Bangkok 'Tessakit' threatens to attitude-adjust 'smart ass' citizen

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Bangkok 'Tessakit' Threatens to Attitude-Adjust 'Smart Ass' Citizen
By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter


Screens from a cellphone video of an encounter between a citizen and a municipal enforcer at Bangkok's Saphan Lek Market. Image: Fortyfive Bikershop / Facebook

BANGKOK — A video posted online today and currently making its way around the net seems to capture a brief encounter between a private citizen and public servant during the demolition of Saphan Lek Market.

In the video posted to Facebook by Fortyfive Bikershop, the inspection turns into a confrontation when a municipal enforcer known as tessakit decides to win an argument with the cheeky citizen by threatening to send soldiers to take him in for “attitude adjustment.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH-O0wsPISM
A copy of the video uploaded to YouTube

Here's how it went down:

Cameraman: What are you doing ?

Technician: Removing the electricity meter.

A man believed to be the Phra Nakhon District chief walks past.

Cameraman: Oh, this is the first time I have ever seen you walking here. Are you the director of the district office? I have been living here for 30 years, and this is the first time I’ve seen you here.

District Chief: So, you are fortunate?

Cameraman: No, I am not fortunate. But it is fortunate for your feet to be walking here!

District Chief: Smart ass! Take a photo of him. One day you will be visited!

District Chief walks off. The tessakit pulls out his phone and asks to take a photo of the cameraman. The guy refuses, but the tessakit takes it anyway.

Tessakit: What’s your name?

Read more: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1446040796&typecate=06&section=

-- Khaosod English 2015-10-29

[noitom]

Arrogant abuse of perceived power and authority along with an over inflated sense of importance.

[BuckBee]

Sounds about right for officials in thai government services .

Tessakit done ok on monthly fees (with receipts) from traders for years but know bigger cockroaches & money involved traders become the enemy.

No buddhism here, just greed for best baht .

Edited October 28, 2015 by BuckBee

[Somtamnication]

Hopefully the new mafia crackdown will start with govt. officials!

[dahinni]

thai buddhism highly likely worst kind, pray for good business and donations pronounced in temples.

ops my neighbor donate more, can't happened

Edited October 28, 2015 by dahinni

[ezzra]

Sure, those guys not used to a talk back, only to a fistful or the brown notes changing hands and

a blind eye turned on.. an example of my soi that the so called white lines painted on the footpath

to keep the sellers within it's boundaries...few months later, white lines are gone

and all back to business as usual...

[waldroj]

Forget attitude adjustment, how about code of conduct for public officials.

[Seastallion]

Arrogant abuse of perceived power and authority along with an over inflated sense of importance.

And now loss of face.

This could end badly.

[Vandadavid]

The official needs attitude adjusent army don't scare people mate

Maybe Thais ok got me.. I are ex army and kickboxer. I scared only my sisters well being rest I right I die for

You try create fear with threats your all the same

Not men

[soalbundy]

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found

i've got a little list - i've got a little list

[MobileContent]

After the BIB the BMA are the second most corrupt group in Bangkok.

[Lupatria]

Give a moron a batch and he becomes your warden.

[Pepper1959]

Remember, these officials are promoted on 'merit' in Thailand, so they have to be the best of the best! hmm.

[LuckyNo4]

Arrogant abuse of perceived power and authority along with an over inflated sense of importance.

And now loss of face.

This could end badly.

Its great isnt it, social media in the 21st Century will get them all one by one.

[thelonius]

Arrogant abuse of perceived power and authority along with an over inflated sense of importance.

Now what self appointed arbiter of justice does that description remind you of?

[Baerboxer]

Arrogant abuse of perceived power and authority along with an over inflated sense of importance.

Now what self appointed arbiter of justice does that description remind you of?

Sepp Blatter.

[Gandtee]

Big Brother lives

[lvr181]

Remember, these officials are promoted on 'merit' in Thailand, so they have to be the best of the best! hmm.

Love your sense of humour

[Thai at Heart]

Of the people, for the people.. Not.

[Squeegee]

No wonder they love swastikas in this part of the world: give 'em a uniform and they think they become mini-dictators.

Prayuth should set up a Prayuth Youth. They're halfway there already now the kids are parading more than being educated.

[ggt]

District Chief: Smart ass! Take a photo of him. One day you will be visited!

Every dictatorship...especially a military take-over of the government...goes thru a period in their lust for power where any dissension is met with twice as much force...intimidate the citizenry to keep them in line...

Democracy appears to be a dream fading into the military abyss...

[digibum]

You have to start to worry when even the press starts to refer to people as "citizen". It creates an us vs. them attitude between government and people.

[Squeegee]

"Citizens of Earth...."

Citizens always were small fry.