Video - First Victim Of Red Shirt Violence

[bubba]

This is from Pathumthani. If anyone else runs across similar video clips, perhaps we could use this thread for posting them here.

http://76.nationchannel.com/playvideo.php?id=84246

//Edit by Maestro: the video to which bubba has given a link is now also available on Youtube:

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[Bottlerocket]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

[bubba]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

Perhaps he was shouting his disapproval of the reds or something of the sort. But the red clearly ran over and attacked him. That is in no way justifiable.

[edwardandtubs]

With hundreds of thousands of people involved you would expect incidents like this. It happens at football matches, concerts or anywhere else there's a large crowd. It hardly constitutes "red shirt violence".

[manarak]

looks like a setup scene.

why are there so much cameras and why aren't the blows harder?

[Nick33]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

Perhaps he was shouting his disapproval of the reds or something of the sort. But the red clearly ran over and attacked him. That is in no way justifiable.

Typical Thailand - two blokes fighting and the interested crowd circling round videoing it and taking pictures making absolutely no effort at all to stop the two silly men from fighting in the street. It's a good job that one of them wasn't a foreigner as the big brave crowd would have started kicking and hitting the nasty foreigner and then running away in case they got hit back. The police would then have arrested the foreign trouble maker regardless of who was actually guilty of any misdemeanour and we would all be reading about foreign thugs attacking lovely peaceful Thai people.

[anotherpeter]

With hundreds of thousands of people involved you would expect incidents like this. It happens at football matches, concerts or anywhere else there's a large crowd. It hardly constitutes "red shirt violence".

It hardly constitutes a "peaceful protest" either.

[anotherpeter]

looks like a setup scene.

why are there so much cameras and why aren't the blows harder?

1) Everyone's been told to have cameras so they can provide evidence of shirt-A fighting shirt-B.

2) They are 2 old guys. They're hardly boxers.

[Ricardo]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

How dare anyone disagree verbally, with a Red-Shirt, do they think they're living in a democracy ? !

looks like a setup scene.

why are there so much cameras and why aren't the blows harder?

Yes, the Red-Shirt had obviously failed martial-arts, at UDD training-school.

[londonthai]

with a "victim of violence" in the title I would expect a little bit more than 13 seconds fist fight by 2 blokes. Apparently "the victim" first throw a kick, which made him to fall

[Jimi007]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

Perhaps he was shouting his disapproval of the reds or something of the sort. But the red clearly ran over and attacked him. That is in no way justifiable.

Typical Thailand - two blokes fighting and the interested crowd circling round videoing it and taking pictures making absolutely no effort at all to stop the two silly men from fighting in the street. It's a good job that one of them wasn't a foreigner as the big brave crowd would have started kicking and hitting the nasty foreigner and then running away in case they got hit back. The police would then have arrested the foreign trouble maker regardless of who was actually guilty of any misdemeanour and we would all be reading about foreign thugs attacking lovely peaceful Thai people.

I love "typical Thailand," then filled in by some British farang. Typical Thais that I know are very nice and respectful people. I guess it may be the elements one surrounds themselves with? There are bad people in any country, but they are not typical...

[Ulysses G.]

looks like a setup scene.

why are there so much cameras and why aren't the blows harder?

It REALLY DOES look faked.

[alfieconn]

Certainly the fella in the pink shirt needs to improve his push kick, can't see him fighting at Lumpini stadium soon

[PST]

Dont think it was staged,the guy in the pink shirt had his face smashed in by the other guys loudhailer,this is clearly visible in the video taken after at the police station.Pretty bad looking head wound.

PST.

[geriatrickid]

Technically, the fellow in the pink shirt could be a red sympathizer, just a lighter version. Perhaps he made fun of the other guy's cowboy hat.

All in all a display of stupidity. Pinky should have kept his mouth shut. And red should have stayed in the pickup, even if pinky may have asked him how much for a hayride. Who knows what provoked the bitchslapfest? It is idiotic and regretable, but sadly it happens everyday in Thailand, usually with men coming home and slapping their wives or girlfriends or kids about. Don't suppose that will make youtube.........

[Loz]

purely an observation...

WHy doesn't anyone tend to the bleeding wound on the man's head?

Could it be, it looks better on camera?

Didn't he have the 30bht for the health care?

ok, observation and a little taking the micky... My bad.

[Fatfrank]

really makes you think whether human beings are any different from pack of wild monkeys fighting over who gets the ripe banana

[ukfool]

Seen this one already. Anyone got any clips of Yellow shirt violence or police violence ?

Really ? There aren't any, wow, such honest, democratic, upstanding citizens.

[Navalator]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

Well, get a grip! It is patently clear that it was the red shirt who exercised the violence. Not unexpected either. It is interesting that the red shirt leaders and Thaksin's ex-wife and kids, have fled the country to leave their moron thugs to take the gaff for a lousy 2,000 baht each. Laying your ass on the line for an absentee tyrant has just got to be more valuable than 2,000 baht.

[duckleberry]

Not nearly as funny as the Monty Python fish-slapping sketch......................IMHO!

[teacherthailand77]

You are being sarcastic, right? If I remember right, the yellow shirts were attacking people, holding knives to their necks, firing guns... the PAD were far from peaceful.

Both sides have their violent extremists... the only difference is that the PAD (who have openly called for a less democratic form of government) got their way...

[featography]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

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Take a look at the beginning again. I did, 5 times. To me it looks like the red shirt did a twist to dodge a flying object, jumped down off the back of truck, did what looks like a twist and dodge from another flying object. Small rocks would be hard to spot in this video.

[Maestro]

Seen this one already. Anyone got any clips of Yellow shirt violence or police violence ?

Really ? There aren't any, wow, such honest, democratic, upstanding citizens.

Google is your friend.

Violence occurring at those demonstrations some two years ago was discussed at length in this forum at the time.

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[Laughing Gravy]

You can tell it is a set up. It is one on one. Usually 10 on 1 at least. That gave it away for me.

I do like the Benny Hill slap stick though. I am sure there will be a lot more to come over the next few days.

[elcent]

disguised in pink, guess who?

[IanForbes]

That is a pretty sad scrap. You can see far better any night that Everton plays Liverpool.

[britmaveric]

with a "victim of violence" in the title I would expect a little bit more than 13 seconds fist fight by 2 blokes. Apparently "the victim" first throw a kick, which made him to fall

let's not ruin the yellow supporters fantasy londonthai

[moetownblues]

Wow this is going to bring the country down.... A single fight between 2 people and reason unknown... Maybe he was having an affair with the other guys wife.

[yesdavy]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

Perhaps he was shouting his disapproval of the reds or something of the sort. But the red clearly ran over and attacked him. That is in no way justifiable.

In the video I saw, the short Red shirt guy with bullhorn runs over waving the bullhorn and the taller pink shirt guys raises a foot and kicks him, which is the first blow of the altercation. Facts do not require interpretation. Was the red shirt guy going to strike him? If you do not know then you can make it up according to your presumptions, or you can stick to facts.

Edit: Sorry, I just watched it again and the red shirt guy did not raise the bullhorn until after the pink shirt guy raised a leg to kick him.

[Puccini]

Looks as if the guy got out of his car and was harassing the red-shirt. Who knows? That clip doesn't show what was happening to cause it.

This is what a Nation editor wrote on his Twitter page about eight hours ago:

First report of untoward incident: Reds at Pathum Thani provincial hall assaulted a man who yelled at them for causing traffic chaos.

Source: https://twitter.com/tulsathit/status/10360227389

So be careful and don't complain about traffic disturbances caused by the demonstrators. That's what they probably want to achieve, to have people cower in fear, despite public proclamations that they would use no violence.