webfact Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 FDA ceremony to torch 3.4 tonnes of seized drugsThe NationBANGKOK: -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will burn 3.4 tonnes of illicit drugs worth Bt10 billion, as part of the country's 42nd official illicit-drug incineration ceremony in Ayutthaya's Bang Pa-in Industrial Estate on June 26, FDA chief Boonchai Somboonsuk said yesterday.The drugs, seized from 2,584 cases, included 31 million yaba tablets, 298 kilograms of "ice", 125 kg of heroin and 125,000 pseudo-ephedrine-laced medicine tablets plus 322,620 millimeters of pseudo-ephidrine liquid medicine. They will be destroyed by the environmentally-friendly "pyrolytic incineration" method which will burn the drugs at a temperature of over 850 degrees Celsius.This haul of drugs is larger than a previous lot burned on June 29 last year when 2.7 tonnes were destroyed, Boonchai said. The country's largest haul of drugs to be incinerated was in 2003 when 5.9 tonnes of drugs worth Bt14.5 billion were destroyed.In related news, Ayutthaya police yesterday seized 500,000 yaba tablets and 30 kg of "ice" worth Bt340 million in street value from a Bang Pa-in district house used by a Hmong drug network as a drug store.They also arrested a suspect identified as Hmong man Kriengsak Chotipongniran, 27, who reportedly confessed to getting the yaba from a Chiang Rai couple to keep in the house pending distribution to other retail drug dealers.-- The Nation 2013-06-20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticBhoy Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 3.4 tonnes sitting for a week waiting to be burned. And they give the address. Hope it's all well guarded. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Member Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Were the " drugs " burned real or something supposed to be drugs while the genuine articles are on distribution elsewhere ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GentlemanJim Posted June 19, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2013 I'm amazed that Yingluck and Chalerm haven't got the BiB selling the stuff on the streets so they could proudly claim they have reduced the rice pledging loss from 260 Billion to 250 Billion. So that will be 3.4 tones of paracetamol off to the incinerator in brown boxes then. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I'm amazed that Yingluck and Chalerm haven't got the BiB selling the stuff on the streets so they could proudly claim they have reduced the rice pledging loss from 260 Billion to 250 Billion. So that will be 3.4 tones of paracetamol off to the incinerator in brown boxes then. Pity the footage hadn't included pictures of the boxes being re-packed before the media were shown them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retell Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 and where that 2.5 tonne ganja ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sscsamui Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Dont want to be around that burn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blabla1 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Burn something that can bring profit to some one??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Dont want to be around that burn... I bet they could charge a 2000 baht entry fee and there would be people queuing up a mile long to get in and 'deep breath'. LoL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clockman Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Drug gangs can afford to loose 10% its a drop in the ocean! makes no difference. Every country the same! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blabla1 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Drug gangs can afford to loose 10% its a drop in the ocean! makes no difference. Every country the same! Its not a loss, its an under cover pay off.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TackyToo Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 If they really lit it up it the smoke of the stuff will burn in the eyes of a couple of BIB. Guess the will end up kneedeep in tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzra Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 It's all for a show, I wonder how much drugs is NOT BEING BURNED and somehow find it's way back on to the streets I assume... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mervyn yap Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Dont want to be around that burn... I bet they could charge a 2000 baht entry fee and there would be people queuing up a mile long to get in and 'deep breath'. LoL. They just burn the boxes and the packages,those drugs cost lots of bahts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostmebike Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) One wonders of the 'actual' amount that will be burned. Edited June 20, 2013 by lostmebike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey4u Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 How much of those drugs have been substituted with the missing rice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 .....in Thailand.....it takes time.......'to get things done'.........'properly'.........(wink, wink).... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasun Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 They're gonna need a lot of foil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbamboo Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I wonder how much it costs to get a job in the FDA drug burning department? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacker Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 With the level of corruption in this country, one has to wonder what is really getting burned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 and where that 2.5 tonne ganja ? That's probably already gone up in smoke, one joint at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveromagnino Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I am standing downwind, anyone wanting to join me please let me know :_) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemac Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Hope the smoke from this bonfire does not blow over Chalerm's house, he has enough issues already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafish Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 What do they do with the other 8 tons,recycle it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecee10 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 "322,620 millimeters of pseudo-ephedrine.." is about 2 miles long. That's one hell of a "trip". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeaverage Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Dont want to be around that burn... that is one of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeaverage Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) I am standing downwind, anyone wanting to join me please let me know :_) i will be they guy who shoves in front of you. in sunglasses Edited June 20, 2013 by joeaverage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomross46 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 It hope they have a better inventory control system than the rice warehouse. I hope the boxes actually have something inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecee10 Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 "322,620 millimeters of pseudo-ephedrine.." is about 2 miles long. That's one hell of a "trip". make that about 350 yards. presumably they meant millilitres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee b Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 hope the security gaurds dont fall asleep !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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