'I'm just sorry for what I did': Alberta woman arrested in Thailand returns home

Andrea Ross

 

Canadian tourist Brittney Schneider, 23, returned home Friday after she was charged with vandalism for spray painting graffiti on an ancient wall in northern Thailand. (Brittney Schneider/Facebook)

 

A Grande Prairie, Alta., woman who faced a decade in prison for spray-painting an ancient wall in Thailand has returned home and says she is eager to move on from the ordeal.

 

Brittney Schneider was vacationing in Thailand in October when she was charged with vandalism for her role in spray-painting Tha Pae Gate, the main entrance to the old town of Chiang Mai.

 

Furlong Lee, a friend from the U.K., was also charged in relation to the incident. 

 

The pair, both 23, faced a fine of about $40,000 Cdn and up to 10 years in prison. They were initially given a two-year prison sentence, but a judge ultimately gave them a fine of $4,000 each and a one-year suspended sentence.

 

Full story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/brittney-schneider-thailand-vandalism-1.4919709

 

CBC: 2018-11-25

 

What motivates people to do such stupid things?

Being stupid?

Which one in the picture is the Albertan?

 

 

????

5 minutes ago, Longcut said:

What motivates people to do such stupid things?

Being stupid and drunk at the same time?

"Her family paid extra to have her case expedited,"

 

 

Should read "Her 'Go Fund Me' begging fund paid extra to have her case expedited !

7 minutes ago, petesc55 said:

Which one in the picture is the Albertan?

????

The one on the right has more of a 'tan', perhaps it's called 'Albert' too?

While I agree with other posters that stupidity is at the root of this, I have to say that in my time, I have seen much, much worse. The Thais didn't exactly come out of this fantastically. The world knowing Thailand will jail someone for up to 10 years for a bit of graffiti', which was washed off in no time, hardly did wonders for their ailing tourist industry. In my younger years I did some fairly dumb stuff, for which I am not proud. Just lucky I didn't do it here I guess.

The notion that countries like Thailand are a backwater county populated with peasants and they can do whatever they like they would not dear do at home propel such stupid and irresponsible acts...

Good to see so many TV posters that have never done anything foolish or stupid in their lives.. 

Just now, Laza 45 said:

Good to see so many TV posters that have never done anything foolish or stupid in their lives.. 

Obviously all model citizens...or maybe just unwilling to admit past transgressions.

Think the court and the Judge were very fair. 

ok outcome. 

Good job Thailand.  

 

 

 

Edited November 25, 20187 yr by stanleycoin

Did some stupid things when I was young but those generally ended up causing me lost skin and a broken bone whatever. Never involved damaging or defacing anyone elses property though.

Edited November 25, 20187 yr by overherebc

Should have not allowed her leave country


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26 minutes ago, ezzra said:

The notion that countries like Thailand are a backwater county populated with peasants and they can do whatever they like they would not dear do at home propel such stupid and irresponsible acts...

Learn some manners for a change.

It's ok, you're not in Thailand now, no need to continue to grovel. 

Graffiti fills some desire for immortality, leaving some evidence that "I was here" that remains long after someone has gone. For those whose lives are otherwise totally empty and the sum total of their value and impact on society is "0",  it may in some small way accomplish/satisfy that desire (until it is washed off, never to be seen again; in most cases a blessing).  It says far more about the person doing it than about the place where it is done. She now "is eager to move on from the ordeal" and return to her vegetative state. Good idea.  

8 minutes ago, Fat Prophet said:

Graffiti fills some desire for immortality, leaving some evidence that "I was here" that remains long after someone has gone. For those whose lives are otherwise totally empty and the sum total of their value and impact on society is "0",  it may in some small way accomplish/satisfy that desire (until it is washed off, never to be seen again; in most cases a blessing).  It says far more about the person doing it than about the place where it is done. She now "is eager to move on from the ordeal" and return to her vegetative state. Good idea.  

People who think it's a good idea to go around painting public or other peoples property should just be stood in the corner and watered daily.

59 minutes ago, ezzra said:

The notion that countries like Thailand are a backwater county populated with peasants and they can do whatever they like they would not dear do at home propel such stupid and irresponsible acts...

And that notion is well served by the peripatetic Thai bashers, collectively waxing lyrical on each and every perceived national shortcoming.

And we wonder why some Thais seem hostile to falangs ...

 

Barbarism fairly evenly distributed all round, I should say.

6 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

And that notion is well served by the peripatetic Thai bashers, collectively waxing lyrical on each and every perceived national shortcoming.

''Perceived National shortcomings''....that's priceless...your best yet!!!..I .''.keep em coming''

1 hour ago, Laza 45 said:

Good to see so many TV posters that have never done anything foolish or stupid in their lives.. 

Oh yes i did, but was not caught !!!

13 minutes ago, mok199 said:

''Perceived National shortcomings''....that's priceless...your best yet!!!..I .''.keep em coming''

I haven't seen your contribution to the "...Bangkok - Nakhon Ratchasima high speed rail project finished" thread yet. Why on earth are you spinning your wheels here?

1 hour ago, markaoffy said:

Should have not allowed her leave country


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I’m against capital punishment, but in this case I think she should have been promptly executed. 

27 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

And that notion is well served by the peripatetic Thai bashers, collectively waxing lyrical on each and every perceived national shortcoming.

And the healthiest way to overcome these feelings of contempt for people with contempt is obviously more contempt. 

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

The notion that countries like Thailand are a backwater county populated with peasants and they can do whatever they like they would not dear do at home propel such stupid and irresponsible acts...

The notion that anyone would get 10 years in jail for spray painting a reproduction wall that already had a large amount of local grafitti on it would tend to suggest something rather worse than 'backwater country'.

2 hours ago, Longcut said:

What motivates people to do such stupid things?

Youth? No, at 23 they should have known better.

 

Alcohol? Almost certainly a factor.

 

Stupidity? Goes without saying.

 

Wanting to stand out in the crowd, combined with a misplaced sense a rebel against societal norms is? Again, almost certainly a factor.

 

Whatever, she got caught, got fined and is back home.

 

Time for us all to move on.

2 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

Good to see so many TV posters that have never done anything foolish or stupid in their lives.. 

We have all done foolish or stupid things. The BIG difference is that most of us never went out and did them with the EXPLICIT intention of damaging someone else's property or vandalizing a site that is considered special to our hosts.

In your effort to excuse this idiot, you are ignoring the fact that she intentionally damaged and harmed a third party.  When I undertook my  youthful idiocy, I was a kid, age 14-16  and put myself at risk. This person is 23 and supposedly an adult entrusted with a security clearance at an airport and allowed to work around multi million dollar equipment and where stupidity can  kill or harm others. This wasn't an inadvertent slip or mistake, but a wilful act to do harm. 

With her criminal conviction, let's see if she still is allowed on  the airport tarmac. 

noun: hubris

 

1. excessive pride or self-confidence.

   synonyms:

   arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, hauteur, pride, self-importance, egotism, pomposity, superciliousness, superiority

Punishment should fit the crime: they should be 'tagged' with a "RETARD" tattoo on their foreheads. ????

 

Henna will be fine (after all their 'tags' washed off quite easily).