PHUKET: Police subdue crazed axeman
Saran Mitrarat


Crazed man armed with an axe was caught today (September 3).

PHUKET: -- Phuket City Police were involved in a three-hour standoff on Wednesday morning (September 3) with a crazed man armed with an axe.

They were called after someone noticed him driving around near the OrBorJor hospital with his big sound system cranked up, and with an axe in one hand.

“We saw him driving around the soi when we arrived. We were worried about neighborhood safety at that time,” said Col Sermphan Sirikong, superintendent of Phuket City Police, who led 20 police and rescue workers to the scene.

“We stopped his car and convinced him to get out. Then an officer took the car key and locked the car.”

The man spent the next two hours screaming at the police and at the car and trying to hack it open with his axe.

Police tried to get his attention and reason with him. When that did not work they shot him with a taser gun, but it had no perceptible effect. So they then shot him in the right arm with a rubber bullet.

It still took three police and two rescue workers to wrestle the well-muscled man to the ground. After tranquillising him, they strapped him to a stretcher and he was taken to the OrBorJor Hospital to be checked up and to see whether he was under the influence of narcotics.

Police questioned a relative who said that the axeman thought someone was following him and had not been able to sleep the night before.

“He is yacht skipper, and is not often home. This morning his wife went out somewhere, and he drove around looking for her,” he added.

“If you ask me about drugs, I can’t say for sure, though I heard from a friend of his that he did sometimes take ya bah [methamphetamine].”

Police believed the man went on the rampage because of a combination of meth and psychological distress. Col Sermphan said, “We are waiting for the report from the hospital. If he was just in distress, we won’t charge him because no one else was hurt.

“But if lab results show he was on drugs he will be charged with that and sent for rehab.”

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/police-subdue-crazed-axeman-48544.php


-- Phuket News 2014-09-03

........... If he was just in distress, we won’t charge him............

But if it was a foreigner?

"The man spent the next two hours screaming at the police and at the car and trying to hack it open with his axe."

This is your brain on drugs.

Was disappointed with the head line

Normally when I see mad axe man I issue that man is hacking away at people in the streets not hacking into his own car after police had locked him out

Was disappointed with the head line

Normally when I see mad axe man I issue that man is hacking away at people in the streets not hacking into his own car after police had locked him out

I do that all the time when i have misplaced my keys

Was disappointed with the head line

Normally when I see mad axe man I issue that man is hacking away at people in the streets not hacking into his own car after police had locked him out

I do that all the time when i have misplaced my keys

Normally I smash the door open with an axe every morning as the misses normally locks me out for being out all night

Is this what rubber bullets are for, subduing psychotic axemen?

The Taser had no effect??? They shouldn't get them from the Sunday market!!!

and he is a yacht skipper, could have been a bus driver or a jet ski renter, either way i dont like your chances putting your life in these peoples hands, would be like playing russian roulette

If this was a story from USA he'd be dead now.

Would that be so bad?

A loon high on drugs with an axe is something no one wants to meet

Unless you have a 12 gauge

Could have mental health problems, many people are gunned down by police in the US due to being mentally unstable or ill.

Sounds like he was off his meds or using self prescribed street meds.

"they shot him with a taser gun, but it had no perceptible effect"

Yaba. Enough said.

"Police questioned a relative who said that the axeman thought someone was following him and had not been able to sleep the night before."

Paranoid and couldn't sleep . What could it possibly be ????

Here's Johnny!

If this was a story from USA he'd be dead now.

If he was black he would be.

The Taser had no effect??? They shouldn't get them from the Sunday market!!!

The taser were complementary with the purchase of a bomb detector…

If it was a foreign he would have been Double Charged Lol

Methamphetamine induced psychosis...

You sure this is official? no finger pointing and sure it is farang or to much sun block Thai?

If this was a story from USA he'd be dead now.

Would that be so bad?

A loon high on drugs with an axe is something no one wants to meet

Unless you have a 12 gauge

Could have mental health problems, many people are gunned down by police in the US due to being mentally unstable or ill.

I have heard before that US police are mentally unstable or ill,, didn't really believe it but now seen it twice so must be something in it.

The Taser had no effect??? They shouldn't get them from the Sunday market!!!

Was it a gen wine GT 200 Taser?

Ah the subtle effects of the harmless drug Crystal Meth (ya bah) turns a placed young man into a raging beast, ready to kill any and everyone he sees.

."..And I have the result just in of the friendly. It's Thai Yabaa 1 US Taser 0, against predictions. A sliced shot from the skipper just before time."

Luckily he did not live in the United States. As a citizen of that great country I can attest.............if it happened there he would have been laying in a morgue. The cops would have shot him from the get go. Sad but true. I like this result much better. Perhaps we should send some cops here for lessons.

It's his deodorant. Must be "the axe effect" as per adverts.

No charge = a mountain of paperwork and an empty wallet ……… and besides no-one was hurt by the clearly deranged axe wielding maniac. Better off just to send him back on the streets!

Feeling a little distressed mmmm now where did I put that axe totaly Crazy !!!!

They shot him with a taser gun, then shot him in the right arm with a rubber bullet. After tranquillizing him, they strapped him to a stretcher.

They obviously missed with the taser gun, or they was too slow to cuff him when he was on the floor frying.

"This morning his wife went out somewhere"

Say no more. Case closed.

Ah the subtle effects of the harmless drug Crystal Meth (ya bah) turns a placed young man into a raging beast, ready to kill any and everyone he sees.

Religion makes some people behave like this too.