Just like the old days:

 

Yet the YouTuber wants to live where is was "accosted."

Makes sense to me.

Is the Lumpini area known for high drug use or sales?  

Man gets stopped by police who search him, find nothing and then say thank you and he's free to go.  Man says they were polite and professional and he has no issue with it.  Man says it has never happened before or since.  Man lives in the area.

Man posts video.  

Yawn.

10 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Man gets stopped by police who search him, find nothing and then say thank you and he's free to go.  Man says they were polite and professional and he has no issue with it.  Man says it has never happened before or since.  Man lives in the area.

Man posts video.  

Yawn.

There is a lot more history to this.  The Lumpini District Police have been noted over the years for stopping farangs in the area between Asok and Thong Lo for no apparent reason, conducting thorough searches, then shaking the target down for tea money should anything questionable be found, like a single viagra, even a condom.  

They used to concentrate on the Ekkamai bus station, picking older farangs as they exited the Pattaya bus, looking for Viagra or any of it's clones. This was not law enforcement..it was pure shakedown.  Several times, it hit the news and the national police chief would relocate a few Lumpini offenders and things would go quiet for a few years.

Like a bad rash, it looks like it has again arisen.

 

2 hours ago, dddave said:

The Lumpini District Police have been noted over the years for stopping farangs in the area between Asok and Thong Lo

 

 

You mean Thong Lo police district.  Lumphini District controls lower Sukhumvit, below Asok. I have never heard stories of them doing this. 

Lumpini is more likely to support such activities as it usually happens in lower sukhumvit in the first place. The border is basically the asoke intersection so in this case it is thonglor police as well. 

He behaves weird and newbie like while in a covid area and hangs around a lot to record stuff so not too surprised they checked him out. However, this actually seemed to be a genuine search at 4PM rather than the attempt to shake down some money at night as is historically known.

 

They simply might have thought he is high as he talks to himself in a camera in sun burning hours.

On 10/25/2021 at 10:22 AM, bbko said:

Is the Lumpini area known for high drug use or sales? 

Khlong Toei slum - hotspot of local drug sellers and buyers. 

2 minutes ago, CartagenaWarlock said:

Khlong Toei slum - hotspot of local drug sellers and buyers. 

With nigerian support from McDonalds 1 to McDonalds 2 on lower suk right.

3 hours ago, dddave said:

There is a lot more history to this.  The Lumpini District Police have been noted over the years for stopping farangs in the area between Asok and Thong Lo for no apparent reason, conducting thorough searches, then shaking the target down for tea money should anything questionable be found, like a single viagra, even a condom.  

They used to concentrate on the Ekkamai bus station, picking older farangs as they exited the Pattaya bus, looking for Viagra or any of it's clones. This was not law enforcement..it was pure shakedown.  Several times, it hit the news and the national police chief would relocate a few Lumpini offenders and things would go quiet for a few years.

Like a bad rash, it looks like it has again arisen.

 

Lumpini police in Thonglor police area?

"Call the Tourist Police and they can help you out" ????????????????????

On 10/25/2021 at 10:12 PM, HappyGoLuckyLife said:

Yet the YouTuber wants to live where is was "accosted."

Makes sense to me.

He wasn't "accosted", he was stopped, searched and allowed to go.

On 10/25/2021 at 10:22 PM, bbko said:

Is the Lumpini area known for high drug use or sales?  

He was stopped in the Thong Lo area, not the Lumphini police area as the OP claims.

23 hours ago, dddave said:

There is a lot more history to this.  The Lumpini District Police have been noted over the years for stopping farangs in the area between Asok and Thong Lo for no apparent reason, conducting thorough searches, then shaking the target down for tea money should anything questionable be found, like a single viagra, even a condom.  

They used to concentrate on the Ekkamai bus station, picking older farangs as they exited the Pattaya bus, looking for Viagra or any of it's clones. This was not law enforcement..it was pure shakedown.  Several times, it hit the news and the national police chief would relocate a few Lumpini offenders and things would go quiet for a few years.

Like a bad rash, it looks like it has again arisen.

 

Such nonsense.  It's the Thong Lo police who have that reputation, the same police area in which the person in the video was stopped.   Lumpini police area stops at Asok, anything past that, eastwards, is the Thong Lo police area.

23 hours ago, dddave said:

shaking the target down for tea money should anything questionable be found, like ... even a condom.  

Absolute nonsense.   Condoms are legal, obviously.

20 hours ago, CartagenaWarlock said:

Khlong Toei slum - hotspot of local drug sellers and buyers. 

He was not in Klong Toey, he was in Thong Lo.

On 10/26/2021 at 10:02 AM, josephbloggs said:

Man gets stopped by police who search him, find nothing and then say thank you and he's free to go.  Man says they were polite and professional and he has no issue with it.  Man says it has never happened before or since.  Man lives in the area.

Man posts video.  

Yawn.

Think he mixed up Lumpini for Thonglor

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On 10/27/2021 at 9:06 AM, Liverpool Lou said:

He wasn't "accosted", he was stopped, searched and allowed to go.

I was being sarcastic. I found the video a bit click baitish. I mean he's going to live in a place that supposedly shook him to the core... I had to eyeroll and click the next vid button.

On 10/26/2021 at 6:05 PM, Kinnock said:

"Call the Tourist Police and they can help you out" ????????????????????

Quite.

I wish those who try to make a living making poor videos about Thailand would actually learn something about their subject first.

 

Thong Lor is a road, the district is Wattana. A specific area in Wattana falls under the jurisdiction of the Thong Lor Police as does an area of Khlong Toei District (but NOT including the Wattana sub-district of Khlong Toei Neua [which is not in Khlong Toei district to complicate matters]), so called because their HQ is on the street Thong Lor.

 

Asok is also a street (not a district) that sits on the border between two sub-districts of Wattana.  

The place he was stopped  in is another seperate district called Khlong Toei, the border between Khlong Toei and Wattana is Sukhumvit Road itself. Thong Lor Police district covers this area as well.

On 10/26/2021 at 6:05 PM, Kinnock said:

"Call the Tourist Police and they can help you out" ????????????????????

The one near soi 13 where the freelancers hang out?

On 10/26/2021 at 8:27 PM, dddave said:

even a condom. 

Thats  why I  only carry  one and  wear it  all  day

Just now, Rampant Rabbit said:

Thats  why I  only carry  one and  wear it  all  day

Does it not slip off?

Just now, Will B Good said:

Does it not slip off?

Nah cuz  I also swallow  all the viagra  before  leaving the house,  cunning  eh, they wont catch me the barstewards

6 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Does it not slip off?

NO

2 minutes ago, RafPinto said:

NO

Where can I buy those?

2 minutes ago, RafPinto said:

NO

Don't tell that is a regular size and it is your hand is that massive?????

BS Aussie beat up for his followers! 

4 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Don't tell that is a regular size and it is your hand is that massive?????

Not my hand. It's my girlfriend's 555

 

I can sell you a few. They are getting too big for me.