Activist groups call for sales ban alcoholic drinks during Songkran

[Lite Beer]

Activist groups call for sales ban alcoholic drinks during Songkran

BANGKOK: -- Youth Network Against New Drinkers, and several anti-alcohol groups yesterday asked the Excise Department to ban alcohol sales during the upcoming Songkran festival to prevent and reduce fatal road accidents.

Teerapat Kahawong, coordinator of the groups submitted a letter to Somchai Poolsavadi, director-general of Excise Department, calling on the department to impose a ban on alcohol sales during the ‘seven dangerous day’ of the Songkran Festival early next month.

The activists also called on the department to take harsh actions against shops that sell alcohol to children and young people, by revoking their licences.

They also called on the department to publicise and quickly enforce the Prime Minister’s Office new announcement on ban of alcohol sales on footpaths, trains, railway stations, bus stations and ferry piers.

(Photo : Thai PBS File)

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/activist-groups-call-for-sales-ban-alcoholic-drinks-during-songkran

-- Thai PBS 2015-03-28

[zaphod reborn]

Yep, prohibition. Let's also ban powder, water guns and pails. Heck with it, let's ban water. There's no stopping these idiots. When they realize how much damage they're going to inflict on the Thai economy, they might wake up.

[halloween]

The proposed ban is based on the theory that Thais never think far enough ahead to stock up for the holiday, and completely overlooks that most are quite willing to break laws to make a profit.

[baboon]

Meddlesome, self-appointed busybodies. Get stuffed.

[longstebe]

Stock up.

[madmitch]

Is this a new article, or was it from last year, or maybe the year before?

[NeilSA1]

Alternatively they can consider reducing 'the seven dangerous days’ of the Songkran Festival to the official 2 or 3 day official period Sonkran.

IMO 2 days is enough for revelry, and logically must reduce the number of 'fatal road accidents'.

(Banning sale of booze won't work/ be enforced - Last Sonkran I was drinking beer, in public with 2 local Thai girls near a police man who politely ignored us, and was then sprayed with water by one of the girls - which he accepted in good humor )

[DM07]

Same sh.. every year.

[retsdon]

I loathe Sonkran.

[Bluespunk]

Ban the sky, its too blue.

Ban water, people can drown in it.

Ban the sun, it can burn.

Ban cars, they can crash.

Ban food, it can make you fat.

Ban life, it always ends in death.

Ban fun, I have no friends.

Ban everyone and everything, I'm miserable and I want you all to feel the same.

[BigBadGeordie]

Meddlesome, self-appointed busybodies. Get stuffed.

Come on stop messing about, tell us what you really think about the OP ;-)

[Pib]

Wow...submit a letter to some govt agency and provide a copy of the letter to the media...done everyday of the week by various groups for various causes. Then the media decides which letters to turn into news articles....and the media really appreciates courtesy copies of such letters as it helps them meet their daily quota of news if you can call it news.

I wonder if the govt agency has even read the letter yet as they probably have so many to open and read....they'll probably read about it in the news before they get a chance to open the letter.

[jalansanitwong]

Its only a matter of time before all the beer bars are closed in Thailand. It happended in PI's once so why not here ? Once they close here they will never return because the land will be redeveloped. I drink but i havent been to bars or pubs for many years in LOS/. Have i missed anything?

Prayuth and the ruling elite dont want farags here. They want their Chinese brethren to bring some desperately needed class to the place. LOL.

[Strangebrew]

Look since 1 either your to stupid to understand or 2 your brain dead, banning the sales won't stop chit they just get few days earlier is all Now enforcing the law against as you cal it drink driving. And handing down hard time if caught that might make them think twice other wise same same different day.

[LuckyLew]

Every year these nutter groups come out of the woodwork and make these press releases

Never gonna happen

Too much money to be made

[jethro69]

Here we go again......

[Misterwhisper]

"Activists" are nothing else but "fanatics". The two terms are interchangeable.

I despise one and the other, because their visions are blinkered and myopic, their opinions backwards and puritanically narrow, their reasoning skewed, reactionary and counter-productive.

Yet when something is banned they themselves enjoy doing or experiencing, they are the first to protest the loudest and whine the most, lamenting how unfair it all is.

Idiots.

[trainman34014]

I already know several Thai's that are stocking up now and most won't give a Rats arse what 'laws' are in place....they will do as they please and nobody will try to stop them.

[Rhys]

OK.. here is the game plan.. any tourist drinking.. shake down... Thais...well, them too..

Lip service geng mai..

[JoeLing]

Is this a new article, or was it from last year, or maybe the year before?

It's an old tradition here.

It's called "Copypaste Journalism" or "Groundhog Journalism"

If I had bought a Newspaper in Thailand in 198whatever and kept it,

I still could read the latest news in there, every single day.

Just occasionally I would have to change names but hat doesn't really

matter, I can't remember Thai names for longer than 24 hours anyway.

[Dannyboy666]

Ban the Holiday and Save Our Precious Water, I'm a Hater on Songkran anyway...

[lee b]

Here we go again......

Yep you beat me to it, I was going to write the exact same thing !!!

[jdinasia]

This is an annual story

[Tokay]

Mom and pop stores NEVER, EVER follow regulation. They sell booze on HMTK's birthday, as well as Buddha's birthday and all other holy and sacred days. Most mom and pop stores simply do not give a <deleted>. They even sell smokes and booze to minors all day long. But none of this is news to any of you.

[Ayutthaya11]

You may as well ban every farang entering Thailand during this period too

[deathstardan]

This old chestnut...Brought out, shaken off and dusted, every holiday!

[NongKhaiKid]

This old chestnut...Brought out, shaken off and dusted, every holiday!

As with the ineffective road safety campaigns.

[AGareth2]

and no coyote dancers

[chooka]

Stock up.

My local mum and pop store stocks up every time there is some sort of ban, elections etc can still go there and buy any time and on any day. These bans only really effect the 7/11 or tescos and the like. They are good for small family businesses.

[Pib]

Stock up.

My local mum and pop store stocks up every time there is some sort of ban, elections etc can still go there and buy any time and on any day. These bans only really effect the 7/11 or tescos and the like. They are good for small family businesses.

Bans probably increase sales.