General: I've never seen a case of Thais conning Thais - it's always foreigners who are responsible!

[metisdead]

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[Spidey]

15 minutes ago, ningnong said:

If your Thai reading skills are up to par we can debate what he was saying.

Debate away! Give us your translation of the relevant sentence.

[anon7867763]

Just when you thought you had heard it all !

[bluesofa]

My wife sells real estate.

Over the past six/seven years I can think of three occasions when either the buyer or the seller has tried to cheat the other party. No ferangs involved whatsoever, Thais cheating Thais.

 

Plus, a guy who sold a plot of land forty years ago to someone else, issuing a receipt for the cash paid, but no chanote. The buyer had no idea there was such a thing.

That involved a court case forty years later to get the seller to issue a chanote at his expense, plus a court fine and an additional  payment to the buyer for all the trouble.

 

Same guy, over twenty years ago managed to 'sell' a plot of public land to another Thai keen to open a Karaoke there. The buyer only realised when he started to tear down the council erected meeting rooms and people asked him what he was doing.

 

Now my wife will only take on clients who she knows, due to all the cheating that's so common.

[chama]

Unbelievable. This guy will be trying to move into politics soon. Look at the RTP if you want to see Thais ripping off Thais....and then you start to get a perspective of just how frequent the rip off game is employed.

[Sir Dude]

This General, like many others from numerous other sections of society, really need to get over themselves and embrace reality rather than live in bubble land. 

Edited December 20, 2018 by Sir Dude

[observer90210]

Wonderful !....the General should be promoted Chief of the Tourism-Expat-Retirement bureau. He would do a fine job and within 6 months the Arrivals at Suvarnabhumi would be empty of all those pesky farangs-tourists-retirees-expats !

[FunkyDunky58]

What immediately springs to mind is that an officer of the law who should enter EVERY investigation with an open mind cannot do so if he already has a predisposition to assuming that it must be the foreigner. Therefore he should be sacked as he is unfit to hold the position he now does. His comments are the height of ignorance (of overwhelming evidence) and stupidity.

 

 

[dinsdale]

This should really go viral globally. Sadly it does represent what many Thais think and act. If there's a falang to blame no matter the facts then blame them. WE ARE THAI. 

[ocddave]

33 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

This should really go viral globally. Sadly it does represent what many Thais think and act. If there's a falang to blame no matter the facts then blame them. WE ARE THAI. 

I've seen this in action, I've been hit in my car three times in the last year, each one of them lied about the events and tried to blame me "the falang" for the crash.....then they realize I am fully licensed, have first-class insurance, and a high quality dash cam I brought from the US (the insurance guy was amazed at the detail in the film....LOL). By the way, they were all eventually found at fault, two of them didn't even have a license, one didn't have insurance, and the car wasn't even registered! I wouldn't trust a Thai under any circumstances, I expect them to lie soon as they open their mouth.

[gk10002000]

12 hours ago, Darcula said:

 

Their prisons must be full of Thai scapegoats.

 

Spot on

[Sydebolle]

Pol Gen Amphon Buarapporn must be sharing his good office with somebody who is smoking extremely good weed. Maybe he needs to be told, that such statements - on the internet - are read worldwide and might be a nice closing of the Thai year of 2561. 
The media will have an absolute field day over this while others wonder, how the gentleman made it to the present rank. 

Pathetic - to say the least - but then, 1) who am I to comment and 2) maybe yet another example of fake news! 

[apophyss]

Every weeks, it's look the first april,

but its so sadly not...

[Redline]

I think they should check this man’s bank account for unusual wealth because he seems to be living in a dream world ????

[wandasloan]

15 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Truly unbelievable. 

No kidding. Possibly the worst translation in history. The original story did not focus on the statement like the TV translator. In the last paragraph of the original story, the policeman asked reporters if they had ever seen an internet romance scheme where a foreigner pretended to be Thai - intimating that he never had seen such a thing. He has investigated many such romance schemes, all of which involve Thais pretending to be foreigners.

 

 

[dcnx]

15 hours ago, robblok said:

Just an other nationalistic idiot, just like the farangs here that believe they are always in the right and Thais are always stupid and dumb.

98% of the time they would be correct in thinking that. 

 

People earn their reputation. 

[stanleycoin]

The true face of Thailand shining through. 

 

 

[pattayadgw]

Maybe the G should engage brain before engaging his gob!

[Lingba]

17 hours ago, Youlike said:

Guess he never reads the newspapers.

because he can't

[bristolgeoff]

Thais don,t that for sure.how many cases I have heard.one case she wanted to be Male conned thai ladies out of lots of money.found out in the monkey house now.thai ladies don,t want to talk about it for embarrassing themselves again.but Thais don,t con thais

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, colinneil said:

General Amphon.... you for real?????

You have never seen a case of Thais conning Thais, that must rate as 1 of the most stupid remarks of the year.

Not quite... but it's a close second after "Prawits" I borrowed them from a friend) statement..

What we must take into account is that Generals live in ivory towers, not coming out very often to witness the real world. This man clearly delusional and unfit for duty!

[mok199]

I would love to hear the audio , to know exactly how this man phrased this, or if something was lost in translation..he must be allowed to ''respond to his statement''.

Edited December 20, 2018 by mok199

[assayer]

19 hours ago, LomSak27 said:

 

No - He is doing his job, right now; he is defending Thainess 

 

and what is so wrong with that nattering Nabobs of Negativity?!   

Because he is lying through his teeth!!

 

[Prairieboy]

20 hours ago, poohy said:

And i have yet to meet a Thai that trusts another Thai! ...families included

I agree - my wife locks her doors on her small bar whenever she is away for a few minutes even though her brother is there - she locks him outside.

 

[Puchaiyank]

IMPO... It's a wide spread cultural problem...sterotypical farangs are seen as drunks,  womanizers who can not be trusted...

I know of Thais teaching their children these things...not to be respectful or engage farangs in conversation.

 

I know,  I know... You have been here for decades and have never heard of such. 

 

I too have been here a long time and have seen it in action. 

[BritManToo]

7 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

IMPO... It's a wide spread cultural problem...sterotypical farangs are seen as drunks,  womanizers who can not be trusted...

I thought he was talking about the Chinese.

He said 'foreigners' not 'farang', never heard a Thai call white folk 'foreigners'.

Edited December 21, 2018 by BritManToo

[Jane Dough]

4 hours ago, wandasloan said:

No kidding. Possibly the worst translation in history. The original story did not focus on the statement like the TV translator. In the last paragraph of the original story, the policeman asked reporters if they had ever seen an internet romance scheme where a foreigner pretended to be Thai - intimating that he never had seen such a thing. He has investigated many such romance schemes, all of which involve Thais pretending to be foreigners.

 

 

Poppycock! Whilst I accept that the original story did not focus on this statement, it was this statement that made the story of interest. It is a perfectly fair translation of what Sanook said that he said with the caveat that it was not clear that he was referring to romance scams or crime in general. 

 

I did the translation myself and stand by it completely.

 

Rooster

[Puchaiyank]

15 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I thought he was talking about the Chinese.

He said 'foreigners' not 'farang', never heard a Thai call white folk 'foreigners'.

Thank you for that clarification...there apparently is a distinction between the words farangs and foreigner...technically speaking.   Having reread the Thai officers comments...I believe he was referring to all foreigners and not just Chinese. 

[skippy]

Brexit ????

[mikebell]

Thai police do it daily.