Bangkok cops open fire on panicked, totally high driver fleeing checkpoint

[Benmart]

shooting really? like the car was going to get away.

I don't know the details, but every agency I worked for back home, prohibited shooting at a moving vehicle. One of the rules was "know your target and what's behind it". Very difficult not to shoot a bystander, etc., under the conditions described in the article.

Glad no passerby was injured or killed.

[monkey4u]

The terrified Honda lost control and hit 6 cars

How about the idiot driving lost control

Don't blame the car I forgot TIT don't accept any responsibility

[Halion]

Incident occurred at 11.30 am today. Names withheld , gunshots fired from a perusing motorbike and instant determination that the suspect was "high on drugs" <deleted>.

[DekDaeng]

At last - a photo to prove that Honda and Toyota are morphing into Toyondas If you can't beat em copy em...

And as for cops opening fire on a busy street - let's hope they don't get too enthusiastic in their 'clampdowns'.

Far from it! Honda have remained way ahead in tooling than Toyota for BIW pressings for years.

Don't you see the 'pedestrian impact' minimum radii on the Honda (6mm min), as opposed to the sharp edges of the Toyota delivered to the Asian markets?

There is no copying. Toyota simply keep it cheap, and Honda uses and ships parts from the same tools world wide.

As for the OP, "landed his Honda City atop another car’s mirror." ... The car is not on top of the wing-mirror, but clearly sitting on the door sill above the A and B pillars.

Wing mirrors are one of the most difficult parts of a car to design and procure. They have to take pressure from above, below and from every direction, yet have an incredibly small packaging space for a motor and attachments, and assembly components so nothing is externally visible after assembly.

Talk about extreme reporting that a car landed on a wing mirror.. that's really wonderful reporting for attention, but an insult to all car designers.

To be honest I was referring to how much the new Toyotas look like Hondas! Toyonda!

Hoyota!

Power in your dreams!

[ClutchClark]

At last - a photo to prove that Honda and Toyota are morphing into Toyondas If you can't beat em copy em...

And as for cops opening fire on a busy street - let's hope they don't get too enthusiastic in their 'clampdowns'.

Are you suggesting the two cars are in the act of copulation?

[ClutchClark]

shooting really? like the car was going to get away.

I don't know the details, but every agency I worked for back home, prohibited shooting at a moving vehicle. One of the rules was "know your target and what's behind it". Very difficult not to shoot a bystander, etc., under the conditions described in the article.

Glad no passerby was injured or killed.

Exceptions are when the public at large are endangered and the fact six vehicles were hit suggests the driver was placing others in immediate danger...especially when passing through pedestrian walkways.

Two shots is not necessarily reckless shooting, especially if fired from a motorbike from very close proximity.

Without witnessing this incident, its not possible to draw conclusions.

[dotpoom]

Hope the person on the ground is not badly hurt.....it could have been any one of us or our families.

[NeverSure]

shooting really? like the car was going to get away.

I don't know the details, but every agency I worked for back home, prohibited shooting at a moving vehicle. One of the rules was "know your target and what's behind it". Very difficult not to shoot a bystander, etc., under the conditions described in the article.

Glad no passerby was injured or killed.

I don't know about other countries, but American cops would blow that guy away if they determined he was going to be a danger to others down the road. This guy wouldn't stop so he needed to be stopped.

As it was he was certainly a danger of serious bodily injury or death to many people in his path and he really did need to be stopped.

Lesser of two evils, as they say. (Difference is that Thai cops can't hit anything, LOL)

[silent]

Those over zealous quick to shoot cops could have killed an innocent by standers with their

wild western style shootings, but than again, we know that life is cheap here and the victims

would got paid peanuts in compensations...

Ya think, maybe just maybe the only innocent bystander that there was a chance to injure, might have been a bird and it's the reporting and readers that are over-zealous.

Where does it say anybody shot anything more than "threatening" warning shots.

Na couldn't be. More fun being unarmed and taking cheap shots.

Full story: http://bangkok.cocon...eing-checkpoint

Edited July 17, 2014 by silent

[FangFerang]

Well done the police.

Another <deleted> of the street for a few hours.

They refused to stop at a police checkpoint. They were high on drugs. They were out on bail after a conviction for drug offenses.

Toss the book at 'em.

The article says "names mysteriously withheld".

Sounds like another even-handed coup arrest, where Red Bull tendencies run amok in the courts like a ...red bull in a china shop.

[ravip]

Things do happen that way... Sad but true.

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/3-dead-after-california-bank-robbery-gunbattle

[bander]

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Funny how the name is withheld. Thai chinese then, and not a westerner, that we know...

And no photo of driver with pointing fingers, maybe son of the police chief?

[noitom]

Insane - the Thai police 'decided" to fire off a few rounds to scare the driver. This, on a Sukhumvit soi.

[newermonkey]

I think the writer of this artical has been watching the cartoon "cars" as he is implying that the Cars were to blame 555

"The terrified Honda City then lost control, hit six other vehicles and landed at an exciting angle atop an otherwise innocent Toyota Vios"

W-T-F-?

Edited July 18, 2014 by newermonkey

[SABloke]

all this to enforce a 500 baht fine......really ?

and as already mentioned who does the body belong to laying on the road - diamond news reporting as usual

So in your home country you can run checkpoints without consequence?

[gemini81]

Incident occurred at 11.30 am today. Names withheld , gunshots fired from a perusing motorbike and instant determination that the suspect was "high on drugs" <deleted>.

Brilliant work huh? That's why they're such a joke as 'officers.'

[ldnguy]

At last - a photo to prove that Honda and Toyota are morphing into Toyondas If you can't beat em copy em...

And as for cops opening fire on a busy street - let's hope they don't get too enthusiastic in their 'clampdowns'.

They are lucky an American drone wasn't in the area. The car would have been bombed and a few innocent bystanders killed.

[gemini81]

At last - a photo to prove that Honda and Toyota are morphing into Toyondas If you can't beat em copy em...

And as for cops opening fire on a busy street - let's hope they don't get too enthusiastic in their 'clampdowns'.

They are lucky an American drone wasn't in the area. The car would have been bombed and a few innocent bystanders killed.

That was random and totally unrelated. What the heck?!

[djhotsox]

It's around lunchtime in broad daylight on Sukhumvit 77/On Nut 17......likely very congested with the usual Bangkok traffic, the cops likely could have caught up to the car at some point if they went after them on foot!

At the very least, catch up to them on the motorbike easily......warning shots? A bit excessive.....

[BSJ]

They couldn't have put a better journalist on the case.........because there aren't any!

Name withheld ay. Normally they put every address detail as well as name and age.