British Tourist Faces Charges for 'Destroying an Official Document'

[quake]

Just now, Gobbler said:

 

He didn't destroy it, he transformed it into a piece of sh*t.

 

 same, same , but different.

[Gobbler]

8 minutes ago, quake said:

 

 same, same , but different.

Seriously, that's a sh*Ty answer.

[PopGun]

11 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Many posters just immediately assumed he was from an African country. How wrong they were.

 

It doesn't surprise me he is British. They are very soft on crime in my home country and criminals are very entitled constantly playing the victim card knowing that they will likely not be charged. If they are charged and convicted, the penalties are very light.

 

Hopefully the Thais will deport him in due course.

 

I can't understand why he was not held in custody.

Of course he's of African descent, people of many different countries and nationalities, are now British citizens.

It's not always the white British that case problems abroad, although they get 'tarred with the same brush'

There was a time, not so long ago, when a British Passport was like Gold, now they are handed out like confetti.

[petermik]

Deport the bugger...

[BangkokReady]

12 hours ago, Briggsy said:

I can't understand why he was not held in custody.

 

Because he ate a traffic ticket and to put him in custody would be a total waste of time and resources, not to mention completely out of proportion with the "crime"?

[bumpkin]

12 hours ago, mikebell said:

If you can't hold your beer, you shouldn't be driving a motor bike.

Better advice ?  ...........If you don't have a licence, you shouldn't be driving a motor bike

[quake]

1 hour ago, Gobbler said:

Seriously, that's a sh*Ty answer.

 

Maybe he should have returned it to them.

Possibly dropped it, in to one of there hats.  

 

 

[still kicking]

12 hours ago, steven100 said:

a nutcase tourist,   send him to Nigeria .....  he'd fit in well there.  

And where can we send you?

[Gobbler]

8 minutes ago, quake said:

 

Maybe he should have returned it to them.

Possibly dropped it, in to one of there hats.  

 

 

No one drops it; they always do it directly in a hat.  Good God, man, from where do you hail?

[Gobbler]

Where is the proof of the destruction? I want to see the evidence!

[AlwaysThere]

3 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

100% agree...    behaving like that [swallowing the ticket] was a ridiculous thing to do, but also a rather trivial offence. 

The over-reaction by the BiB is also ridiculous, is rather pathetic and screams of face.

 

It seems these days (or perhaps always) the Police only take serious measures when there is media attention, but this should be filed where it belongs... 'in the don't be silly bin'... the guy fined for not wearing as shirt or helmet and told to get on his way before more resources are wasted. 

 

He was stupid - but this is hardly a deportable crime as some fools are suggesting. 

 

 

It's somewhat confusing that you chose to argue with me, when on the face of it, we actually agree. 

[snowgard]

15 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Silly Thai laws.... a ticket is an official document.....destroying it will be punished......How low can you go

No!!! This is just a form of teaching "RESPECT TO THE LAW"!!! 3 days monkeyhouse will be the best that him never forget it and never do it again.

 

If you, ikke1959, not like it, GO HOME!!!

[cardinalblue]

What true value does a paper document have if the technology is present to tie it to one’s visa status when a person renews or departs…As in Thai cases, registration if tickets go unpaid…

 

the tech is there if thailand lived in the tech world…But thailand still functions in the paper world of making copies and signing everything 

 

go paperless thailand….the tech is there to do so and enforce w/o having a paper trail…in the end it doesn’t matter if the ticket is eaten thrown away or lit on fire. One can destroy the evidence but the record lives in cyberspace 

 

it’s on the computer stupid….

[ikke1959]

5 hours ago, cr600john said:

Is this because YOU don't have LAWS in the UK, or just don't follow them, so you believe you can do the same in ANY other country you visit.?

 

In my country the police will come in the middle of the night to get their money for the fines if you don't pay.... In my country the fines are for everybody the same, no matter from which country you are and in my country people are not so xenophobic as here, only when it about the money out of tourism Thailand promotes their country but as soon as you are in you will be scammed

[ikke1959]

4 hours ago, ujayujay said:

OK, you have trouble as a guest with the laws here in Thailand, why don't you just go home?😉😉😉........nobody will stop you!

I don't have problems with the law.. There are too many outdated laws for a country that pretends to be a modern country..the laws here are all fexible.. look at the date when you can do a same sex marriage.. Nobody knows yet if it will be the 22nd or the 23rd of January.. They make laws but don't enforce them,  or don't know when they start.. And lwas should be for everybody the same and not for foreigners different than the own population

[ikke1959]

31 minutes ago, snowgard said:

No!!! This is just a form of teaching "RESPECT TO THE LAW"!!! 3 days monkeyhouse will be the best that him never forget it and never do it again.

 

If you, ikke1959, not like it, GO HOME!!!

Thank you xenophobic person... better should show respect to others  instead of shouting go home.. If all foreigners should leave there is not much left of Thailand.. Look at the factories that are leaving already and tourism is going down.. The Government is begging.......and trying to attrack more .... but people like you keep them away

[NorthernRyland]

8 hours ago, pomchop said:

 i believe you will find that most of the black population in the US a few hundred years ago arrived in chains to be exploited by the wealthy plantation owners....although they made lots of money maybe the USA and world would be a different place today if they had left these folks in africa alone?  As usual the rich got richer and most everyone else was left to clean up their mess.

 

Racial resentments may linger but the more important part is they don't WANT to be mixed out and lose their culture and heritage. Why should they?

 

He says it best. "I don't hate nobody, but I love my own."

 

 

[willip]

18 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Many posters just immediately assumed he was from an African country. How wrong they were.

 

It doesn't surprise me he is British. They are very soft on crime in my home country and criminals are very entitled constantly playing the victim card knowing that they will likely not be charged. If they are charged and convicted, the penalties are very light.

 

Hopefully the Thais will deport him in due course.

 

I can't understand why he was not held in custody.

He must be a yank!!!. If he was British ! He'd be calling the race card!!.arguing. fighting.  Starting a riot. And asking for a translater. 

[PETERTHEEATER]

14 hours ago, shackleton said:

No sympathy for this guy should respect the Thai laws

Not a lot going for him eating the ticket not wearing a helmet plus no licence 

Deportation  comes to mind 😱

Gives out a message to others not respecting Thai laws 

 

Don't forget, he was also playing loud music😀

[willip]

3 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

 

Racial resentments may linger but the more important part is they don't WANT to be mixed out and lose their culture and heritage. Why should they?

 

He says it best. "I don't hate nobody, but I love my own."

 

 

Don't forget!! There were black slave traders all over the world . !!! But the blacks funnily enough never accept this FACT. 

[AngryMan]

He may hold a useless piece of paper i.e, a "British" (whatever the F*** that means now!) Passport but judging by his name and the very dark skin, my guess is, he is originally from Africa! So his heratige is African  not Anglo Saxon!

He probably lost his passport and his phone in the English Channel and they had to give him something in Dover!

Please don't steal his nationality from him by accusing him of being a British person, we all know Brits are trouble makers!🤪

 

Just because a Dog is born in a stable does not make it a Horse! The same applies to passports as well!

 

If he had migrated to Japan, would you call him a Japaneses man just because he held a Japanese Passport?

No, because he sure as hell is not from Japanese ancestory!

[rock49286]

I love the expansion of the term "British" man these days...

[Jorn T]

Put him on the next flight out. 

[RANGER55]

15 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

 

The British should start notice of the black population in the US who have been there for 400 years and yet remain radically different from white Americans and maintained their now distinct culture and dialect. Any white American will have more in common with the English, Canadian, Aussie and the list goes on then a black American.

 

Point being, what passport you have makes little difference.

Should have picked our own cotton! Would have paid off in the long run.

[RANGER55]

2 hours ago, willip said:

He must be a yank!!!. If he was British ! He'd be calling the race card!!.arguing. fighting.  Starting a riot. And asking for a translater. 

The card, never leave home without it. Use as often and as many times as possible.

[arick]

There is a lot more important things for that they should be doing. I never through my speeding tickets in the rubbish. 

[mikeymike100]

Why couldn't they just write another ticket??

[Will B Good]

1 minute ago, mikeymike100 said:

Why couldn't they just write another ticket??

 

 

.....and another.....and another.....until he choked?

[Purdey]

Showing disrespect just means the police will get you some other way.