foreign tourist causing a public nuisance after drinking for two straight days

[khunpa]

An American shouting… who would have thought?

[Andrew65]

4 hours ago, ArtVandelay said:

I watched a foreigner roaring drunk staggering down a road near Khao San in the middle of the day a couple years ago.   So naturally, he wanders into the same restaurant I'm sitting in demanding a hamburger from the waitress.   Rather than refuse service, she quietly but firmly explains how he has to pay up front because he's drunk.   Now he's offended.  A loud argument ensues, he finally agrees to pay, sits down, scarfs his food when it comes and gently walks away a different man.  

 

He must have been hangry.   Bad combo alcohol and empty stomach apparently.

Some men are always like that when they drink, some even before they become visibly drunk. Probably part of why many women don't like their men drinking.

"Instant a-hole - just add alcohol"

[shackleton]

When he sobers up  will no doubt  be embarrassed by his antiques 

Won't be showing his face around town to much 

Probably wear a face mask ???? 

[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A car nearby was damaged as well and after an extended period of time and with the assistance of crowd control tools as seen in the photo above the man was finally caught and arrested by about a dozen police officers.

One officer and a taser is all it needs.

[IamNoone88]

2 hours ago, khunjeff said:

The "amok catcher" that they're using has a long tradition in Southeast Asia - you can see them in some museums in Malaysia, and to the right in this old engraving from the Dutch East Indies. 

Thus in the modern English language "they ran amok" meaning running in a wild or frenzied state. From the Bahasa word, first recorded by Captain Cook in 1770.

[cracker1]

I was surprised to read that the Thai Police mobilised more than 12 men to arrest this man. I would have thought a couple of them with a taser would have done the job and left the others to rest back at base.

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, jack71 said:

another low class american on the loose. 

and you don't get any low classes from other countries?

[khunpa]

Will never understand men who become crazy like this when they drink.

 

Alcohol makes me extremely loving, kind and generous, which is why I very seldom go out drinking.
 

I simply can’t afford it and the bar-girls just love me too much when I am drunk ????

 

Also my arm hurts the day after from ringing the bell

and throwing ping pong balls around.

 

 

[NoshowJones]

55 minutes ago, khunpa said:

An American shouting… who would have thought?

So it is only Americans who shout? I have met and know quite a few Americans both here and in America and never known any who was problematic.

Maybe it's you own attitude you should look at.

[NoshowJones]

47 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

One officer and a taser is all it needs.

Why would be need a taser at all just to take care of one drunk?

[Burma Bill]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

was finally caught and arrested by about a dozen police officers.

With pitchforks??? Surely one police officer with a Taser would have been sufficient!!

 

[richard_smith237]

17 hours ago, bob smith said:

nice to see those quality tourists trickling in ????

... my first thought was to question if you, bob smith, are an American... ???? 

[Liverpool Lou]

16 hours ago, In the jungle said:

So why is the policeman pointing at someone who is not the suspect?

Perhaps he's directing his officers.

[Liverpool Lou]

15 hours ago, Dcheech said:

What a great photo op! The Thai police with all their farang catcher gear on hand, how lucky is that. Meanwhile the local drunk in the neighborhood next to my condo gets to run amuck every  month with no police in sight.  

"...the local drunk in the neighborhood next to my condo gets to run amuck every  month with no police in sight". 

Maybe someone should call them, then.

[jack71]

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

So it is only Americans who shout? I have met and know quite a few Americans both here and in America and never known any who was problematic.

Maybe it's you own attitude you should look at.

Dont cry on your pillow tonight. 

 

thanks to god Im not american. What a broken messed up country. 

[Mickmouse1]

15 hours ago, Dcheech said:

What a great photo op! The Thai police with all their farang catcher gear on hand, how lucky is that. Meanwhile the local drunk in the neighborhood next to my condo gets to run amuck every  month with no police in sight.  

BECAUSE  " IT IS RESERVED FOR THAI ONLY "  but Brits & Yanks always trying to compete 55

[NoshowJones]

2 minutes ago, jack71 said:

Dont cry on your pillow tonight. 

 

thanks to god Im not american. What a broken messed up country. 

I am referring to individual people here, the way the world is today, are there many countries that are not mixed up?

Look at the UK, there are thousands of people especially older ones who are not going to be able to heat their homes this winter mainly because of the greedy capitalist power companies.

[NancyL]

54 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

With pitchforks??? Surely one police officer with a Taser would have been sufficient!!

 

I doubt that those who are making fun of the Thai police and their people-control rods have ever seen them in use, nor have they ever seen a taser used on someone, except in the movies/TV shows.  I've had the experience of assisting as a translator, from a safe distance, as several TRP officers, calm and collect out-of-control foreigners with mental health problems, often exacerbated by alcohol and drugs.  These people usually respond well to being helped by calm professionals, rather than law-enforcement personnel who seem bent on harming them.

 

Thai police are so much kinder and more gentle than American police would ever be.  A taser would only enrage someone more and could miss or even be turned against law enforcement.  The police don't come into direct, crushing body-contact with the person they're detaining with the control hoops/hooks, so little chance of a George Floyd situation.  Much more opportunity to "talk down" a situation, even if the soothing voice is in Thai.  Sometimes better if an older white woman is talking to them (that would be me).

 

Frankly, the orderlies at the local government mental hospital can be rougher than the RTP, but they have the option of injecting tranquilizers, which the police don't.  The police have to rely on time-tested methods of calming someone out-of-control, like the hoops and hooks pictured several times in this thread and a take-charge attitude with calming voices like you'd use with a child throwing a tantrum or a charging water buffalo.   Thais are good at this.

 

[ddotmark]

15 hours ago, nightfox said:

How embarrassing and pathetic is this photo of 8 Thai cops trying to subdue 1 drunk moran using what looks like recycled pool cleaning equipment. No wonder cops here are a laughing stock with pictures like these. 

The American way of apprehending this guy would have involved 8 cops emptying their revolvers…reloading and emptying them again…then claiming they feared for their lives. 
 

As an American…I prefer the Thai Police manner of handling simple disturbances. 

[Thingamabob]

Pathetic behaviour. Can't hold his drink, and creates another nail in the coffin of of the reputation of westerners in Thailand. I, and those around me, were hard drinkers when younger but I don't remember any of us ever becoming rat-arsed and incapable, even after partying for days on end. Can't laugh at the RTP's caution in this case. They were dealing with a moronic  alien and had no idea what he might do next.

[off road pat]

8 hours ago, malibukid said:

got very sick on Whisky as a kid.  first and last time.  glad i did.

Hm,...I was a bar tender/waiter in the biggest discotheque in my town when I was young,...with all the bad examples I had there,...I never drank in my life, but tasted almost everything, just to know.

[robertson468]

17 hours ago, Lucky Bones said:

Can't hold his drink.

I don't think being able to hold his drink is the problem.  He needs medical treatment urgently as it sounds like he is very much the alcoholic,

[Guderian]

With the strength of the USD, you'd think he'd at least have been drinking Jack!

[sambum]

21 hours ago, In the jungle said:

So why is the policeman pointing at someone who is not the suspect?

 

I thought Thais had the pointing game nailed.  Mr Plod is really letting the side down.

"You stay there!"

[Black Angus]

I would have thought that the 7 2" Thai cop on the right could have done it in 5 seconds. Game over.

[Lemsta69]

7 hours ago, IamNoone88 said:

Thus in the modern English language "they ran amok" meaning running in a wild or frenzied state. From the Bahasa word, first recorded by Captain Cook in 1770.

you know that "bahasa" simply means language, right?

[NeoDinosaw]

22 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

I dindu nuffin!

was the American talking like an Eastender from London ?

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[In the jungle]

11 hours ago, shackleton said:

When he sobers up  will no doubt  be embarrassed by his antiques 

Won't be showing his face around town to much 

Probably wear a face mask ???? 

His antiques are not the best.  No Michelangelo, no Ming vase.

[freedomnow]

Dog catcher gear.

 

Woof woof !