Police tell parents: Allow your kids to gamble and face prosecution yourselves

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

The Royal Thai Police have warned parents and guardians that they could face prosecution and even jail themselves if they allow their children to gamble.

 

The warning came from RTP spokesman Pol Col Siriwat Deephor who was speaking at HQ.

 

He said that RTP chief Pol Gen Suwat Chaengdyodsuk was behind the suggestion.

 

Siriwat said that Thai youth was increasingly becoming victim to pressure online to engage in gambling that led to losses and other crime., reported Daily News 

 

Specifically he referred to a case earlier in the week when a 16 year old armed with a knife had attacked a householder and resident in Photaram district of Ratchaburi in central Thailand. 

 

The teen needed money to pay off gambling debts. 

 

The person behind the betting operation is being prosecuted. 

 

He warned parents that they could face 30,000 baht fines and three months jail if it was proven that they knowingly allowed their children to gamble.  

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Unfortunately gambling is condoned in the culture here and throughout Asia. Just look at the lottery and how many play it as well as the old women playing Hi-Lo.

[Gandtee]

Another useless utterance. Most parents are not aware of what their children are doing on the internet. They are too busy themselves searching for the lucky, sponsored by the Government, lottery numbers.????

[RafPinto]

And parents should tell them:

<deleted> off. Come back when there is no more corruption at the police.

[richard_smith237]

1 minute ago, RafPinto said:

And parents should tell them:

<deleted> off. Come back when there is no more corruption at the police.

A lot of the issues in Thailand come from sh!tty irresponsible parenting (actually, a lot of the issues everywhere). 

 

Thus: the Police asking parents to step up is not a bad thing, although the hypocrisy is right up there. 

 

 

Gambling laws in Thailand are just ridiculous anyway - Authorities can’t stop gambling, its a human trait. Just legalise it and tax it, make it safer - Remove the reverse psychology that attracts of lot of people (i.e. tell people they can’t do something and they want to do it).

[ikke1959]

The RTP always has one word ready... " jail." ...I think they like jail everybody in THailand. .There are other solutions too, but they never heard of it and besides with the corruption in this organisation it is easier  to threaten with jail, because it will be easier to collect money 

[edwinchester]

1 hour ago, RafPinto said:

And parents should tell them:

<deleted> off. Come back when there is no more corruption at the police.

Spot on, one of the illegal small gambling dens near our village is run by a policemans wife.

[richard_smith237]

I have never seen a group of people gamble so well as Thai Policemen....    

 

I have witnessed on numerous occasions the lengths they go to in setting up rooms, hotel suites and hold mass parties.

 

Gambling is so endemic in this country, just let it happen. There really is no point in banning something which people are going to do anyway. 

 

IF the government were really mature they’d offer education on the risks of gambling to all and free advise assistance to those who need it. They’d clamp down on loan sharks and regulate gambling. 

 

As far as the ‘cards gambling’ goes - thats more of a social activity than anything else - but there is something wrong with society when friends do not mind taking 100’s of thousands of baht off other ‘so called’ friends. 

 

From the ground up there needs to be advice and a better moral education not just the juvenile faux outrage and ‘bringing the reputation of Thailand into disrepute’ news we read of on a daily basis.... 

 

 

[RichardColeman]

Waiting for them to ban kids games of snakes and ladders and such as its a game of chance and can lead to heavy gambling and borrowing money from sharks !

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The Royal Thai Police have warned parents and guardians that they could face prosecution and even jail themselves if they allow their children to gamble.

Unless of course if the gambling venue is police-owned. 

[metisdead]

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[ThailandRyan]

29 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Waiting for them to ban kids games of snakes and ladders and such as its a game of chance and can lead to heavy gambling and borrowing money from sharks !

Just noticed yesterday at the newly renovate Union Mall here in Bangkok they have installed the arcade games where you use the crane to grab and win a toy.  I know they outlawed them awhile back as it being a game of chance and therefore gambling.  Wonder if I let my GF's daughter play it we would be arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and allowing her to gamble.......

[DrJack54]

May as well package it up with under age drinking. 

Just hit the parents up for both.

Ridiculous. 

 

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The Royal Thai Police have warned parents and guardians that they could face prosecution and even jail themselves if they allow their children to gamble.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone 

[Peterphuket]

It sounds better when they say the same when they like to ride a motorbike.

But then it is very quiet.

[BORRISGOODENUF]

Very good. About bloody time!

[mikebell]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

The Royal Thai Police have warned parents and guardians that they could face prosecution and even jail themselves if they allow their children to

ride motor bikes under age with no crash helmets whilst owning a free range dog to play among the traffic.