Crime Australian Man Detained for Carrying Grenade Rounds at Phuket Airport

[Kwausie]

Hope he likes fish head soup 

[johng]

Many years ago I took about 50 spent 9mm bullet cases back to England from Bangkok...both ends checked but it was no problem as there was no bullet and no explosive left...I also had the shooting targets.

 

If the Aussie ammo were empty shells totally "decommissioned" 

whats the problem ?

[Aussie999]

10 minutes ago, ThailandGuy said:

I wonder where they find these stupid tourist?  They should send him home straight away. Bizar!

 

10 minutes ago, ThailandGuy said:

I wonder where they find these stupid tourist?  They should send him home straight away. Bizar!

They provide us with endless entertainment.

[Colki]

He definitely did not bring those items from Aust. to Thailand and as stated he was travelling internally, he would have bought at one of the border shops. He also is a crazy man as anyone knows you cannot board any flight with those items and no screener would have missed whether as checked in or carry on luggage.

[wensiensheng]

If the rounds contained no explosives, then they were simply scrap metal moulded into the shape of a munition. Much like a kids toy gun is not a “gun”.

 

One crucial point missing from the article is whether the items actually contained explosive material.

[off road pat]

1 hour ago, VBF said:

I remember going to the Cambodian border, (Mae Sot as I recall?) many years ago with a friend who lived in Pichit. He walked across the bridge to do his in/out while I waited for him on the Thai side, just on the riverbank.

Strolling around, I spotted a shop selling all kinds of militaria, belts, holsters, flak jackets, balaclavas, batons, pepper sprays but all in packs of 20!!  The shop owner came out invited me to visit the back room of the shop, but I declined. I always thought of the place as the "Arm your revolution here" shop - scary 😲

Mae Sot is at the Burmese Border, not the Cambodian. !!

[Freddy42OZ]

1 hour ago, Iron Tongue said:

Relax.  Dial your outrage back a bit.

Those aren't explosives.  They aren't even "grenades".

Those are inert mortar rounds, probably left over, picked up, from the Vietnam War & all the little messes afterwards.

There are no explosives inside, and they don't have fuses to make them explode.  It is obvious because the mortars are sitting on their noses where the fuses would be screwed-in to arm them. 

They are as dangerous as scrap metal.

This jug-head probably wanted to bring some souviners home.  Whether legal or not, they are not active explosives.

 

 

When I was around 15 years old during my "Heavy Metal Phase" I flew back from boarding school in the UK, to Hong Kong, wearing a machine gun bullet belt around my waist, made up of USED bullet casings I'd collected at the Army firing ranges we sometimes went for shooting practice. 

Security personnel at Heathrow commented on the belt but after checking the bullets were all used they let me on my way. 

Security at Kai Tak said nothing when I strolled off the plane wearing it. 

However, security at Kai Tak went onto full alert when I tried to fly out of HK wearing it at the end of my school holidays.  After a bit of checking they let me board the flight but the belt had to go in the hold and was handed back to me when I arrived in London.

 

[emptypockets]

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

Of course she should.

 

She was doing her job properly and diligently, when some dumb<****> Aussie strolls up with an 81mm and a 60mm live mortar rounds and some other explosives in his carry on bag.

 

A very good show for Ms Pakkanut Dumlak for doing her boring job properly.

 

He should be in the IDC at Suan Phlu until the next available flight to OZ, where he should be collected by the police and tossed in jail for 5 years.

 

What amazes me is where he got them from and how did he get them past customs nd onto the aircraft from OZ in the first place.

There is no mention the rounds were live or that he flew from Australia.

He was apprehended in the domestic terminal.

Most likely he sourced them in Thailand.

[emptypockets]

2 hours ago, Pinot said:

 

Souvenirs? Come on...the guy's a moron. Did he seriously think he was going to get this crap into Oz?  

What makes you think he was going to Australia?

[10baht]

After attending my veteran father’s burial at Arlington, I carried a single expended brass casing from the X-gun salute—a small but meaningful keepsake to honor him. As I went through Bangkok airport security, I was stopped and informed that the brass casing had to be confiscated, classified as ammunition. In that moment, I faced an unexpected choice. Rather than surrendering it, I stepped back, found the airport post office, and mailed it to myself. A simple act of persistence ensured I could keep this tangible reminder of my father’s service and sacrifice.

[emptypockets]

49 minutes ago, Freddy42OZ said:

 

 

When I was around 15 years old during my "Heavy Metal Phase" I flew back from boarding school in the UK, to Hong Kong, wearing a machine gun bullet belt around my waist, made up of USED bullet casings I'd collected at the Army firing ranges we sometimes went for shooting practice. 

Security personnel at Heathrow commented on the belt but after checking the bullets were all used they let me on my way. 

Security at Kai Tak said nothing when I strolled off the plane wearing it. 

However, security at Kai Tak went onto full alert when I tried to fly out of HK wearing it at the end of my school holidays.  After a bit of checking they let me board the flight but the belt had to go in the hold and was handed back to me when I arrived in London.

 

Don't try that in Brunei. Posession of a bullet, even one attached to a necklace as a piece of jewellery can attract the death sentence.

[VBF]

1 hour ago, off road pat said:

Mae Sot is at the Burmese Border, not the Cambodian. !!

My bad!!!  🤬    👍for the correction - geographically challenged or what! 😆

 

What was I thinking - still, my other comments about the shop and the ease of obtaining such items still apply.

[Grumpy one]

3 hours ago, billd766 said:

Of course she should.

 

She was doing her job properly and diligently, when some dumb<****> Aussie strolls up with an 81mm and a 60mm live mortar rounds and some other explosives in his carry on bag.

 

A very good show for Ms Pakkanut Dumlak for doing her boring job properly.

 

He should be in the IDC at Suan Phlu until the next available flight to OZ, where he should be collected by the police and tossed in jail for 5 years.

 

What amazes me is where he got them from and how did he get them past customs nd onto the aircraft from OZ in the first place.

They were found in the domestic terminal

He could have bought them as Vietnam war relics

But trying to take on a plane still makes him nut job

[dinsdale]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Ms Pakkanut Dumlak, a diligent baggage screening officer.

Not much chance of missing them I reckon. Guess he's a military paraphernalia collector. Odd choice not clearing them first. Absolutely no danger here IMO no matter how the article tries to spin it.

 

4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

82 mm inert Soviet HE mortar round,

Good call. 

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, Kwausie said:

Hope he likes fish head soup 

He's not going to jail. Pay some money for sure but that's about it.

[ukrules]

5 hours ago, smedly said:

What the #### was he thinking ? an airport of all places to bring your explosives

 

are they plastic toys or movie props perhaps 

 

They may have been relics from old wars, explosive parts removed so only empty shells. People collect this kind of stuff all the time.

 

Of course, if they were not properly prepared then it would be very dangerous to handle such things, especially as they appear to be very old if those images are the items in question here.
 

[ukrules]

2 hours ago, FlorC said:

He must have thought Thai prison is still better than going bank to Australia. He may be wrong.

 

He was in the domestic terminal, you think they fly to Australia from there?

 

Even if he had a separate flight on to Australia from BKK he would have needed to go through international level security again.

[ukrules]

33 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

What makes you think he was going to Australia?

 

He wasn't thinking at all, like most of the posters here

[Quentin Zen]

Line Three:   Four or fewer grenades.  Smart pass available.

 

Line Four:   Three sticks of dynamite or less.

 

Line Five:   Those passengers wearing only one bomb vest.

 

I want a human sapien check on this guy and his family tree quarantined.  

 

 

[metisdead]

An off topic deflection post regarding the TSA in the USA has been removed.

[billd766]

48 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

There is no mention the rounds were live or that he flew from Australia.

He was apprehended in the domestic terminal.

Most likely he sourced them in Thailand.

So you have no idea where the items came from, no idea if they were live or not and you were never there at all.

 

Why did you bother to post at all?

[quake]

Oh, it's all ok , I'm from Australia. 

Fair dinkum mate. 

 

Are you guys trying to upstage us brits.

You cheeky monkeys.

[emptypockets]

7 minutes ago, billd766 said:

So you have no idea where the items came from, no idea if they were live or not and you were never there at all.

 

Why did you bother to post at all?

To highlight your false assumptions.

[billd766]

Just now, emptypockets said:

To highlight your false assumptions.

Your assumptions were not false then?

[emptypockets]

Just now, billd766 said:

Your assumptions were not false then?

I made no assumptions. I read the OP and stated the facts.

[billd766]

Just now, emptypockets said:

I made no assumptions. I read the OP and stated the facts.

Were you there or not?

[emptypockets]

1 minute ago, billd766 said:

Were you there or not?

Of course not. What a ridiculous question.

But I can read and comprehend the OP.

[impulse]

There's a lot of things widely available in Thai street markets that are illegal to even possess.  Apparently, inert grenades are one of them. 

 

I've purchased several items in wide open daylight markets that I later found out I could get arrested for even possessing.  Generally, I gave them to my Thai friends who knew the laws but didn't really care, because of spotty enforcement.  They were just happy to get free stuff, some of it pretty spendy free stuff.

 

So I'd cut the guy some slack.  Seems like if they aren't legal to possess, they should be going after the vendors selling them to innocent collectors.

 

Good on the airport security that found them.

 

 

[Purdey]

Why was he carrying them? For a movie set? If they are empty, why not declare them as movie props?

So many questions, so many idiots.

[bananafish]

Who would have thought you can't bring those on a plane?