Forget pensioners and Bridge!: Thai police bust darts and balloons fairground game for gambling

 

Caption: Gambling arrest at the Chinese Opera fair

 

The fairground game where patrons have to throw a dart or shoot an air rifle to burst a balloon for a cuddly toy is the latest on the police radar for gambling. 

 

Six shops were busted at a roadside fair after a contingent of 40 police raided a municipal Chinese Opera event in Sa Kaew in eastern Thailand. 

 

Taken into evidence were darts, stuffed toys and air-rifles among other things.

 

Police found that there was evidence of gambling confirming complaints they had received from the public.

 

A video showed one prize - it looked like a bolster - with a handwritten sign showing that it could be won for bursting two balloons. 

 

Media 77kaoded called it "blatant" gambling in their headline.

 

In the past darts has come under suspicion in places like Pattaya and famously a bunch of foreign pensioners were carted off to jail for playing the card game Bridge. 

 

That made the international press as many communities ridiculed the Thais and the authorities for their gambling laws, notes Thaivisa. 

 

Earlier this year the "grab a cuddly toy with a crane" games at department stores in Chiang Mai were swooped upon and closed down.

 

Reports that the bar top game Connect Four was illegal, however, were just a Thaivisa April Fool 2018 hoax.

 

Many were taken in some excusing their gullibility saying that it was perfectly plausible. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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This is now beyond a joke. There is stupid, there is really stupid and there is Thai cops with apparently nothing better to do than stop a fairground game that has been around for God knows how long. They were ridiculed for busting the bridge players, so it just remains to be seen how much they get ripped to shreds for this latest moronic behaviour.

 

two weeks ago there was the local business sponsored annual fair in my soi with many similar stalls and attended by all the high ranking local police, no issues were raised...

too bad they can't show this willingness to enforce the law against actual criminals. 

I sincerely hope that whoever instigated this "raid" never gets promoted. Complaints by members of the public?? B.S.

There is no hope.....................????

Children riding motorbikes with no crash helmets are guided out of school by police because children don't have money to pay fines. It boggles the mind that these rigged fairground games are gambling. 

Will the police start making traffic safer if i put a complaint?

Think of all the goldfish in plastic bags that will have been rescued/saved!

1 hour ago, transam said:

There is no hope.....................????

It just gets worse and worse, I can remember years ago Thailand was a fun place to be, glad I’m out of here.

Every time I drive on the roads here I'm taking a gamble that I will reach my destination in one piece.  So, can I expect a visit from the BiB soon?

1 hour ago, JusticeGB said:

Children riding motorbikes with no crash helmets are guided out of school by police because children don't have money to pay fines. It boggles the mind that these rigged fairground games are gambling. 

Yeah from now on Im cancelling my  insurance and road  tax get rid  of that pesky driving licence and getting the kid  to drive the  car, thatll learn em

33 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Think of all the goldfish in plastic bags that will have been rescued/saved!

and think how  many plastic  bags  now wont be used........double  bonus!!

you gamble with your life while walking or driving around thailand. i don't see them rounding up dumb motorists. next on their sights is the fish-catching game in amusement parks. what's up with their lottery? it's pure gambling with a dash of robbery

When you are instructed from the very top and trained as a local franchisee, you must do everything within your power, to avoid the practice of real law enforcement. That is what the RTP has always represented. It has always been about revenue collection. It has never been about upholding the law. 

 

Believe otherwise at your own peril. 

Why aren't we getting more tourists, I don't understand it.

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Six shops were busted at a roadside fair after a contingent of 40 police raided a municipal Chinese Opera event in Sa Kaew in eastern Thailand. 

... and still a new joke ... the criminals let them escape but, for some nonsense of the kind 40 agents are made available ... I have no words for discrepancies like these ...

To me this is a simple test of skill whereas gambling is a game of chance.  I looked for confirmation in Wikipedia which defines it as follows:  "Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize".  This activity clearly offers a prize.  At a stretch one might consider there to be risk, hit or miss but there is clearly no wager.  There is an entry fee as there is for a race track, some casinos etc but clearly that is not part of the gambling.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling

9 minutes ago, secondfusilier said:

Just imagine if gambling were legal here.

 

You could have some sort of a lucky draw twice every month, where you buy a ticket in the hope that the numbers on the ticket match any of a series of numbers that are picked.

 

It could be run by a government agency and the distribution/sale of the tickets could be handed to the control of criminal gangs.

 

 

 

You could even have the top brass of that government agency looking after any spare cash that is left over from the draw rather than injecting it back into public funds.

 

Of course to apply for one of these top brass positions would mean that you would have to pay a lot of money for the uniform but with a good ‘salary’, you could earn that back in no time.

 

 

 

Mind you, you would have to guard your monopoly jealously and criminalize all other games of chance.

 

When you take care of your lottery that is now used by many shady individuals to get rich!
Tickets are now sold mostly for the price of 100 ฿!

Never could knock them coconuts over

i reckon they were nailed down!????

5 minutes ago, 30la said:

When you take care of your lottery that is now used by many shady individuals to get rich!
Tickets are now sold mostly for the price of 100 ฿!

But...but...but surely the PM has solved this heinous activity!

 

I spotted children blatantly "gambling" yesterday trying to hook a teddy bear in a crane machine. Perhaps I should have called the police and claim my 50 baht reward.

Brainsick!!

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thai police bust darts and balloons fairground game for gambling

 

Sure it looks dumb, inconsequential, and laughable right now…but building a thoroughly repressive police state doesn’t just happen overnight. You have to start small and work your way up.

 

 

Even for those of us who dearly love Thailand, wometimes we are forced to wonder how moronic will it finally get here.

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Taken into evidence were darts, stuffed toys and air-rifles among other things.

Be honest, I think they raided it as X-mas and New Year needs giveaway toys

I am a little confused ... everyday outside of my local 7/11 there are 2 or 3 Thais with boards of lottery tickets for sale.  They also ride around the streets to sell tickets. The locals spend several minutes to select their lucky "winning ticket" ... surely this is gambling, but it seems totally OK ???

Here in Samui we also have buffalo fighting, cock fighting and of course Muay Thai, at all of these events gambling on the winner / loser takes place. 

I think darts and teddy bears could be defined as maybe "low hanging fruit"

2 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Be honest, I think they raided it as X-mas and New Year needs giveaway toys

That and there may have been a delay in the delivery of a certain brown envelope.

Well done to the Police for stopping this evil. Many people are sleeping better tonight knowing they are there protecting us.

It doesn't matter all this is a joke, everyone keeps coming here and sacrificing everything because they believe its Elysium. 

Suppose they are gambling the only visitor left to come is the pope the rest will be reading this story in the tabloids or already in the asylum ????