Thai Red-Shirts Kidnap CAT Telecom CEO

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CAT Telecom CEO taken away by red-shirt motorcyclists

By The Nation

Arisaman Pongruangrong led some 300 motorcyclists to take CAT Telecom CEO Jirayuth Rungsrithong from the CAT Telecom head office at noon Monday.

Arisaman led the protesters to the Cat Telecom head office on Chaeng Wattana Road in Bangkok's Lak Si district at 12:30 pm.

The arrival of the red-shirt motorcyclists terrified CAT Telecom officials.

Security officials tried to prevent the protesters from entering the building.

But Arisaman managed to meet Jirayuth and took him out on a motorcycle.

The protesters demanded CAT Telecom to reconnect broadband connection of PTV station to the satellite uplink station.

Arisaman did not say where he led the CEO to but reporters heard Jirayuth was led to the CAT Telecom's telecom centre in Nonthaburi.

-- The Nation 2010-04-12

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[mesa55]

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What are they going to do with him???

[saintofsilence]

Arisaman will be up on kidnapping charges now , when they catch him he will go away for quite a while.

Edited April 12, 2010 by saintofsilence

[Aasim]

wow ... seems like he got a free ride ..

[whatsupdoc]

Another peaceful protest?????

[sunny747]

this is going out of control.......practically they are doing whatever they want to do...........no law here..........

[Pomthai]

These thugs simply seem to believe they are above the law, acts like this make the perpetrators nothing more than terrorists.

[thepodest]

IT'S A PEACEFUL PROTEST! I TOLD YA ALL.

[brianb1944]

Arisaman will be up on kidnapping charges now , when they catch him he will go away for quite a while.

If he is not Prime Minister

[brianb1944]

IT'S A PEACEFUL PROTEST! I TOLD YA ALL.

Do you really need to shout? we are not blind

[Jerrytheyoung]

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What are they going to do with him???

no problem: he get a free ride: he goes for inspecting and for reconnecting the broadband. In order to be sure it will be correctly done, Arisaman will pay the motorcycle for him....

This is a new method for fixing your TV at home instead to wait several days for repairing...

Edited April 12, 2010 by Jerrytheyoung

[Oberkommando]

Arisaman will be up on kidnapping charges now , when they catch him he will go away for quite a while.

No influential Thai does time. How long you been here?

[saintofsilence]

Looks like he has had a few training lessons with al qaeda

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ha ha who cares ....another tiger over here please !!!

[saintofsilence]

Looks like he has had a few training lessons with al qaeda , this has gone to far now Thaksin and these hard reds need to be put on Terrorist lists and arrested immediatly.

[wardje]

There is an arrest warrant out for this Arisaman.

If he would have been arrested once tha warrant was issued this would not have happened.

[jdinasia]

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What are they going to do with him???

no problem: he get a free ride: he goes for inspecting and for reconnecting the broadband. In order to be sure it will correctly done, Arisaman will pay the motorcycle for him....

and now you are condoning kidnapping (at least you certainly appear to be condoning it!) There goes one of the few moderate voices for the Reds that I have seen on here. It is now impossible not to lump you in with the rest that condone this type of violence. (Yes kidnapping is violence.)

Arisman and the reds have added kidnapping clearly to the list of crimes the red leadership is guilty of now. (since some people have chosen to look at holding the Thai soldiers as kidnapping!)

[Morch]

According to a friend of my wife who works at CAT, the red shirt mob already "brought him back".

[whatsupdoc]

There is an arrest warrant out for this Arisaman.

If he would have been arrested once tha warrant was issued this would not have happened.

And what does it take to arrest him? Another battle and another bloodbath I am afraid....

[dplast]

Tirn off my TV and I take drastic measures also..

[geovalin]

Arisman is just asking this guy to make his job and even provides the lift. Nothing to make you angry.

Edited April 12, 2010 by geovalin

[mesa55]

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What are they going to do with him???

no problem: he get a free ride: he goes for inspecting and for reconnecting the broadband. In order to be sure it will be correctly done, Arisaman will pay the motorcycle for him....

This is a new method for fixing your TV at home instead to wait several days for repairing...

hahah! They should start this as a new method for express service at immigration services!

"If your wait in line is too long, just go ahead and kidnap the immigration office supervisor on a motorbike and ride him around town. Maybe he'll stamp your passport faster next time you come."

[brianbiegler]

This post was clearly made in jest... come on .. when the going gets tough, the tough get sarcastic..

i thought it was funny..

this is new way of fixing your cable tv problems..

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What are they going to do with him???

no problem: he get a free ride: he goes for inspecting and for reconnecting the broadband. In order to be sure it will correctly done, Arisaman will pay the motorcycle for him....

and now you are condoning kidnapping (at least you certainly appear to be condoning it!) There goes one of the few moderate voices for the Reds that I have seen on here. It is now impossible not to lump you in with the rest that condone this type of violence. (Yes kidnapping is violence.)

Arisman and the reds have added kidnapping clearly to the list of crimes the red leadership is guilty of now. (since some people have chosen to look at holding the Thai soldiers as kidnapping!)

[humqdpf]

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What are they going to do with him???

They are going to force him to reinstall their broadband connection to their TV station and ultimately get their TV station back to full broadcast.

Gives me an idea - for those occasions when your Thai broadband goes slow or stops but you still have to pay for it (or the situation I am in now where 12call have charged me 300baht for 5 local phone calls plus 5 minutes online and refuse to deal with it) and no one will take your complaint seriously, round up some locals, pay them a few hundred baht and head down to the providers office to get the CEO to solve the problem.

[AGareth2]

Mob rule

[saintofsilence]

Arisaman will be up on kidnapping charges now , when they catch him he will go away for quite a while.

No influential Thai does time. How long you been here?

Long enough to know that anything is likely in Thailand.

[maxjay]

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What are they going to do with him???

Perhaps they want more reliable internet service or free L.D.?

[jesimps]

These thugs simply seem to believe they are above the law, acts like this make the perpetrators nothing more than terrorists.

Exactly like the yellow shirts when they occupied the airport. The only difference being that the yellow shirts did it with the collusion of the law. Judicery = Yellowshirts

[theoldgit]

These thugs have really lost the plot they have absolutly no credibility, I am pretty sure that they will very soon lose any sympathy they may still have from the majority of the Thai people.

[Loaded]

Arisaman will be up on kidnapping charges now , when they catch him he will go away for quite a while.

No influential Thai does time. How long you been here?

but isn't privilege for influential people something the red shirts wish to abolish?