Picture: Siam Rath

 

Siam Rath reported that rumors that Thailand's poster boy cop Lt-Gen Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn was in town led to a whole load of lottery sellers selling tickets at rip-off prices shutting up shop.

 

Ten vendors at a downtown market had closed after the rumors circulated. They had been selling tickets well above the 80 baht face value. 

 

Trat's biggest seller said they were not daring to sell tickets for 95 baht. 

 

One seller said that Surachate had been busting a Ponzi scheme in Surat Thani, so he couldn't have been in Trat.

 

The police themselves confirmed that the Lt-Gen had not been in town. Only a group of police training school teachers from Region 2 had visited.

 

They would have been told if he'd been visiting. 

 

ASEAN NOW notes that the ability for Big Joke to be in two places at once - like particles in quantum physics - is yet to be confirmed as one of his many talents.

 

Though he is known to be able to make lightning visits to bust crime at the drop of a policeman's hat....

 

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I have seen the price advertised as Baht 110 where I live in a Bangkok suburb

Fake news. We all know that our leader made that his top priority when he took office eight years ago and the price was fixed. ????

10 hours ago, webfact said:

They would have been told if he'd been visiting

Always good to give the "bad guys" a heads up. 

10 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Fake news. We all know that our leader made that his top priority when he took office eight years ago and the price was fixed. ????

Fixed is the appropriate term.