Video: Wais all round - but no fines - after truck drivers square up with a sword

[upu2]

13 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Weird people can block roads ram eachother with trucks and assault eachother  with deadly weapons and its all ok..

but if we smoke on a beach we get year in jail and 100 k fine!

Or go to hit a Soi dog which is the heinous of crimes imaginable

[The Deerhunter]

Never mind.    Maybe serious next time.

[Jim walker]

Needs to upgrade weapon to a gun much quicker to settle than waiting for insurance to sort out 

[GalaxyMan]

4 hours ago, robblok said:

The mentality will change if punishment is handed out, I am sure of it. The problem is that often punishment is not handed out and if you accept violence like this the next step.. shooting someone is easier too. So if you come down hard on this it will influence other crimes too. You cant eradicate crime but you can make an impact. Now its just totally wrong. 

The sun is only predicted to have about 5 billion years of life left. That's not enough time...

[TSF]

Nothing unusual here, just a couple of savages behaving like savages. What can the cops do with them? Can't start locking them up, within a few weeks there'd be several million of them behind bars, the country would collapse. 

[saltire1]

6 hours ago, robblok said:

The police did nothing.. I mean one would say a weapon and attack with one would result in a serious charge. If they don't charge people for it how will it ever change. 

Exactly.  The police are the main reason for the current situation regarding violent conduct.

[Baerboxer]

7 hours ago, robblok said:

The police did nothing.. I mean one would say a weapon and attack with one would result in a serious charge. If they don't charge people for it how will it ever change. 

 

It's illegal to carry knives / swords / machetes etc in a public place without a very good reason. Attacking someone isn't a good reason.

They don't have to wait for anything and could, should, charge him. But as we know, nothing works like that.

[upu2]

23 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

It's illegal to carry knives / swords / machetes etc in a public place without a very good reason. Attacking someone isn't a good reason.

They don't have to wait for anything and could, should, charge him. But as we know, nothing works like that.

And they wonder why the Thai police are mocked

[helloagain]

7 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

Bang.... ?

How can police say not serious when knife or sword involved crazy. Should be 100000 baht fine minimum. I bet if foriener waved a sword around all hell would break loose. Wai wai wai STUPID

[HHTel]

What's with all these machetes?  Maybe they expect to come across a jungle and they have to cut through it!

[timendres]

6 hours ago, robblok said:

The mentality will change if punishment is handed out, I am sure of it. The problem is that often punishment is not handed out and if you accept violence like this the next step.. shooting someone is easier too. So if you come down hard on this it will influence other crimes too. You cant eradicate crime but you can make an impact. Now its just totally wrong. 

The Thais have a word, ฝังใจ (fang jai), to refer to the cultural norm of "burying" ones emotions (it also means "to impress"). Thais are encouraged, in fact demanded, to bury their emotions and be polite and smile. And they understand that this process of burying one's feelings inevitably builds up over time, which is why they are careful to be extra polite in all social settings, lest someone's buried emotions explode. And one never knows when someone is at that breaking point. I think everyone agrees that the type of behavior in this episode should be punished more significantly than with a wai, but I seriously doubt this will make any difference in general. If the culture persists in forcing people to bury their emotions, this sort of explosive behavior will continue to be inevitable.

[digger70]

9 hours ago, Rimmer said:

But they said it wasn't serious, reported Daily News.

 

So waving a 'parang' around and threatening another person in a public street is not serious?  Something is seriously wrong somewhere.

Yep ,,, The Law and the enforcers,,,,

[BestB]

Jails and courts are full with real criminals and law breakers , all the illegal hotel owners.

 

No time to waste on minor offences such as man with a sword wanting to make sushi out of another mAn. 

[hotchilli]

10 hours ago, Rimmer said:

But they said it wasn't serious, reported Daily News.

 

So waving a 'parang' around and threatening another person in a public street is not serious?  Something is seriously wrong somewhere.

No... Treated as serious in most modern civilised countries... but

This is normal behaviour in Thailand and deemed perfectly exceptable by the BiB

[300sd]

Not sure which is worse....lunatics running around brandishing these weapons, or police allowing it!

 

[wvavin]

These are examples low IQ genes these people have.

[The manic]

10 hours ago, Get Real said:

You are 100% right in your way of thinking. There is one thing, though. That is how to change the mentallity of people? Here it doesn´t matter if you shoot one, the next idiot will stand around the corner and repeat his offense.

Not like Chicago eh?

[Small Joke]

How about wais for doing drugs?  

I know, way too progressive to let an adult human decide what they ingest to pass the time in this vale of tears/beers. 

 

[bust]

Such primitive people the Thais ???

[Mad mick]

Lawless thailand just keeps going backwards................ 

[alfalfa19]

19 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

The police not taking any action just emboldens these idiots. What's it going take for them to act, a decapitation in the streets? 

i'm not sure that would be enough.

[essox essox]

23 hours ago, robblok said:

The police did nothing.. I mean one would say a weapon and attack with one would result in a serious charge. If they don't charge people for it how will it ever change. 

IT NEVER will here....the man with sword should be banged up for some years and banned from driving

 

[Vacuum]

On 8/13/2018 at 12:54 PM, HHTel said:

What's with all these machetes?  Maybe they expect to come across a jungle and they have to cut through it!

Most of them just emerged from one.