Koh Samui: Three British pensioners, one other, arrested with Thais for illegal drinking

[robblok]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I've never considered any rules important, drunk, drugged or sober.

I'm more of a 'what can I do without getting caught and punished?' kind of guy.

 

There appears to be a lot of other Brits that think exactly the same.

That explains why you guys are so often in the news in a negative way. Thanks for clarifying. I too of course don't follow all rules and try to see what i can get away with. However if I drink the risk calculations seem to change and i take more risk. One exception I will never drink and drive or use whatever drugs and drive. I would never ever be that selfish.

 

Thing is i think you like me will think you can get away with a lot more when your drunk as your reasoning and thinking gets influenced.

 

I bet that you also make more stupid decisions when drunk compared to sober. So i doubt it has no influence on you. But that is just me reasoning from my perspective.

 

I am sure your some kind of superman who does not get influenced by alcohol at all. I am sure your thinking is as clear after 2 liters of whisky in an hour as it is when you were sober ????

[BritManToo]

Just now, robblok said:

I bet that you also make more stupid decisions when drunk compared to sober. So i doubt it has no influence on you. But that is just me reasoning from my perspective.

I'm not sure I can remember that far back, to a time when I was sober.

[spidermike007]

On 5/26/2021 at 10:02 AM, BestB said:

Ok. Irrespective of my beliefs , law is the law, so if one breaks it then tough luck . But problem I have is why make arrests and such a fuss. This is not criminal offence . So you caught them breaking the news law, issue them with fines on the spot and end of story .

 

why turn it into a circus ? 
 

when big P was caught not wearing a mask , he was not arrested or detained , but simply issued with a fine , why this any different ?

 

it makes news, it scares people from coming when you get arrested for fineable offences 

Neither were any immigration officials arrested for letting countless infected Burmese across the border, leading to this latest wave. 

 

I could go on and on. We all know how selective the laws are here. They relate only to the plebs. 

[Purdey]

In the language of a certain island off the coast of the EU, Wot? Forin migrants breaking our laws again?

 

[Moo 2]

If me, myself and I (mature and responsible person) enter a restaurant to have a meal, why can't I drink a beer with my meal, I repeat, I am alone at the table! Can anyone explain to me in plain English

the reason for this nonsense.

 

"Have you noticed  the people who tell you to calm down are the one who upset you in the first place".

[Olmate]

12 minutes ago, Moo 2 said:

If me, myself and I (mature and responsible person) enter a restaurant to have a meal, why can't I drink a beer with my meal, I repeat, I am alone at the table! Can anyone explain to me in plain English

the reason for this nonsense.

 

"Have you noticed  the people who tell you to calm down are the one who upset you in the first place".

What’s makes you , that is the mature and responsible you, so special?

[snowgard]

On 5/26/2021 at 11:49 AM, pattjock said:

Please let me know where the first hand, updated, information is published in English.

 

This is obviously different in different areas so need all areas to have their information available to everyone in different formats and languages.

I am 100% sure you listen the rules in the last weeks from a lot of people but you want to ignore it. Almost every english newspaper and TV channel in thailand wrote/told the rules in english. 

You have to inform yourself!!!

It's same as they catched you stole something in a shop and you tell: Oh, they don't wrote that I can't do it!!!"

 

[Stargeezr]

So 3 old expats are in the news, with a bar owner who is in a tiny bit of trouble for selling them alcohol.

  In 60 days, or in July after the great opening up of Thailand for international Tourism, this will just be another

story of before the great reopening and restart of Thai Tourism.  I just wonder if the first few thousand of new tourists

will be told that there will be no alcohol for their visits?  Just how is this great return of tourism going to be handled by TAT, the Thai government

and other related agencies?  The story just shows that expats are in no way considered anyone special to Thailand.

   Geezer

[jomtienisgood]

6 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

So 3 old expats are in the news, with a bar owner who is in a tiny bit of trouble for selling them alcohol.

  In 60 days, or in July after the great opening up of Thailand for international Tourism, this will just be another

story of before the great reopening and restart of Thai Tourism.  I just wonder if the first few thousand of new tourists

will be told that there will be no alcohol for their visits?  Just how is this great return of tourism going to be handled by TAT, the Thai government

and other related agencies?  The story just shows that expats are in no way considered anyone special to Thailand.

   Geezer

Why should they be considered anyone special as the goal is to fit in...

[fceligoj]

Deserved what they got.  Or maybe they can't read or understand the announcements.

[huberthammer]

On 5/26/2021 at 4:18 PM, Liverpool Lou said:

No, four of each in total but they weren't all drinking at the same place.

You trying to break the record in one line replies? By now the dimmest reader will have picked up that you are a law abiding citizen and find the behaviour of the people disgusting. no need to repeat your point unless you are trying to break some kind of record from you sofa,

[huberthammer]

On 5/26/2021 at 6:28 PM, robblok said:

 

Enjoy your beer on your balcony nobody said you can't drink. Just not in bars and mix with other people. 

Clearly you don't follow whats going on here. In Suratthani if you drink on your balcony with your wife and sister-in-law who all live in the same house you are breaking the law as much as the geezers did in the bar. 

[jomtienisgood]

26 minutes ago, huberthammer said:

Clearly you don't follow whats going on here. In Suratthani if you drink on your balcony with your wife and sister-in-law who all live in the same house you are breaking the law as much as the geezers did in the bar. 

Did YOU get fined for that???? Or just rumors??

[huberthammer]

1 minute ago, jomtienisgood said:

Did YOU get fined for that???? Or just rumors??

It is the law they introduced so no, it is not a rumour. 

[jomtienisgood]

9 minutes ago, huberthammer said:

It is the law they introduced so no, it is not a rumour. 

The law mentioned everyone is concerned EXCEPT people living in the same house ....

[huberthammer]

6 minutes ago, jomtienisgood said:

The law mentioned everyone is concerned EXCEPT people living in the same house ....

No it is not. This the the Law that the Governor of Suratthani put in place earlier in the month

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, huberthammer said:

You trying to break the record in one line replies? By now the dimmest reader will have picked up that you are a law abiding citizen and find the behaviour of the people disgusting. no need to repeat your point unless you are trying to break some kind of record from you sofa,

No need for you to grandly think that you're in a position to tell me what and how to comment, either.

[jomtienisgood]

21 hours ago, huberthammer said:

No it is not. This the the Law that the Governor of Suratthani put in place earlier in the month

Interesting, probably issued by the Governor of Suratthani.. Nevertheless strange..