Stream of despair: US livestreamer threatens to kill himself if jailed in Thailand for distributing obscene content

[redwood1]

Whats next......Girls dancing completely naked on stage in bars in Thailand.... 

[Yellowtail]

Just now, spidermike007 said:

The only obscenity committed here, is the one done by the RTP. The level of pretense, the level of fake purity, the dumb and mindless application of laws here is beyond inane. 

 

What he was doing might be considered wierd by some. But, it was so utterly harmless. Women are getting abducted, raped and trafficked at this very moment, by Thai officials, and the police are pretending to be engaged in law enforcement. I seriously hope this results in just another omelette on the face of the rather useless RTP.

A lot of people do not see it as utterly harmless. 

[HuaHinHim]

I don’t agree with the punishment but you’re not in the US so that’s on you buddy. 

[stix40]

His bicycle clips are a bit high ?

[Foxx]

Mr. Ice Poseidon has a Wikipedia page.  Apparently:

 

"His peak prominence was in 2017"  (I guess he's desperate to become popular again.)

 

He's been repeatedly banned from various platforms, and he's been banned from Reddit.

 

His fans frequently use "racial and sexual slurs, and harassment."

 

He "admitted to scamming over $500k from his fans in a pump and dump crypto scheme"

 

Charming guy.

 

He's also autistic.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Poseidon

 

[lanng khao]

Good, let's hope he takes that other ham hua Chris travels with him, another live streaming miscreant...

[bignok]

If you video a ladyboy walking on the street is that obscene?

[SoilSpoil]

5 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

My initial reaction was "There are already too many people stealing my air, so go ahead and off yourself."

 

Of COURSE this is an idle threat he makes. Most likely, if he'd just shut his mouth and shown a little humility, 500 baht and a sincere wai would have gotten him out of this strait. Instead, he's challenging authorities way beyond his comprehension. Som nom na.

Guess you have never been young? What wrong with a bit of cross dressing, live streaming your act, in a hotel with your girlfriend. Not my cup of tea, but again which laws did he break? The 'bad taste laws" ok, but seriously let's see things in perspective. Nobody got hurt, nothing got stolen, just your xenophobic police force trying to muscle in on a foreigner couple making a live video. Big deal

[PingRoundTheWorld]

38 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

If you read the other link in the linked article, you see he has been scamming a lot of people. 

Let him go to prison for quite a while, maybe he learns something.

Yep. Reading about his past removes any sort of sympathy. He seems to have devolved into the worst kind of streamer - opportunist who would do anything to make some coin. Obviously the live stream was a poor attempt at getting views, but threatening suicide publicly like that is probably also a ploy to get views.

Reminds me of some guy who spread a bunch of fake news about the Taiwanese mafia (huh?) threatening his life for making pickup videos in Taiwan. Everything for those views/attention...

[h90]

5 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The only obscenity committed here, is the one done by the RTP. The level of pretense, the level of fake purity, the dumb and mindless application of laws here is beyond inane. 

 

What he was doing might be considered wierd by some. But, it was so utterly harmless. Women are getting abducted, raped and trafficked at this very moment, by Thai officials, and the police are pretending to be engaged in law enforcement. I seriously hope this results in just another omelette on the face of the rather useless RTP.

yes and no one should have the right to say what is allowed and what not. As long as no one is hurt and everyone is of age people......I almost wrote "should be allowed to do what the want". But that is wrong. There should be no one with the authority to allow or ban something.

[kennw]

1 hour ago, sqwakvfr said:

Based upon professional most who threaten to commit suicide rarely go through with it.  It's the quiet ones who usually carry things out into the great unknown.  

 

He will not get much sympathy or empathy from anyone (from Thai or Foreigner).  

He musts be crazy to do his act in a very up market hotel. Very bad image for them. 

[harleyclarkey]

Watched the whole disturbing  video.

Vile acts in a restaurant with not an iota of regard for other diners. A vulgar  vile display of self centered entitlement. 

Crawl  back to your cave ICE and stay there...O, and take your other two freaks with you. 

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

 

Seriously, do none of these people realise that they are in Thailand and the rules are different here?

Glad it isn't just me who feels negative about his behaviour.....where he comes from, so many think rules do not apply to them!

[Aviatorhi]

What's the treat exactly?

[Smokey and the Bandit]

2 hours ago, SoilSpoil said:

Which laws did he break?

From the article:

Understandably, netizens cried hypocrisy over the arrest pointing out the scantily clad women cavorting in bars around the Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy areas but the police made a point of adding that he and his friends, Deepak, and Hyubsama, were arrested for “distribution of obscene content,” not indecent exposure.

[SoilSpoil]

17 minutes ago, bignok said:

Read the story. How hard can it be?

Answer my question, how hard can it be?

[Seeall]

1 hour ago, bamboozled said:

There are millions of virtually the same thing on all social media in Thailand. By Thai folks, however. I don't know, is that the diff? Like the Chinese woman showing her butt in the songtaew. It is happening everyday. Hell, Songkran is endless girls and ladyboys girating their almost in full view stuff. Outside of Songkran, a bit less, but nonetheless an ongoing twerk and jerk-athon, in concerts, bars, car shows, fashion shows, Mor Lam, village festival, wedding, school day....it's endless. I'd kill myself, too, before spending 5 years in jail.

thais not pay as much tea money?

[kidneyw]

He is going to be mighty popular in the slammer.

[Crash999]

1 hour ago, pedro01 said:

He should have chosen his location more wisely. Doing this in a very nice 5 star hotel is idiotic. Doing it in Soi Cowboy wouldn't have had the police called.

 

Not that I advise wearing skimpy lingerie in trips to Soi Cowboy - but what did he expect, given the location?

Not only that, in the video they told him to stop but as soon as the manager left they started again. And they were live-streaming it. When the manager came back they were laughing it off and swearing. 
 

Was only then that the hotel GM came in with cops. 
 

The whole thing could have been avoided if they had stopped. Or acted humble in front of management. Or even at the station an apology and wai would have fixed it. But instead one of their idiot crew pretended to be a lawyer to try and see them. 
 

In Thailand you can get away with a lot of stuff. This is example of what happens when you do completely the opposite. 

[shackleton]

He should have done it in Pattaya a backhanded or  brown envelope would have solved his problem ????

[SoilSpoil]

Just now, Smokey and the Bandit said:

From the article:

Understandably, netizens cried hypocrisy over the arrest pointing out the scantily clad women cavorting in bars around the Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy areas but the police made a point of adding that he and his friends, Deepak, and Hyubsama, were arrested for “distribution of obscene content,” not indecent exposure.

Distribution? You mean live streaming? 

[HappyExpat57]

4 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

Guess you have never been young? What wrong with a bit of cross dressing, live streaming your act, in a hotel with your girlfriend. Not my cup of tea, but again which laws did he break? The 'bad taste laws" ok, but seriously let's see things in perspective. Nobody got hurt, nothing got stolen, just your xenophobic police force trying to muscle in on a foreigner couple making a live video. Big deal

I sincerely believe you completely missed my point. I don't care what he did, but obviously the powers that be in Thailand did. So instead of say, "Oops, my bad" and apologizing, he puffs his scrawny little chest out and says, "Oh yeah? I'll kill myself if you threaten me!" That kind of attitude gets people killed here almost every day.

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, SoilSpoil said:

Distribution? You mean live streaming? 

No, distribution via live streaming. See what I did there?  

[bignok]

7 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

From the article:

Understandably, netizens cried hypocrisy over the arrest pointing out the scantily clad women cavorting in bars around the Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy areas but the police made a point of adding that he and his friends, Deepak, and Hyubsama, were arrested for “distribution of obscene content,” not indecent exposure.

Laws been there for years

[Smokey and the Bandit]

4 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

Distribution? You mean live streaming? 

I didn't write the article, but it would seem so.

[SoilSpoil]

Just now, HappyExpat57 said:

I sincerely believe you completely missed my point. I don't care what he did, but obviously the powers that be in Thailand did. So instead of say, "Oops, my bad" and apologizing, he puffs his scrawny little chest out and says, "Oh yeah? I'll kill myself if you threaten me!" That kind of attitude gets people killed here almost every day.

I also think you missed my point, as by no means would I defend such a %^$^%#%^%#.  But I have the feeling reading this article that the real problem is the hotel manager's ego that is at play. And will the cops get called whenever we annoy a local? That's why I wonder which laws he broke.

[bignok]

Just now, SoilSpoil said:

I also think you missed my point, as by no means would I defend such a %^$^%#%^%#.  But I have the feeling reading this article that the real problem is the hotel manager's ego that is at play. And will the cops get called whenever we annoy a local? That's why I wonder which laws he broke.

He broke the distribution laws which you have been told 5 times.

[Crash999]

This is the same crew that was harassing people in Japan. Taunting someone in the train saying Hiroshima Nagasaki we will do it again. And going up to girls asking where they can find prostitution and calling them racial slurs. Charming stuff like that. 
 

Good to see they might finally face some real consequences. 
 

 

Edited July 7, 2023 by Crash999

[HappyExpat57]

2 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

I also think you missed my point, as by no means would I defend such a %^$^%#%^%#.  But I have the feeling reading this article that the real problem is the hotel manager's ego that is at play. And will the cops get called whenever we annoy a local? That's why I wonder which laws he broke.

Well, when you start by accusing me of basically being an old duffer, what else could I conclude?

[JohnHans]

He won't need to do that, surviving a Thai jail has quite a low chance, so the jail will possibly finish him off, but perhaps he will have just enough time to realize his mistake of trying to shame Thailand with vulgar on-line rubbish.