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

[Ginner]

4 hours ago, John Drake said:

Well, for one thing, he needed permission to film inside the hotel, which clearly he did not have, as the manager was trying to stop him.

I would say police are using this to lock him up and get access to his phone. He is a known scammer. Not just in Thailand, but in other countries, too.

[Advocatus Diaboli]

Well the US government has set the bar low ….. as they now have to do a prisoner exchange of a top level Thai criminal. Just like they did with Russia for the drug criminal Britney Griner. Love to see President talk his way out of this one.

[JackieMager]

A bit over the top this guy… but much worse goes on in this country.  When you think of Bangkok you think of Sin City. Worse in Pattaya. 

[Hummin]

3 minutes ago, JackieMager said:

A bit over the top this guy… but much worse goes on in this country.  When you think of Bangkok you think of Sin City. Worse in Pattaya. 

This was https://www.banyantree.com/thailand/bangkok and even a hairy overveighted tourist in chang Tank top would had problems there ????

[RichardColeman]

Looks like a full on druggie to me

[Kaopad999]

5 hours ago, jvs said:

He will not get 5 years in jail,that is probably the maximum sentence he is talking about.

Admitting to the crime will already cut the sentence in half.

He will get a good scare and be sent home to the US.

Earth to live streamer;"time to get an education,you are not so special"

 

Well said. these streamers go out their way to do obscene stuff to get attention. Clicks & views = more income. They really are the dregs of society.

[LukKrueng]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

dressed half-naked in women’s lingerie

Seriously? Is this the best way to describe it?

[JesusonaPogoStick]

They were warned, and did not heed the warning. They caused the manager to lose face. Remember, this wasn't a beer bar, but a very reputable establishment. They will now face the consequences. I have no sympathy.

[newbee2022]

I don't think he will fulfil his promise....just kidding.????

[DJ54]

7 hours ago, SoilSpoil said:

Which laws did he break?

The law of idiocy 555…

[Pink Mist]

Posts once again advocating harm as well as off topic troll posts have been removed 

[Gaccha]

An article approvingly linked from the article here says he admitted to taking $500,000 of his fans' money in a Ponzi scheme.

 

It looks like he's finally experiencing the rewards of his general behaviour.

 

And as for other people here complaining that lewd display is normal in Thailand, this is different because it involves distribution of obscene content for money over the internet. Thailand is notoriously strict on this.

[xtrnuno41]

Was checking on this week in Italy. A tourist was scratching his initials in the wall of Colosseum.

Many others did before, but now he was filmed. They did a hunt on him and was caught. Waiting for big fine.

Then i came up to some other tourist events 2016, a guy in prison in Myanmar. He was annoyed with the sound out of a speaker from Bhudist monk preaching. So he unplugged the speaker, which costed him 3 months in jail. However he did as the sound was so hard, they couldnt sleep, not even normally talk in their hotel room.????

2018, 9 people in jail for a month in Cambodia, dancing "pornographic" (saw some pics, they were even dressed! not harmful)in swimming pool. Lucky for them just a month, as was said they could end up in jail for a year.

2015 a woman was caught making pics of her naked bottom at a temple in Cambodia.

Why the F***k you do something like this? Well there are studies, pffff.????

 

So called influencers think they need to do these things to put it on internet and get famous and wealthy.????????

 

Im now waiting on stories about Indonesia, they made a law stating only married people can sleep together and have sex. ALSO applies for foreigners ! Whoopy !  How idiot it can gets from the other side, government.

[orchis]

4 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Exactly.  The owners of the hotel that has a reputation to uphold, for instance.

More so as this was in a public area (restaurant) of the hotel.

[Grumpy one]

8 hours ago, SoilSpoil said:

Which laws did he break?

Taking work from katoey's  ????

[GoodieAfterDark]

Poor good man. Let him do what he wants. If he feels better dead, let him do as he wishes.

[GoodieAfterDark]

What a big loss for humanity!  We need more good men dressed in lingerie giving lap dances in some obscure hotels in BKK. Ice cold case solved.

[Yellowtail]

11 minutes ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

What a big loss for humanity!  We need more good men dressed in lingerie giving lap dances in some obscure hotels in BKK. Ice cold case solved.

And had he not been fired from doing his drag-queen story hour for the kindergarteners he would not have had to resort to this. 

[Jingthing]

21 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

And had he not been fired from doing his drag-queen story hour for the kindergarteners he would not have had to resort to this. 

It's never a bad time to attack drag queens.

[bamboozled]

If he was better looking dressed up as a woman there would have been no issue.

[Jingthing]

He's got a point about Thai prison.

Of course threatening suicide won't help him at all.

[hoopmonk]

10 hours ago, phetphet said:

Maybe I am misunderstanding this, but if it was just for his girlfriend, couldn't he have just FaceTimed, or Skyped her rather than doing a livestream for everyone to see? Or was it a moneymaking scheme? 

 

I doubt he will get a jail sentence. Probably just deported with a blacklist ban for a while.

His girlfriend was their in the restaurant with him and part of the act that was to be broadcast for his social media platforms which in all accounts is his full time job being that he has over 700k subscribers on one platform he appears to be quite successful.

[roo860]

Total bell end

[Jingthing]

I will say something unpopular. 

Many western tourists have the false impression that Thailand is an anything goes place.

It's understandable why they would think that.

It actually is anything goes for some things but crazy conservative on others. 

I think misbehaving tourists should usually just be given a tongue wagging and deported.

Edited July 7, 2023 by Jingthing

[ericthai]

7 hours ago, h90 said:

A while ago when my father went to Saudi Arabia, he had to sign that he understand and agree that there is the death penalty on narcotics and that alcohol is a narcotic....
And they kill quite a lot people in SA. So I would rather stay in Thailand

Yes, Alcohol is completely banned in Saudi Arabia.  If caught with alcohol as a foreign national (If a Saudi citizen you could get away with it) you could get lashes, a prison sentence or possibly deported, but not executed. 

Edited July 7, 2023 by ericthai
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[Jonathan Swift]

13 hours 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?

Um, in a word, no. I've asked the same question ever since I came here 10 years ago and saw the silliness of foreigners. Myself, I studied the place and culture for quite a few years before I came and I had no real problems except for a very few that were due to some (ya think?) misinterpretations of my surroundings. It's always baffling to people like us who are blessed with common sense when we see people who apparently have none. 

[Jonathan Swift]

12 hours 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.

"Your air"? Really? That's how you think? Anyone you don't like is stealing "your" air? (yes I understand that it is a figure of speech, duh) What has this kid done that could possibly affect you in any way? So he's another dumb kid making big mistakes in the wrong place. He may even truly be an a-h. There's no way to know exactly his state of mind, he could be posing for sympathy, or he may be a real suicide risk. I was jailed once in the US with no one to bail me out, based on a false accusation, and the despair I felt was crushing, and though I said nothing I was in fact suicidal. I had a complete emotional breakdown by the time I got out. We can only speculate, but that may very well be how he feels. Happens all the time, why do you think they take your belt and shoelaces when you get jailed? This kid has parents, family who care about him and they don't deserve to see him die. I would say that if he's not otherwise prone to depression that as time passes his suicidal impulses may pass. Strategically, going public with a suicide threat might help prevent him from disappearing into a Thai jail indefinitely, which is a reasonable goal. And what he did was a victimless crime, for which I hardly think the death penalty applies. If you're that twisted up about people you claim superiority over stealing your air that you would wish death on someone for a misdemeanor, perhaps you're the one whose humanity ought to be questioned. Based on that I would place you a few rungs lower than him on the ladder. And you can be sure I'm not the only one who views your comment that way. Making light of the topic of suicide speaks volumes about your character and values. But the big difference is, we're not worried about how much of "our air" you're breathing, we don't think that way. 

[Jonathan Swift]

12 hours 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.

Exactly. There is a billion dollar porn industry going on in hotels all over Thailand, the difference here is this guy managed to attract the wrong kind of attention by making noise, making himself too visible,  or otherwise screwing up. I suspect that the 5 years threat was trotted out prior to a negotiated settlement. That's what police did to me when I had a minor incident and got caught with pepper spray. First they emphasized how long a sentence I might get, then they said they'd rather not do that, then we negotiated a "fine" which I paid with no qualms, since I already knew how the game was played. 

[Deserted]

To quote a reggae song 'play with fire and you must get burn.'

[bendejo]

A man dressing as a woman?  Isn't that illegal in LOS?

 

There is a day during Brazilian Carnival when men dress as women.  The real drag queens get into it, but a lot of the straight guys do it up like in his pic.

 

13 hours ago, phetphet said:

I doubt he will get a jail sentence. Probably just deported with a blacklist ban for a while.

Along with a donation to the judicial retirement fund.