Elderly Swiss man busted with gun at Phuket Airport

[AustinRacing]

Could be an arms dealer. Taking guns to Switzerland, bringing Swiss Army knives back to LOS. 
 

[Dogmatix]

[Dogmatix]

[Dogmatix]

[fredwiggy]

11 hours ago, steven100 said:

 

yes ... i agree ... it's not correct ...

 

I just wanted to point out there are approx 8 million bike kids and most have a gun under the seat.  haha

It must take you an awful lot of time to check all those kids bikes.

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, brianthainess said:

I wonder if it was in his carry on, luggage or checked in luggage. 

Either way he's screwed.

[steven100]

1 minute ago, fredwiggy said:

It must take you an awful lot of time to check all those kids bikes.

yes Fred,   your right .... it takes weeks to check them all.  haha

my 8 million is just an estimate ...

[RichardColeman]

Guess the answer to how swiss cheese gets so many holes in it has been resolved

[Dogmatix]

The gun in the plastic envelope posted above is the one found at Phuket. The slide is a genuine Astra slide made in Spain. The one found by cops has the wrong writing on it. Looks like something inn Russian. Maybe a BB gun or a fake.

[GammaGlobulin]

NEVER bring a knife to a gunfight.

 

The Swiss guy must have been doing nothing other than following this old and PROVEN Maxim.

 

 

[steven100]

I'd like to know .... 

 

what if he had a gun that you can dis-assemble with screws,  like it is in four pieces,  and

you placed the separate parts in different bags ....

 

would that work I wonder  ? 

[GammaGlobulin]

7 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

 

You might think that a Swiss guys could afford a better gun than this.

 

What a piece of garbage.

 

I have never owned a gun so cheap.

 

 

[Skeptic7]

Swiss Idiot 

[Iron Tongue]

11 hours ago, norfolkandchance said:

Or 7/11.

Hezbollah - 7/11, no difference.

I think they are run by the same people.

[Kerryd]

On my last trip from Canada about 5 years ago, I had packed some stuff including a "bali-song" knife and a couple brand-new Leatherman multi-tools in my checked suitcase.

I had stupidly bought one of those "special" suitcases that Customs has the "special code" for the combo lock so they can open your bag without having to cut the lock off.

I was sitting at the Departure Gate reading a book when 3 cops (RCMP) showed up looking for me.
When my checked bag went through security screening, they saw some "interesting" stuff and because they had the code to open the suitcase, decided to do some snooping.

They found the Leathermans - which were perfectly legal. And they found the bali-song - which was illegal in Canada.

So they removed the bali-song and put a printed page inside the suitcase to let me know that it had been opened by Customs.
After a 5 minute conversation with the 3 cops, they were satisfied I probably wasn't an Al Qaeda terrorist and left.

And of course, when I get home (in Thailand) and open my suitcase, I see the note - and see that the 3 brand new Leathermans had also gone missing along with the Balisong.

That's when I realised - the scanner had seen the Leathermans on the x-ray and they opened my suitcase to look at them and then found the bali-song knife. 
They wanted to keep the Leathermans so they took them, knowing I'd be long gone before ever realising they were missing.
They used the bali-song as the excuse for opening my suitcase.

If I'd used a normal suitcase with a separate lock on it, they probably would have skipped right past it. But knowing they could open the bag and "snoop" without me knowing it gave them the opportunity to do just that. 
And they did.

 

[Grandpa Cool]

13 hours ago, steven100 said:

 

well how about cleaning up your own backyard   !!

This is the backyard!

[Grandpa Cool]

Perhaps he has some mental decline.

[steven100]

why are my Topics and comments over on the left side of the page ?

 

 

[newbee2022]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

We take these matters very seriously. No one is above the law, no matter their age or nationality.”

Lovely these jokes...😂😂😂

[steven100]

12 minutes ago, Grandpa Cool said:

This is the backyard!

 

not sure you understood what I was commenting about ...    let me explain ...

 

he say's ..no one is above the law ...  What about all the Thais with guns out there !!   there are literally thousands and thousands.  

 

Now do you understand Grandpa Cool  ...

 

 

 

[Gandtee]

13 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Hezbollah flag 

 

Nah. An 'I'm Not Gay' shirt.' So offensive.😉

[hoopmonk]

 

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[hoopmonk]

 

Perhaps the oldtimer just wanted to bring a Swiss gun home for a souvenir.

 

From the BKK Post: 

 

During questioning, the Swiss man reportedly told police that he thought bringing a gun with no ammunition or magazine onboard a flight was not prohibited. He had decided to bring it to his home country because he thought it was not against the law, police said.

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2879947/swiss-man-arrested-with-gun-at-phuket-airport. View our policies at http://goo.gl/9HgTd and http://goo.gl/ou6Ip. © Bangkok Post PCL. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

[kiwikeith]

2 hours ago, wombat said:

My girlfriend packed my bag when she kicked me out.

How could she be so cruel.

That's what I thought 

[Jonathan Swift]

14 hours ago, brianthainess said:

I wonder if it was in his carry on, luggage or checked in luggage. 

Doesn't really matter much - I think checked bags are x-rayed. But I would guess carry on. Maybe he has Alzheimers, that would explain something like that at his age. 

[Cadan]

Looks like a 7/xx t-shirt promotion 😁. Some people are really smart - no matter what age - was he on a flight to Texas ?

[Jonathan Swift]

18 minutes ago, hoopmonk said:

 

Perhaps the oldtimer just wanted to bring a Swiss gun home for a souvenir.

 

From the BKK Post: 

 

During questioning, the Swiss man reportedly told police that he thought bringing a gun with no ammunition or magazine onboard a flight was not prohibited. He had decided to bring it to his home country because he thought it was not against the law, police said.

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2879947/swiss-man-arrested-with-gun-at-phuket-airport. View our policies at http://goo.gl/9HgTd and http://goo.gl/ou6Ip. © Bangkok Post PCL. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

That might be true, but he should have checked. wait, there are those signs with photos of hand grenades, pipe bombs, guns, and everything that is prohibited. I suspect perhaps senile. 

[Taboo2]

When I was living in Basel, Switzerland, the locals told me they have guns, but they are safely tucked away at home.  It is a safe, very safe country.  Maybe he is senile.

[Taboo2]

Never trust a Swiss man who wears a 7/11 T-shirt....555555.