Nott "graap rot" apologizes to society as PM says "no copycats please"

[webfact]

Nott "graap rot" apologizes to society as PM says "no copycats please"

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- The TV celebrity at the centre of the road rage case where he beat up a motorcyclist and made him kowtow (graap) to his scratched car has apologized to society.

 

A contrite Akhranat Ariyaritwikul, 28, who has been stripped of his TV work after the video of his attack on revenue worker Kitisak or Boy went viral, turned up at Yanawa police station.

 

Police blocked the media from full access as Nott was comforted and supported by an unnamed woman.

 

He raised his hands in a wai to society. He apologized also to Boy saying he had been trying to get in touch with him at the hospital where he is nursing facial injuries. But he said he was blocked by relatives.

 

He wants to pay his bills and he will keep trying to call to make contact and apologize over the phone, he said.

 

No mention was made by Daily News about what action the police are taking.

 

Meanwhile prime minister Prayut got involved asking people not to react like that again. It is not good behavior, he said, obey the rule of law.

 

Then in response to the road rage a professor called Saharath went online with a video that was viewed nearly 900,000 times. 

 

It featured a whole bunch of anger issues both in Thailand and abroad along with an advice commentary on how to manage feelings of anger.

 

It concluded with an analysis of the Nott issue, a story that has captivated the nation this week.

 

Sources: Daily News1, Daily News2, Thairath

 

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[Stradavarius37]

"No mention was made by Daily News about what action the police are taking."

 

I am sure whatever it is...its not helpful...

[fruitman]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

Meanwhile prime minister Prayut got involved asking people not to react like that again. It is not good behavior, he said, obey the rule of law.

 

So they should call the police and pay them 1000 B first?

[sharecropper]

I thought pushing around the oppressed Thai underclass was what the government was for.

 

Oh, hang on, I just read his "obey the rule of law" quote, so this is clearly outside the terms of reference of this government.

[daveAustin]

PM says "no copycats please"

 

Par for the course, innit? It's only the advent of smartphones that is making it seem more prevalent. 

[trogers]

Rage comes from selfness.

Our face, our objects that add esteem to our face...are all untouchables.

[maewang99]

I've increasingly thought the Thai educated view.. deeply inculcated over a long tenure of schooling at all levels and then reinforced socially afterwards.... is that emotions such as anger should be repressed... held inside.... smile on the outside... 'pay respect'..... whereas the universal view (the 'farlang view', I guess I'm supposed to say) is to understand why we get angry, being able to pull up widely variant and multiple perspectives of how others may see the same thing... as well trying to understand ourselves better.... how and why we really get upset etc... so that if you get upset it's okay... normal..... in 90% of situations. 

whereas the other way, of keeping it inside... suppressed... and then if it boils over.... with this latter view being considered the 'more emotionally smart' way (suppress anger)... which completely dumbfounds anyone with a more universal viewpoint, which is referenced (yes, again I mention this) as being 'the American Culture' way etc.... where 'farlang are angry all the time' (yeah right... not). 

As for variant perspectives... not just normal life gives you this.  I always think of my experience in the 1960's in New York we all had to read..... and I do mean read.... literally read.... at a very young age (yes, I was a 'student'.. which, by the way, I still am but this ain't the 1960's anymore...ahem.... not just a certain age in a uniform, get it?).... Cry The Beloved Country... where the reader's surrogate from the gitgo is a black man.... and we all can name many books and Shakespeare etc... and that still take up some portion of our reading lists... fiction as well as non-fiction selections.....

because reading in my culture is a pleasure... and not the butt of jokes, open derision as well as something more useful than just for very sharply honing ....over and over again.... my calligraphy skills..... of which I have.............. none.

Edited November 9, 2016 by maewang99

[colinneil]

Noot apologizes bit late you dopey upstart.

PM says no copy cats.

Police very quiet, bit late now for the bribe, as the whole country knows hes a <deleted>.

Waiting to see him prostrate himself in apology.

[Laughing Gravy]

I am still waiting for his time to go to become a monk, so he can mend his ways.

[NongKhaiKid]

8 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Noot apologizes bit late you dopey upstart.

PM says no copy cats.

Police very quiet, bit late now for the bribe, as the whole country knows hes a <deleted>.

Waiting to see him prostrate himself in apology.

In another thread and quoting The Nation it says he's been charged with assault but we may never know unless he actually appears in court.

However much worse is the major loss of face by having his ' Exemplary Thai Of The Year ' award withdrawn . Ouch !   

[jerojero]

Oh.... NOW he's sorry. Can't control his anger, obviously prone to violent behavior, and after the fact, so sorry!

[dinsdale]

So he apologises in a police station out of the public view, to the public and now it's all ok. What a joke. It was clearly common assault and charges should be laid. Yeah sure to happen.. not.

[Thechook]

Ok he appologised so all is good then?  oh prayuth saying no copycats, so glad this was an isolated incident of the so called hi so treating the little people like filth.  might have change the scripts in the soaps where this is portrayed as normal behavior.  what about prayuth's behavior of throwing banana skins at little people and the stroking of thier ears whilst they kneel before him

[Tiffer]

Obey the rule of law? 

I think the concept was bastardized in translation...

[rkidlad]

25 minutes ago, Tiffer said:

Obey the rule of law? 

I think the concept was bastardized in translation...

Meanwhile, the guy who told the road block police to pack up might be in trouble for 'confusing' the public. Apparently, the law about police blocks is 'unclear'. How can people honestly be expected to respect 'unclear' and 'made-up-as-they-go-along' laws?

 

Meaningless words from the top again. 

[Dunky]

Utter nonsense all of it! It was the bikes fault and then he drove off. If he had done that to me he would have had more than facial injuries!

[sirmud63]

1 hour ago, jerojero said:

Oh.... NOW he's sorry. Can't control his anger, obviously prone to violent behavior, and after the fact, so sorry!

nah, hes only sorry he got caught on video .thats all .

[Baerboxer]

14 minutes ago, Dunky said:

Utter nonsense all of it! It was the bikes fault and then he drove off. If he had done that to me he would have had more than facial injuries!

 

Wow - a keyboard hardman who doesn't even bother watching the video or reading the facts of the case before extolling how he takes his idea of justice into his own hands.

 

 

 

[Ace of Pop]

Why does PM bother to comment on nothing important.He reminds me of nice bungling Uncle I had as Kid


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[SOTIRIOS]

.....so no justice again...???

 

...what a joke....

[glaswegian]

this rags tae riches <deleted> should be arrasted. however thit wull never happen, he wull probably get aff with a fywee thousands o bahts,  tha poor motorbiker wull have this trouma fer the rest o his life, this is Thailand where money is god!,

[colinneil]

5 minutes ago, glaswegian said:

this rags tae riches <deleted> should be arrasted. however thit wull never happen, he wull probably get aff with a fywee thousands o bahts,  tha poor motorbiker wull have this trouma fer the rest o his life, this is Thailand where money is god!,

 

OP i can understand glaswegian talk, having lived their back in the 70s, but most folk here would need a translater.

Maybe your just aff your heed.

 

[glaswegian]

5 minutes ago, colinneil said:

OP i can understand glaswegian talk, having lived their back in the 70s, but most folk here would need a translater.

Maybe your just aff your heed.

 

 

soarry sir, yer richt,  next time i will be mair carefull whan writing

[Sydebolle]

Well, this little kid has his career creamed for good; in years to come people will approach him in public and ask "are you not the yellow Mini Cooper owner?".

It seems, after all, that he is not that influential like others protected by the Red Bull's legal department ....... 

[sandemara]

A Public Apology to society? In a police Station with the media not allowed to attend? Supported by his surrogate Mommy?. Now he needs a female  to bolster his courage?  Quite the contrast when he thought he had his elite status to rely on to whup lo-so arse in public. What society was he apologising to?  How can anyone be sure he was really apologising at all under such circumstances?  Why should anyone (especially the victim, his family or his supporters) believe anything Not The Brave says after endorsing the BS claim that he was "acting in self-defence"?   I'd happily acknowledge his sincerity if he handed over his treasured Mini Cooper to the victim.  Now that compassionate gesture would  be saying something genuine for a change. Certainly would wipe a lot of the shit from his spoiled brat face.

[ratcatcher]

2 hours ago, Dunky said:

Utter nonsense all of it! It was the bikes fault and then he drove off. If he had done that to me he would have had more than facial injuries!

New here by any chance? You may have bested the motorbike rider but you'd have been in a whole lot more trouble than young Not, the star of the video. A few strong words and a call to the insurance company would ensure your chances of remaining in the country, assuming you are in the country. Jai yen yen..............

[elgordo38]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

It is not good behavior, he said, obey the rule of law.

What a profound statement. When will the reverse be true. 

[irwinfc]

2 hours ago, Dunky said:

Utter nonsense all of it! It was the bikes fault and then he drove off. If he had done that to me he would have had more than facial injuries!

 

the reports on Thai channels said the rider rode off to pursue a taxi that was in front of the "luxury car", which he thought had made contact with his motorcycle. upon realizing his mistake, he rode back to (that's why he was on the other side of the rode where the mini was) meet the nutter's rage.

[anon467848]

Prayut keeps harping on about obeying the laws of the land. The problem is that the laws are not equally enforced.

 

When was the last time a HiSo, moneyed Thai, whatever you want to call the pretentious pricks was prosecuted? Even when a case goes to court and they are found guilty, they are out on appeal and do not serve 1 day in jail. 

 

If Prayut truly wants to demonstrate that the law apples to ALL THAIS, then some hi profile HiSo cases need to be successfully prosecuted. The perpetrators spend some time behind bars, irrespective of their family name and position....

[Honthy]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

He raised his hands in a wai to society. He apologized also to Boy saying he had been trying to get in touch with him at the hospital where he is nursing facial injuries. But he said he was blocked by relatives.

 

He wants to pay his bills and he will keep trying to call to make contact and apologize over the phone, he said.

Oh, so kind guy he is ..... and the aggressive victim .. The victim does not allow him to pay his hospital bill.... Disguising, this guy thinks the whole society is idiot.