Video: Young Thai men from rival colleges battle in street with swords - woman in shop in narrow escape

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Sanook Thai Caption: Street attack

 

Sanook reported with CCTV video evidence on fighting between men of different colleges in western Bangkok.

 

Footage showed the two sets of assailants both armed with swords.

 

Witnesses said that the trouble started when two young men on a motorcycle came across three others from another college on another bike.

 

It happened near the end of Ekkachai Soi 76.

 

Violence in the street spilled over into a shop where a woman narrowly missed being hit with the weapon. 

 

There were two people left injured, one was named as Phonkanok, 21. 

 

The Bang Khun Thian police are investigating.

 

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[2baht]

  On 1/10/2023 at 2:13 AM, webfact said:

men of different colleges

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These are not men! Their manhood is very questionable!

[aussienam]

Where I come from colleges and universities are where people go to become highly educated and increase in maturity, not to behave like Neanderthal thugs.  

[Shop mak]

A regular thing in bkk and other places too.

Lack of parenting.

Lack of proper education.

Too much violent soap tv nightly.

 

Lack of police to instantly arrest these "wannabe-men" and hand out proper severe time behind bars, or fines that really hurts 10k+

 

Pathetic.

[JoePai]

As long as they hurt nobody else then I approve, with luck most will kill each other so less in the gene pool

[HuskerDo2]

I wonder what they are majoring in.  Maybe Business. Business can be kind of cutthroat at times. I've never seen anyone show up to a business meeting with a sword in hand, but I've never done business in Thailand.

[IvorBiggun2]

  On 1/10/2023 at 2:33 AM, Shop mak said:

 

Lack of parenting.

Lack of proper education.

Too much violent soap tv nightly.

 

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Too much Yaba.  

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Anxiety, aggression and violence are all possibilities which is why crime often goes hand in hand with yaba abuse. 

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[Mr Meeseeks]

But, but, but... there's more student sword fighting in <insert name of Western country here> than in Thailand.

[Robin]

Ten years in prison for each one.  No excuses like becoming a monk for 3 months.  Easy enough to identify the culprits.

if it happen again, close down the 'colleges'

[klauskunkel]

My suggestion to the Media:

when covering stories like this replace the word "man" with "idiot", maybe this will help to reduce the amount of incidents like this... (At the very least it would make for a laugh at their expense)

[Bangkok Barry]

Been going on for decades. Just part of the culture the Thais are so proud of.

[Tarteso]

Take them back to the jungle.

[sammieuk1]

Looks like barking v mad dog colleges having a nutcase reunion ????

[Jackbenimble]

Thai boys are not usually like this, it happens for sure but it isn't "normal". Something has definately triggered it. Its actually scary how violent they can be when they're armed and in a gang. Long gone are the days when a fight was between 2 people using their fists.  The police might not even do anything even if they know who these kids are - which is actually part of the problem.

[hotchilli]

  On 1/10/2023 at 2:13 AM, webfact said:

Witnesses said that the trouble started when two young men on a motorcycle came across three others from another college on another bike.

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Bring in the principles of both colleges.. tell them if these incidents repeat their colleges will be closed.

[hotchilli]

  On 1/10/2023 at 2:19 AM, 2baht said:

These are not men! Their manhood is very questionable!

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And smaller than the norm

[2baht]

  On 1/10/2023 at 7:19 AM, hotchilli said:

Bring in the principles of both colleges.. tell them if these incidents repeat their colleges will be closed.

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I think it's a bit deeper than that, it's a cultural hatred that goes back generations!

[RichardColeman]

Said it before , say it again, find them , cancel their college/university and shove them in the army for 5 years - pretty sure that deterrent would out many off

[Aussieroaming]

Give them 2 years hard labour in a Burmese Work Camp so that they gain a better appreciation for the privileged life that they have. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Confuscious]

  On 1/10/2023 at 2:49 AM, HuskerDo2 said:

I wonder what they are majoring in.  Maybe Business. Business can be kind of cutthroat at times. I've never seen anyone show up to a business meeting with a sword in hand, but I've never done business in Thailand.

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They are majoring in "Bone breakers".
Once they finish school, they can start working as "convincing people to pay their debts".
 

[freedomnow]

Usually the technical colleges isn't it.

 

Don't take a sword to a gun fight boys....

[NE1]

So is the Pen still mightier than the Sword ?

[Regyai]

  On 1/10/2023 at 7:19 AM, hotchilli said:

Bring in the principles of both colleges.. tell them if these incidents repeat their colleges will be closed.

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Oh, for a moment I thought this was leading up to settling it by a swordfight of champions ????

[Adumbration]

  On 1/10/2023 at 6:19 AM, Bangkok Barry said:

Been going on for decades. Just part of the culture the Thais are so proud of.

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Yes, I had to double check the footage because I though it was just a rerun of a similar incident a few years back.  Thai men are emotionally retarded.  And it is getting worse.

[it is what it is]

  On 1/10/2023 at 6:56 AM, Jackbenimble said:

Thai boys are not usually like this, it happens for sure but it isn't "normal". Something has definately triggered it. Its actually scary how violent they can be when they're armed and in a gang. Long gone are the days when a fight was between 2 people using their fists.  The police might not even do anything even if they know who these kids are - which is actually part of the problem.

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not normal for thai boys generally. but sadly, for years vocational college students have been fighting with each other. college and police authorities should have dealt with this issue years ago.

[JeffersLos]

Oxford-Cambridge boat racing and debating contests.... but Thai style.

 

A bit more simian, to the untrained eye, but the only difference is one of culture. ????

 

 

[Boomer6969]

  On 1/10/2023 at 9:42 AM, RichardColeman said:

Said it before , say it again, find them , cancel their college/university and shove them in the army for 5 years - pretty sure that deterrent would out many off

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Five years in the army? The Thai army? That's definitely going to improve them.

 

And where I come from you need higher education and skills to join what is a modern professional army.

[xtrnuno41]

I would recommend a katana

[easton]

School spirit at it's finest. 

[jacko45k]

  On 1/10/2023 at 2:33 AM, Shop mak said:

Too much violent soap tv nightly.

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Yes, it is all bang bang and kick kick....very limited.