Cha-Am fatal shooting: It started with catapults, went on to knives and ended with a shotgun

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Cha-Am fatal shooting: It started with catapults, went on to knives and ended with a shotgun

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Police were called to a dirt road in Cha-Am near in the Bo Khaem Canal - Huay Sai Tai area after two men were shot. 

 

Phon, 44, was given CPR but was dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. 

 

Suwat, 17, was shot in the ribs and taken to hospital in Cha- Am then transferred to Petchaburi. 

 

An 80 cm sword, a scythe and three catapults were recovered along with a Thai made shotgun.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Satheuan, the mother of the shooter said that the two men arrived to make trouble with her sons. They had a long running feud.

 

They started aiming at each other with stones from catapults. Then the other men got knives. 

 

So her son got a gun and shot them.

 

Nopparat then fled into the woods. 

 

Cha-Am police are looking for him, reported 77kaoded. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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[Grumpy one]

Don't bring a sling shot or knife to a gun fight 

[GoFaster]

Never bring a catapult to a gun fight

[bbi1]

That cop on the left did a shocking job at pointing at the body, he put no "heart" into it. I give his pointing skill a 3/10 at best.

[Paiman]

I do keep a low profile when confronted with aggressive behavior because of this reason. Often you don,t know who you are dealing with and his state of mind.

[JeffersLos]

34 minutes ago, webfact said:

They started aiming at each other with stones from catapults. Then the other men got knives. 

 

So her son got a gun and shot them.

Well, that didn't go as planned. 

[KhunKenAP]

Terrible, however, the writer needs to understand the difference between a catapult and a slingshot.  

[hhinhh]

Now that the Wild West is history we experiance the Wild East

[ThailandRyan]

4 hours ago, GoFaster said:

Never bring a catapult to a gun fight

I was thinking of a catapult being like a siege machine to hurl objects over walls. Like when we would use them to launch pumpkins in the US after Halloween. Of course tbey would be catapulted 50 to 75 yards before exploding upon hitting the ground. 

[steven100]

4 hours ago, bbi1 said:

That cop on the left did a shocking job at pointing at the body, he put no "heart" into it. I give his pointing skill a 3/10 at best.

he doesn't even look interested .... his finger is bending towards his boots,  is he telling his colleague his shoes are too small  

[AgMech Cowboy]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

catapults

When did slingshots become "catapults"?  Oh, I see it's a UK term.

[AgMech Cowboy]

1 hour ago, hhinhh said:

Wild West is history

The Wild West may have been history, but it's on the way to repeating itself. Who ah!!

[Cereal]

5 hours ago, Paiman said:

I do keep a low profile when confronted with aggressive behavior because of this reason. Often you don,t know who you are dealing with and his state of mind.

If you're dealing with a Thai male you're dealing with a small stupid man with a gigantic problem trying to juggle the cognizant dissonance between his massive inferiority complex and his even greater superiority complex.

[Kerryd]

5 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

Terrible, however, the writer needs to understand the difference between a catapult and a slingshot.  

In Thailand, "slingshot" translates to หนังสติ๊ก (catapult) and visa-versa.
(หนังสติ๊ก translates to "catapult" or "sling".)

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

They started aiming at each other with stones from catapults. Then the other men got knives. 

So her son got a gun and shot them

Glad no tanks were involved !

[GroveHillWanderer]

5 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

Terrible, however, the writer needs to understand the difference between a catapult and a slingshot.  

Depends where you come from. In the UK, the item shown is called a catapult. A slingshot would be  something more like this:

 

[Jane Dough]

1 hour ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

When did slingshots become "catapults"?  Oh, I see it's a UK term.

We called them catapults as a kid. 

 

The other things were called trebuchets.

 

Just call it having a wider vocabulary. ????

 

Rooster

[steven100]

9 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

We called them catapults as a kid. 

 

The other things were called trebuchets.

 

Just call it having a wider vocabulary. ????

 

Rooster

sorry Jane,  they are sling shots,  a catapult is larger and usually used in roman warfare with large rocks.

a sling shot is hand held ... ????   

but then again , i've never heard of a Trebuchet ... never ever .

Edited June 25, 2020 by steven100

[Farma]

And as a kid we called them Shanghai. I dare say there are other names for them depending on country.

[Gandtee]

7 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

Terrible, however, the writer needs to understand the difference between a catapult and a slingshot.  

Slingshot, USA. Catapult UK.

[pacovl46]

Was anyone else hoping to see a homemade medieval catapult?!  

[zyphodb]

1 hour ago, Jane Dough said:

We called them catapults as a kid. 

 

The other things were called trebuchets.

 

Just call it having a wider vocabulary. ????

 

Rooster

You've got that wrong Rooster, a trebuchet is more like a massive slingshot on a frame powered by a large counterweight...                          

 

[kidneyw]

What happened to "hand bags at 10 paces?"

[spiekerjozef]

Is this still about the blm <deleted>..

[ThailandRyan]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Glad no tanks were involved !

No submarines either

[digger70]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Cha-Am fatal shooting: It started with catapults, went on to knives and ended with a shotgun

 

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

They started aiming at each other with stones from catapults. Then the other men got knives. 

So her son got a gun and shot them

Sounds pretty Fair. 

[UncleMhee]

Just to round out the many and varied terms from around the world re Thai catapaults; I'm rather taken aback that no one's mentioned "Gings".

Edited June 25, 2020 by UncleMhee

[Logosone]

A slingshot? Sounds like somebody went on the Spotlight Thailand website.

 

 

[SiSePuede419]

This is a catapult.

 

This is a slingshot.

 

This has been another edition of Learn to Speak Proper English for Englishmen. ????

 

[samsensam]

58 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:

This is a catapult.

 

This is a slingshot.

 

This has been another edition of Learn to Speak Proper English for Englishmen. ????

 

 

haha, when i was a kid...

 

noun: catapult; plural noun: catapults

British

a forked stick with an elastic band fastened to the two prongs, used by children for shooting small stones.