Thai man’s arm severed outside liquor store after smoking dispute

[webfact]

 

Two suspects embarked on a barbaric act of severing the arm of a Thai man after the victim warned the attackers against smoking cigarettes outside his liquor store in the Sriracha district of Chon Buri last night.

 

The Sriracha Police Station received reports of the knife attack at the liquor store at around 8am yesterday, April 1. They met a 39 year old Thai woman, Daraporn, who informed them that the victim was her boyfriend, 39 year old Panitarn. He was rushed to Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital before police arrived.

 

Daraporn recounted the stabbing incident saying she and her boyfriend were sitting in front of the store when two attackers arrived at the scene on a motorcycle. One of them suddenly cut off Panitarn’s left arm.

Daraporn said she and her boyfriend fled the scene, hastily grasping Panitarn’s arm as they made their escape. She explained that the two assailants persisted in pursuing them, compelling them to seek assistance from locals along their route.

Eventually, a resident from the area intervened, causing the attackers to retreat. Despite the police’s efforts to track down the suspects’ escape route, they were unable to apprehend them in time.

 

Daraporn speculated that the attack was prompted by Panitarn’s earlier admonition to the assailants regarding smoking outside the shop, suggesting that this may have incited them to seek vengeance.

 

Daraporn recounted that the two attackers had stopped outside their shop to observe the aftermath of a motorcycle accident that had taken place nearby. While stationed there, they were smoking, prompting Panitarn to approach them and request that they refrain from smoking.

 

Channel 7 reported that the two attackers left their motorcycle, a grey Honda Sonic, without a registration plate at the stabbing scene and fled on foot.

 

Police are now checking security cameras near the scene to identify them and bring them to justice. There was no update on Panitarn’s condition in the report.

 

 

 

by Petch Petpailin

Photo via Facebook/ ชลบุรี-ระยอง

 

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[Tidal wave]

Note always bring a gun to a smoking dispute. 

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

The obligatory photo of the victim pointing at the suspects when the police take them all back to the crime scene is going to be interesting. 

[rexpotter]

Well that's a happy little story.

[spidermike007]

What can one even say about this, was he stabbed or was his arm hacked off with a machete? It's not an easy thing to cut off an arm, without a machete or a sword! Pretty incredible when you think about it, if the facts are correct. A man simply asks someone to not smoke in front of his store and they react like this? Who are these animals, what are these people, why are they such incomplete men, why are they such ridiculously petty, angry and juvenile souls? Where does this level of moral bankruptcy come from? Who were their parents?

 

Hopefully they'll be caught, convicted and imprisoned for a very long time, where it's likely they will make a lot of "close friends".

[spidermike007]

5 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

I am again amazed of some of the replies I see here. Where in the world do you get the information that smokers have a lower education level? I don't smoke, but my dad did, and he had a genius level IQ, and was a quality control engineer at a plant who did work for the government for over 35 years. He built his own Ham radio, was into photography, did magic tricks,and was a daily reader.

 

I know many smokers who are very smart, and quite a few are college grads and have top positions. The absence of a father would likely have been a major reason he wasn't taught respect for life and restraint, so it redeemed you a little. Absence of morals has nothing to do with education but how again he was raised.

Yeah I know some pretty smart people who smoke, and while I think it's a dumb habit, I don't think it's necessarily a measurement of intelligence, though it is a filthy habit. It is a very hard habit to break once you start, from what I hear. 

[fredwiggy]

4 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

What can one even say about this, was he stabbed or was his arm hacked off with a machete? It's not an easy thing to cut off an arm, without a machete or a sword! Pretty incredible when you think about it, if the facts are correct. A man simply asks someone to not smoke in front of his store and they react like this? Who are these animals, what are these people, why are they such incomplete men, why are they such ridiculously petty, angry and juvenile souls? Where does this level of moral bankruptcy come from? Who were their parents?

 

Hopefully they'll be caught, convicted and imprisoned for a very long time, where it's likely they will make a lot of "close friends".

The story is vague and misleading. You can see in the video it's a machete he attacks with. The guy was waiting behind the car to pounce.

[Korat Kiwi]

I'd think you'd have to be quite skilled to take off an arm although in certain parts of Africa it's relatively common where there are 'troubles'. 

 

I even recall when I was working in Bougainville a true story of a guy who cut off his brothers arm with a machete. Why?  Because during the 'uprising' his brother went to the opposition side and burnt down his house.   Nasty stuff but retribution is swift over there. 

 

I hope they catch these maniacs. 

[rattlesnake]

21 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Yeah I know some pretty smart people who smoke, and while I think it's a dumb habit, I don't think it's necessarily a measurement of intelligence, though it is a filthy habit. It is a very hard habit to break once you start, from what I hear. 

 

Lots of people start in their teens. I doubt there are many full-grown adults who start smoking. I can confirm it is extremely hard to quit and requires a lot of willpower.

[Wobblybob]

27 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Yeah I know some pretty smart people who smoke, and while I think it's a dumb habit, I don't think it's necessarily a measurement of intelligence, though it is a filthy habit. It is a very hard habit to break once you start, from what I hear. 

It all depends on how addicted that person is, I had a work colleague that became very aggressive when he tried to stop smoking if anybody looked at him the wrong way. I stopped about 40 years ago and found it a doddle, I smoked because my friends did but I never got addicted, we all have different addiction levels.

I agree it is a filthy habit though.

[frank83628]

33 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

What can one even say about this, was he stabbed or was his arm hacked off with a machete? It's not an easy thing to cut off an arm, without a machete or a sword! Pretty incredible when you think about it, if the facts are correct. A man simply asks someone to not smoke in front of his store and they react like this? Who are these animals, what are these people, why are they such incomplete men, why are they such ridiculously petty, angry and juvenile souls? Where does this level of moral bankruptcy come from? Who were their parents?

 

Hopefully they'll be caught, convicted and imprisoned for a very long time, where it's likely they will make a lot of "close friends".

it was a machete and it looks like his arm was cut if from the bicep/elbow area, you can see in the video there looks to be only 1 limb against the black of his T-shirt, although its blurry cctv..thankfully!

 

 

[Photoguy21]

45 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

I am again amazed of some of the replies I see here. Where in the world do you get the information that smokers have a lower education level? I don't smoke, but my dad did, and he had a genius level IQ, and was a quality control engineer at a plant who did work for the government for over 35 years. He built his own Ham radio, was into photography, did magic tricks,and was a daily reader.

 

I know many smokers who are very smart, and quite a few are college grads and have top positions. The absence of a father would likely have been a major reason he wasn't taught respect for life and restraint, so it redeemed you a little. Absence of morals has nothing to do with education but how again he was raised.

Smoking is like drink and drugs, it becomes addictive if constantly used. Medically it does affect the brain but that could mean a person with an IQ of 200 who is a heavy smoker has their IQ to190, still extremely high.

[ukrules]

This is not the first time someone has had their arm cut off in a dispute in Thailand, I do recall this happening before but strangely when I went to the internet to look for the story it was no longer there.

 

[spidermike007]

8 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

I'd think you'd have to be quite skilled to take off an arm although in certain parts of Africa it's relatively common where there are 'troubles'. 

 

I even recall when I was working in Bougainville a true story of a guy who cut off his brothers arm with a machete. Why?  Because during the 'uprising' his brother went to the opposition side and burnt down his house.   Nasty stuff but retribution is swift over there. 

 

I hope they catch these maniacs. 

A friend of mine worked in Papua for a number of years as a miner, and he said one of the big problems there was alot of the kids carried around machetes, and when they got upset they would just start hacking each other. No thanks. 

[spidermike007]

8 hours ago, Wobblybob said:

It all depends on how addicted that person is, I had a work colleague that became very aggressive when he tried to stop smoking if anybody looked at him the wrong way. I stopped about 40 years ago and found it a doddle, I smoked because my friends did but I never got addicted, we all have different addiction levels.

I agree it is a filthy habit though.

When I was 13 or 14 all of my friends smoked, so I kept trying it and every single cigarette I smoked I hated. It was so filthy, it was so nasty I never got used to it. Fortunately after about 6 months I just said this isn't for me.

 

My heart goes out to those poor people who are addicted to that garbage. 

[still kicking]

Thailand the new Afghanistan 

[Martin71]

2 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Thailand the new Afghanistan 

Cool... so if someones wife cheats on them he gets to stone her to death...

[still kicking]

6 minutes ago, Martin71 said:

Cool... so if someones wife cheats on them he gets to stone her to death...

Yeah if someone steals get Thye get their hands  hand chopped of 

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

One of them suddenly cut off Panitarn’s left arm.

Daraporn said she and her boyfriend fled the scene, hastily grasping Panitarn’s arm as they made their escape. She explained that the two assailants persisted in pursuing them, compelling them to seek assistance from locals along their route.

Land of Smiles... 

[charleskerins]

17 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

What can one even say about this, was he stabbed or was his arm hacked off with a machete? It's not an easy thing to cut off an arm, without a machete or a sword! Pretty incredible when you think about it, if the facts are correct. A man simply asks someone to not smoke in front of his store and they react like this? Who are these animals, what are these people, why are they such incomplete men, why are they such ridiculously petty, angry and juvenile souls? Where does this level of moral bankruptcy come from? Who were their parents?

 

Hopefully they'll be caught, convicted and imprisoned for a very long time, where it's likely they will make a lot of "close friends".

it's sickening ,disturbing   and it was so quick.   The victim looked so calm.

[Bangkok Barry]

17 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

What can one even say about this, was he stabbed or was his arm hacked off with a machete? It's not an easy thing to cut off an arm, without a machete or a sword! Pretty incredible when you think about it, if the facts are correct. A man simply asks someone to not smoke in front of his store and they react like this? Who are these animals, what are these people, why are they such incomplete men, why are they such ridiculously petty, angry and juvenile souls? Where does this level of moral bankruptcy come from? Who were their parents?

 

Hopefully they'll be caught, convicted and imprisoned for a very long time, where it's likely they will make a lot of "close friends".

 

Well, the smoker lost face. That's enough. The savagery in this country is totally off the scales. You can be maimed or killed over nothing at all, and they are not isolated incidents. These things happen almost on a daily basis.

[giddyup]

18 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

The story is vague and misleading. You can see in the video it's a machete he attacks with. The guy was waiting behind the car to pounce.

It was a Samurai sword.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Land of Smiles... 

Thainess?

[hotchilli]

56 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Thainess?

A very thin false veneer covering a myriad of social dysfunction.

[digger70]

22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

What can one even say about this, was he stabbed or was his arm hacked off with a machete? It's not an easy thing to cut off an arm, without a machete or a sword! Pretty incredible when you think about it, if the facts are correct. A man simply asks someone to not smoke in front of his store and they react like this? Who are these animals, what are these people, why are they such incomplete men, why are they such ridiculously petty, angry and juvenile souls? Where does this level of moral bankruptcy come from? Who were their parents?

 

Hopefully they'll be caught, convicted and imprisoned for a very long time, where it's likely they will make a lot of "close friends".

It's all about Losing Face , They don't like being Told/Asked Not to do something then Voila/bingo ,they snap. Short circuit that Little brain they've got.

[Confuscious]

22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

What can one even say about this, was he stabbed or was his arm hacked off with a machete? It's not an easy thing to cut off an arm, without a machete or a sword! Pretty incredible when you think about it, if the facts are correct. A man simply asks someone to not smoke in front of his store and they react like this? Who are these animals, what are these people, why are they such incomplete men, why are they such ridiculously petty, angry and juvenile souls? Where does this level of moral bankruptcy come from? Who were their parents?

 

Hopefully they'll be caught, convicted and imprisoned for a very long time, where it's likely they will make a lot of "close friends".

I remember the case of a police officer severing a girls arm with a knife at a Karaoke bar.
So, it is possible to severe an arm with a knife.
 

[bob smith]

peace loving, happy go lucky types these thais are...

 

bob.

[paul1804]

On 4/2/2024 at 1:54 PM, Korat Kiwi said:

I'd think you'd have to be quite skilled to take off an arm although in certain parts of Africa it's relatively common where there are 'troubles'. 

 

I even recall when I was working in Bougainville a true story of a guy who cut off his brothers arm with a machete. Why?  Because during the 'uprising' his brother went to the opposition side and burnt down his house.   Nasty stuff but retribution is swift over there. 

 

I hope they catch these maniacs. 

In 1985 I was at a cattle ranch in a place called Safia half way between Port Moresby & Poppendetta, I had finished the days work and was having a beer with the manager when a kanaka came staggering out of the bush covered in blood. One of the villagers had gone crazy (longlong) in the village in the nearby mountains, he had killed 13 and hacked up a few others with a machete. The manager who was an Aussie got on the radio and called up the riot squad in Lae which was about an hour away by chopper to come and arrest the guy and take the injured to haus sick! Hospital!

I am seeing more of this type of crazy stuff in Thailand in the 5 years I have been here which reminds me of early days in PNG, life is cheap! Also reading today on this forum about the English back packer couple murdered in Koh Tao in 2014 &  blamed on the 2 Burmese boys makes you wonder where the Thailand justice system is heading! 

[Rampant Rabbit]

13 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Well, the smoker lost face. That's enough. The savagery in this country is totally off the scales. You can be maimed or killed over nothing at all, and they are not isolated incidents. These things happen almost on a daily basis.

Thats a  filthy lie................. they like to gloss over  it dont they.

[ross163103]

This kind of thing is sickening to me, lots of students use machetes to fight also. I think the penalty for this should be harsh.

Once again, about the victim complaining of smoking, he should've just not complained and kept his head under the radar, pop your head up and bad things can happen. Admittedly he shouldn't have lost an arm over such a small issue but you never know how mental people can be.