Photo via MGR Online

 

By Petch Petpailin

 

Police yesterday arrested a Chinese man for spray-painting on the roller shutter doors of two pharmacies in the northern province of Chiang Mai.

 

The pharmacist, who owns a shop on Bamrung Buri Road in Chiang Mai, caught the 33 year old Chinese man, He Ma, red-handed yesterday, February 6, while he was spray-painting the store’s roller shutter door.

 

The pharmacist intervened and recorded a video of the act before calling officers from Mueang Chiang Mai Police Station to the scene.

 

In the CCTV footage, the Chinese man can be seen pulling a spray paint bottle from his trouser pocket before spraying messages in Chinese and drawing a cartoon character of his own design. The messages in Chinese translated to…

 

“Come back here tomorrow. See you again.”

 

 

Ma also took a picture of his work but was unable to leave before the pharmacist arrived. Police immediately arrested him, seized three bottles of spray paint, and took him to the police station for questioning.

 

Ma claimed that he was an artist visiting Chiang Mai on holiday. He said he saw spray-painted graffiti on various doors and walls around the city centre and assumed his actions were not illegal.

 

He admitted to painting on the roller shutter doors of two pharmacies in the province, one on Bamrung Buri Road and another on Rat Chiang Saen Road.

 

Ma was charged under Section 358 of the Criminal Law for damaging another person’s property. The penalty is up to three years in prison, a fine of up to 60,000 baht, or both.

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2025-02-07

 

 

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13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Police yesterday arrested a Chinese man for spray-painting on the roller shutter doors of two pharmacies in the northern province of Chiang Mai.

 

Wrong forum....

bansky wannabe

Set a precedence, give him the 3 years.

AFew years ago there was no gaffitti in Chaing Mai. I hope this Chineese vandal is made to clean up his mess before some jail time and deportation. 

However it is noticible authorities are often 'easy going' on Chineese offenders

Finally the Chinese tourists are upping their game.

 

Fine and deport this vandal. Chiang Mai is not a blank canvas to go about decorating.

Not to worry Thai taggers will have it covered over in a day or so.

5 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Set a precedence, give him the 3 years.

     Agree.  Large parts of Europe have pretty much been destroyed by awful, ugly, graffiti pretty much everywhere, on every surface you can think of, both high and low.  Just horrible.  Thailand doesn't have much--yet--and needs to keep it that way.  Once you weakly give in, like Europe, there's no going back.   Throw the book at the idiot--and any others caught doing the same thing.  

This reminds me of the guys who sprayed the CM Wall. 

What happened to those? 

On 2/8/2025 at 1:27 AM, QPRFC said:

This reminds me of the guys who sprayed the CM Wall. 

What happened to those? 

They went back to Canada and got coddled and a blanky.