Pattaya: Crazed foreigner taken into custody after waving a torch at passersby

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Pattaya: Crazed foreigner taken into custody after waving a torch at passersby 

 

Picture: Ruk Siam News

 

Ten officers from the Pattaya police station were required to get a crazed foreigner into custody after he started going berserk on Sai 2 road yesterday. 

 

The burly and tall man wearing a red shirt and long pants had been creating trouble waving a torch aggressively at tourists and Thais passing by, reported Ruk Siam News. 

 

After attempts to talk him round failed the police decided that a more proactive approach was required. 

 

Picture: Ruk Siam News

 

His nationality and problems are not known though a quantity of medication for nerve related disorders were found in his possession. 

 

He had no identification. 

 

He is being held at Pattaya police station. 

 

Source: Ruk Siam News

 

 

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[GeorgeCross]

waving a torch? as in a flash light torch?

 

lol

[Wiggy]

Hopefully he'll be able to throw some light on it soon.

[Ian Nagle]

10 Police officers is a bit ridiculous.

[lemonjelly]

Was he practicing for the Special Barstool Forces Pattaya Paralytic Olympics Torch Ceremony? I thought it’d been cancelled.

[Andrew Dwyer]

3 minutes ago, Ian Nagle said:

10 Police officers is a bit ridiculous.

5 to apprehend the guy , the other 5 to manhandle the oxy-acetylene bottles into the pickup ?

[mauGR1]

4 minutes ago, Ian Nagle said:

10 Police officers is a bit ridiculous.

No, i don't think so.

Nobody got injured, good job.

[from the home of CC]

12 minutes ago, Ian Nagle said:

10 Police officers is a bit ridiculous.

you're right, 1 should have just shot him in the head..

[from the home of CC]

probably mixed booze with his downers..

[spiekerjozef]

36 minutes ago, webfact said:

The burly and tall man wearing a red shirt

Oh no not again....

[vogie]

Nothing new with flashing in Patts.

[bkk6060]

25 minutes ago, Ian Nagle said:

10 Police officers is a bit ridiculous.

No, your comment is.

 

Actually in western countries there may have been more.

You never know if a person is crazed, on drugs or armed.

As many cops can get there the better. It is called backup and trying to work as a team in a

possible dangerous and or volatile situation. 

45 minutes ago, webfact said:

crazed foreigner into custody after he started going berserk on Sai 2 road yesterday. 

Good job RTP.

[varun]

Ex-SAS for sure

[transam]

37 minutes ago, Ian Nagle said:

10 Police officers is a bit ridiculous.

Not really, who wants a fist fight with a nutter..........

[geriatrickid]

4 minutes ago, varun said:

Ex-SAS for sure

I was thinking KGB or GRU.

[colinneil]

NCC where are you?

Please let us all know it was not you.

For once i applaud plod, job well done, members going on about it taking 10 of them, should sit back and think, what if he had a knife?

[geronimo]

We can expect to see a lot more of this, and balcony jumping may well become more popular.

[bluesofa]

He was obviously broken-hearted and was carrying a torch for someone.

[geronimo]

3 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

He was obviously broken-hearted and was carrying a torch for someone.

or he suddenly became enlightened .....

[ChipButty]

Obviously drugs are still available

[tifino]

the Torch could technically lead him towards a Battery Charge?

 

 

 

The next torch he might need to be Eveready prepared to see?

 

no batteries required

[Matzzon]

Good job done. Another lunatic of the streets. As if there isn´t enough to handle right now, we need this morons as well.

 

No ID, no passport???? What more? No home, no money and on overstay after burning his passport? Angry on the world? Life is unfair?

[Chazar]

should  have waved a machete,  no one would  have noticed

[TingTong187]

Apparently the torch was a a novelty cigarette lighter shaped like a gun.

 

"The man had a tazer on him, a novelty cigarette shaped like a gun and prescription antibiotics." - The Pattaya News

 

There is a video of his arrest here: https://youtu.be/Yd5PCwLDDIA 

Edited March 24, 2020 by TingTong187

[transam]

2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Good job done. Another lunatic of the streets. As if there isn´t enough to handle right now, we need this morons as well.

 

No ID, no passport???? What more? No home, no money and on overstay after burning his passport? Angry on the world? Life is unfair?

Good job you have your mum, eh........????

[Baerboxer]

4 hours ago, Ian Nagle said:

10 Police officers is a bit ridiculous.

 

But he was safely apprehended. In the USA probably one or two officers - would have shot him!

[Baerboxer]

20 minutes ago, TingTong187 said:

Apparently the torch was a a novelty cigarette lighter shaped like a gun.

 

"The man had a tazer on him, a novelty cigarette shaped like a gun and prescription antibiotics." - The Pattaya News

 

There is a video of his arrest here: https://youtu.be/Yd5PCwLDDIA 

 

Sounds like an American weirdo - is he a Democrat Congressman?

[bluesofa]

3 hours ago, geronimo said:

or he suddenly became enlightened .....

and reached Nirvana.

[marko kok prong]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

NCC where are you?

Please let us all know it was not you.

For once i applaud plod, job well done, members going on about it taking 10 of them, should sit back and think, what if he had a knife?

If he had a knife you run,a guy with a gun you grab the gun,so you run from a knife you grab the gun Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa in the Irishman.

[transam]

1 minute ago, bluesofa said:

and reached Nirvana.

A Nissan...................????..........................................................????