Bomb hoaxer who called on own phone arrested, jailed

BANGKOK: -- A Metropolitan Electricity Authority employee who made a bomb threat against Government House yesterday morning was quickly arrested and sentenced to three months in jail in the afternoon.

Somjit Promsak, 50, a C5 worker, was arrested at his house in Lat Krabang district about noon by Phaya Thai police.

He admitted telephoning 191 police on his mobile, giving the false name Somsak na Nakhon and saying he had planted explosives in three places at Government House that morning.

Police tracked him down from his phone number and arrested him after an explosives unit had combed Government House and found no sign of a bomb.

The suspect told police his crime was not motivated by any personal conflict, but by drunkenness. He had a drinking session with friends on Wednesday night before waking up to join the protest against the privatisation of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand.

He was arraigned in Dusit Court and sentenced to six months in jail, cut to three months because he confessed.

--The Post 2004-04-23

If only all terrorists were that simple.......

He wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed was he ? Used his own mobile and inadvertantly gave them his number. Little wonder he pleaded guilty

Why didn't he call the operator and reverse the charges!

Why didn't he call the operator and reverse the charges!

He'll do that next time

WAD no honest mistake here... Lock and load....stupidity Thai style

So let's deport him. As a matter of fact let's deport even Thais that do not have a 400,000 Baht annual Income. I think this would really be a quiet place suddenly.

WAD  no honest mistake here... Lock and load....stupidity Thai style  

The guy was drunk, Thai or Non Thai, drunken people tend to act in an irrational manner, RHYS why do you think Thai people are stupid? Because you cant communicate with them?

Learn the language then, stupid!

numb, dumb it's all the same for thai men. thai women are the thinking men of thailand. shinawatra is thai-chinese. stinking rat let in from the last boat arrival.

thai women are ambituous, ruthless and as cute as you'd like them to be. in thailand it doesn't pay to communiacte with the male of the species. general observation erco style.

Thaimee.