Party For 4000 Auto Workers Turns Into Violent Fight: Thailand

[geriatrickid]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

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Automobile production requires trained and "educated" personnel. Although assembly lines are automated, the workers have to be able to read the monitors and operate complex machinery. There is a reason why they are termed skilled labour. I always have a chuckle when people ridicule skilled tradespeople. It may come as a shock, but some of these trades require people with excellent eye and hand co-ordination, advanced spatial processing skills and inherent math skills. In plain english, a good tradesman is just as intelligent as a manager, or nurse. Our lab would have been lost without the workie that would help design a specialty piece of machinery or operate some of the equipment, For all you know, it could have been the engineers that lost control. Anyone that has been in university, knows that the engineering students were abunch of social misfits with a weakness for the bottle. Or, it might have been the mid level managers. Theya re known to lose control when freebies are on offer.

[Thait Spot]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

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Automobile production requires trained and "educated" personnel. Although assembly lines are automated, the workers have to be able to read the monitors and operate complex machinery. There is a reason why they are termed skilled labour. I always have a chuckle when people ridicule skilled tradespeople. It may come as a shock, but some of these trades require people with excellent eye and hand co-ordination, advanced spatial processing skills and inherent math skills. In plain english, a good tradesman is just as intelligent as a manager, or nurse. Our lab would have been lost without the workie that would help design a specialty piece of machinery or operate some of the equipment, For all you know, it could have been the engineers that lost control. Anyone that has been in university, knows that the engineering students were abunch of social misfits with a weakness for the bottle. Or, it might have been the mid level managers. Theya re known to lose control when freebies are on offer.

It takes some skill to build a grenade for sure.

It takes something unprintable to take it to a company party and something altogether worse to blow it up.

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[sirchai]

"Off duty Emergency medical staff were called in to deal with the injured including one person who is said to have had stomach injuries caused by a home made grenade"

The on duty guys were too busy throwing bottles....---

[whistleblower]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

?????

Automobile production requires trained and "educated" personnel. Although assembly lines are automated, the workers have to be able to read the monitors and operate complex machinery. There is a reason why they are termed skilled labour. I always have a chuckle when people ridicule skilled tradespeople. It may come as a shock, but some of these trades require people with excellent eye and hand co-ordination, advanced spatial processing skills and inherent math skills. In plain english, a good tradesman is just as intelligent as a manager, or nurse. Our lab would have been lost without the workie that would help design a specialty piece of machinery or operate some of the equipment, For all you know, it could have been the engineers that lost control. Anyone that has been in university, knows that the engineering students were abunch of social misfits with a weakness for the bottle. Or, it might have been the mid level managers. Theya re known to lose control when freebies are on offer.

Excellent hand eye coordination? Is that why shots were fired but no one killed? people should take this for what it is....A bunch of cavemen like thugs, who still cant duke it out man to man and have to fight in packs. When you see things like 'one group of teenagers shoot at another group of teenagers for Gangnam style dancing at them', you know the brain power of these people. Thats why they are strictly controlled at work. let them think on their own and they get pissed and fight. Pathetic

[peecee]

"Homemade grenade" at a party. The "usual police security."

Social hand grenades had a few to many sherbets turned the shindig into a real explosive party; TIT!

[dcsw53]

How do they know it was a homemade handgrenade, maybe made at work.

Can't wait for the intercompany fottball match, order the ambulances now !!

[PhilipCook]

Unwise to arrange large company gatherings(>100 people) Simply not worth the risk, better to give the employees a party allowance and let them arrange their own small gatherings. The risk of something going wrong with a crowd of 4,000 people + alcohol is so much greater than the reward of having a good time with colleagues/family members.

[happysanook]

Amazing Thailand - indeed!

Unseen Thailand - for sure!

When are these people going to: a. behave like civilised human beings instead of opting for mass brawls/riots/demos when they cant get their way?

b. realize that the internet is going to stay and just because they dont report it in the English speaking papers, doesnt mean it

doesnt mean it wont reach the rest of the world.

Who the hell goes to a party tooled up with home made grenades and guns if they had no intention to start trouble??

Why should it be reported in English and reach the rest of the world. Do they report brawls in the USA in the Thai press? No. A brawl at a party in Thailand isn't newsworthy in other countries. Not sure why you're so interested in wanting the whole world to know about some party punch-up. Happens every single weekend in the UK, but rarely reported even in the locality it happens in.

Really? When's the last 4000 person factory party ended up in a brawl with grenades and gunshots...? At the pub...yea...not at work parties.

[HeavyDrinker]

4000 people from formerly rival firms, getting drunk together when there is high insecurity about job security....somethings going to give.

The real buffoons are the organisers, not the brawlers.

I think this was meant to be one of those "We're all Thais" affairs with the press present but it gang aft agely as the Poet Burns once said...

[ChrisY1]

Gravel or Grass.......step outside.....!!

[action]

"The Auto Alliance company is located in the Amata City industrial estate, Amphur Pluak Daeng, Rayong province."

Probably a futile point, but Auto Alliance is located in Hemaraj's Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate. Not Amata City.

[masaomi]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

totally agree with you! Not to mention uncivilized, uncultured & uncouth. Always the aggressor! Highly reactive too!

[markt7081]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

?????

Automobile production requires trained and "educated" personnel. Although assembly lines are automated, the workers have to be able to read the monitors and operate complex machinery. There is a reason why they are termed skilled labour. I always have a chuckle when people ridicule skilled tradespeople. It may come as a shock, but some of these trades require people with excellent eye and hand co-ordination, advanced spatial processing skills and inherent math skills. In plain english, a good tradesman is just as intelligent as a manager, or nurse. Our lab would have been lost without the workie that would help design a specialty piece of machinery or operate some of the equipment, For all you know, it could have been the engineers that lost control. Anyone that has been in university, knows that the engineering students were abunch of social misfits with a weakness for the bottle. Or, it might have been the mid level managers. Theya re known to lose control when freebies are on offer.

Automobile production requires trained and "educated" personnel ????? <deleted>?

Ive been in the auto industry all my life.

Working on the assembly line is the pitts.

You certainly dont need any form of education to fit the same 20 bolts to 250 cars a shift.

[Globeman]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

... Whereas the highly educated upper classes behave with dignity, honesty, integrity and emotional maturity at all times.

[Sunny1803]

Thais are just children, with guns and attitude!

and so are some in US...stop pointing the entire community ..for few bunch of Jokers out there...

[AllanB]

Statistics like 1,000 times the UK gun homicide rate and now hand grenades and guns found in Xmas crackers, makes me wonder why I chose Thailand............. Sheyyyyt!

Edited December 17, 2012 by AllanB

[kevvy]

my wife works there and is senior management level , we decided not to go and just had a small party with 18 employes , we had fun at this one , when you get large number of workers together you are really looking for trouble

[NoshowJones]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

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Yeah, like English football hooligans.

What about the Scottish ones who march trying to play flutes, followed by drunken brawlers around the 12th july every year in the West of Scotland.

[DekDaeng]

Been to a couple of parties up country with a lot of people attending, all except one have ended with a fight...so I'm not surprised...

Funeral at a wat just near ended abruptly after a number of gunshots -

[DekDaeng]

was meant to be one of those "We're all Thais" affairs

Then it quickly degenerated into one of those "We're all Thais" affairs

Edited December 17, 2012 by DekDaeng

[TackyToo]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

Isn't that the way the ruling class (no matter which color) want them to be. Seems like they moved Neandertal over here to have space to develop civilisation elsewhere.

[Rickster]

And there was me thinking it was just Aussie's who can't handle their p1ss!!!!

[siamjimi]

Amazing Thailand - indeed!

Unseen Thailand - for sure!

When are these people going to: a. behave like civilised human beings instead of opting for mass brawls/riots/demos when they cant get their way?

b. realize that the internet is going to stay and just because they dont report it in the English speaking papers, doesnt mean it

doesnt mean it wont reach the rest of the world.

Who the hell goes to a party tooled up with home made grenades and guns if they had no intention to start trouble??

Why should it be reported in English and reach the rest of the world. Do they report brawls in the USA in the Thai press? No. A brawl at a party in Thailand isn't newsworthy in other countries. Not sure why you're so interested in wanting the whole world to know about some party punch-up. Happens every single weekend in the UK, but rarely reported even in the locality it happens in.

DJ - that’s a nonsense remark - if 4000 auto workers in the USA were brought together for a party and brought guns and hand-grenades with them it would make worldwide news - how simple minded for you to say that bcoz its a local issue the news is only local value. Thailand branches of Ford & Mazda have serious issues on their hands with the bad press from this - but if this were to happen in USA the corporate office would be firing the entire lot of them simply due to the media pressure and eye in the sky sort of mentality.

Edited December 17, 2012 by metisdead
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[AllanB]

I know Thais have guns, like many other countries including the US, but been thinking about these so called "hand grenades" and if no one was killed or even seriously injured they couldn't have been much good it they were thrown into a crowd.

We used to make these when we were apprentices, just simple weed killer and sugar jobbies in a small steel casing, they blew a 1 cubic metre hole in a carpark and anyone even close would have been killed for sure.

My guess is that they were fireworks in cardboard tubes, Thais make them all the time.

Good headline though, Murdock would be proud, expect to see it on Fux News soon and with "depleted uranium used".

Hell they may be reading this, a good source for them......so a self fulfilling prophecy..

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Edited December 17, 2012 by AllanB

[Ferangled]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

And recent history shows just how much better behaved the "higher" classes are and how well they use their elevated positions to lead the rank & file down the correct path...

[Thait Spot]

I just cannot understand, nobody noticed that it was Thaksins fault as usual !

Indeed. He sets such a high standard of moral integrity for the nation.

Crime does pay!

[PEP]

And there was me thinking it was just Aussie's who can't handle their p1ss!!!!

Rickster. as a native born Australian who is a very moderate, social drinker, I think your comments are are little bit off the mark and to some people may be offensive.

Why not become familiar with the Forum Rules before posting?

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7) Not to post slurs or degrading comments directed towards any group on the basis of race, nationality, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

[khunken]

The 'lower' classes are highly uneducated, and many have alcohol problems. In other words, dangrously unpredictable, and easily led.

And recent history shows just how much better behaved the "higher" classes are and how well they use their elevated positions to lead the rank & file down the correct path...

For once I agree with you. Whether these factory workers can be termed lower-class is very much debatable. The upper-classes have the funds & contacts to get away with far worse than this. E.G. The Ferrari 'killer'.

[axact]

And there was me thinking it was just Aussie's who can't handle their p1ss!!!!

Rickster. as a native born Australian who is a very moderate, social drinker, I think your comments are are little bit off the mark and to some people may be offensive.

Why not become familiar with the Forum Rules before posting?

Forum Rules

7) Not to post slurs or degrading comments directed towards any group on the basis of race, nationality, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

Touchy touchy, what about all those discriminatory comments about the thais, double standards ? Besides most people know the Aussies like drinking

[TommoPhysicist]

What is the mindset of these people? They go to a party with hand guns, and home made grenades?

What will they bring if they go to a political rally? What will they need to go to war?

What is wrong with this country?

Isn't there another thread about Americans wanting the right to take guns to work?

What's wrong with this country that isn't wrong with America ?????????