Tourists ignore Songkran water-fight ban on Bangkok’s Khaosan Road

[Mr Meeseeks]

12 hours ago, Mrfox said:

It is the tourist responsibility to know the local customs and laws (you don't have to be lawyer) in the country you're visiting. For example, weed is legal in some states and Canada,try crossing into Malaysia and Indonesia with it,they hang you. 

The local customs are water fights on Songkran, indeed that is why many of them come at this specific time of year. 

 

I doubt tourists are concerned with warnings about water fights, and the 'laws' are applied arbitrarily under emergency decrees and other authoritarian junta-inspired nonsense designed to be vague and keep the population compliant. If you think backpackers travelling around the region on a gap year care to keep advised of this nonsense you are sadly mistaken.

 

These idiotic, arbitrary laws and the dinosaurs in charge have managed to completely destroy the Thai tourism economy in a matter of two years.

 

How many lives have been ruined, how many suicides, how many mental illnesses and how many families and businesses destroyed? Let's start asking the real pertinent questions.

 

FYI Thailand has the death penalty for drug smuggling also, so is no different than Malaysia or Indo in that regard, other than appointing a convicted heroin smuggler to a deputy ministerial post in the government, even against their own laws, but then again he was a Thai gangster and alleged murderer with connections, not a nasty backpacking foreigner.

[shocky2012]

14 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

No, this one was specifically designed for you. ???? 

Ok ???? 

[paulikens]

good on em

[metisdead]

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[Neeranam]

3 hours ago, Pouatchee said:

On March 20th #Neeranam said 'Actually I work as a translator, I am Thai. '

 

Dude, you are a liar posting here under false pretense. Your opinion is biased and your posts are misleading.

Disagree with me if you want but don't call me a liar. Nothing you quoted is a lie. ????

[sambum]

On 4/15/2022 at 9:49 AM, Whale said:

I don't regret my past one iota but I definitely know where you are coming from. I started voicing my disillusionment a couple of years ago for the first time. It's getting insane on many levels.

"It's getting insane on many levels"

Very true!

[Pouatchee]

5 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Disagree with me if you want but don't call me a liar. Nothing you quoted is a lie

You, contrary to what you say, are not Thai. Ergo, the lie.

[Neeranam]

8 hours ago, Pouatchee said:

You, contrary to what you say, are not Thai. Ergo, the lie.

What are you on? I'm Thai. 

[Meat Pie 47]

36 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

What are you on? I'm Thai. 

I guess you have Thai citicen ship but you are not born Thai

[Neeranam]

16 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

I guess you have Thai citicen ship but you are not born Thai

Not sure your point. 

 

My sister was born in Glasgow but got Australian citizenship 20 years ago. Is she Australian? 

[Neeranam]

1 hour ago, Pouatchee said:

The more you try to defend your Thainess the more you show you are not. You are just a bleeding heart looking for a place to vent your frustrations. The I got here in 93 bit ... gives you away. 

 

Back on topic... The Thais are more than happy that falang join in because it then gives them a scapegoat for the water splashing,

I've no idea why you've got a chip on your shoulder. Anyone with an ounce of integrity would have apologized for being wrong, but you have another attack. Thank Buddha I won't see any more of your posts. ????

Edited April 17, 2022 by Neeranam

[Liverpool Lou]

On 4/14/2022 at 11:05 AM, StayinThailand2much said:

Yeah, punish the foreign tourists but not the locals, that will work!

Where was it reported that only foreigners would be punished?

[Liverpool Lou]

On 4/14/2022 at 11:19 AM, mancub said:

Do you seriously believe that tourists are aware of all the rules/regulations that are changed on a daily basis ?

The Songkran/Covid regulations have been clearly stated in the English-language press and they do not "change on a daily basis".

[Liverpool Lou]

On 4/14/2022 at 11:19 AM, mancub said:

Why openly sell water guns then?

Because water guns are not prohibited.

[mancub]

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The Songkran/Covid regulations have been clearly stated in the English-language press and they do not "change on a daily basis".

Of course. ALL tourists are English speaking. avid press readers and advertised. organised events are never cancelled at short-notice either.

4 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Because water guns are not prohibited.

But subject to confiscation, however. and their use prohibited in certain venues. 

[Liverpool Lou]

1 minute ago, mancub said:

12 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The Songkran/Covid regulations have been clearly stated in the English-language press and they do not "change on a daily basis".

Of course. ALL tourists are English speaking. avid press readers and advertised. organised events are never cancelled at short-notice either.

11 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Because water guns are not prohibited.

But subject to confiscation

Given that there is next to no water fighting anywhere in Thailand at the moment except at a couple of places that were toId to stop, I doubt that any tourist is not aware of the ban, regardless of their language.   Which officially organised Songkran water fight events were cancelled at short notice?

 

Water guns are not subject to confiscation unless they're being used for illegal water fights, perhaps.

[mancub]

7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Given that there is next to no water fighting anywhere in Thailand at the moment except at a couple of places that were toId to stop, I doubt that any tourist is not aware of the ban, regardless of their language.   Which officially organised Songkran water fight events were cancelled at short notice?

 

Water guns are not subject to confiscation unless they're being used for illegal water fights, perhaps.

"At the moment" being after the event , therefore irrelevant.

 

[Liverpool Lou]

14 minutes ago, mancub said:

30 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Given that there is next to no water fighting anywhere in Thailand at the moment except at a couple of places that were toId to stop, I doubt that any tourist is not aware of the ban, regardless of their language.   Which officially organised Songkran water fight events were cancelled at short notice?

 

Water guns are not subject to confiscation unless they're being used for illegal water fights, perhaps.

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"At the moment" being after the event , therefore irrelevant.

Just as your previous post was.

 

There are places in Thailand that, in normal circumstances, celebrate Songkran a week or so after the official dates.   So much for your "after the event, therefore irrelevant" comment.

[mancub]

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Just as your previous post was.

 

There are places in Thailand that, in normal circumstances, celebrate Songkran a week or so after the official dates.   So much for your "after the event, therefore irrelevant" comment.

Highly pertinent, given that the title of this thread concerns tourists in the Khao San Road.