"Who's gonna look after me?" Thai media pose pertinent question after mum and dad caught with 59 kilos of ice

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"Who's gonna look after me?" Thai media pose pertinent question after mum and dad caught with 59 kilos of ice

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai media Daily News reported that a couple with a young son were arrested with 59 kilos of methamphetamine or ice hidden in an icebox and a secret compartment of a Mitsubishi Triton pick-up at the Mae Jan checkpoint in Chiang Rai in the north of Thailand. 

 

Piyapong, 36,  and Napaporn, 20, were stopped on Saturday by rangers and local police. 

 

Piyapong, from Bangkok, said it was the first time he had done a drugs' trip from the north and he was heading back to Bangkok with this consignment that was worth 88.5 million baht. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

He was to be paid 350,000 baht for the job - he got 50,000 baht up front. 

 

He had taken many other consignments south from Bangkok before without problems.

 

Daily News posed a pertinent question on behalf of their child: Who is going to look after me? 

 

The pair will face a very long prison sentence if convicted. 

 

Soure: Daily News

 

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[Techno Viking]

Prolly should have considered the dilemma before running drugs.

 

Family will take care of the kid whilst mum and dad die in jail.

[canopus1969]

Certainly not fit to bring up a kid

[tracker1]

Always wondered why the police don't go with the drugs to catch the one or ones in Bangkok as if nothing has happened ! possibly a tip off while another better load goes thru undetected !

 

[OneMoreFarang]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

ice hidden in an icebox

that makes a lot of sense ???? 

[JeffersLos]

15 minutes ago, tracker1 said:

possibly a tip off while another better load goes thru undetected !

 

Doubt that. 

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

worth 88.5 million baht. 

 

Around $3 million.

 

17 minutes ago, tracker1 said:

why the police don't go with the drugs to catch the one or ones in Bangkok

 

And let the cops down in Bangkok keep the 88 million baht of produce? 

[ukrules]

1 hour ago, tracker1 said:

Always wondered why the police don't go with the drugs to catch the one or ones in Bangkok as if nothing has happened ! possibly a tip off while another better load goes thru undetected !

 

 

It's quite deliberate, I'm working on the assumption that a sacrificial lamb is offered up for face saving every now and again.

 

For all we know most of these drugs could be as fake as the chance this guy made it to his destination - he was obviously completely and utterly setup from the beginning. Pure entrapment.

[Lowryderen]

6 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

 

Doubt that. 

 

 

Around $3 million.

 

 

And let the cops down in Bangkok keep the 88 million baht of produce? 

Why would you doubt that? Even if 10 tonnes get napped and only 1 ton gets through, they (the people behind this) still make huge profits. It's that cheap to produce..

 

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meth-syndicate/

 

"The money the syndicate is making “means that if they lose ten tonnes and one goes through, they still make a big profit,” said the Chinese counter-narcotics official. “They can afford failure. It doesn’t matter.”"

[Proboscis]

18 hours ago, Techno Viking said:

Prolly should have considered the dilemma before running drugs.

 

Family will take care of the kid whilst mum and dad die in jail.

and what dilemma was that? Starve the family to death or do the drug run?

[Techno Viking]

22 minutes ago, Proboscis said:

and what dilemma was that? Starve the family to death or do the drug run?

 

Choosing drugs is always the wrong option.

 

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

He had taken many other consignments south from Bangkok before without problems.

So only the first trip north?

They deserve to go to prison.

[hotchilli]

47 minutes ago, Proboscis said:

and what dilemma was that? Starve the family to death or do the drug run?

They said they had done many trips south before, this was the first drug run from the north.... hardly starving !

[tracker1]

On 11/30/2020 at 6:15 PM, ukrules said:

 

It's quite deliberate, I'm working on the assumption that a sacrificial lamb is offered up for face saving every now and again.

 

For all we know most of these drugs could be as fake as the chance this guy made it to his destination - he was obviously completely and utterly setup from the beginning. Pure entrapment.

I can assure you the drugs are not fake they are tested chemically  in a GC machine that prints out its chemical composition

[Scott Tracy]

1 hour ago, tracker1 said:

I can assure you the drugs are not fake they are tested chemically  in a GC machine that prints out its chemical composition

 

And you know this how?

[Freigeist365]

Question should be... who's looking after all that ice??? ????

[HashBrownHarry]

On 11/30/2020 at 4:06 PM, Techno Viking said:

Prolly should have considered the dilemma before running drugs.

 

Family will take care of the kid whilst mum and dad die in jail.

Yip, there's always someone to take the kids, they generally get passed about like hot potatoes.

 

Auntie gets kid, she gets bored and fobs off to Granny, who gets bored and fobs off to aunty #2 and so on......

 

Normal.

[tracker1]

23 hours ago, Scott Tracy said:

 

And you know this how?

My better half  is in charge of forensics  where they do they drug testing !

[Susco]

16 minutes ago, tracker1 said:

My better half  is in charge of forensics  where they do they drug testing !

 

So she is the one who mistook the laundry detergent for ketamine?

[Tarteso]

On 11/30/2020 at 2:38 PM, webfact said:

Piyapong, from Bangkok, said it was the first time he had done a drugs' trip

...And will be the last, stupids!

[tracker1]

14 hours ago, Susco said:

 

So she is the one who mistook the laundry detergent for ketamine?

Wrong area ! there is more then one forensic office and more then one forensic officer !

[herfiehandbag]

On 11/30/2020 at 4:06 PM, Techno Viking said:

Prolly should have considered the dilemma before running drugs.

 

Family will take care of the kid whilst mum and dad die in jail.

 

On 11/30/2020 at 4:42 PM, canopus1969 said:

Certainly not fit to bring up a kid

Yes, of course, no doubt you are both right.

 

But just look at that saddest of pictures. A mother holding her child, probably for the last time ever...