webfact Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Tour Bus Attendant High on Drug, Attacks Driver With 2 Feet Long Knife BANGKOK: -- A 21-year old tour bus attendant attacked the driver on the tour bus with a 2 inch-long knife. The driver lost control of the vehicle, causing the bus to fall into a nearby canal. More than twenty passengers were injured in the crash. The suspect has been apprehended by the police. He confessed he was high on drug 'Ice' when he attacked the bus driver. A double-decked tour bus with a Bangkok number plate fell into a canal at Kilometer 20 on Baan Dong Yai-Sai Ngarm Road. More than 20 passengers on the tour bus sustained minor injuries from the crash, bruises and cuts from the broken glass. Emergency rescue officials broke off the windows to remove the passengers from the overturned bus. They are being treated at the Pimai Hospital. The bus driver sustained the most serious injuries. Suchart Tangorn, 48 years old, was attacked with a 2 feet long knife by the tour bus attendant. The chartered tour bus was paid for by relatives of Sittichai Kohsang. It was carrying approximately 40 passengers who were scheduled to witness Sittichai's entering of a monkhood in Nakhon Ratchasima. On their way back to Bangkok, tour bus attendant Sampan Thienglim, 21 years old, attacked Suchart with a 2 feet-long knife. He slashed Suchart's back with the knife several times. Sampan then ran off the bus and ran into a nearby petrol station. He hijacked a motorcycle from one of the customers at the gas station and fled. Sampan has been arrested by the police in Pimai area. He confessed he was high on 'Ice' (street name for methamphetamine in Thailand) when he attacked the bus driver. He said he was paranoid that someone was out to get him. The bus driver, Suchart, is now in a stable condition. -- Tan Network 2012-02-27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kartman Posted February 27, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2012 Keep it metric see what happens when you go imperial. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 He said he "was paranoid someone was out to get him"? Well, they will be now after that little excerpt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 If he is pretty somone will be out to get him for sure now for a a long long time. No sympathy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Another paranoid ICE user. It's a dangerous drug, but no one who takes it believes it will happen to them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reasonableman Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 (edited) Wow, the reporter sure put his inches in his mouth with that headline Edited February 27, 2012 by Reasonableman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payboy Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 2 Feet Long Knife 2 inch-long knife The handle was 22 inches long then. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nisa Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Nobody noticed the guy bring a 2 foot knife onboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Payboy Posted February 27, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2012 Nobody noticed the guy bring a 2 foot knife onboard? Nah, they thought it was a sword. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKASA Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Another example of how drug use in the work place does not hurt others? I guess it is better it was a bus and not a airbus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbin Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Another example of how drug use in the work place does not hurt others? I guess it is better it was a bus and not a airbus. It actually is an example, but how often are we hearing these things? Considering the drugs are all over, we should be inundated with these stories. But we are not and this is still news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphic Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Another psycho Thai man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shurup Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 In the main time BIBs keep checking bars full of falangs on Koh Samui... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystic1 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Yeah, I truly believe he thought someone was out to get him as the bus driver was probably driving maniacly fast, causing the ICE weasel to freak out...... hence, the incident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 So where was the supervisor / the dispatcher who signaled that all was OK for departure? So how come the bus driver didn't notice this guy was high before departure or quickly after departure, and did nothing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I wonder what crap thought processes led him to think it was necessary to take 'ice' to work as a tour bus assistant? What a knob. He put so many others lives at risk. He'll be locked up for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyBowskill Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 wishes 2 inches was 2 feet.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancealot Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 A parang averages a little less then 2 feet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redroo Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 lucky no one was on the toilet at the time it over turned !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattayadingo Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Crazy. I'll stick to the car, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Still, its safer to travel with buses than cars. Only minor injuries , could have been a lot worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLew Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 This is all the farangs tourists fault It the tourists did not come here on holiday This guy would not have to work on a bus tour Without working on a tour bus he would have no job With no job he would have no money With no money = no money for drugs Farangs at fault again Hope no one is too seriously hurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 ...which is a great example of why you tell your kids never to even try meth. Tweekers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyserSoze01 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 wishes 2 inches was 2 feet.......... Funny, that's what she said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nisa Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 The guy says he was high on drugs and it is taken as a fact? Wonder if they tested his blood. A lot of people think being on drugs or drunk excuses behavior ... could have been he was trying to take out the drive for other reasons ... though I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animatic Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 So where was the supervisor / the dispatcher who signaled that all was OK for departure? So how come the bus driver didn't notice this guy was high before departure or quickly after departure, and did nothing? Well, to be fair, he may have taken it mid trip or just before departure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animatic Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 This is all the farangs tourists fault It the tourists did not come here on holiday This guy would not have to work on a bus tour Without working on a tour bus he would have no job With no job he would have no money With no money = no money for drugs Farangs at fault again Hope no one is too seriously hurt Why not just blame it on USA for forcing the stop of the Opium trade, thus forcing the dealers to find a new high profit product line. At least on opium they were relatively docile. Thievery up compared to normal folks, but homicidal tendencies down... well in comparison to meth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nisa Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 (edited) This is all the farangs tourists fault It the tourists did not come here on holiday This guy would not have to work on a bus tour Without working on a tour bus he would have no job With no job he would have no money With no money = no money for drugs Farangs at fault again Hope no one is too seriously hurt I doubt there was any farangs onboard the bus. Edited February 27, 2012 by Nisa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe666 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 If I had a choice of neighbors opium addict or meth head I would take the opium guy all he wants to do is sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedNIvar Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 They could not even get the size of the weapon right! 2 inches vs 24 inches is a big difference. I wonder what else in this story in erroneous. Got to take everything you read in Thailand with a grain of salt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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