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

[Chelseafan]

3 hours ago, Yinn said:

But clever Rooster add his own about “foreigner arrested playing card game” that not in this story. 

Now scary.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35491852

 

[observer90210]

Somebody dressed in brown with his shiny paratroop golden wings, just did not think his brown enveloppe was chunky enough....so nothing more here....not to worry they are doing their job !!

[dallen52]

17 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

Doesn’t look like casino establishments are in the pipeline for here.

Bring in the Slots.

One arm bandits.

(Not the thai ones)

Pokies.

(Not the short time ones)

 

It's the biggest addiction problem in many countries. 

 

Would make billions here.

Pay the profit into a decent pension benefits for elderly. 

[Blue bruce]

And yet T A T wonders why foreigners are not coming back to Thailand for holiday. They just dont get it

[metisdead]

Some offensive posts have been removed. 

[ChipButty]

Better stop Lazada selling all the board games online it should be illegal to sell if it's illegal to play I'll have to hide my Backgammon

[katana]

12 hours ago, Yinn said:

But clever Rooster add his own about “foreigner arrested playing card game” that not in this story. 

He doesn't say foreigners were arrested in this story. He mentions, for comparison, a previous story where it happened to some farang playing darts and bridge (a card game), in Pattaya.

[mindfulness]

Idiots ! Pathetic idiots !! 

 

When will these pigs begin to reason with logic ? 

[mindfulness]

9 hours ago, Kalasin Jo said:

^{Really? I mean really?!? They should be busting the village "casinos" and their hi lo games....where thousands of baht are in play regularly. Round our way virtually every funeral party in every village is an excuse for this addictive game}

Not forgetting gambling dens run by pigs !  Or Ex Pigs. 

Then again what’s the saying, once a Pigs always a pig 

[superal]

14 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Better stop Lazada selling all the board games online it should be illegal to sell if it's illegal to play I'll have to hide my Backgammon

Apparently you cannot buy playing cards in Thailand , although you can if you know where , so I am told 

[Dexlowe]

14 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Better stop Lazada selling all the board games online it should be illegal to sell if it's illegal to play I'll have to hide my Backgammon

You bloody criminal. 

[superal]

15 hours ago, dallen52 said:

Bring in the Slots.

One arm bandits.

(Not the thai ones)

Pokies.

(Not the short time ones)

 

It's the biggest addiction problem in many countries. 

 

Would make billions here.

Pay the profit into a decent pension benefits for elderly. 

O Mache casinos just at the Thai / Cambodia border 60k from Surin do a roaring trade every day with Thai customers who cross the border for 50 baht . Thailand could have casinos which would generate big profit for the country . Gambling will always take place in one shape or another so it is best to have it in the open , a similar story with cannabis being legalised in many countries . 

Thailand is starting to feel like a communist country with its unreasonable attitudes and in my thinking it is going the wrong way .

[New beginnings]

17 minutes ago, superal said:

Apparently you cannot buy playing cards in Thailand , although you can if you know where , so I am told 

711 sale them. They keep them behind the counter but are expensive.

[tifino]

On 12/1/2019 at 1:15 AM, mlmcleod said:

As  long as the Thai police fool around with these silly "crimes" they will have less energy to create new laws on the spot to harass farangs,

 Ummm... I think they just did! 

[ponder]

Offenbach had a similar view of the French police in his time:

THE GENDARMES DUET

We're public guardians bold, yet wary And of ourselves we take good care To risk our precious lives we're chary When anger looms, we're never there But when we meet a helpless woman Or little boys that do no harm We run them in, we run them in We run them in, we run them in We show them we're the bold gendarmes We run them in, we run them in We run them in, we run them in We show them we're the bold gendarmes. Sometimes our duty's extramural Then little butterflies we chase We like to gamble in things rural Commune with nature face to face Unto our beat then back returning Refreshed by nature's holy charm We run them in, we run them in We run them in, we run them in We show them we're the bold gendarmes We run them in, we run them in We run them in, we run them in We show them we're the bold gendarmes. If gentlemen will make a riot And punch each other's heads at night We're quite disposed to keep it quiet Provided that they make it right But if they do not seem to see it Or give to us our proper terms We run them in, we run them in We run them in, we run them in We show them we're the bold gendarmes We run them in, we run them in We run them in, we run them in We show them we're the bold gendarmes.

 

 

 

[Burma Bill]

Interesting but the authorities should come north to rural Issan where one particular farang bar has BINGO regularly on Friday and Sunday evenings where cash for a card is "put in the pot" for a "full house"!

[Rookiescot]

Its about time they cracked down on these hotbeds of organised crime.

[kcpattaya]

On 11/30/2019 at 10:55 AM, rooster59 said:

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

I cannot believe the stupidity here....
Have we totally lost the PLOT?!?!

[Dumbastheycome]

On 11/30/2019 at 11:00 AM, samsensam said:

 

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...

Maybe not one of em  could  hit  the target  so were  peeved at  not  getting a  cuddly toy?

[Abmong]

No tolerance for gambling. Yet the government runs a nation lottery...

[gk10002000]

look at the poor lady working the booth.  She probably had to put up some money to even get the job

[gk10002000]

On 12/2/2019 at 5:07 PM, Abmong said:

No tolerance for gambling. Yet the government runs a nation lottery...

here at work at this big Defense company I work for, they block the California state lottery web site, but they do not block all the local casino websites, Barona, Pechanga, etc.