Military Karaoke Truck On Silom Road, Bangkok

[george]

[alfieconn]

Great..... only in this country

[jfchandler]

Same thing parked under the Asoke BTS station on Sukhumvit Road lately, along with a detachment of soldiers standing around the station platform there and down on the street... not doing much of anything most of the time, as best as I can tell..

But walked by the other night....and the truck was blaring music out into the street.

I think the military considers them somehow part of their psy-ops operation... As in the same truck could broadcast "Reds Go Home" if called into duty...

[Crossy]

Isn't that the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) crowd control system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device

Nah I thought not, it's a Thai military karaoke truck

[shawndoc]

Ting tong

[Hssl]

Isn't that the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) crowd control system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device

Nah I thought not, it's a Thai military karaoke truck

Ask mod Soundman - it looks like one of his rigs......................... NOT!

[iBkk]

This was also happening on Sukhumvit last week !

Hilarious

[CHdiver]

It must be a powerful weapon against not Asian Armies, judging from the Quality of the average Thai Karaoke. They would go insane in a short time. Somehow similliar to Swiss Jodeling

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Isn't that the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) crowd control system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device

Nah I thought not, it's a Thai military karaoke truck

I think I'd prefer the LRAD over Thai Karaoke.

[toptuan]

Worse than Chinese Water Torture.

[cdnmatt]

lol...

Thai version of kum-bay-yaa, I guess...

[mca]

You've gotta love the Thai way sometimes.

I live next to an army camp. At Songkran rather than being on a " heightened state of alert " due to the current situation there was a large gang of squaddies outside the main gate chucking water at anybody passing.

On the subject of karaoke I remember a couple of years ago a Thai bloke wasting about half a dozen of his neighbours with a gun for playing karaoke at full volume all night all week despite his repeated pleas for them to stop.

Tragic sure but there was a part of me that thought " Mate I know where you're coming from "

I haven't got a thing against karaoke. (I've been known to pick up the mic myself on occasion). Only all night full volume <deleted> singing karaoke.

Edited May 8, 2010 by mca