Briton Arrested For Spray Painting Chiang Mai Railway Station

[Thechook]

4 minutes ago, sanemax said:

WE need to get the Police armed, drive around at night and shooting anyone they see vandalising

Great idea, I'm  with you.  People who go out deliberately destroying other people's property with total disregard for others deserve it.

[1SteveC]

4 hours ago, the guest said:

Force him to clean the whole wall by hand, then arrest him, and then deport him ! We don't need trash like that in Thailand!

 

Who is "we"? Yet another " I am so Thai" poster. Grow up ! 

[Alphy]

Must have had a tough paper round, come from a broken home, never saw his Dad and his Mum use to beat him? Mitigating circumstances your Honour!

[NoshowJones]

4 hours ago, the guest said:

Force him to clean the whole wall by hand, then arrest him, and then deport him ! We don't need trash like that in Thailand!

True, we have enough of them back in the UK.

[The Deerhunter]

3 hours ago, Denim said:

What a complete moron.

 

Only 4000. He can consider himself very lucky. 

absob****ylutely!   Very lucky!  I've met smarter morons!

[owl sees all]

It was/is a graffiti wall.

All artists welcome.

Just unlucky someone didn't appreciate his work.

He should have charged them 4k.

Edited July 13, 2017 by owl sees all

[1SteveC]

4 hours ago, the guest said:

Force him to clean the whole wall by hand, then arrest him, and then deport him ! We don't need trash like that in Thailand!

 

"Thailand is for Thais, and that's the best advise I can give." - Your words from a previous post, yet now you seem to include yourself in the "Thai" group.

 

Still pathetic.

[Bantex]

2 hours ago, johncat1 said:

He should have been charged and made to repaint the wall himself as part of his punishment I doubt he would need a work permit for acting on police instructions His fine should also have been 40,000 not 4,000

If instructed by police or court to repaint, this would be classed as community service and not work. He should be made to repaint this building and 9 other buildings in need of painting as well as paying for the paying himself on top of a fine and any compensation payable.

[Andrew Dwyer]

True, we have enough of them back in the UK.

Not in Yorkshire we don't !! [emoji51]

[NoshowJones]

2 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Not in Yorkshire we don't !!

So you want more of them in Yorkshire 

[juice777]

What type of idiot spray paints a wall at 9am

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[650721]

Dont need this kind of idiot in thailand. Deport him but not before he repairs his mindless self indulgence.

[Tony125]

2 hours ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

4000 baht fine about right.  40,000 is ridiculous.

No its not its called a deterrent , make it high enough so he won't think about doing it again.

[soalbundy]

2 hours ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

4000 baht fine about right.  40,000 is ridiculous.

It isn't, vandalism is a hobby in the enlightened UK along with being drunk and disorderly and stabbing, 4,000 Baht is a joke he should have done time.

[mindfulness]

... I can visualise it now if Banksy did a few trademark works. Gets caught pays 4000bt, and the clown at the train station paints over them. 

[PomPolo]

What was he writing "muppet woz 'ere“?

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[dfdgfdfdgs]

Putting somebody in prison for drawing on a wall... thank goodness this isn't a police state.

 

40,000 isn't a deterrent, it's a money-making exercise for whatever 'authority' pockets the cash.

[soalbundy]

Just now, mindfulness said:

... I can visualise it now if Banksy did a few trademark works. Gets caught pays 4000bt, and the clown at the train station paints over them. 

Banksy isn't a vandal, he is an artist with something to say, he amuses.

[Simons3]

He was just lucky they didn't charge him with Working without a work permit a much bigger fine for that and deportation too,  the Bib must have  been napping to miss that one :)

[Chris Lawrence]

Tagging actually goes back thousands of years. Its part of some's DNA.

[soalbundy]

Just now, dfdgfdfdgs said:

Putting somebody in prison for drawing on a wall... thank goodness this isn't a police state.

 

40,000 isn't a deterrent, it's a money-making exercise for whatever 'authority' pockets the cash.

It doesn't have to be a deterrent, it's a punishment and would have been a well deserved one

[dfdgfdfdgs]

1 minute ago, soalbundy said:

Banksy isn't a vandal, he is an artist with something to say, he amuses.

 

You're assuming the guy in the report isn't doing the same thing as Banksy?  Either writing on a wall is vandalism or it isn't.  You can't have a different rule for the ones who are better at it than others.

[dfdgfdfdgs]

40,000 in Thailand is an unjust punishment.  It'd be an unjust punishment even in a developed country.  4,000 is an appropriate fine for Thailand.

[ThaiWai]

38? I'm sorry did that read 38 as in the number after 37 and before 39??  Rip his balls of to make sure he does not procreate and be done with it.  Bailiff..next case.

 

[hottrader77]

6 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

Don't they have the cane in Thailand?  Taggers are the visual vandals of the modern city, they deserve any punishment the law can dish out.

4,000 bt to have wall repainted maybe 500 bt to repaint it and 3500 bt to the thai guy 

i would have repainted it for 3800 bt as a cut price job 

[soalbundy]

23 minutes ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

 

You're assuming the guy in the report isn't doing the same thing as Banksy?  Either writing on a wall is vandalism or it isn't.  You can't have a different rule for the ones who are better at it than others.

It's true that the law must apply for all but I would pay Banksy to paint on my wall. If the picture shown is the man in question it doesn't look as if he is being artistic in any way. It would also seem that he wasn't alone in vandalizing the wall, he was just adding to it but that is no excuse

[whaleboneman]

3 hours ago, johncat1 said:

He should have been charged and made to repaint the wall himself as part of his punishment I doubt he would need a work permit for acting on police instructions His fine should also have been 40,000 not 4,000

oh why not just hang him?

[dinsdale]

38 yrs old. I really can't think of anything else to say.

[taharkin]

Sorry to all of you who want him drawn and quartered. He could not have done more than a spot or two on that wall. Clearly (to someone like myself who has lived in NYC and LA), many styles here, indicating many graffiti artists at work.  Alas, in LA it can be an art form. This is crap. Chiang Mai can do better!

Edited July 13, 2017 by taharkin
typos

[Saladin]

They should have made this ignorant vandal repaint the wall, fined him a lot more than 4000 Baht, then put him on the first plane out of here.