Water guns confiscated as Thai police prevent Songkran splashing at Khao San Road

[blackshadow]

1 hour ago, Thechook said:

Are buckets allowed

only if they have water inside!!!!

[daveAustin]

Pathetic. Oh, Thailand, how low are you gonna go? Just cancel it already and lock everyone away or move on. KSR aside, Thais are the main culprits; it’s their festival after all. 

[sammieuk1]

 The soggy police have sniffed out a money making op I suspect ????

[BritManToo]

3 hours ago, Thujone said:

"What did he say?"

"I think he said welcome to Thailand."

Nah, he was saying 'I bet you can't knock my hat off with that water pistol'.

[davemos]

Was there an incident involving water cannon at democracy monument ? It was reported in another forum ? 

[herfiehandbag]

4 hours ago, shackleton said:

There is always next year when the Corivirus  virus is ended or most of the population have been vaccinated 

People can carry on the Songkran tradition of water spraying 

The nature of the beast ( an authoritarian police state) means that once a level of control has been imposed by the goons from central casting in ludicrous big hats and fierce scowls it will not be relaxed.

 

At least we have been spared the foul depravity of the "spaghetti strap tops" which so agitated the dinosaurs in previous years...

[herfiehandbag]

All this for water pistol fights!

 

Do they have any idea just how silly they are making themselves look?

[sambum]

What a farce - checking for guns and masks! What are the expecting "Gunfight at the OK  Corral"? 

 

Meantime, "out on the range", I believe road fatalities are higher than ever!

 

Priorities,eh?

 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

This followed scenes on Wednesday when foreign and Thai tourists engaged in water fights contrary to regulations.

After the event yet again.... 

let people have their fun then comes the fake crackdown.

[vandeventer]

I got to show these pictures to friends back home or they will never believe me

[Millcx]

You really do have to laugh … 555555555

[ikke1959]

Do that include the watercanons of yesterday too that the RTP used at the Democracy Monument?? How do you think the world will think about it?? Watercanons in use because the use of waterguns....???

[Led Lolly Yellow Lolly]

Water gun fight at Chana Songkhram police station tonight.

[TheScience]

7 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

The law is the law. Asian Now netizens complain when RTP don't do their job and then complain when they do. 

I believe that's much of the problem... it's not *the law*. Rather, some vague articles were cited none of which I absolutely guarantee mandate two year sentences for water play.

 

Articles hardly seem like typical codified criminal code although I admit to knowing nothing about it. Seems a reference to a larger document perhaps even the last / newest / latest constitution.

 

Personally, I'm very anti water guns, idiocracy. Really detest this juvenilsm but you need proper laws and penalties and not just threats.

[wwest5829]

Sad to see. Sadder still, my mind reflecting on this Thai social control attempt while in China they are locking down the while city of Shanghai.

[Pib]

Can Thai police be hired to provide security and order at kids birthday parties?   You know prevent cruel games like pin the tail on the donkey....and of course if it's a pool party prevent peeing in the pool. 

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[2 is 1]

 

Im here come to arrest me!

[spidermike007]

The RTP. Always keeping Thailand safe. We all know how dangerous water can be. Ranks right up there with drinking beer and wine at a restaurant or bar, and riding your motorcycle without a mask, when it comes to the transmission of the zombie virus. What would we do without these brilliant and selfless men? 

[kennw]

20 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

The law is the law. Asian Now netizens complain when RTP don't do their job and then complain when they do. 

If they, the police, had been there day one to enforce the law this whole issue would not have blown up, proactive rather than reactive. But TIT.

[OneMoreFarang]

Just round them all up and put them for two weeks in quarantine.

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

Phra Nakhon district official Wasan Bunmeunwai went to the tourist street with Chana Songkram station policemen as both ends of the street were tightly monitored.

On Thursday.. but where were they Wednesday?

Blind eye again.

[mania]

When I first moved to Thailand in 2010 I was like Freedom!!!

 

 

Then the Junta coup & we left a few years later in 2017

Now I have to admit since we moved away from Thailand I once again know what true freedom is & am happy to have it.

[jacko45k]

19 hours ago, blackshadow said:

only if they have water inside!!!!

Empty them quick over a policeman. 

[brianthainess]

45 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Empty them quick over a policeman. 

Good memories from by-gone years, one cop had his face dabbed all-over with powder, he lent over a drum of water to wash it off, my misses came up behind him and pushed his face into the water. ????  our village used to have Songkran a week or so after as most worked in resorts, started around 5pm road closed off, went on till the wee hours, water trucks spraying the whole crowd, music blasting out everybody dancing and happy, that was before 2014, that happiness has sadly never returned to the people.

[brianthainess]

The RTP and there checkpoints have NEVER worked to stop the carnage and it just gets worse every year, yet they continue to use them, repeating the same mistake year after year, instead of actually patrolling the roads. Insanity !

[actonion]

22 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

The law is the law. Asian Now netizens complain when RTP don't do their job and then complain when they do. 

what law was broken?

 

[Misterwhisper]

Was that part of the "Amazing Songkran 2022 Celebration" events touted by TAT?

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

29 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

The RTP and there checkpoints have NEVER worked to stop the carnage and it just gets worse every year, yet they continue to use them, repeating the same mistake year after year, instead of actually patrolling the roads. Insanity !

 

Police stations are not provided with enough budget and/or vehicles by the government to patrol the roads effectively.

[RafPinto]

20 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Nah, he was saying 'I bet you can't knock my hat off with that water pistol'.

All at least Colonels.
How many of them are in this country?

[NoshowJones]

23 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

We all know "Thai Law" is what ever a man with a badge says it is.

 

 

Or a stupid rank for a police officer, ie Lt/Col, Maj/Gen etc, or whatever he paid for.