Teenage Gang Nabbed For Over 60 Robberies: Bangkok

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Teenage gang nabbed for over 60 robberies
Mary Bradley
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- A gang of teenagers was arrested for allegedly robbing more than 60 men during the past three months, including Chulalongkorn University students.

"During the interrogation, they confessed to stealing motorcycles and robbing people since December. They committed about 50 crimes in the Yannawa area alone," Pol Maj General Wanlop Pratummueang, commander of Metropolitan Police Division 6, said yesterday.

One of the suspects has a pregnant wife so they decided not to target women.

The suspects, aged 16-18, were driving stolen motorbikes when they were nabbed.

Kunchart Utaiwichakul, a Chulalongkorn student, positively identified the thieves, who attacked him at a bus stop in front of his campus after he refused to hand them his cellphone.

"They beat me up until I collapsed. Then, they fled. I was lying there until a lecturer walked past and rushed me to a hospital," he said.

Police vowed to investigate further to nail all the accomplices.

"We believe the gang must have had more than seven members," said Pol Lt Colonel Panom Chuathong, deputy superintendent of Pathum Wan Police Station.


-- The Nation 2013-03-14

[geriatrickid]

The Malicious 7.

Their story to come to a Television screen soon complete with coppers dutifully pointing at some scrawny kids with masks over their faces .

[nevets]

How do thay know there are 7.

[lizardtongue]

How do thay know there are 7.

"We believe the gang must have had more than seven members," said Pol Lt

Colonel Panom Chuathong, deputy superintendent of Pathum Wan Police

Station.

I would imagine it goes something like this, Q "How many of your friends were involved"? 'Slap' A "At least another 7 krap" 'Slap' "Names" 'ouch' Somchai, Poon etc etc

[JeremyBowskill]

Great photography, matches up perfectly with the headline!

[nami]

Scumbags! I don't have a big problem with small thieves like this when they just steal. Now, knocking out people it's unacceptable, I wish they would try with me some day. Maybe they would kill me but at least 2 or 3 of them would hit the asphalt with their teeth. grr

[tragickingdom]

People confess to anything if the interrogation takes long enough. One should sincerely doubt if the right suspects are in custody. The Thai police seem to be working pretty well when they get a deadline, they always make an arrest or two just before the deadline given by outraged elitist, businessmen or politicians is given to them. Add to the mix that Thai lawyers are unaffordable for most Thai people and that confessing means half the sentence instead of double and everybody who can count to ten could expect that lots of people are wrongfully convicted everyday. In the meantime the sons and daughters of the rich walk away from prosecution never mind if they are the offspring from a deputy PM who murdered a policeman or the son of a billionaire whose alcohol abuse and cocaine use go unnoticed in court orders when they are involved in a nasty hit and run.

But it makes great TV of course a couple of tattooed boys from Klongtoey on TV, they look at least guilty.

[cup-O-coffee]

The average human male sends two to three million sperm speeding to the female egg.

Time after time I read about Thai lunacy and time after time I ask myself, "These were the fastest?"

I think it is possible that the missing link is not, after all, missing.

These people have some very serious personal problems and personal issues to deal with, and I do not see a pleasant outcome in the future by any extent.

[A Member]

According to one story they never targeted women because one of the gang has a pregnant wife. Have to admire the compassion and common courtesy !

[drdoom6996]

Scumbags! I don't have a big problem with small thieves like this when they just steal. Now, knocking out people it's unacceptable, I wish they would try with me some day. Maybe they would kill me but at least 2 or 3 of them would hit the asphalt with their teeth. grr

So stealing is ok as long as you don't physically hurt someone. You must be Thai. If not................................................ I will look forward to your 18th post.

[MaxLee]

How do children learn and witness about violence apart from movies and games?

1. Their teachers who beat the crap out of them from an early age on. There never has been an abolishment of violence performed by teachers, at least not in Thai schools and kindergartens, and as a former interim English teacher, I witnessed it with my own eyes...

2. The role models: red bull driver or Mu-Ham, the young crook who JUST has mental problems...

3. Videos published on YouTube show politicians and other high so Thai-Chinese who abuse their powers, by slam-smacking airport checkers' ears, kicking ladies' all over the place because they can't get through the one way lane first. And there was a YouTube video which has shown people beating the crap out of each other in parliament.

Now why do children become violent...

.... because society has been brainwashed to believe that status is talen for granted and children will obediently learn what is taught in a so called education system....

[T_Dog]

Happens everywhere. I caught two kids 17 and 18 trying to get my car stereo back in the USA. It was their second attempt and this time I had a wireless alarm. Turns out they had broken into over 50 cars over the summer and the cops found evidence in both their cars and homes. I got to talk to them and they said the first couple times were exciting and then it just got to be a habit. One kid was okay but the other one was a bad egg. He asked me why I pepper-sprayed him and I told him it was because my hand gun was locked up. Parents didn't seem to care a bit about these two boys.

[laislica]

People confess to anything if the interrogation takes long enough. One should sincerely doubt if the right suspects are in custody. The Thai police seem to be working pretty well when they get a deadline, they always make an arrest or two just before the deadline given by outraged elitist, businessmen or politicians is given to them. Add to the mix that Thai lawyers are unaffordable for most Thai people and that confessing means half the sentence instead of double and everybody who can count to ten could expect that lots of people are wrongfully convicted everyday. In the meantime the sons and daughters of the rich walk away from prosecution never mind if they are the offspring from a deputy PM who murdered a policeman or the son of a billionaire whose alcohol abuse and cocaine use go unnoticed in court orders when they are involved in a nasty hit and run.

But it makes great TV of course a couple of tattooed boys from Klongtoey on TV, they look at least guilty.

Indeed, and the brainwashing starts a lot earlier than most people imagine.

I see very small children watching the soaps with their parents.

Violence for the sake of it, guns out and used in an instant.

Black magic, ghosts, it's all there and gets to be bred in.

[Rancid]

Yeah society is to blame, if only we had more social workers. But hey government policy creates the environment, yeah makes sense then to let further goevernment ineptitude show they are fixing it while of course they are not.

[cup-O-coffee]

According to one story they never targeted women because one of the gang has a pregnant wife. Have to admire the compassion and common courtesy !

Yeah! A regular modern day Robin Hood and his following of merry men they are, and a merry ole' band they are. Shame on those victims for being better off than these poor misunderstood waifs.

[cup-O-coffee]

Yeah society is to blame, if only we had more social workers. But hey government policy creates the environment, yeah makes sense then to let further goevernment ineptitude show they are fixing it while of course they are not.

Communism or Socialism or Nationalism, or a bit of everything. Take the parents (especially the father) out of the picture and you get this. The family unit is a direct threat to government, which is run by Big Corporation, and they both want to raise your children. Yeah! I read that comment, "if only we had more social workers". There you go, bleating like the sheep you are; forgetting your duty and responsibility and giving it all up along with your freedoms so you can have government drones run your life and have authority over everything you do simply on their word and their word alone.

The state of the children is a reflection of the depth that a society has sunk to.

Edited March 15, 2013 by cup-O-coffee

[cup-O-coffee]

How do children learn and witness about violence apart from movies and games?

1. Their teachers who beat the crap out of them from an early age on. There never has been an abolishment of violence performed by teachers, at least not in Thai schools and kindergartens, and as a former interim English teacher, I witnessed it with my own eyes...

2. The role models: red bull driver or Mu-Ham, the young crook who JUST has mental problems...

3. Videos published on YouTube show politicians and other high so Thai-Chinese who abuse their powers, by slam-smacking airport checkers' ears, kicking ladies' all over the place because they can't get through the one way lane first. And there was a YouTube video which has shown people beating the crap out of each other in parliament.

Now why do children become violent...

.... because society has been brainwashed to believe that status is talen for granted and children will obediently learn what is taught in a so called education system....

The only comment I have to these items is that the underlying cause of it all is no mother or father (with emphasis on the father). These two are the ones who get their hands on the child first. What happens after that is only due to them, and them only. Yes; it's that simple. People underestimate the power that a father has over his children and the outcome that they will experience in their lives due to his presence or lack thereof; good or bad.