People dealing with criminals in the sticks; an example: Some years ago, during The Plague, the police raided a house about 3km away, to arrest the inhabitant for dealing ice. The inhabitant - a man called "Oppchoi" and his friend managed to escape out the back of the house and ran into a neighbouring sugarcane field. They were said to be armed. The police went down all the surrounding breaks, lanes, and internal roads, on their motorbikes and pickups waiting for the men to appear. In the mean time, top cop asks who owns the field. The gathered crowd, drawn by a swarm of cops cars and bikes made that ask pretty simple. Phones were out, giving the top cop contact information. Ten minutes later the owner of the field , a man called "Poi" who knew Oppchoi as they were estranged friends, appeared on his tractor. A discussion with the topcop. Then Poi is driving down the side of the cane field, with liquid squirting onto the bordering cane stalks. Comes back. Says something to the policeman in charge. And then sets fire to it. Whoomp! 200-odd rai of ready-to-harvest sugarcane on fire out-of-permit. Oppchoi and his mate were subsequently arrested after dark when, I assume, the smoke or fire got too close them. Oppchoi is out of prison now after spending (I think) eighteen months. And had to compensate Poi for the fuel he used. LOL Source: Poi, the next evening over beers. Poi is my landlady's first cousin.
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