Netizens were thrilled with a security guard who clamped a police vehicle parked in a prohibited zone at Udon airport

[Cranky]

Don't fancy his career prospects much...

[silent]

1 hour ago, wirat69 said:

Article says it had been parked there for half an hour prior...DUH!!!

30 minutes should be enough time to find out who and where, but by half an hour they should know at least that plus when and what and be gone?   

[farcanell]

Call me crazy, but IMHO, immobilizing a marked police vehicle is wrong. ( even if a small amount of joy can be found in a wee bit of payback)

 

A more appropriate response would be to photograph the vehicle ( number and number plate) and have the head of the security department (or his assistant), contact the offenders superiors, and demand an explanation.

 

or... make a public address announcement, summoning a cop from within the airport facility, and demand an explaination

 

or... well... y'all get the picture.

 

next up... fast forward to the article about the ambulance being wheel clamped ?

[Jane Dough]

7 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

I have no intention of ever becoming one of these "Netizens"

It would appear though, that they are very easily pleased with what they read on social media !

By commenting in this way you are by definition a Netizen, welcome to the club. 

[NanLaew]

2 hours ago, farcanell said:

Call me crazy, but IMHO, immobilizing a marked police vehicle is wrong. ( even if a small amount of joy can be found in a wee bit of payback)

 

A more appropriate response would be to photograph the vehicle ( number and number plate) and have the head of the security department (or his assistant), contact the offenders superiors, and demand an explanation.

 

or... make a public address announcement, summoning a cop from within the airport facility, and demand an explaination

 

or... well... y'all get the picture.

 

next up... fast forward to the article about the ambulance being wheel clamped ?

Udon Thani International airport shares facilities at the Royal Thai Airforce base, the home of Wing 23, 2nd Air Division Air Combat Command. The RTAF provide terminal security and are responsible for keeping the passenger drop-off and pick-up lanes clear. With around 50 flights coming and going between 7 AM and 10 PM each day, around 1.3 million passengers passed through the airport between January and June 2017, almost the same amount for the whole of 2016.

 

If a local cop parks a police pickup where nobody else is allowed to park except emergency vehicles in an emergency and goes and has a coffee, then he gets clamped.

 

End of.

 

PS. He will also get clamped if he hangs about chatting up the RTAF guard's girlfriend.

Edited August 3, 2017 by NanLaew

[joecoolfrog]

4 hours ago, Thechook said:

Not in australia I have parked a police vehicle in all number of positions when responding to an incident and I was perfectly right to do so.  I dont drive around looking for a parking spot 100 metres away whilst someone is in urgent need of police assistance just so some lefty nutjob doesnt complain.  If the police were getting lunch that is different and that is why I asked why were they there.

Which part of ' abused their position ' did you not understand ?

[thailand49]

Sadly, this might be good reading and social media, but I wish the so call guard good luck buddy? Unless he is actually up in the chain and know someone he will be demoted.

We and I do it because majority of the time they deserve it, not taking sides, but to be honest 30 minutes isn't a lot of time if the officer of the vehicle is on official business?  Putting the boot on the vehicle is a extreme in this situation unless the officer knows the officer to have done this in the past and thinks he is above the law. If this is the case I agree boot the sucker and make a statement. But like always the news story doesn't give us reader all the facts so we assume? 

To be honest if the officer is officially on busy then he or she should have left the emergency lights flashing as a indicator but here in Thailand the boys and girls in brown can't say for sure?

Edited August 3, 2017 by thailand49

[Grumpy Duck]

5 hours ago, hobobo said:

That's bull! In the UK emergency vehicles and/or drivers are frequently penalized if proven that they abused their position.

Is udon in the UK?

[off road pat]

8 hours ago, Thian said:

At Swampy airport it's a complete laugh to see the cops chasing away the illegal taxi's waiting for passengers.

 

The police uses a very loud horn to chase them off but behind that policetruck there's a huge row of taxi's waiting to stop as soon the truck has left...

That truck will come back within 10 minutes before the whole show starts over again. Taxi's have no fear at all for the airportpolice.

They all drive around in circles and this is going on for years now...

Most of These Taxi's are not illegal. they just drop off passengers. Many people me included take a taxi at the departure drop off, to avoid the Airport Taxi Mafia at the arrivals !!! 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

8 hours ago, Thechook said:

Why was the police vehicle parked there, where they responding to a job? If I was attending to a job and came out and found the vehicle clamped that guard would be charged.  What if the police were called to an emergency situation and some numbnut had clamped the vehicle.  You don't touch emergency vehicles as lives depend on them.

 

Are you seriously referring to Thai police vehicles as "emergency vehicles"???

 

When was the last time you saw any Thai police vehicle actually responding Code 3 to any real emergency?

[Artisi]

8 hours ago, Thechook said:

Why was the police vehicle parked there, where they responding to a job? If I was attending to a job and came out and found the vehicle clamped that guard would be charged.  What if the police were called to an emergency situation and some numbnut had clamped the vehicle.  You don't touch emergency vehicles as lives depend on them.

Wouldn't think the local pickup the lunches police ute would ever rate as an emergency vehicle. There was one parked around the corner from my humour for over a week not so long back- didn't move in all that time. 

[halloween]

If the security was RTAF, I can't see that clamping a RTP vehicle would hurt his career prospects at all.

[Foozool]

Here nothing make scenes, but all understanding. ?

 

[oldlakey]

8 hours ago, Ace of Pop said:

Because hes one of the few that isnt a Lefty Malcontent,were not all blessed with a Chipped Shoulder and dislike Laws silly as they are.!.?


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And all these years I thought it was a chip on your shoulder

[Ace of Pop]

QED.?


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[oldlakey]

2 minutes ago, Ace of Pop said:

QED.?


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Well for you anyway

[Ace of Pop]

Its turned into spot a Lefty.?


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[oldlakey]

1 minute ago, Ace of Pop said:

Its turned into spot a Lefty.?


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A fully paid up trade unionist if you dont mind, with the guts and backbone to fight for his job, then march back to work behind the Branch Banner with heads held high after 53 weeks on strike

I was never one for rolling over and wetting my pants 

I left that to the SCABS or ERICS as we called them

84-85

But I still have not got a CHIP on my shoulder   5555555555

Have a nice day

[Thechook]

4 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Are you seriously referring to Thai police vehicles as "emergency vehicles"???

 

When was the last time you saw any Thai police vehicle actually responding Code 3 to any real emergency?

Code 3 = at station meal break.  Well where I come from and that's a luxury 

[diehard60]

i would be willing to be he might lose his job.

[Enoon]

14 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

I have no intention of ever becoming one of these "Netizens"

It would appear though, that they are very easily pleased with what they read on social media !

 

Your use of the Internet tp express your opinion (1,363 posts and counting) indicate that you are (and have been for some time) very much a........."Netizen".

 

Are you also one of those people who gets "stuck" in a traffic jam, but is never part of one?

 

 

Edited August 3, 2017 by Enoon

[oldlakey]

3 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

Your use of the Internet tp express your opinion (1,363 posts and counting) indicate that you are (and have been for some time) very much a........."Netizen".

 

Are you also one of those people who gets "stuck" in a traffic jam, but is never part of one?

 

 

Just double parked

[nasanews]

I have noticed without a doubt there many pessimistic on TVF.  It is sad to see grown ups act like teenagers never believing something might be good in this country.

[George Feedback]

Good story. Well done the guard.

Police do this all over the world. Not long ago I saw  a police car parked on a roundabout in the UK and a local bus stopped behind that could not get passed blocking three of the four roadways in the town center. I was on foot going to the supermarket about 25 yards from the roundabout, and guess what,  when I got inside the police were shopping...

 

 

 

 

Edited August 3, 2017 by George Feedback

[lvr181]

5 hours ago, nasanews said:

I have noticed without a doubt there many pessimistic on TVF.  It is sad to see grown ups act like teenagers never believing something might be good in this country.

There is much good in the country, just that no one seems to be able or willing to turn the 'bad' into good. 

[mikiea]

On 8/3/2017 at 5:07 AM, Thaiwrath said:

I have no intention of ever becoming one of these "Netizens"

It would appear though, that they are very easily pleased with what they read on social media !

never be a netizen  ?   ehh... did you phone this in  ? shallow is as shallow does ......

[mikiea]

On 8/4/2017 at 0:40 AM, nasanews said:

I have noticed without a doubt there many pessimistic on TVF.  It is sad to see grown ups act like teenagers never believing something might be good in this country.

dude or dudette why would you complain ? it is kinda funny , we all wish good for this country , but calling old farts who have earned the right to complain teenagers ? i think you think way to much of yourself  . and i speak as a old fart , i  will complain when i want .........

Edited August 5, 2017 by mikiea