212 revelers arrested at Saraburi pub - drugs found all over the floor, 140 test positive, eight with Covid

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Picture: Daily News

 

The chief of police in Saraburi province Pol Maj-Gen Chayanon Mesati ordered the Nong Khae police and local officials to raid a pub breaking Covid-19 rules after complaints of loud noise and drug taking.

 

Daily News didn't name the pub but said that it was on Suwannasorn Road in Nong Khae district of the central Thai province and was busted back in January.

 

212 revelers were dancing to music or singing in four karaoke rooms out back.

 

As soon as police arrived large numbers of packets of drugs and phials of liquid were jettisoned on the floor.

 

59 people had taken ketamine and 81 were high on amphetamines (either Ya Ba or Ice) after urine tests came back with a telltale purple color.

 

Eight tested positive for Covid-19 - six women and two men.

 

Local district chief and Covid leader Sarawuth Suwannajutha ordered everyone split up and compulsorily quarantined for 14 days.

 

Sources said that well known model Paphawee Chaimongkhol, 24, - also known as Oi Roi Juup - had been paid 25,000 baht to attend the party.

 

There was a charge of 200 baht a head to attend. 

 

Three people were found in possession of Class 2 drug ketamine. Everyone was charged with breaking Covid-19 regulations. 

 

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[steven100]

oh dear !   and look at all those young one's .....   ????

[tonray]

Ahh...the folly of youth

[Bluespunk]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sources said that well known model Paphawee Chaimongkhol, 24, - also known as Oi Roi Juup - had been paid 25,000 baht to attend the party.

Was she arrested?

[Pravda]

14 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Was she arrested?

 

She's not a model. She makes porn. I know I'm a big fan

 

 

[cyril sneer]

looks fun, good on them

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, tonray said:

Ahh...the folly of youth

While I don't condone everything thata Prayuts doing, and I'd normally cut a small party some slack... this was stupidity in the extreme.

And what's with the immense drug taking, is this the new fashion?

[Bluespunk]

36 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

While I don't condone everything thata Prayuts doing, and I'd normally cut a small party some slack... this was stupidity in the extreme.

And what's with the immense drug taking, is this the new fashion?

It's a fashion but not new...

[ThailandRyan]

What were they reveling?  or was it just a get together of a few friends which turned into a party.  Wonder if Paphawee was tested for drugs and Covid or well or because she is a model she was let go.

[richard_smith237]

In a close proximity party, only 8 people tested positive for Covid-19...

 

Is anyone elses take away from this story that ketamine and amphetamines should be investigated as a Covid protection measure !!!! ???? !!!!! 

[mancub]

That`s another 8 that wouldn`t otherwise have made it into the daily totals.

[billd766]

9 hours ago, steven100 said:

oh dear !   and look at all those young one's .....   ????

 

[Elkski]

I have to say i never attended a drug party like this.  But I have read many of these drugs opens the sexual mind.   Drugs all over the floor, wonder how many condoms were found in purses and pockets. Was that a published invitation to this party?  Just think how many hidden parties there are.  

Kuddos for locking them all up for 14 days.  Hope it was all without exception. No matter if they had connections or money. 

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

or was it just a get together of a few friends which turned into a party

I think it was an organised event

 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

There was a charge of 200 baht a head to attend. 

 

[richard_smith237]

10 minutes ago, Elkski said:

I have to say i never attended a drug party like this.  But I have read many of these drugs opens the sexual mind.   Drugs all over the floor, wonder how many condoms were found in purses and pockets. Was that a published invitation to this party?  Just think how many hidden parties there are.  

Kuddos for locking them all up for 14 days.  Hope it was all without exception. No matter if they had connections or money. 

If you’ve ever had dinner with friends, drank wine... You were at a ‘drug party’.

If you’ve very smoked a cigarette at a party... you were at a ‘drug party’.

If you’ve ever been to a bar or club and had beers, or put a bottle on the table... you were at a ‘drug party’.

 

The only difference is your understanding of what drugs are, the governments understanding of what drugs are and control of said drugs and what society deems acceptable which is primarily based on media sources. 

 

I never have, but in many countries it's very common for people take methamphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA) recreationally at the weekend and go to work on a Monday morning.

 

 

This may perhaps be a controversial opinion for many more puritanical and rigid of mind, but the only issue with drugs such as this is the lack of education which surrounds them and the risks of consuming something which has been pushed into the underworld due to criminalisation. 

 

Government and society still has a lot to learn about recreational drugs - the puritanical approach clearly doesn’t work, it just gives a few boring nerds a chance to throw critique while forgetting 60 years ago our folks were probably high on LSD and doped up... 

 

 

 

 

[mikosan]

58 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

If you’ve ever had dinner with friends, drank wine... You were at a ‘drug party’.

If you’ve very smoked a cigarette at a party... you were at a ‘drug party’.

If you’ve ever been to a bar or club and had beers, or put a bottle on the table... you were at a ‘drug party’.

 

The only difference is your understanding of what drugs are, the governments understanding of what drugs are and control of said drugs and what society deems acceptable which is primarily based on media sources. 

 

I never have, but in many countries it's very common for people take methamphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA) recreationally at the weekend and go to work on a Monday morning.

 

 

This may perhaps be a controversial opinion for many more puritanical and rigid of mind, but the only issue with drugs such as this is the lack of education which surrounds them and the risks of consuming something which has been pushed into the underworld due to criminalisation. 

 

Government and society still has a lot to learn about recreational drugs - the puritanical approach clearly doesn’t work, it just gives a few boring nerds a chance to throw critique while forgetting 60 years ago our folks were probably high on LSD and doped up... 

 

 

 

 

I concur, absolutely.

[Mayhem11]

Not our parents, us.

[steven100]

10 hours ago, Elkski said:

I have to say i never attended a drug party like this.  But I have read many of these drugs opens the sexual mind.   Drugs all over the floor, wonder how many condoms were found in purses and pockets. Was that a published invitation to this party?  Just think how many hidden parties there are.  

Kuddos for locking them all up for 14 days.  Hope it was all without exception. No matter if they had connections or money. 

how can i get involved   ....  

[steven100]

9 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

If you’ve ever had dinner with friends, drank wine... You were at a ‘drug party’.

If you’ve very smoked a cigarette at a party... you were at a ‘drug party’.

If you’ve ever been to a bar or club and had beers, or put a bottle on the table... you were at a ‘drug party’

what nonsense .....    drugs are a NO NO to most level headed folks,    having a beer or wine over dinner with friends is not a drug party.  ridiculous comment.  

[KhaoYai]

10 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

This may perhaps be a controversial opinion for many more puritanical and rigid of mind, but the only issue with drugs such as this is the lack of education which surrounds them and the risks of consuming something which has been pushed into the underworld due to criminalisation. 

An oft used argument and to a point, I'd agree with you.  Alcohol for example is a drug but most wouldn't consider it so.  In the UK it provides our A&E departments with most of the Friday & Saturday customers - an A&E doctor's words noy my wild guess.  It can harm the user's health and causes harm to others in many ways - fighting, agressive behaviour, drunk driving etc.

 

However, coming from a world where both drugs and alcohol were rampant when I was younger and having friends and relatives who've died from both substances - if you are trying to equate alcohol with crack cocaine or heroin then you are very wrong.  If you've ever seen a 16 year old girl prostituting herself for a £10 rock of crack or the hideous wreck of human on their way out through heroin, you could not possibly put alcohol and cigarettes in the same bracket.

 

That said, I did say I agree to a point and that is in relation to lower strength drugs such as cannabis.  I find it strange that in most countries you can drink yourself stupid, become aggressive, want to fight the world etc. etc but its illegal to smoke a joint.  I've never heard of anyone becoming aggressive on cannabis.  The alcohol industry are probably the biggest lobbyists whenever changes to the cannabis laws are under consideration.

 

Yes, they are all drugs but they are nowhere near all being on the same level.

[Tich]

Wow 212, that's a lot of pickups to get them to the police station.

[sammieuk1]

I know lets round them up and pack them into a police station that's going to teach us a lesson ????

[wprime]

14 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

In a close proximity party, only 8 people tested positive for Covid-19...

 

Is anyone elses take away from this story that ketamine and amphetamines should be investigated as a Covid protection measure !!!! ???? !!!!! 

It takes time for people to turn a positive test. Those 8 people were probably infected before the party.

[richard_smith237]

3 hours ago, wprime said:

18 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

In a close proximity party, only 8 people tested positive for Covid-19...

 

Is anyone elses take away from this story that ketamine and amphetamines should be investigated as a Covid protection measure !!!! ???? !!!!! 

It takes time for people to turn a positive test. Those 8 people were probably infected before the party.

Yes... I was being facetious.....    and alluding to the irrational thought process of the puritanical ‘clamp down’ on fun with an ironic sense of... "Oh, this S#it could be good for us” what on earth do we do now ???.....

 

 

Answer from todays news: Clamp down on sex toys !!!