Popular Post webfact Posted February 2 Popular Post Share Posted February 2 A CRACKDOWN on shops illegally selling balloons filled with laughing gas, that is nitrous oxide, in Khao San road area today (Feb. 2) netted 13 suspects and six equipment used to produce them for sale worth around 1 million baht, TV Channel 7 said this evening. A Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) police team together with another team from Chanasongkram police station and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials jointly arrested the suspects at 12 shops scattered around Khao San road for selling these balloons. They were charged with manufacturing and selling drugs without permission which is punishable with maximum five years’ imprisonment and a fine not exceeding 10,000 baht. Should they have used unregistered nitrous oxide there is an additional penalty of maximum three years in jail and/or 5,000 baht fine at most. by TNR Staff TOP: Laughing gas balloons on sale at Khao San road. Photo: Matichon Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2024-02-03 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Get our Daily Newsletter - Click HERE to subscribe 1 2 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nightfox Posted February 2 Popular Post Share Posted February 2 I was expecting photo's of the raid to look more like this. 1 1 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post flyingtlger Posted February 2 Popular Post Share Posted February 2 13 Nabbed In Raid On Khao San Road Shops Selling Laughing Gas Balloons The 13 won't be laughing anytime soon.... 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post smedly Posted February 3 Popular Post Share Posted February 3 LMAO.......... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burma Bill Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 8 hours ago, webfact said: A CRACKDOWN on shops illegally selling balloons filled with laughing gas, 😄😄😄😄......................... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thai006 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I trough it was legal lol. I done it so many time last time 🤣🤣🤣🤣 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 6 hours ago, flyingtlger said: 13 Nabbed In Raid On Khao San Road Shops Selling Laughing Gas Balloons The 13 won't be laughing anytime soon.... Loss of equipment, a small fine and back out on the streets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brianthainess Posted February 3 Popular Post Share Posted February 3 Who needs laughing gas when we have AN. 1 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Authority: "This is no laughing matter!" Public: "But, that's exactly what it is. A matter that makes people laugh." Authority: "I get back to you..." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunz Kittisak Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 These are very popular in Vietnam 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sikishrory Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I think most people don't realise you can lose the ability to walk from doing to much of these. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ricklev Posted February 3 Popular Post Share Posted February 3 Must have been difficulty to find some of the sellers. I mean it's not like their stands were set up 100 meters from a major police station. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpy Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 What a laugh ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Guderian Posted February 3 Popular Post Share Posted February 3 Meanwhile, the sixteen cannabis cafes on the street were doing a roaring trade, lol. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabradelmar Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Why now? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wealthychef Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 1 hour ago, thai006 said: I trough it was legal lol. I done it so many time last time 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Everybody visiting Thailand thinks drugs are a joke until the popo show up. Be smart out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ignore it Posted February 3 Popular Post Share Posted February 3 There are many biblical references to the use of nitrous oxide. Book of Stones, Cpt 3, verse 9: "Jumping Jack Flash it's a gas gas gas" Gospel according to Floyd Book 2; cpt 1, verse 4: "Money it's a gas" 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 2 hours ago, ricklev said: Must have been difficulty to find some of the sellers. I mean it's not like their stands were set up 100 meters from a major police station. The signs in English are a cunning deception😄 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0815 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 And just because all the western backpackers look so grumpy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 well that's a gas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernRyland Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 6 hours ago, Cabradelmar said: Why now? why not now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeptic7 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 LOL❗Never tried it but have friends that did...and they loved it. Sounds like jolly good fun. Wished I'd known, as was in BKK recently. 🤣😆🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernRyland Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Of all the laws being broken everyday this is the one they acted on? That stuff is basically harmless but going 100 in a school zone doesn't raise an eye. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwikeith Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 11 hours ago, hotchilli said: Loss of equipment, a small fine and back out on the streets. The jails must be empty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokningar Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Thailand feels safer now.................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabradelmar Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 18 hours ago, NorthernRyland said: why not now? Thailand has 99 problems and selling nitrous oxide to backpackers on Khao San Rd ain't one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazinoz Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Blatantly sold from a bar in the Loi Kroh area of Chiang Mai and customers come from other bars to buy the balloons and take back to their waterhole. I tried it once, just gave me a headache. A friend of mine who works at the bar who sells them has at least 4 large balloons everynight costing 100 baht each. Some nights more drunk on the balloons. Combined with alcohol not good. But she did learn lesson the other night. Caught riding motorbike drunk. Cost her several hours in a cell, a trip to the courts and 9500 fines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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