Brit stabbed to death with sickle by Thai neighbour, inquest hears

[SAFETY FIRST]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Brit stabbed to death with sickle 

I'm amazed that we don't read about more of these articles, so many disrespectful foreigners here in Thailand 

[chilly07]

1 hour ago, CM Dad said:

My solution to loud music is to fight fire with fire.  I play Wagner operas at high volume with speakers facing the late night revelers, only I do it early in the morning when they are usually hungover.  I never have had to do it more than once - ohh, and my other Thai neighbors thanked me for ending the late at night racket.

Held back on the napalm this time? Good  for you! 

[SAFETY FIRST]

3 minutes ago, bristolgeoff said:

Another lesson for farangs on here.don,t upset thai neighbours you never know what will happen

The problem is Foolish foreigners never learn. 

 

Most are school dropouts, they're unable to learn 

 

[Tarteso]

Rule number one if you come live to Thailand;

 

Avoid Rent/buy houses with low class Thai neighbor.

[NorthernRyland]

1 hour ago, FeelsLikeFlying said:

Amazing tokill someone because of missing sound-insulation in your home for windows walls and doors but expecting everyone to cut down their lifestyle. If a Bluetooth speaker bothers- then something is wrong with your own place. Hope this Thai will rotten in Prision.

It's called respect, remember? Noise travels OUTSIDE your property and affects other people. It's not you everyone else's responsibility to manage your audio levels.

[NorthernRyland]

30 minutes ago, Gjk7777 said:

 

Obviously alcohol fueled, my  neighbour plays Morlum music at 7am, I tolerate it,

 

Sounds like your neighbor has a respect problem. Since when is playing music at 7am ok? It bothers many Thai people also but they have been conditioned to not saying anything and keep quiet.

[Bim Smith]

Had a Canadian here that did played loud American rock music at his house because he was fed up with the neighbours constant loud music. He bought big speakers to do it. They complained to the Police who promptly came round to his house to tell him to turn it off. When he pointed out about his neighbour he got told Thai music is OK. Go figure 

[Surasak]

2 hours ago, kamahele said:

This happens in my home country all of the time but usually a gun is used.

So the dark deed can be done from a distance I guess?

[NorthernRyland]

28 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

It is the neighbours, the villagers, the temples, people using the park, markets.......every single one of them has a huge PA systems that they put on full volume at the least excuse.........it is just ridiculous 

move it's not worth the madness. You'll thank yourself later. These constant disruptions play on your mind and cause literal madness eventually.

[Toolong]

24 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

ha!....yes badly phrased...looks like a joke at my wife's expense.....

 

It is the neighbours, the villagers, the temples, people using the park, markets.......every single one of them has a huge PA systems that they put on full volume at the least excuse.........it is just ridiculous 

Right, I get it. ????

 

At times it's the same for me. (And even more than the excessive volume, it's the heavy bass settings (to the max!) that trouble me the most!????)

[Will B Good]

1 minute ago, NorthernRyland said:

move it's not worth the madness. You'll thank yourself later. These constant disruptions play on your mind and cause literal madness eventually.

Yes...it is slowly wearing me down......but moving does mean leaving the wife.

[Will B Good]

4 minutes ago, Toolong said:

Right, I get it. ????

 

At times it's the same for me. (And even more than the excessive volume, it's the heavy bass settings (to the max!) that trouble me the most!????)

Yes.....they jack up the bass to ridiculous levels.

 

We went to a temple market one night and they started up.......I just stood and looked at everyone thinking....for f s.......what are you thinking...that this is normal...that this is okay....that this is entertaining......the Emperor's new clothes....

[NorthernRyland]

11 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

Rule number one if you come live to Thailand;

 

Avoid Rent/buy houses with low class Thai neighbor.

This can't be understated. It may not be apparent at first who is low class but people need to learn this and stay away from them. Forgot what you learned back home and practice discrimination with EXTREME PREJUDICE.

[keithkarmann]

3 hours ago, Will B Good said:

I live in Isaan......and it is, on occasions, absolute hell.

 

I have, and still am, seriously considering leaving my wife.

Move out of the village and to a more civilised way of life closer to the city. I did this three months ago away from all the stupidity in the village.

 

[Will B Good]

11 minutes ago, keithkarmann said:

Move out of the village and to a more civilised way of life closer to the city. I did this three months ago away from all the stupidity in the village.

 

I did leave once for a week.....gave in and came back.....then had a trip to the UK, which took the pressure off for a while....but back in the thick of it now. 

 

Moving to Isaan is, for me, the biggest mistake of my life.......and I've made a lot of big mistakes.

[richard_smith237]

16 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I'm amazed that we don't read about more of these articles, so many disrespectful foreigners here in Thailand 

Are you for real ???......  this is some out-there ‘anti-foriginer’ rubbish and a complete polar opposite of what occurred in this case.

 

While there are ‘some’ inconsiderate people out there, some of whom are non-Thai’s.... your normalisation of such is wholly wrong, wholly sickening and the generalisation you present is wholly unintelligent..... 

 

... A man was murdered for sitting outside his own home.... He wasn’t playing ‘loud music’... that is just something the media picked up on... Its something utter idiots on these forums pickup on with their ‘gone native’ mentality to some how justify the events after barbaric and uncivilised behaviour has become normalised in their limited backwards worlds. 

 

 

 

 

 

[paddypower]

4 hours ago, Will B Good said:

I live in Isaan......and it is, on occasions, absolute hell.

 

I have, and still am, seriously considering leaving my wife.

so shes taken up the bagpipes?

[richard_smith237]

21 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

It's called respect, remember? Noise travels OUTSIDE your property and affects other people. It's not you everyone else's responsibility to manage your audio levels.

There was no evidence of loud music being played... there was just a ‘blue tooth speaker’ also at the scene with bottles of beer. 

The media at the time made the assumption that the music was loud which triggered the murders actions. 

 

Later on it was noted that the murder was in fact mentally deranged and should never about been allowed out on his own - he was already a well known danger to society. 

 

[richard_smith237]

57 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

Why did they have to do an inquest in the UK.  I am sure that a full report would have been done in Thailand. The crime was in Thailand.  Why is the British government involved.

Because this is an ‘out and out cold blooded murder’ of a British Citizen and the British government can now pressure the Thai authorities to apply the most stringent sentencing of this murderer. 

 

 

[Will B Good]

Just now, paddypower said:

you could have moved to Kiev. Always look on the bright side of life. seriously, WHY do expats move to Isaan

For me it was a 'forced' move.....I was happy living a condo life in BKK.....but she bought the land, commissioned the house.....all her money......then told me about it when it was built!!!

[NorthernRyland]

7 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Moving to Isaan is, for me, the biggest mistake of my life.......and I've made a lot of big mistakes.

I remember last year you were talking about building some house for your wife and being worried about a bar opening nearby. I guess that turned out as bad as you thought it would?

[paddypower]

57 minutes ago, DPKANKAN said:

Probably a small Soi area there with about 20 odd units with 90% ferrang who know each other there. If you have never been to Kanchanaburi you will not know that nearly all ferrangs who socialise know each because of the community in the town and local areas. And of course family and close friends connection.

reminds me of the villagers in Apocalypse Now

[spidermike007]

Very strange. Usually it is the Thais who create the noise. And usually the Thais barely even hear noise, much less get annoyed by it. One would think this could have been resolved with a friendly conversation. If I were in his position, and a neighbor complained about my music bothering them, I would most certainly turn it down.

 

Looks like the tiny man Prasut Thipthep over reacted, just a bit. One evening of loud music, and now his life as he knew it is over. And so is someone elses. What a bizarre, stupid, ridiculous, petty, immature, and undeveloped man Prasut Thipthep is. I hope he is sentenced to a long prison term (an immediate death sentence would be far more appropriate), and makes alot of close friends in prison, where he will learn the meaning of real noise. 

 

 

[richard_smith237]

33 minutes ago, bristolgeoff said:

Another lesson for farangs on here.don,t upset thai neighbours you never know what will happen

By all reports, they weren’t upsetting anyone. 

There was a speaker there... but no reports of it being played. 

It was reported at the time that people who live in the same street nearby did not hear any music at all. 

The guys were simply sat there having a beer... its something we’ve all done at point point in time or another.

 

 

[paddypower]

6 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Lot of dogs are poisoned in our village......nobody takes care of them even though they a associated with certain houses....they are left to howl.......yet another joy of Isaan (village) life.

truly one of the most cruel ways to kill an animal. can take days of agony . although we're a smallish village (in NST) we have contact with Soi Dog and, we have a facebook group that tried to find homes for strays. before you move here - its boring.

[Will B Good]

Just now, NorthernRyland said:

I remember last year you were talking about building some house for your wife and being worried about a bar opening nearby. I guess that turned out as bad as you thought it would?

Funnily enough.....no!!!

 

The do have their karaoke, but it is once or twice a week for a couple of hours, then nothing for two or three months.....and it is strangely (to me) only on a morning....9 till 11.

 

It pales into insignificance with funerals (the worst, and there is one a week, minimum), prayers for the village????, the local market, special temple events......and an outdoor badminton club that must have a sound system playing full blast before they can play.

[thai006]

I think we don’t know all the story 

[richard_smith237]

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Very strange. Usually it is the Thais who create the noise. And usually the Thais barely even hear noise, much less get annoyed by it. One would think this could have been resolved with a friendly conversation.

The guy (murder) was mentally deranged - this latest article conveniently leaves that out. 

Reporting Bias ??????

 

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

If I were in his position, and a neighbor complained about my music bothering them, I would most certainly turn it down.

IF you were in ‘his’ position, you would have been sat there peacefully having a beer, there was no reports of music being played. The report that there was a blue-tooth speak there is just stating what was present at the scene, the media picked up on this an made the assumption, as a lot of others that this music was too loud and triggered the attack. 

It was reported from locals nearby (and an expat nearby) that no music could be heard. 

 

So... IF you were in his position... the following would have happened... You’re sat there having a quiet beer and out of no where a lunatic attacks you with the scythe striking the back of your head, you are dead, you stood no chance to ‘discuss or talk your way out of anything’.... (thats according to the reports that came out at the the time).

 

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Looks like the tiny man Prasut Thipthep over reacted, just a bit. One evening of loud music, and now his life as he knew it is over.

His ‘over reaction’ as you call it was not a ‘reaction to anything’ there was no loud music, that was just his behaviour. 

It was well documented at the time that he was a known danger to those in at the area, a lunatic who should already have been locked up... his reaction was not a reaction at all, it was just his behaviour. 

 

 

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

And so is someone elses. What a bizarre, stupid, ridiculous, petty, immature, and undeveloped man Prasut Thipthep is.

None of that. He’s mentally deranged and should never have been permitted access to the general public. This is an utter failure of the Thai penal system - he should have already been locked up, or in a mental institute to protect others from his mentally deranged and violent behaviour. 

 

 

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I hope he is sentenced to a long prison term (an immediate death sentence would be far more appropriate), and makes alot of close friends in prison, where he will learn the meaning of real noise. 

 

He should have been in prison already for other crimes he had committed (according to previous report that were surfacing last year after this initial reporting on this murder). 

 

The failure of the Thai legal system cost this British man his life. 

[NorthernRyland]

4 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

It pales into insignificance with funerals (the worst, and there is one a week, minimum), prayers for the village????, the local market, special temple events......and an outdoor badminton club that must have a sound system playing full blast before they can play.

Yeah that sounds like she chose a terrible location to build a house. maybe it's not her fault because she didn't know how bad this is for us but you can't live like that.

[richard_smith237]

1 minute ago, thai006 said:

I think we don’t know all the story 

Go back to the news from Jan 2022.... there is plenty on the news from that Time that wraps up a lot of the information missed in this latest ‘lazy’ article.