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

[Destiny1990]

How about billiards folks can bet on these games also out of fairness all pool tables have to be demolished !

Edited November 30, 2019 by Destiny1990

[peter14]

Thailand is a scam...that's it

[CNXexpat]

Is this really gambling? I am waiting for the next raid at a soccer game or another sport event because the players are gambling.

[PoorSucker]

1 hour ago, madmitch said:

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.

Still doing that Mitch?

https://news.thaivisa.com/article/35077/latest-gambling-arrests-claw-crane-toy-games-subject-to-instant-crackdown-2-arrests-so-far

[Benmart]

There are imposters in all sorts of uniforms, some of which are supposedly the actual defenders of the law.

[AlexRich]

What happens when you forget to contribute to the “tea money”?

[huntandcollect]

I just can't believe what is happening in Thailand. There is just one word for it: stupid stupid stupid. I live partly in the Philippines. Many things not perfect here, but in no way such idiotic restrictions for expats. Pack your things and come to us and tell the Thais to......

You will not regret it.

[Cake Monster]

Another Moronic BIB " Bust "

Its so sad now in Thailand, its become a place of utter stupidity

 

[Geoffggi]

4 hours 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. 

I agree with the above and further more the police should be charged with gambling with peoples lives....!!!!

[Flemo]

The KEYSTONE COPS come to mind

[NightSky]

You have 20 seconds to comply!

 

 

Edited November 30, 2019 by NightSky

[Phaser]

Dumb and just gets dumber

[KenKadz]

I thought Mr. BIG JOKE was assigned to an inactive post?

[mickey rat]

1 hour ago, Tidybeard said:

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.

Yes but it's hard to spot. ????

[malibukid]

this country has lost it's mind

[malibukid]

47 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

Is this really gambling? I am waiting for the next raid at a soccer game or another sport event because the players are gambling.

anyone for tennis?

[Dice Man]

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

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.

We will now all sleep safely in our beds each night now that this dastardly heinous bunch of arch criminals is caught

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

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.

But are they worried... obviously the thick skin can take the ridicule.

[Rhys]

Most likely, because of the seriousness of the offense-brown envelope not received, the higher ups the lower up and middle ups decided to enforce this Crime of society... Kudos to the Boys in Brown...

 

[Jane Dough]

I think you'll find that it wasn't the darts and the cuddly toys game per se that was targeted. I reckon the vendors were probably offering odds on bursting a balloon. Maybe they said like "100baht to 120 you cant burst one with a single throw". I translated this story and there was no mention of exactly how the gambling was taking place. 

 

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[GalaxyMan]

But the lottery is legal, all of the profits going to the corrupt, incompetent government. Absolutely hopeless. Amazing that they have no sense of shame or embarrassment at being so phenomenally stupid and hypocritical.

[Kaoboi Bebobp]

What's next in the program to "bring happiness to the people?" 

Edited November 30, 2019 by Kaoboi Bebobp
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[DPKANKAN]

4 hours ago, Thian said:

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

You will probably find that the people who 'complained' did not win a prize and lost face!! 5555. It is getting ridiculous with these petty so called laws!????????????????

[Baggy]

1 hour ago, AlexRich said:

What happens when you forget to contribute to the “tea money”?

No problem, will be resolved when new shipment of brown envelopes arrive.

[digger70]

Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing.” Shouldn't they catch Criminals and corruption?

Talking about gambling they have to shut down the lucky number ,how many Millions get  Gambled  on that? Cock fighting / Bull fighting. The Whole place is Sooo corrupt that who that doesn't  "Donate" will get done.

[seajae]

it really is a joke when they raid a fair ground game yet ignore all the gambling dens run by the police, they only get raided when the army does it without letting the police know so they cant remove all the evidence, then the cops running them or taking a big envelope to allow them only get transferred with no charges/jail time/fines. 

[Archie Baker]

And the national lottery is not gambling?

[Orton Rd]

Game of skill bouncing too light darts off of balloons, gambling does not come into it, what about the bingo, spin a wheel and the shooting games for a man u cushion gambling as well?

[Mavideol]

6 hours ago, darksidedog said:

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.

I do agree with you 200%.... we all know the cops are stupid but here they are following orders from an higher enlightened (source) one, sure junta is behind that

[UncleFesterNightmare]

6 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

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

They do have some disdain for arresting their own, don't they?