Stone-throwing Gangs Attack More Motorists

[george]

Stone-throwing gangs attack more motorists

One person was injured and two vehicles damaged in separate stone-throwing incidents in Surat Thani and Ayutthaya provinces yesterday.

Sukanya Panthong, 31, a Bangkok resident, in her complaint to Surat Thani police said that a group of men threw stones at her car when it reached kilometre markers 198-199 on the Asia 41 road in Surat Thani's Ban Na Doem District yesterday. She was heading back to Bangkok with a female friend when the attack took place.

The stones smashed the car's windshield [more...]

--Bangkok Post 2007-12-30

[Tony Clifton]

One will find we're never real far from the stone age around here when driving a car...

[meemiathai]

But people enjoy living in the stone age.

[londonthai]

thugs hired by the local garrage owner?

local separatists?

some unhappy political activists taking revange on the population after the election?

[PeaceBlondie]

I'd blame drugs, such as alcohol, as the primary ingredient. My windshield was once stoned by youths who were stoned on drugs in south Texas.

[plachon]

You don't have to travel to Thailand to find this kind of behaviour - it happens quite frequently in Britain and the West. Just the other day, a woman in Essex was killed when her car left the road at night on a stretch notorious for yobbos lobbing stones at cars, with the police investigating the likelihood she was stoned (and I don't mean on drugs, although the local hoodlums could well have been off their trolley).

hel_l, Roger Waters wrote an album (Radio Kaos) based round a South Wales ex-miner who chucked a lump of concrete off a bridge over the M4 and killed a taxi driver in the process, so the stone age is closer to home than maybe some would like to admit. More like post-modern industrial disease and cultural alienation at work, themes beloved of that other Saff Wales crew - Manic Street Preachers - who coincintetally had a strong, little hardcore following in Thailand a decade or so ago. Anybody listen to 'em these days?

[meemiathai]

I must confess I have done these sorts of crime when I was 8-12 years old.

[Scott]

I am glad that when I was growing up we had snow. We used to throw snowballs at cars. Never caused any damage, but once in a while you could scare the sh*t out someone if you got the window on the driver's side.

Most drivers got fairly used to this behavior and paid little attention to it.

Unfortunately, young males cause a fair amount of trouble--rocks are a little hard core, almost as bad as bullets.

[sunreader]

You don't have to travel to Thailand to find this kind of behaviour - it happens quite frequently in Britain and the West. Just the other day, a woman in Essex was killed when her car left the road at night on a stretch notorious for yobbos lobbing stones at cars, with the police investigating the likelihood she was stoned (and I don't mean on drugs, although the local hoodlums could well have been off their trolley).

hel_l, Roger Waters wrote an album (Radio Kaos) based round a South Wales ex-miner who chucked a lump of concrete off a bridge over the M4 and killed a taxi driver in the process, so the stone age is closer to home than maybe some would like to admit. More like post-modern industrial disease and cultural alienation at work, themes beloved of that other Saff Wales crew - Manic Street Preachers - who coincintetally had a strong, little hardcore following in Thailand a decade or so ago. Anybody listen to 'em these days?

Radio K.A.O.S good album, went down well with me at Glastonbury 87 with a strip of microdots, never felt the urge to throw sones though. Too lazy.

[Tony Clifton]

A whole strip? Far out man.

Edited December 31, 2007 by Tony Clifton

[pampal]

Getting pelted by rocks is not fun, it's downright dangerous

[Scott]

It's not only dangerous, it's deadly.

[BigSnake]

Sorry sorry people that do things like this. Maybe they will meet their match(i.e,) someone with a gun handy(ie an off duty cop) or an Army officer that can carry a gun legally. Throw some silver bullets at the sorry sorry people.

[nullx8]

i did hear semilar storys in bang phli - bang bo areas serval times ... (last year)

including killed taxidrivers ....

seems to be a quite good business ..