Popular Bangkok pub raided, scores of minors arrested as crackdown orders come from on high

[gemguy]

Banjop Phermphoon, 34, who was looking after the pub was charged with operating without a license, operating after permitted hours, selling alcohol without a permit and selling alcohol to minors.

Well yeah......he spent a whole lot of money on his police connections in the belief that he was immune from being targeted by the "other police"......but that failed him because the "higher ups" superseded the "lower downs"....lol

And why only this pub and entertainment venue and not all the other similar pubs and nightlife establishments??....I wonder ..I wonder?

I surmise the authorities have to pick 1 establishment to make an example out of it ...and then everyone else runs for cover or cleans up their acts when the word spreads like wild fire that you may be next on the target list.

Many will surmise that they owners did not pay off the right people but it seems that the "pay offs" have their limitations while the people that you pay off can not control what happens if the "Higher Ups" decide to target your place even if you have been paying the "Lower Downs" the operating fees for years and years....but you still have to pay and take your chances and hopefully make loads of money before the "other police" come and shut you down and then you have to deal with the other police also

All over the city of Bangkok and the entire country people in the nightlife and entertainment business have had to pay the police to stay in business while those kinds of businesses are really widespread and abundant and a seemingly very popular business to open while the nightlife industry has always flourished here in Thailand.

If that is the business they choose to be in I would say that they can not avoid having to deal with the police ..sooner or later...because in theory the police are required to regulate and enforce the numerous by laws and regulations and licensing of all these entertainment establishments that sell alcohol and act as a means of staging various kinds of sexually based interaction between the male and female participants or "workers"

Not like this is the first time, rather the police are doing this all the time while we do not hear about every raid that happens...just sometimes and the tip of the ice berg..... so to speak.

I always wonder about the conflicts of interest going on with the various police divisions and police personal that are on the take and exposed when the higher ups use "their" police and law enforcement entities to sweep in and catch people with their pants down including various district police officers and their ranking officers while they all deny any involvement in any illegal activities going on right under their noses.

You have to wonder how they end up settling the whole affair because next day or next week the targeted establishment continues to operate and probably, I surmise, with some new members on the board of directors....if you know what I mean.

Cheers

Edited June 1, 2016 by gemguy

[wooloomooloo]

Plus the person with the Ketamine must have brought an infirm horse to the show.

I've heard this joke dozens of times and it wears a bit thin after a while. Education will sort you out.

Ketamine [aka Ketalar] has many medicinal purposes for humans and is used for its recreational hallucinogenic and anaesthetic properties in the clubbing scene.

It was one of my favourites when I was younger and I'm still here, neigh.

Edited June 1, 2016 by wooloomooloo

[gandalf12]

I presume next month they will be reopen for business? Yawn

It wont be that long, more like a couple of weeks before they open again

[gandalf12]

Easier target than getting a monk out of a temple.

Much easier ... good to know that someone else is up-to-date on the monk situation. From my limited information I don't see how they can get the monk out without blood shed. Okay back to the real problem of underage drinkers ....

They should get the underage drinkers but that is nothing to do with the monk. On that topic you say "...I don't see how they can get the monk out without blood shed..." so what is the problem? Go get them

[kingstonkid]

I would hesitate to think that this pub will re open. The fact that the PM is the one that called the action tells me that the place will be closed and people that allowed it to be open will be transferred somewhere not very nice.

If I was the other clubs in the area i would definitely look to higher better door people and close on time at least for awhile

[Acharn]

They upset someone in the neighborhood. Someone with powerful friends.

LOL. There used to be an elderly lady who lived, I believe, on Sukhumwit Soi 23, who used to call the cops when the bars on Soi Cowboy played their music too loud after 2:00 AM, or whatever the legal closing time was. They responded every time, too, I'm sure for the free drinks and food, and possibly a little payday loan.

I'm just afraid we're never going to hear the outcome of this. It would be interesting to find out what official in the Justice Department is responsible for not issuing the closure order. It will be interesting to keep an eye open for the name of the Justice Minister, General Paiboon Kumchaya, in the news over the next couple of months. See if there's any follow up. I wonder which class of the Military Academy he's from.

Edited June 1, 2016 by Acharn

[wvavin]

Its high time to collect some yellow envelopes.

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been removed.

[lvr181]

Closed for 5 years? I am gob stopped. No punishment at all.

How about arresting the management and owners, fine/jail them along with a huge fine and confiscation of assets?

And I wonder why the club had not been closed after earlier raids? Those public officials, military/Police or other officials should lose their jobs.

No, this is just more hot air talk as usual!

[Morakot]

Ketamine

I've heard this joke dozens of times and it wears a bit thin after a while. Education will sort you out.

Ketamine [aka Ketalar] has many medicinal purposes for humans and is used for its recreational hallucinogenic and anaesthetic properties in the clubbing scene.

It was one of my favourites when I was younger and I'm still here, neigh.

Yeah, you sound a bit nagged!

Edited June 1, 2016 by Morakot

[wooloomooloo]

Yeah, you sound a bit nagged!

I walked in to that one and not entirely unexpected. These days I earn a decent living and can afford a Thai wife and associated family. How times change.

My single days aren't easily forgotten and sometimes wish I were back.

[Morakot]

These days I earn a decent living and can afford a Thai wife and associated family. How times change.

My single days aren't easily forgotten and sometimes wish I were back.

Fair play!

I think, I've been there too. True, how times change.

[ozyjon]

It's OK lads, i fixed it.

[Dumbastheycome]

An ignored "heads up" ensues in another raid and unlilely open again soon ( with same management or licence).

And the majority of objections are in the majority the usual opinion of onanistic impotent hasbeens who skulk around in the shadows of such venues fantasizing.

Front up anals ! Offer up your daughters!

[Dumbastheycome]

I have no apology. Too many too often here just piss me off!

[mutha289]

I'm shocked, shocked to hear there are illegal drugs here!

Here's your crystal meth sir.

Sorry I couldn't resist!

[bbbbooboo]

hmmmm........yawn

[hawker9000]

Might be more fruitful to concentrate those 100 officers on targeting the source of those drugs, but as usual, harvesting the low hanging fruit is easy, productive, and makes great (albeit, boring) copy.

'Like a broken record... Every time there are any drug-related arrests we get to hear this "low hanging fruit" bit, over & over & over. 'Certainly sounds disingenuous. BOTH sides of the supply/demand equation should be targeted. And users would do well to consider the fact that they're simply not as clever as, and always going to be easier targets for LE than, high-level distributors, before they decide to roll the dice. I, like everyone else, would love to see the big dogs tracked down & strung up, but better the users being caught than no one at all. It's their money that fuels the whole racket.

Oh, almost forgot....

Edited June 1, 2016 by hawker9000

[mesterm]

There's only one such club in Bangkok doing this?

Do you know how to eat an elephant?

One bite at a time......................hahahaha.

A big Nana club has been impotnet since being raided. Good to see thiland being cleaned up......................

Do you know how Thailand works?

When one did does not pay dues or causes another to lose face, then one bite is taken out of them.

[hawker9000]

There's only one such club in Bangkok doing this?

Do you know how to eat an elephant?

One bite at a time......................hahahaha.

A big Nana club has been impotnet since being raided. Good to see thiland being cleaned up......................

Do you know how Thailand works?

When one did does not pay dues or causes another to lose face, then one bite is taken out of them.

How it "works"? Term being used loosely I guess...

[SantiSuk]

Might as well close down for 5 years every disco/rock bar in every amphur town in Isaan then.

Military men like big bold solutions - it's too much trouble to go looking for the roots of a problem and dealing with them.

[PomRakBKK]

Might as well close down for 5 years every disco/rock bar in every amphur town in Isaan then.

Military men like big bold solutions - it's too much trouble to go looking for the roots of a problem and dealing with them.

Never bite the hand that feeds you.

[gandalf12]

The Ben Pub in the Ekachai Road area of Thonburi was busted for a whole range of offences

We presume none of the offences included trademark infringement...

If trademark infringement, wonder if Bentley would seek legal proceedings against the club

They should take action against them. I very much doubt if Bentley wish to be associated with this particular use of their trade mark

[mesterm]

There's only one such club in Bangkok doing this?

Do you know how to eat an elephant?

One bite at a time......................hahahaha.

A big Nana club has been impotnet since being raided. Good to see thiland being cleaned up......................

Do you know how Thailand works?

When one did does not pay dues or causes another to lose face, then one bite is taken out of them.

How it "works"? Term being used loosely I guess...

Haha.

[Hannuman]

The Ben Pub in the Ekachai Road area of Thonburi was busted for a whole range of offences

We presume none of the offences included trademark infringement...

If trademark infringement, wonder if Bentley would seek legal proceedings against the club

Well we will certainly find out, as I just emailed their CEO a copy of this article.

As a self confessed Bentley afficionado for almost 60 years ,I think I can safely say that the Teutonic management currently responsible for this much vaunted brand ,will not raise an eyebrow at this plagiarism. The stylised letter B in the nightclub's logo differs substantially from that which graces the radiator of WO Bentley's masterpieces, which go back to 1919,Over the years discreet changes to this badge design have taken place ,including the colour of the enamel,which designates some 1920's models as a Blue Label ,Green Label ,Red Label, .During Rolls Royce's custodianship of the marque ,from 1934 until the sale of Rolls Royce to the Germans earlier this century , little changed and RR may have risen to the bait today,had they still been the parent company.

The current W12 engined Continental GT's ,though magnificent machines in their own right , have neither the lineage nor pedigree of their forebears.and sadly have suffered the denigration of being chosen as the favourite transport of many an international football player .

Mass produced luxury vehicles for the great unwashed !

[MyFrenU]

Maximum tea money from Hi-So parents of spoilt little rich kids,makes perfect sense it probably re-opened the next night in preparation for the next collection...I mean raid of course.

The BiB's rap sheet probably contains a majority of the future government's cabinet,in 20-30 years time!

[The manic]

There's only one such club in Bangkok doing this?

Do you know how to eat an elephant?

One bite at a time......................hahahaha.

A big Nana club has been impotnet since being raided. Good to see thiland being cleaned up......................

No it is not good. It's oppressive , puritanical, killjoy and it cleans nothing up but freedom choice and fun.