Wife of tyre repairman "sprinkled nails on roads"

[Thaivisa News]

Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan:- Kesarin Channiam, 36, felt sorry for her husband and son that their punctured tyre repairing shops had little number of customers as tyres in Hua Hin rarely burst or were punctured these days.

So, Kesarin came up with an innovative idea to bring customers to her family’s shop instead of simply waiting for an act of God. The plan prompted police to arrest her Tuesday afternoon.

Hua Hin police station chief Pol Col Chaiyakorn Srilardecho said Kesarin admitted to police that she dropped nails on the Pokklao Road along the railway from railroad crossing to the Hua Hin railway station with hope that the owners of cars with punctured tyres would use the service of the shop in their sight – her husband’s shop.

Chaiyakorn said his police station had received complaints that dozens of cars had suffered punctured tyres since January.

The station chief said he ordered his subordinates to check the area and focused the investigation on tyre repairing shops nearby.

At 2 pm on Tuesday, police found a box of nails in the storage compartment of Kesarin’s motorcycle. The nails are the same type with those punctured many vehicles’ tyres.

Kersarin said she bought a box of nails for Bt60 and dropped them on the road on both sides of traffic flows before her husband’s shop every three days.

Although she did it at night, she was seen doing it and the eyewitnesses informed police, leading to her arrest.

Chaiyakorn urged motorists whose tyres have been punctured in the area to file more complaints against the woman.

It has been suspected for some time that some shops located on provincial roads resorted to this tactic to create customers.

[Pimay1]

I'll have to hand it to her. She had the analytical skill and incentive motivation but they were channeled in the wrong direction.

Analytical Skill:

Describe how one identifies a problem and subsequently works out the solutions.

Incentive Motivation:

Motivation for behavior created by an anticipated positive outcome.

[jerojero]

Create demand where there is none. Supply side economics. Innovation that's rarely seen here. Illegal, but nevertheless innovative!

[NongKhaiKid]

No thought of the potential for causing serious, possibly fatal, accidents ?

[bendejo]

Some people would need to take an MBA course before they could come with something like that.

[Soutpeel]

Some people would need to take an MBA course before they could come with something like that.

i know a few MBA's who couldn't find their way to toilet unassisted

[Mcffee]

Mix stupidity with evil and you get a sample of the lowest levels of mankind, this piece of crap must have inspired herself with Roadrunner cartoons.

[Pheat123]

No real harm done

She was only trying to put food on the table

Brave lady

[DP25]

No real harm done

She was only trying to put food on the table

Brave lady

She could have killed someone.

There may have been accidents caused by her actions that are not reported in this article.

She caused damage to people's cars, that is harm done right there.

She damaged property and risked people's lives to make a few baht. She is a greedy, evil woman who should spend a long time in prison.

[Mcffee]

No real harm done

She was only trying to put food on the table

Brave lady

Is this another sample of local simplemindedness affecting foreigners brains?

[neverdie]

Hang her high

[chooka]

No real harm done

She was only trying to put food on the table

Brave lady

No harm done oh pls. Let's see what she can/would be charged with in a country where civilised people live. Conduct endangering life, Attempt to commit an indictable offence, Criminal damage, Wilfull Damage, Interference with motor vehicle, Tamper with motor vehicle, Tamper with motor vehicle, Place object on Highway.

This woman would be looking down the barrel of some serious prison time, she endangered the lives of others for a few baht. Not just a single account but numerous for every vehicle that drove by.

[jcisco]

They are called Caltrops....when used in this purpose formed or unformed. what ding bat though, jail for serious duhhhhhhhh

[Soutpeel]

Hang her high

Nail her to a cross ?

[Pheat123]

No real harm done

She was only trying to put food on the table

Brave lady

No harm done oh pls. Let's see what she can/would be charged with in a country where civilised people live. Conduct endangering life, Attempt to commit an indictable offence, Criminal damage, Wilfull Damage, Interference with motor vehicle, Tamper with motor vehicle, Tamper with motor vehicle, Place object on Highway.

This woman would be looking down the barrel of some serious prison time, she endangered the lives of others for a few baht. Not just a single account but numerous for every vehicle that drove by.

Get away with you

Talk about over reaction

She pricked a few tyres

No big deal

[chooka]

No real harm done

She was only trying to put food on the table

Brave lady

No harm done oh pls. Let's see what she can/would be charged with in a country where civilised people live. Conduct endangering life, Attempt to commit an indictable offence, Criminal damage, Wilfull Damage, Interference with motor vehicle, Tamper with motor vehicle, Tamper with motor vehicle, Place object on Highway.

This woman would be looking down the barrel of some serious prison time, she endangered the lives of others for a few baht. Not just a single account but numerous for every vehicle that drove by.

Get away with you

Talk about over reaction

She pricked a few tyres

No big deal

response from someone who no concept of public safety or law. Pricked a few tyres and extorted money from victims, put people's lives at risk and made her victims of a few tyres pay her/husband to have them fixed.

Yea just pricked a few tyres and gained financially at the expense of others. Thieving piece of excrement.

I bet you get great fun and enjoyment out of robbing and stealing from others. How do you support yourself?

[bendejo]

Some people would need to take an MBA course before they could come with something like that.

i know a few MBA's who couldn't find their way to toilet unassisted

A buddy of mine said the only thing he learned in his MBA studies was that he could now write a good memo.

About ten years later I asked him if he still felt that way, he said "No, I take it back, my memos suck."

[joesanunu]

Goes to show, Thais can put on their thinking caps when they need to.

Nigerians of Asia.

[tonbridgebrit]

How about your family set themselves up as private security for a particular area. And then, you set fire to a few buildings in that area. That way, you increase the number of new customers !!

[selftaopath]

No thought of the potential for causing serious, possibly fatal, accidents ?

Is it ever? Perhaps another view of "Thainess"?

[arunsakda]

Nails and screws are pretty common in cities with so much construction. Caught one in the sidewall approximately two years ago and had to replace the tyre.

There is some bike hating Jerk scattering thumbtacks on the road up Doi Suthep (CM) however. Seen them many times. No other logical reason for such an object to be there.