Thai drug dealer held after 'come and get me' texts

BANGKOK, July 5, 2012 (AFP) - A bungling Thai drug dealer who sent text messages goading police to apprehend him has been arrested with dozens of amphetamine pills, a local police officer said Thursday.

The man, who is 24, was caught on Wednesday night in a town in northeast Thailand, after police received several messages challenging them to make an arrest, Major Viriyaphab Wangprom of the local police said.

The texts, apparently sent in anger after a number of his gang had been caught by police, read "come and arrest me, I am in Laos", a neighbouring country where the man is believed to have picked up his drugs.

"During an investigation he confessed that he and an accomplice sent several messages to police mobile phones because they were angry that several of his traffickers had been arrested," Viriyaphab told AFP.

Viriyaphab was charged with drug trafficking offences after being caught with 90 amphetamine tablets in his possession.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2012-07-05

Oh well.......he'll be feeling a bit stupid now

I hope the police replied to him "Challenge accepted".

Methballs - lowering IQ from the first trip on.

And how did he get the mobile numbers of the officers ?

And how did he get the mobile numbers of the officers ?

Aha.

public billboard policy to improve the police image regular show big boss and an mobile nr.

sheet's from NK immigration show mobile nr as well

so he could take his pick.

Ask and you shall receive. Good point on knowing the police mobile numbers by the way.

TV needs a Darwin Awards sub-forum just for threads like this.

And how did he get the mobile numbers of the officers ?

Aha.

He was probably a police officer himself.

After they cuffed him, they should have texted him saying "U R under arrest scumbag."

Edited July 6, 201214 yr by Yunla

TV needs a Darwin Awards sub-forum just for threads like this.

I like this idea.... I still think the Taliban guy who saw a wanted poster of himself with a reward of USd100 and then turned himself in to get the award takes the cake but this guy in this thread also comes close.

TV needs a Darwin Awards sub-forum just for threads like this.

I think Thai's are disqualified from the Darwin Awards, just to give the rest of the world a chance.

What a prize plonker.

Oh well.......he'll be feeling a bit stupid now

He must be too stupid to feel stupid.

The guy is soft as a sneaker full of puppy poop.

To misused the Welsh: He's clearly tope,

and so tope he doesn't know that he's tope.

Edited July 6, 201214 yr by animatic

It's very handy for those drug dealers to have police mobile phone numbers.

There was a guy on the run in Australia, who did the same thing , but he managed to evade capture for years, eventually got 40 years in prison!

Slightly OT, but a true and funny story about text messaging and crime in Thailand. Yonks ago when I worked as a volunteer Thai translator in BKK, I was asked to help translate for a British man who had been arrested in possession of some cannabis. He strongly denied the charge and said that the police had 'planted' it on his body during the police search.

At that point his mobile phone went beep beep with an incoming text message. As he was handcuffed, he asked me to read out the text message to him. It was in English and from his Thai wife. I read it aloud 'Darling, please come home before the Thai police find the cannabis in your pocket...'

I'm not sure what happened to him after that

Simon

Edited July 6, 201214 yr by simon43

The guy is soft as a sneaker full of puppy poop.

To misused the Welsh: He's clearly tope,

and so tope he doesn't know that he's tope.

Good quote.

If only all criminals would be so accomodating to the boys in brown.

The police here maybe lazy and corrupt but that doesn't mean they're incompentant. Given the right motivation, if they want to get a crook, they can and will.

"The man, who is 24, was caught on Wednesday night in a town in northeast Thailand, after police received several messages challenging them to make an arrest, Major Viriyaphab Wangprom of the local police said."

"Viriyaphab was charged with drug trafficking offences after being caught with 90 amphetamine tablets in his possession."

Either the Nation is reporting to their usual inept shocking standard, or there is one helluva coincidence here. Did he arrest himself? Either way, I think the Nation will be getting a visit from the law soon, defamation writ in hand.

Sounds like the guy was taking a bit too much of his own product.

What a muppet.....

The police here maybe lazy and corrupt but that doesn't mean they're incompentant. Given the right motivation, if they want to get a crook, they can and will.

And sometimes they even manage to get the right one, especially if they get some help from the right one.

Epic !!!

Oh god. You'd think that people who are "smart" enough to smuggle drugs across borders are smart enough to know that cell phones can be accurately traced!!!

And how did he get the mobile numbers of the officers ?

Don't you keep the numbers of your business partners?

I hope he gets a 30 year stay at the Bkk Hilton surrounded by Mars Bar Creek.

Looks like an ID10T error to me.