‘Furious aunts’ fined Bt12,000 each, handed suspended jail terms

By The Nation

 

 

The two so-called “furious aunts” were handed a suspended jail term, on top of a fine of Bt12,000 each, for taking a hammer to a car blocking the gate of their home in Bangkok’s Prawet district last year.

 

Rattanachat Saengyoktrakarn and Maneerat Saengpattarachote made headlines in February 2018 after video clips of their crimes went viral. Public condemnations that flooded their way quickly turned to sympathy, though, after people learned how their family had struggled with the disorderly parking of the customers of surrounding illegal markets.

 

The owner of the car they attacked, for example, had parked the vehicle right in front of their gate, making it impossible for the family’s vehicle to go into and out of the house. 

 

The Phra Khanong Provincial Court  convicted Rattanachat and Maneerat of damaging the property of another person. However, the court noted that there were grounds for leniency.

 

“Both have confessed to their crime, which was done out of stress and anger accumulating over a long period of time. As well, they have submitted Bt50,000 in cash to pay the owner of the damaged car,” the court noted.

 

The court reduced the fine from Bt18,000 each to Bt12,000 each. The standard three-month jail term was reduced to two months, and then suspended given that both defendants had not previously committed a crime.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30370287

 

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12k well spent... 

Edited May 30, 20197 yr by sfokevin

Paying fine and jail for someone's stupidity. Only in Thailand.

I don't think the next person to block their drive way will have a long life expectancy ????

Absolutely disgusted by this sentence, sends a message to people you can block people in on their own driveway and get away with it. 

11 minutes ago, trigpoint said:

Absolutely disgusted by this sentence, sends a message to people you can block people in on their own driveway and get away with it. 

Is the penalty for blocking a driveway a ticket or having your car hammered by two angry women?  Do they do that in your country?

1 hour ago, marcusarelus said:

Is the penalty for blocking a driveway a ticket or having your car hammered by two angry women?  Do they do that in your country?

Ticketed and towed away where I come from. I suspect the bill would be at least a few hundred dollars between the fine and towing/storage charges. Had someone decide that beating the crap out of the car with a hammer was a better idea, they'd also face destruction of property charges. 

 

Edited May 30, 20197 yr by Inn Between

just accidentally pour some honey etc over the car, starting at the wheels f rthe ground contact, and hungry furious ants will do the rest

 

Edited May 30, 20197 yr by tifino

I'm curious whether they've re-opened the illegal market that started all the problems?

 

27 minutes ago, impulse said:

I'm curious whether they've re-opened the illegal market that started all the problems?

 

ummm... yes

 - but they don't sell hammers anymore

7 hours ago, Inn Between said:

Ticketed and towed away where I come from. I suspect the bill would be at least a few hundred dollars between the fine and towing/storage charges. Had someone decide that beating the crap out of the car with a hammer was a better idea, they'd also face destruction of property charges. 

 

You can get the former in Thailand??? 

6 minutes ago, Chassa said:

You can get the former in Thailand??? 

It would look like a chariot, 8 scooters harnessed to drag the 4WD away.

Where I live, if you block certain shops, they will hide a metal spike or nail in a cigarette packet so that when you drive off you will have a puncture. No one says anything but you have a slow puncture until you get the repair done.

looking back at the title!

 - how sad is it, when nephew dobs them in

 

 

either that or the 'aunties' term relates to the alternative urban descriptor for a mamasan...

and they were losing parking space for visiting johns?

 

'Standard Issue' non negotiable witches hats would have been better! more effective and cheaper

Unless they were wearing them instead?

Edited May 31, 20197 yr by tifino

10 hours ago, Inn Between said:

Ticketed and towed away where I come from. I suspect the bill would be at least a few hundred dollars between the fine and towing/storage charges. Had someone decide that beating the crap out of the car with a hammer was a better idea, they'd also face destruction of property charges. 

 

 

Just another example of the anarchy that exists in Thailand as a result of authorities not doing their job. These 'aunties' had long complained about inconsiderate parking, and the authorities did what they do best, which is nothing, to solve the problem. So the frustrated ladies, who could not get out of their own home, took things into their own hands. For me, anyone who is selfish enough to block someone into their own home deserves what they get, so to punish the ladies is ridiculous.

She should take the post picture & have it printed on a banner then hang it on her gate... with the words
"Park here at your own discretion" 

13 hours ago, trigpoint said:

Absolutely disgusted by this sentence, sends a message to people you can block people in on their own driveway and get away with it. 

Won't happen in US. Had a new next door neighbor block my driveway and after ringing his doorbell to ask him to move so I could get out I called the police. 2 officers arrived and rang the bell ,he wouldn't answer. They called a tow truck at which point he came out when it arrived and said he would move it. The officer said "Oh no, we saw you hiding behind the curtains when we rang the bell so since you made us wait here and call for a tow your paying a ticket for blocking a driveway, the tow, and impound fee. You could have just avoided this by moving your car ! "

14 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

Is the penalty for blocking a driveway a ticket or having your car hammered by two angry women?  Do they do that in your country?

In my former country you contract a tow truck company and they keep your driveway clear.

They should have just busted the window and just pushed the truck into the middle of the road.

15 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

Is the penalty for blocking a driveway a ticket or having your car hammered by two angry women?  Do they do that in your country?

Not a hammer but they return to find 2 very flat tyres ????

18 hours ago, shady86 said:

Paying fine and jail for someone's stupidity. Only in Thailand.

 

Er, does stupidity and selfishness in parking carelessly justify criminal damage?

Ok.  That's probably as close to justice as you'll get in Thailand.  Did the fine the jerk who blocked their driveway?  I hope they did.  It should have been about 12,000 THB.  But probably not as he was driving a 2,000,000 THB urban tank and felt he/she was kon piiset, a privilege person, and need not abide by common courtesy.  

Looks more like so called sisters sledge????

16 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

Is the penalty for blocking a driveway a ticket or having your car hammered by two angry women?  Do they do that in your country?

1 hour ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

In my former country you contract a tow truck company and they keep your driveway clear.

Edited May 31, 20197 yr by connda

1 hour ago, Maejo Man said:

Not a hammer but they return to find 2 very flat tyres ????

Very good,but now you have a vehicle blocking your drive which cannot be moved.

Wait for the driver to return and then use the hammers.

16 hours ago, tifino said:

looking back at the title!

 - how sad is it, when nephew dobs them in

 

 

either that or the 'aunties' term relates to the alternative urban descriptor for a mamasan...

and they were losing parking space for visiting johns?

 

'Standard Issue' non negotiable witches hats would have been better! more effective and cheaper

Unless they were wearing them instead?

 

Aunties is the nice term for "Old Toms"

 

Obviously I think that referring to them as Old Toms or Old, angry, middle class dykes would be disgusting.

 

Neither would I be prepared to accept anyones prejudiced observation (based purely on their hard-faced aggressive appearance) that they are just the sort of repellent, mildewed, barren, junta supporting, bourgeois hags, that many people on TVF would steer well clear of.

 

And I certainly would not dream of paying a cooperative Thai 5000 baht (and pay for any damage to their vehicle) to block the hideous old cows drive for a month.

 

 

Edited May 31, 20197 yr by Enoon

20 hours ago, hotchilli said:

She should take the post picture & have it printed on a banner then hang it on her gate... with the words
"Park here at your own discretion" 

... and they try to try you (aka her) for defamation!

 

 

 - excepting of course the photo would have be taken in the public domain...

Edited May 31, 20197 yr by tifino