Police raid Sukhumvit pub, seize 60 hookahs

By THE NATION

 

 

Police raided a pub on Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Road and seized a huge number of hookahs, Pol Maj-General Prasit Chaloemwutthisak, secretary-general of The Consumer Protection Board, announced on Saturday (November 16).

 

 

The raid of the entertainment venue was carried out in collaboration with the special investigation team of Thonglor Police Station. “We received a tip-off that a pub in the Sukhumvit area provided ready-to-use barakus or hookahs to foreign tourists and local customers,” he said. “After inspecting the establishment, police found 26 hookah stations being used by customers, and 34 more in the storage area. Police also found a large number of baraku solutions and smoking equipment.”

 

 

 

According to the secretary-general, preliminary inspection revealed that the pub made more than Bt100,000 per night from the baraku service alone. The pub owner was taken to Thonglor Police Station to be charged.

 

“Selling or providing barakus, electronic cigarettes and their solutions is a violation of the Consumer Protection Board’s Order No 9/2015,” he said. “Violators face a maximum of three years' jail time or Bt600,000 fine, or both.”

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30378401

 

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Hookah is an Indian word adopted by the British. The correct word is the Arabic word Shisha.

13 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Bt600,000 fine

6  nights  takings +  "tip"  should  be no problem, glad to see one business  booming then.

“We received a tip-off that a pub in the Sukhumvit area provided ready-to-use barakus or hookahs to foreign tourists and local customers,” he said.

 

BiB knows what happens in each and every pub, because they knock at all their doors asking for regular tea money. Tip-off they say. Lol.

 

So what happened to this one, they did not want to pay the greedy increased rates or...?

Troll posts have been removed. 

100,000 baht a nite just out of giving out shishas? there must have been a lot more in them shishas than just a flavoured tobacco i guess...

Thonglor Police Station to be charged, I wonder how much they got charged 

 

Beats selling Kebabs

And shamlessly photo opp their ''take down'',as this Nation suffers from the worst road carnage on the planet....

1 hour ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

Hookah is an Indian word adopted by the British. The correct word is the Arabic word Shisha.

It's called a Marra up our way lad.

 

From Wiki:

Shisha or sheesha (شيشة), from the Persian word shīshe (شیشه), meaning glass, is the common term for the hookah in Egypt, Sudan and countries of the Arab Peninsula (including Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, UAE, Yemen and Saudi Arabia), and in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Somalia.^[30] In Yemen, the term mada'a (مداعة) is also used, but for pipes using pure tobacco.

In Persia, hookah is called "Qalyān" (قلیان). Persian qalyan is included in the earliest European compendium on tobacco, the tobacolgia written by Johan Neander and published in Dutch in 1622. It seems that over time water pipes acquired a Persian connotation as in eighteenth-century Egypt the most fashionable pipes were called Karim Khan after the Persian ruler of the day.^[31] This is also the name used in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.^[32]

In Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, a hookah is called chillim.^[33]

In Kashmir, hookah is called "Jajeer".^[34]

In Maldives, hookah is called "Guduguda".^[35]

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, hookah is called "Shisha".^{[36][better source needed]}

In the Philippines, hookah is called "Hitboo" and normally used in smoking flavored marijuana.^[37]

The hookah pipe is also known as the "Marra pipe" in the UK, especially in the North East, where it is used for recreational purposes.^[38]

In Sindhi, another language of South Asia, it is called Huqqo (حُقو / हुक़्क़ो).^[39]

Here in Thailand it is called sheesha.

Good work by the cops these filthy things from a nasty culture are unhealthy and need to be removed.

And I can just hear the praise for the leader from Steven100 on this bust. Good job to the PM on his continual efforts to make the economy better and Thai people more safe.

What a totally senseless arrest!

Clearly this place had NOT been paying the corrupt police in Wireless Road Bangkok/Sukhimvit area. Guess what it is a "Cancer" in Bangkok/Thailand. FACT!

I will sleep better knowing that the roadway carnage has been reduced by this latest, moral crime-buster photo op.

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I thought hookahs are legal in Thailand and I saw a lot in pattaya. These are not electronic cigarettes to me.

38 minutes ago, kevin612 said:

I thought hookahs are legal in Thailand and I saw a lot in pattaya. These are not electronic cigarettes to me.

They were outlawed by the wonderful leaders a few years back. Clearly, they are the scourge of Thailand, and their elimination has brought happiness back to the people, and made us all safer. I sleep like a baby at night knowing there is no one enjoying a sweet Shisha or a reasonably priced bl0w j0b (kudos to Doug Stanhope).

A very pressing issue at this time ????

20 hours ago, mok199 said:

And shamlessly photo opp their ''take down'',as this Nation suffers from the worst road carnage on the planet....

Why are you so obsessed with the so called road carnage? How has it affected you? How is it your business?

The police wouldn't have the balls to go up Soi 3 and arrest people for smoking a Shisha. 

Some more "hookers" troll posts have been removed. 

Baraku is a bastardization of Buraku i.e. Burakumin - outcast group at the bottom of the Japanese social order.

Obviously, somebody didn't receive their brown envelopes.

Remember - baraku is illegal in Thailand, just like prostitution 

 

Thank heavens.

 

 

I'll sleep well tonight, knowing my children are sleeping safe from this illegal operation.