Big Joke turns his attention to Samui pirates

[snoop1130]

Big Joke turns his attention to Samui pirates

 

 

Crime buster Big Joke and his men turned their attention to shops and a distribution network selling pirated goods on the holiday island of Koh Samui yesterday. 

Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal said he was following orders from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha to stamp out piracy. 

The deputy head of the tourist police was pictured on the TPB website surrounded by fake goods that were on sale at Chaweng Beach.

Some 7,000 items worth 2 million baht were seized at seven locations. Seven arrests were made. 

Shops were targeted as well as a warehouse. 

There were designer bags, shoes, clothing, sunglasses, belts and watches bearing fake names like Nike, Levis, Tommy Hilfiger, Ray Ban, Under Armour and Polo. 

Source: https://touristpolice.go.th/2018/08/01/แถลงข่าวผลการปฎิบัติกา/

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-8-1

[darksidedog]

I somehow can't help but suspect that none of it will get destroyed and will all be back on sale again shortly, one way or another.

[bluesofa]

53 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Big Joke turns his attention to Samui pirates

Has he caught that despicable trio of Captain Pugwash, Master Bates, and Roger the cabin boy on the Black Pig yet?

 

[300sd]

Big Joke may want to look into why the chief of police on that island was not doing his job!!!

[Darcula]

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal said he was following orders from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha to stamp out piracy. 

 

All hands on dick.....Har Har!

[Rhys]

...Stroke up another one for the master touch..

 

[ronaldo0]

And all the big places would have been surprisingly closed yesterday I bet before he turned up . Odd that ! ?

[AhFarangJa]

Run Johnny Big Joke is coming........................

Oops........wrong pirate.........

[bluesofa]

27 minutes ago, ronaldo0 said:

And all the big places would have been surprisingly closed yesterday I bet before he turned up . Odd that ! ?

Not at all, the pirates had urgent work to carry out on the high seas, stealing and plundering gold doubloons from the more law-abiding mercenaries.

 

[bluesofa]

8 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Run Johnny Big Joke is coming........................

Oops........wrong pirate.........

It is, yes. This is who it's referring to:

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

15 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I somehow can't help but suspect that none of it will get destroyed and will all be back on sale again shortly, one way or another.

 

Or the Tourist Police soon will all be sporting new "Ray Ban" sunglasses! 

[terryofcrete]

It’s the pirate taxi mafia I’d go for first. and after that “instruct” Bangkok Airways to either share the airport with other carriers or lower their disgraceful monopoly prices. These 2 things need government intervention, and if the  tourist numbers drop for Samui , I would say they are the number one culprits , although these days people are generally not great at resisting overpricing . Samui is a rip-off and it’s just accepted. 

[toofarnorth]

You have to be good to spot fakes these days.   I have a pair of Rolex sunglasses and a Nike watch , they will fool anyone. My computer right here is a bit dodgy I think. When it first comes on , on the monitor it says " Farting Widows  ".

[Joker Man]

Here comes another job for Johnny Big to  wander around.  Just saying though.

[evadgib]

17 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I somehow can't help but suspect that none of it will get destroyed and will all be back on sale again shortly, one way or another.

The fact that no one is on the end of a 'synchronized point' leads me to the same conclusion.

[ChrisY1]

Having a beer in the sportsman bar on Suk yesterday morning....outside were vendors openly selling fake watches, pens etc.

Thailand really doesn't give a fig about fakes....it's the darn foreigners that keep harping on about it!

[brain150]

Protecting the big corporations ... that's all they do.

 

Good people don't need copyright protection - only criminals do !!!

[cracker1]

Local Samui Police must have lost a lot of FACE over this incursion from Bangkok ?

[from the home of CC]

19 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I somehow can't help but suspect that none of it will get destroyed and will all be back on sale again shortly, one way or another.

similar to drugs.

[racket]

They don't have to go look for pirated goods on the beaches in Chaweng when you certainly will find them in the night markets just outside. While in Koh Samui, maybe Big joke could target some of the taxi mafias operating in the islands and force them to start using their taxi-meters instead of ripping customers off with overly inflated rides. 

 

But we'll know how police eventually do their duties, they confiscate the goods and the seller buys them back from the police. In retrospect, nothing changes. 

[smileydude]

Mischievously leading title.  For a moment there I thought Somali pirates had Linkedin with their counterparts in the south of Thailand and that BJ was heading out to sea.

Edited August 2, 2018 by smileydude

[Sir Dude]

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Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal said he was following orders from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha to stamp out piracy. 

I thought they had all gone on strike and are refusing to go fishing.

[chippendale]

On 8/1/2018 at 6:32 PM, bluesofa said:

Has he caught that despicable trio of Captain Pugwash, Master Bates, and Roger the cabin boy on the Black Pig yet?

 

No, but he has whipped Captain Butt Pirate. Gave him a proper fisting.

[Oziex1]

I'd be very interested in follow up stories to Big Jokes raids and arrests, is any of this real or some sort of pantomime for this ego tripping pratt.

 

As for this story, well no picture of him and his intrepid gang?

[PoorSucker]