Chiang Mai Administrator Draws Gun on Officials in Meeting

By Khaosod Eng.

CHIANG MAI – The chairman of a local administrative agency in Chiang Mai province has been arrested for taking out a gun during a budget meeting yesterday.

The incident occurred during a meeting attended by around 30 local officials in Mueang district yesterday.

Shortly after the meeting began, Anurut na Naan, the 62-year-old chairman of the Municipal Councilor of San Phee Suea district, reportedly stood up, locked both doors of the meeting room, and told officials not to leave their seats.

He then spent the next 30 minutes speaking into a microphone and apologizing for his failure to work for the people over the past eight years as Municipal Councilor, witnesses said.

Kamdee Boonchala, one of the local adminstators present at the meeting, told Khaosod that in the middle of the speech Anurut suddenly drew his pistol, waved it around, placed it on the table, and told the officials, "If any of you have a problem with me, you can file a complaint. Who has any problem here?"

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-- Khaosod English 2015-02-28

Maybe he just wanted their undivided attention?

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watching too many movies

seems he just flipped

Maybe he got fed up with being told what to do by people who shouldn't have been telling what to do - after all Chang Mai and Chang Rai are Redshirt strongholds

Be interesting to hear what the man has to say

Thai hi-so officialdom at its very best !

I am surprised this even made it to the papers.

Before anybody says it...Thainess!!

Or Mafia....

The meeting next week will be interesting when everyone brings along their toys

I think this guy is fed up with being intimidated - and I don't mean by the army

Keep the feet for dancing

Before anybody says it...Thainess!!

Or Mafia....

Or hubris.

(the word has hub in it, the only hub they can truly claim to own, lock, stock and one flaccid barrel)

So what? Its just another uncivilized 3rd world moron giving insight view at the country's customs in administration.

I take it that nobody came forward with problems...concerning him.

Sounds like an Audition for Next Prime minister

In a poll taken during the meeting 100% of the local officials in that locked room said they had absolutely NO PROBLEMS at all

and NO PROBLEM with Khun Anurut.

There was a movement on the floor . . . but it failed.

typical tough thai male...moving on ...

Sounds like he has been watching too much Thai TV?

The gringos culture is imported to Thailand lolllll

In a poll taken during the meeting 100% of the local officials in that locked room said they had absolutely NO PROBLEMS at all

and NO PROBLEM with Khun Anurut.

There was a movement on the floor . . . but it failed.

There were actually several movements on the floor but they were quickly cleaned up as soon as the doors were unlocked.

I take it that nobody came forward with problems...concerning him.

+1....everything is OK...

An obvious point that has been overlooked is that this is the administrator's way of showing support for the bullet train. Any questions?

I wonder how the meeting's secretary reflected that in the minutes ?

Ha ha just laughable!

calcification of the brain arteries? seem to happen a lot and at a young age overhere

Learning from the best in this current times. If you can't get your way, intimidate.

I don't understand. Was he arrested for performing a bad parody, or for making empty threats?

T

*empty because his gun couldn't possibly have held enough bullets to fully carry out his threat.

Before anybody says it...Thainess!!

Like mr. militaryman say: "Thailand has a mind of its own" .... second that

Rhetoric...

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences ...

Just trying his best Thai way to support his rhetoric...

Sounds like he has been watching too much Thai TV?

soaps , the dude has been watching way to many soap operas. he is lucky someone did not shove the gun up his keester & pop a few off :-)

Got to love this guy...he knows how to captivate an audience...

I don't understand. Was he arrested for performing a bad parody, or for making empty threats?

T

*empty because his gun couldn't possibly have held enough bullets to fully carry out his threat.

The threat may not have been empty.

What kind of pistol was it, and how many bullets did it have in its clip or cylinder? Six or eight probably.

If you were there and this nut had started shooting, would you have been so confident that your name wasn't on one of those bullets?

Words fail me