Thai senator kills cousin in hotel gun accident

Bangkok, Aug 13, 2012 (AFP) - A Thai senator accidentally shot his cousin dead as he tried to put away the 9mm sub-machine gun that he had placed on the table during a family meal, police said Monday.

Boonsong Kowawisarat fatally injured Chanakarn Detkard, 46, when he mistakenly fired the Uzi at a private dining area of the Garden Resort, in Phrae province, northern Thailand, on Sunday evening.

Chanakarn, who worked as a secretary for the senator, suffered a bullet wound to the stomach and died on the way to hospital, according to local police, who said around five family members were at the hotel dinner.

Police said 56-year-old Boonsong, who is the senate representative for northern Mae Hong Son province, will be charged with causing death by negligence. He faces a maximum of 10 years imprisonment and a 20,000 baht ($636) fine.

Officials said it was unclear why the senator was armed at the meal.

"From our initial inquiry, the secretary's family will not sue because they were relatives and it was an accident -- he did not mean to do it," a local police officer told AFP by telephone.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2012-08-13

"Accidentally" fired an uzi and killed his cousin - oops!

A Thai senator accidentally shot his cousin dead as he tried to put away the 9mm sub-machine gun that he had placed on the table during a family meal, police said Monday

Has got to be the most off the wall sentence I have read, only on a par with "It was the day my grandmother blew up", and that was fiction

Good grief.

Darwin works in reverse here.

RIP to the unfortunate victim.

Standart dinner situation, nothing to write about

Why the hell carrie a shit gun like a Uzi around? It's as effective as a knife, you can't hit shit with, it unless you stand 2meters from the target, because of the short barrel and high rate of fire...well or of cause, if you fire it, while having dinner with people, you can hit them

Wild wild west up there. Law makers carry Uzi sub-machine guns to family outings for fear of the un-expected.

Can't trust anyone, not even your gun toting Granny.

Aren't Uzi's categorized as war weapons!

Did he have a license for an Uzi. And more to the point why in hells name would you bring one to a family dinner that is at a restaurant?????

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An Uzi at the table? Clearly no arguments happening at that dinner table at nights.

Condolences to the family members on their loss

I would imagine a real law enforcement official could find additional charges to press. This was probably a tragic accident, as reported/claimed but the real tragic part, are the circumstances which put all of the mistakes at the same place for this to ever have happened.

On a positive note, the major affect was to his own gene pool. RIP to the lady.

I could see why you would need one of these at the dinner table. Especially on mother's day. What a total dushbag ?

Pass me the butter, honey.

Standart dinner situation, nothing to write about

Why the hell carrie a shit gun like a Uzi around? It's as effective as a knife, you can't hit shit with, it unless you stand 2meters from the target, because of the short barrel and high rate of fire...well or of cause, if you fire it, while having dinner with people, you can hit them

It seems to have been effective enough in this instance by finding its target without any problems.

as he tried to put away the 9mm sub-machine gun that he had placed on the table during a family meal, police said Monday.

A Senator?

"Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who".

Well it sounds like something out of Monty Python.

They had heard the service was bad there.

And he is charged with precisely? Nothing? Notthenation strikes again?

When is this country going to learn the difference between criminal and civil legality? You can't just accidentally shoot a relative, friend or mate and leave it up to the relatives to decide whether to prosecute.

Accidental death is accidental death, but it is still death caused in this case by sometimes pea brained behavior. So if you canscare the relatives into not suing you can literally get away with murder??????

Straight out of a 007 movie. What happened to the trick chair over the shark tank? Is that out of fashion these days?

Blame the cousin, if they had not been there they would not have been killed, same farang in road accident.

Accidental lead poisoning.

And he is charged with precisely? Nothing? Notthenation strikes again?

When is this country going to learn the difference between criminal and civil legality? You can't just accidentally shoot a relative, friend or mate and leave it up to the relatives to decide whether to prosecute.

Accidental death is accidental death, but it is still death caused in this case by sometimes pea brained behavior. So if you canscare the relatives into not suing you can literally get away with murder??????

He just shot their reli with an oozi...ya reckon that scared them any ?

If you can even bring guns to a private party... Oh,,.....

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I'm at a loss of words. The richer they are the more careless they become................

So much once more for safety issues in Thailand.

Guns are not supposed to be taken to any kind of party unless you are a professional cop or agent.

But I think that man obviously was really careless...

Standart dinner situation, nothing to write about

Why the hell carrie a shit gun like a Uzi around? It's as effective as a knife, you can't hit shit with, it unless you stand 2meters from the target, because of the short barrel and high rate of fire...well or of cause, if you fire it, while having dinner with people, you can hit them

It sounds like you don't have any first-hand experience of submachine guns. The UZI has a 10.2 inch barrel, i.e. longer than most pistols. I don't have any personal experience of firing the UZI, but extensive experience of the not dissimilar Swedish 'Carl Gustav M/45' ( http://en.wikipedia....arl_Gustav_M/45 ) which has an 8 inch barrel and the same rate of fire (600 rounds/min). To quote Wikipedia: 'The m/45 is fairly accurate up to 200 meters', which I can attest to.

One more quote from Wikipedia: 'The pistol grip is fitted with a grip safety, making it [i.e. the UZI] difficult to fire accidentally.'

/ Priceless

Nepotism most ironic.

"Officials said it was unclear why the senator was armed at the meal."

With a fricking machine gun? There's way, way more to this story that we're unlikely to ever hear.

Pass the salt please.

"click"

I said, pass the goddamn salt...now...

Guess he didn´t like his cousin to much. (cousin)

Wow, what is the point of having a gun like that at the dinner table? When will common sense prevail?

"Go ahead, make my dinner"

I am sure with the narcotics problems in that area, a guy has to have protection handy, even if he does shoot his own family.

Why would he need to take such a weapon or any weapon to a hotel for a family dinner. It is clearly obvious that he is not trained or qualified to handle such a weapon. Makes me wonder if it was registered and he licenced

what a complete tool! 10 years? anyone this stupid needs to be put away for the rest of his life to keep the rest of us safe. Senator? good grief!

I thought the latest mobile phone was the in-crowd dinner chat. Seems l am wrong.