Tour Bus Attendant High On Drug, Attacks Driver With 2 Feet Long Knife

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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

[kartman]

Keep it metric see what happens when you go imperial.

[ratcatcher]

He said he "was paranoid someone was out to get him"?

Well, they will be now after that little excerpt.

[harrry]

If he is pretty somone will be out to get him for sure now for a a long long time. No sympathy.

[BookMan]

Another paranoid ICE user. It's a dangerous drug, but no one who takes it believes it will happen to them.

[Reasonableman]

Wow, the reporter sure put his inches in his mouth with that headline

Edited February 27, 2012 by Reasonableman

[Payboy]

2 Feet Long Knife

2 inch-long knife

The handle was 22 inches long then.

[Nisa]

Nobody noticed the guy bring a 2 foot knife onboard?

[Payboy]

Nobody noticed the guy bring a 2 foot knife onboard?

Nah, they thought it was a sword.

[RKASA]

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.

[bobbin]

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.

[morphic]

Another psycho Thai man

[Shurup]

In the main time BIBs keep checking bars full of falangs on Koh Samui...

[mystic1]

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

[scorecard]

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?

[Briggsy]

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.

[JeremyBowskill]

wishes 2 inches was 2 feet..........

[Dancealot]

A parang averages a little less then 2 feet

[redroo]

lucky no one was on the toilet at the time it over turned !!

[pattayadingo]

Crazy.

I'll stick to the car, thanks.

[balo]

Still, its safer to travel with buses than cars. Only minor injuries , could have been a lot worse.

[LuckyLew]

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

[connda]

...which is a great example of why you tell your kids never to even try meth. Tweekers

[KeyserSoze01]

wishes 2 inches was 2 feet..........

Funny, that's what she said.

[Nisa]

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.

[animatic]

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.

[animatic]

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.

[Nisa]

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

[moe666]

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.

[RedNIvar]

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.