Can foreigners carry big knife like Thai?

[chopper23]

I have seen Thai with big knife they carry for protection can Farang carry also?

[2 is 1]

They are going farm!

 

 

 

Edited September 10, 2020 by 2 is 1

[Daffy D]

Wasn't there a guy who got done for carrying a Swiss Army knife?

[Kwasaki]

Yeah of coarse I go hunting.

[2 is 1]

2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Yeah of coarse I go hunting.

You can try explain, im going farm! Or "dear police this is my toothpick"! ????

[billd766]

34 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:

They are going farm!

 

 

 

I used to have 1 or 2 of them in my pickup a few years ago. Now I think that they are more dangerous to me at 76 years old than to anybody else.

[worgeordie]

To OP, are you paranoid someone is out to get you ?,if no

why do you want to carry around a big knife ?, yes you

will be arrested if caught walking about in public with it.

regards worgeordie

[Kwasaki]

35 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:

You can try explain, im going farm! Or "dear police this is my toothpick"! ????

Nah its been many countries where I have worked in my day.

I do have a small farm in Thailand and use it for gutting fish but throw it at trees from 10 metres mainly.

This knife is going on 50 years old.

I brought into Thailand in my main baggage when I came and retired here in 2005. 

The knife is really my friend ever since working in Qatar when faced by some PLO geezers, we were not allowed to carry guns.

 

[FritsSikkink]

Why do you need one? Are you <deleted>ting your pants without one?

[Maestro]

2 hours ago, Daffy D said:

Wasn't there a guy who got done for carrying a Swiss Army knife?

 

No, but under current rules for security checks prior to flight boarding my Swiss Army knife would be confiscated.

[Nout]

How do you know their purpose?

[NCC1701A]

3 hours ago, chopper23 said:

I have seen Thai with big knife they carry for protection can Farang carry also?

no you cannot carry any weapons at all. 

[Davo369]

5 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

no you cannot carry any weapons at all. 

So NCC1701A.. you've never got your weapon out in the girlie bars 

[NCC1701A]

Just now, Davo369 said:

So NCC1701A.. you've never got your weapon out in the girlie bars 

i have a permit for that. 

[Davo369]

1 minute ago, NCC1701A said:

i have a permit for that. 

Flash git.....

[ChakaKhan]

I bought a police baton in nong khai for 100 baht...about size of mini flashlight that extended when you snap it down....carried it on my bike for soi dogs to scare em off....no..never used it on anyone or dogs....

 

However I was lit up on sangsom one night and spotted a tuk tuk trying to scam 2 cute chinese gals needing to go to cm airport.....I drunkenly went to assist and he pulled a big knife on me...tapping it on the metal I recall.....the gals ran off.....I having liquid courage-sangsom in me, whipped out my baton and snapped it ready to go.....it was by TP gate when the army boys were there yrs back,,,a huge spotlight blinded me and thai yelling...some army guy rushed me and nabbed my baton, the tuk tuk took off.....

 

So there I am...after 2am middle of street, alone and drunk, tuk tuk gone, girls gone and me and the army guy who HAS my baton..Im thinking this is it, hes gonna beat me with my own weapon!...No idea what he was saying......a cop or higher army guy showed up and eventually gave it back to me and told me to go home......so dunno...after 1 had it on me and no one took it......either way as it was 100 bt and offered me some protection....I did leave it there when i came home as all I take is a carry on bag when Im in LOS

 

Good bar tale to tell these days but at the time I was pretty freaked out when that army guy took it..555

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[TSF]

5 hours ago, Maestro said:

 

No, but under current rules for security checks prior to flight boarding my Swiss Army knife would be confiscated.

I was once given a Swiss Army knife onboard a Malaysian Airline flight, it was a free gift, this was in the 1990s. 

[ezzra]

Ask crocodile dundee he'll tell you...

[Kenny202]

What a moronic race baiting

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[Daffy D]

7 hours ago, Maestro said:

No, but under current rules for security checks prior to flight boarding my Swiss Army knife would be confiscated.

Nothing to do with airport security.

 

This was on the streets somewhere, for some reason the guy was searched when they found it.

 

Can't recall the exact details but I remember removing the knife I used to carry in the car, just in case  

[faraday]

7 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i have a permit for that. 

A big one no doubt. ????

[robblok]

7 hours ago, ChakaKhan said:

I bought a police baton in nong khai for 100 baht...about size of mini flashlight that extended when you snap it down....carried it on my bike for soi dogs to scare em off....no..never used it on anyone or dogs....

 

However I was lit up on sangsom one night and spotted a tuk tuk trying to scam 2 cute chinese gals needing to go to cm airport.....I drunkenly went to assist and he pulled a big knife on me...tapping it on the metal I recall.....the gals ran off.....I having liquid courage-sangsom in me, whipped out my baton and snapped it ready to go.....it was by TP gate when the army boys were there yrs back,,,a huge spotlight blinded me and thai yelling...some army guy rushed me and nabbed my baton, the tuk tuk took off.....

 

So there I am...after 2am middle of street, alone and drunk, tuk tuk gone, girls gone and me and the army guy who HAS my baton..Im thinking this is it, hes gonna beat me with my own weapon!...No idea what he was saying......a cop or higher army guy showed up and eventually gave it back to me and told me to go home......so dunno...after 1 had it on me and no one took it......either way as it was 100 bt and offered me some protection....I did leave it there when i came home as all I take is a carry on bag when Im in LOS

 

Good bar tale to tell these days but at the time I was pretty freaked out when that army guy took it..555

 

You describe exactly what the problem is with carrying weapons. It makes people brave and take stupid risks.

[Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai]

17 hours ago, 2 is 1 said:

You can try explain, im going farm! Or "dear police this is my toothpick"! ????

Looks like Crocodile Dundees knife.

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[BritManToo]

17 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Yeah of coarse I go hunting.

Ya call that a knife? ......... this is a knife!

[Kwasaki]

15 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Ya call that a knife? ......... this is a knife!

That's a machete I got one em too. 

Also got a walking stick. 

????????

[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

Looks like Crocodile Dundees knife.

????❤????????

Had that knife before Croc Dundee films. 

Not exactly the right knife for gutting sea fish but that's what I use it for, took it everywhere I  worked as well. 

[chopper23]

No you clown the reason I ask is i have seen thai guy attack Farang with big knife how does he protect himself just beg for your life. The farang did nothing wrong.

[villageidiotY2K]

https://www.kentaurguns.com/gas-guns-weapons/

 

 

How about gas guns?? 

There are huge selections on mega plaza yaowarat area priced at 1500~6000 baht. 

One shop's owner hides his small pistol behind the belt buckle. (not his Co ck) 

Some of Thsse gas pistols pump at 300 feet per second, and with metal pellets instead of plastic, can rip the skin to the bone.... 

Without firearm license 

 

[Damrongsak]

21 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i have a permit for that. 

I hope it's a concealed carry permit.  Open carry is right out.

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Over many years, I've had two occasions where I had a large knife either in my luggage or carrying in hand.  Both times I talked my way out of it.  In both cases, I had recently acquired them.  How else do you get them home?  I've also taken a suitcase with at least a dozen knives and many old farm tools through Don Mueang en route to the U.S.

 

When I was working with farmers (Peace Corps), I always had a machete in my backpack when riding in the boondocks.  But 40+ years ago in Loei, no one cared.

 

I tend to accumulate large knives.  Probably have close to 100, collected over 43 years.  I especially like the Hmong and Yao blades.

 

 

[ChakaKhan]

16 hours ago, robblok said:

You describe exactly what the problem is with carrying weapons. It makes people brave and take stupid risks.

Id blame the sangsom, not the baton, which isnt gonna kill anyone.....the giant hunting knife the tuk tuk guy had could have killed me. my baton was just to inflict minimal pain to run a threat off.....maybe why they gave it back to me.......I wouldnt carry a knife there.....my baton was effective at its presence or maybe pepper spray......simple defense weapons.....no one is gonna die from either of my choices.....a baseball bat would do more damage that the small thin baton I carried, and was bought as a dog deterrent on my bike.

 

But I certainly wasnt looking forward to a possible whooping with my OWN baton by some yelling thai army guy on empty thai streets after 2am......but I will always stand my ground when I see bad things going down as I get angry watching tuk tuks constantly trying to scam people, esp when its 2 cute china gals!   555

 

Besides with my liquid courage-sangsom I could have made the headlines here, made a Hansum corpse!