By Goong Nang(GN)

 

Chonburi – An intoxicated man allegedly burnt down his own house this week in Chonburi and in the process also destroyed his neighbors home, with whom he had reportedly been having a public feud for some time. The suspect has denied the allegations and claims the entire incident was an accident and has counter-alleged that his neighbors assaulted him following the fire.

 

Firefighters were notified of the fire in the early morning of Monday, (October 11th) at a community in Baan Maklua in the Ang Sila sub-district

 

First response teams arrived at the scene to find two houses that were heavily ablaze. It took more than an hour to control the fire. Both homes were reduced to near rubble due to the fire.

 

The village headwoman Mrs. Tippawan Chaimee, 56, told The Pattaya News team, “The suspect, Mr. Supat Chansri, is a known drug user and is always under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/10/14/intoxicated-man-allegedly-sets-fire-to-his-own-home-destroys-neighbors-house-in-chonburi/

 

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"He has made numerous past threats about burning down the village and threatened neighbors many times while intoxicated and high on drugs. We have previously reported this to law enforcement, but no action was taken as Supat had only made what police thought were idle threats while drunk. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case today.”

 

No action taken?  They couldn't at least talk to the man, check him out, give him a warning?

Not a bright spark at all is he.

police here have little interest in law enforcement unless profitable.

too busy shaking down businesses and motorists.

 

our neighbourhood (far away up the hill from us) unrestrained pit bull mauls someone in the road every month.police called. nothing changes. suspected mafia connection. one legal case in process.

has generated millions of baht in hospital bills…….member of local chamber of commerce perhaps.

 

drunken home fires from fallen cigarettes must be extremely common everywhere though.

39 minutes ago, webfact said:

has counter-alleged that his neighbors assaulted him following the fire.

I bet he did after he burned his home to the ground!

Do nothing and nothing changes... then it leads to this.

Should have treated him or relocated him before it got to this.

5 hours ago, bbko said:

"He has made numerous past threats about burning down the village and threatened neighbors many times while intoxicated and high on drugs. We have previously reported this to law enforcement, but no action was taken as Supat had only made what police thought were idle threats while drunk. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case today.”

 

No action taken?  They couldn't at least talk to the man, check him out, give him a warning?

Never gunna happen here the BIB are not fond of work here, not long back a random drunk broke into the village heads house about 3am where I live, they called the police and were told the guy has done nothing wrong and they cannot do anything. 

 

I could mention many other incidents and just the general view from the locals themselves is that the police are useless here and will only appear when they have something to gain.