers...

Maybe I should record it on my mobile phone and report it to the the police... njaaaa....

 

1 hour ago, Lupatria said:

When alcohol turns into tea money. I wonder how many shop owners will call these 'emergency numbers' to get rid of their competition.

Talking to the owner of a bar in Chiang man last night. I mentioned bars closed tomorrow night. She said don't know yet, have to talk to police, not all close.

 

Tea money? Or should i say alcohol money?

1 minute ago, Dazinoz said:

Talking to the owner of a bar in Chiang man last night. I mentioned bars closed tomorrow night. She said don't know yet, have to talk to police, not all close.

 

Tea money? Or should i say alcohol money?

call it "Cop's Delight" their favorite cocktail...

What's the real reason behind an alcohol ban? 

16 hours ago, stephen tracy said:

In the name of religion we will tell you what to do or you will go to jail. You cannot possibly think for yourself, that's not allowed. 

YUP!!!!!  It totally fits the 'discription' of being a 'Police' ('Army') State............

Not much to 'love' here anymore other than the lovely beaches and mountains.......... And the 'Poor-People'.........

2 hours ago, BEngBKK said:

Just to test this, I will go later today to the local mom/pops shop and buy 2 beers...

Maybe I should record it on my mobile phone and report it to the the police... njaaaa....

 

Just back from my morning walk ... yup!.... the offies are open too. I bought my usual 5l Mont Clair (1005 baht) successfully at 10am. I didn't really need to buy any but bought it out of spite....

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The alcohol ban for the Visakhabucha Buddhist holiday will last for 24 hours from midnight tonight until midnight on Tuesday.

 

Visakhabucha celebrates the birth, enlightenment at age 35 and death at age 80 of the Buddha. 

I didn't know Buddha was an alcoholic. Well you learn something new everyday.

 

Edited May 29, 20188 yr by tukkytuktuk

All very strange that alcohol banned in restaurants is banned as well

- used to be back in the days that as long as you were having a meal that you can also drink.

17 hours ago, stephen tracy said:

In the name of religion we will tell you what to do or you will go to jail. You cannot possibly think for yourself, that's not allowed. 

Laws made by those without a moral compass to enforce the mandates of a 'religion' that has become a bastion of internal corruption.  But hey!  Throw shopkeepers and patrons into jail. 

This is just another method of keeping the hoi polloi and the 'little people' in line.  Call the 191 'snitch line?'  I don't think so. 

1 hour ago, eeworldwide said:

What's the real reason behind an alcohol ban? 

Control.

What a crock of BS. I have just had two triple shots of lao khao  with the lads working on a community project funded by the government.

First verse of "one of me poems"

 

Buddhas enlightenment or not

I guess life will go on at the village shop

A cement chair to put the ass

As we raise our glass.

 

Hic!

 

 

I, yesterday ( Monday that is ) told my wife Pim that I could drink every day of the year in Plymouth . She said " Why you want dink everly day for " .  'nuff to turn you to dink ....not today obviously .

2 minutes ago, khwaibah said:

What a crock of BS. I have just had two triple shots of lao khao  with the lads working on a community project funded by the government.

As others have noted, there is a huggggge disconnect between those who rule and the average rural citizen in the villages.  Those in Bangkok crank out dictates to heap on the citizens.  The citizens in the village basically ignore the dictates.  Police who live in rural villages are still villagers and part of the fabric of autonomous village life.  If they start busting their fellow villagers over petty laws like this, they'd find themselves on the outside.  So for the most part, like motorcycle helmet laws and under-aged driving, laws against selling alcohol at certain times or not at all on certain days are simply not enforced. 

To clarify: ok to drink, on the street, in the restaurant, at home but forbidden to buy.  I bought some cans of beer yesterday so that i might carry them into the noodle shop after today's golf game.  Since the shop cannot sell any, i will have my beer today, even with 2 ice cubes.

Interesting that they close the taps due to buddhism. Shouldn't the believers abstain from alcohol completely?

 

The usual Thai "buddhism" at work. Make sure to go to a temple to pay for lottery numbers, the monk will appreciate the extra laukhao money.