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Tourist faces jail after sitting on coral - says he thought it was just rocks


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2 minutes ago, hotchilli said:
5 hours ago, webfact said:

In theory offenders can be jailed for up to ten years and/or fined a million baht.

You get less for killing people...

What a weird country?

But in practice, which is what counts, no one has ever been jailed or fined B1m for that charge.   Not such a "weird country".

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43 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Except if you are a fishing company...then you can drag your nets and anchor through the reef or use poison or explosions to catch the fish..... or speed boat driver full of tourists, throwing trash into the sea, oh, or oil companies having oil spills, or hotels pumping sewerage and grey water into the sea... That's all ok.   But don't pick up a sea slug or accidently sit on a lump of coral....that's obviously much worse for the reef and marine wildlife. 

 

let the crude oil flow

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4 minutes ago, hotchilli said:
30 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

But in practice, which is what counts, no one has ever been jailed or fined B1m for that charge.   Not such a "weird country".

So the law means nothing?

No.  The quoted penalties are the maximum, not the mandatory punishments, that's why reports use the phrases  "up to..." or "could be...".

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Wondering how TAT is turning this into yet another tourism spinner generation trillions of extra Baht, filling tens of thousands of empty hotels and restaurants.

I fear that Thailand is a loose cannon and will suffer dear consequences due to all those idiots at the helm - quite right so! A failed state .....

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7 hours ago, webfact said:

The environment minister Varawut Silpa-archa has frequently got involved to throw the book at people damaging his country's natural resources, reports ASEAN NOW. 

This Minister should be more proactive in stopping all the Toxic waste dumping and Fly tipping, which ultimately leads to Toxic smoke fires

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8 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Bureaucracy gone mad .........!!!!

Right, corals are bleaching and dying off on a scale never seen before, by the way, it takes forever for them to grow back IF they grow back at all, but it’s bureaucracy gone mad when they punish someone for sitting on one!

 

Get a grip on reality! 

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