Dentistry student held for shooting at tourists

[Asiantravel]

As is common nowadays in Thailand, the one who will be fined will be the dentistry student. The farang waitress will also be investigated and thrown out of Thailand for doing one of the 17 xenophobic job protection schemes.

Collateral damage by creating another victim is the Thai way to save their face.

where does it say anything about a farang waitress?

[lowushatin]

Somebody got butthurt lol.

[Netizen]

My perception from the police report is that this guy is going to escape with little penalty probably because his parents are influential and because the police allow such escape from consequences of crimes. Just like the Red Bull heir.

[jimstar1]

I Love Chiang Mai but it is going down hill so fast

where is it safe now not in the city I will keep to my area of Hang Dong

[Card]

In developed countries, perpertrators of drive by shootings, any shootings receive a lengthy prison sentence. If the Thai authorities want to reduce the gun crimes committed in Thailand, would they not better impose heavier sentences. A minimum 10 year sentence might've made DR. Fang think twice before he reached for his gun.

Wouldn't make any difference - the guys who shoot are often scions of the rich or their hired guns and a bribe takes care of everything. You are talking about deterrents for poor people who don't do that much shooting anyway. In any case, it's not the law, it's implementation of the law that's crucial.

[rebelplatoon]

Importing Bangkokians has this effect on our usually peacefull city.... ;-)

[Salapoo]

The suspect said he was flirting with the waitress at the restaurant but she rejected him and her boyfriend, who is a foreigner, later assaulted him.

Awww, poor wittle baby. Just too much to handle for the Thai male.

What a people.

[antfish]

Police investigation found that the suspect was drunk and had flirted with a foreigner waitress there, which upset her boyfriend who assaulted him, leading to the suspect's drive-by shooting.

The suspect said he was flirting with the waitress at the restaurant but she rejected him and her boyfriend, who is a foreigner, later assaulted him.

So is the waitress are foreigner or just her boy friend?

Is that place a place where local Thai man are not that welcome?

[rametindallas]

Am I the only person in Thailand who doesn't own a gun? In Dallas, many people legally carry concealed weapons and, even accounting for population differences, it seems that Thais use guns even more than Americans.

[affen02]

More and more often i say to myself, get out of this LOS. When i read the norwegian news, i cant see it is any better there, we have multiple cultural problems in a small country who let in far to many so called asylum seekers, in fact economical refugees looking for the scandinavian welfare system. There also its a lot about loosing face, the bullshit loosing face culture. But where to go and hide theese days, live out ones life in peace and tranqulity, feel safe for crazy gunman and other lose face idiots. Not be scared for our girls from rapists from cultures where they look at women like shit. I guess it must be the north pole.

[AjarnMartin]

He must have pulled his own wisdom teeth already

Dentistry school should be 3 or 4 years ...

He is in year 6

hmmmmmmm

Actually, dentistry is a six year course along with medicine. Check your facts before jumping to inane but conventional TV criticism.

[Payboy]

With docs like these, who needs diseases.

[rebelplatoon]

Actually all sounds reasonable according to his thinking

A. She refused his avances, which is not done B. If the foreigner had not been there she 'd still be available C. One should not settle a dispute with reason and wit, a gun or sheer force does the job D. We wont hear anything of it and he ll be out in a jiffy. Or as a famous Thai recently said on you tube: ' This is Thailand, you know (smack!) you know?!'

Edited June 23, 2013 by rebelplatoon

[PETERTHEEATER]

They found one spent bullet in front of the house and another spent bullet inside the car near the driver's seat.

So someone shot at him?

[jackr]

I'm not surprised she knocked him back if his mugshot is anything to go by. I didn't think it was possible for Thais to get that ugly.

[Farangdam]

yet maybe another untouchable.... max 1 month jail and later can continue his special extra doctor 6 year dentistry course which upon graduate and working can buy more gun to shoot people ..totally... psycho..

[HaleySabai]

More like the wild West every day, it seems.

.....it's got a long way to go before even coming close to the savage society that modern day America has become.

[Salapoo]

yet maybe another untouchable.... max 1 month jail and later can continue his special extra doctor 6 year dentistry course which upon graduate and working can buy more gun to shoot people ..totally... psycho..

No, just a Thai who may be able to act without accountability.

Or just a Thai with the standard response to rejection and losing to a foreigner.

Remember the Western guy murdered in Spicy in BKK about a month ago. The Thai was about to lose the fight so had to resort to pulling out his gun and shooting him (and two others) as a 'last resort' because he was about to lose, as he was reported as using as his defense.

What a people.

Edited June 23, 2013 by Salapoo

[chrisinth]

Remind me not to go to him to have my wisdom teeth pulled.

Seems this guy has had his removed prematurely...................

[Robbie Dye]

Oh wel, he will be filling in time very soon

[Salapoo]

They found one spent bullet in front of the house and another spent bullet inside the car near the driver's seat.

So someone shot at him?

He was probably shooting from the safety of his car.

[venturalaw]

Loss of face = cultural defect.

Yep. Probably raised by a wealthy family which in Thailand translates into getting everything he wants since infancy, i.e. spoiled all to Hell. So when he is out in the real world (without mommy's tit and daddy's wallet) and doesn't receive that to which he's been bred to believe he is entitled, he reacts like a little boy. When are 'hi so' ignorantly doting parents ever going to learn?

[Loptr]

The considerate thing would have been for him to murder the foreign boyfriend by whom he had been assaulted. No need to involve innocent bystanders.

Cowards rarely confront their nemesis directly. That would require a backbone, so random acts of violence is what you get.

[Malthus101]

Man, I feel really bad for him.

I've woken up to some horrific memories of the previous nights drunken antics but shooting 5 bullets into a restaurant and being charged with attempted murder?

Yikes! Now THAT'S a bad hangover!

[chrisinth]

As is common nowadays in Thailand, the one who will be fined will be the dentistry student. The farang waitress will also be investigated and thrown out of Thailand for doing one of the 17 xenophobic job protection schemes.

Collateral damage by creating another victim is the Thai way to save their face.

Farang waitress??

[chuang]

I wish the full force of the law comes down hard on him...having said that on the other hand if his family is wealth he may go free...

[spidermike007]

Loss of face = cultural defect.

Loss of face = cultural defect.

Most Thai people are incapable of introspection, self analysis, self criticism, accepting blame, or accepting responsibility for mistakes, or shortcomings. I think this is the absolute truth. But, I do not think this is limited to women. It includes nearly all members of Thai society. It includes nearly every politician and person of power in this country. It is inherent within the Thai mentality. It is a tremendous shortcoming, and really holds this country back. I might go so far as to say it is the number one personality defect, or weakness of most Thai people. The whole concept of "face" is merely an excuse to avoid doing any of this. It is the greatest form of cowardice possible. No willingness to look within means you are half a person. You simply cannot be whole without the willingness to say I am sorry, I was wrong. I can do better. Is that not part of what it means to be a progressive human being? The fascinating thing with Thai pride, is that it does not extend to craftsmanship, or insistence on doing a job well. It is a superficial pride, that contains within it zero substance.

[skorchio]

Apparently dentists have a high propensity for alcoholism.

[venturalaw]

In developed countries, perpertrators of drive by shootings, any shootings receive a lengthy prison sentence. If the Thai authorities want to reduce the gun crimes committed in Thailand, would they not better impose heavier sentences. A minimum 10 year sentence might've made DR. Fang think twice before he reached for his gun.

Honestly, I don't think long prison terms would make much difference in a case like this. He wasn't weighing up the pros and cons of doing this vs getting caught and going to prison!

Mandatory minimum sentences work against justice in most cases.

What this guy did does deserve punishment of course, but I seriously doubt if his intent was murder, certainly not of the bystanders who got hurt. Of course he must be held responsible, but even a potential death sentence (which I'm opposed to under any circumstances) would not have prevented this.

Have to disagree. I've seen where, for instance, three strike laws directly resulted in crime reduction. And certainly when the death penalty is imposed, for example in homicide cases (as opposed to the execution being endlessly delayed), there is a reduction in homicides. Let's face it; once put to death, perpetrators are no longer capable of committing murders.

[chrisinth]

Man, I feel really bad for him.

I've woken up to some horrific memories of the previous nights drunken antics but shooting 5 bullets into a restaurant and being charged with attempted murder?

Yikes! Now THAT'S a bad hangover!

Consider yourself, or a member of your family as one of the people, innocent bystanders, who were shot.

Then reconsider the drivel you have just written. If you consider that this is acceptable behavior for someone because they are drunk, then, IMHO, you need to find a dark corner somewhere and have a serious conversation with yourself.

Your post may have been sent in jest, but I am sure I am not the only reader who knows the stress and trauma that follows incidents like this.

Just sayin'.......................