A timeline from Reuters:

 

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3 p.m. - Jakrapanth arrives at a house to discuss a property dispute in the presence of his commanding officer. After an argument, he shoots dead his commander and a woman described as a relative of the officer.
 

4 p.m. - He goes to the Surathamphitak army base where he worked, kills an army guard and steals weapons from the armory. He commandeers a Humvee.
 

4:30 p.m. - He stops at a Buddhist temple and opens fire as authorities pursue him, killing around nine people including a police officer, before driving away
 

5:30 p.m. - The soldier arrives at Terminal 21 shopping mall where he begins to open fire on panicked shoppers. 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-shooting-timeline/one-gunman-four-locations-29-dead-how-the-mass-shooting-in-thailand-unfolded-idUSKBN2030FQ

 

 

Was this not the present PM's job when he was boss of the army ? 100% in control comes to mind. What a goose.!!

Yesterday a friend of ours arrived in Korat. Today she picked up the body of her dead son. A guard in one of the armouries.

 

It's hard to write, but a son of a friend is dead, doing his duty.

I have no military background but would have thought that where they store weapons and ammunition would be the most secure place on any military base.

 

Perhaps discipline is not a big issue when your purpose is to sweep the generals driveway and mow the lawn.

On 2/11/2020 at 6:03 AM, TooBigToFit said:

What were they thinking?

They were not thinking anything,that seems to be the problem over here.

That and the ;mai pen rai; attitude is keeping this country in the dark ages.

 

 

8 hours ago, Oziex1 said:

I have no military background but would have thought that where they store weapons and ammunition would be the most secure place on any military base.

 

Perhaps discipline is not a big issue when your purpose is to sweep the generals driveway and mow the lawn.

And washing the Benz

45 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

And washing the Benz

Or, as my brother-in-law had to do: Look after his commanding officer's two senile parents for a year.

Living with them, cooking, cleaning the house, arguing with them daily when they both said he hadn't fed them, even though they had a meal less than an hour before.

It drove him crazy.

 

On 2/11/2020 at 12:03 AM, TooBigToFit said:

The army should have figured out after the armory thefts down in the South in relation to the insurgency that this was an issue. What were they thinking? They don't seem to believe that a deranged Thai might try to get weapons or soldiers might want to try to sell them for profit.

Thai don't -can't- hurt Thai, only foreigners are capable of that...  So simple padlocks on armouries was sufficient protection, Apirat promised us in early january that all army weapons were kept save...

 

It's the same reason they acquitted that policeman that killed 81 people in 1972, a Thai wouldn't do such a thing apparently... (which would make then not human, since sadly we have mentally deranged people amongst us):