Hotel with unusual design isn’t falling down: experts

[RichardColeman]

With BKK flooding, this will just maybe be an expensive water slide.

[Knocker33]

10 years for vaping,5years for posting a photo. Threatening to stab someone with a sword in a road rage case get a 500 baht fine. What can you say  Laughing stock of the world

[KIWIBATCH]

Pathetic Thailand......Will they ever grow up..?

[mark01]

Some police officers should be arrested for misusing the computer crimes act.

[holymoly]

Yeah, punish, needs to get punished..... punished...I say.  ....into jail with them !

Like Fake News...........

 

 

[atyclb]

4 hours ago, Tilacme said:

Its the Vulcan Salute, live long and prosper.  Spock lives!

 

spocks family would roll over in their vulcan graves knowing who is using their salute given the legendary vulcan pure logic and reason.

Edited August 16, 2017 by atyclb

[hobobo]

5 hours ago, kaiyaibob said:

Re OP Photo

I thought the three finger salute from the hunger games was banned in Thailand

?

That statement alone can give you an additional 25 years! (or was it 250 years, I remain confused)

[fxe1200]

"..... claiming it was leaning and could collapse." In the first place it is written using the subjunctive. Any building can collapse, depending on what you do with it. Furthermore, any building leans, depending on the location from where you look at it.

[scotchbroth100]

If the cop wants to arrest the guy who posted the photo and claimed that it could collapse for causing undue alarm then why not send out arrest warrants for all those that post videos etc of bad drivers, violence etc as those surely cause alarm or is it ok to post those because that is what the true nature of Thailand is now and no one should be needlessly panicked 

[habanero]

It will now be forever known as "the Leaning Tower of Bangkok".  After this much publicity, it is a name they will be stuck with..........

[eeyang wah]

1 hour ago, KIWIBATCH said:

Pathetic Thailand......Will they ever grow up..?

Nope.

[ujayujay]

11 hours ago, Classic Ray said:

 

[ujayujay]

[twizzian]

There's a lot of children in charge here, with childish descision making.

[B4Jazz]

Complete joke, 5 years in jail and fine for that, when a woman can weird a sword around, drive a car when drunk, ram it into a police station and only get a small fine for smoking and causing damage to the stairs. 

 

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[wvavin]

I suggest the authority can find a more intelligent looking people in their police force. They just don't even have that little intelligent look to speak of. 

[samsensam]

 

who'd have guessed the RTP had qualified structural engineers in their ranks.

[renaissanc]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

 

I think that the building company may have friends in high places.

[IAMHERE]

6 hours ago, Remus1830 said:

Soon you will get 5 years for farting in thailand

I've cleared a room but never knocked over a building.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

I quite like the elephant building.

[3421abc]

These people really have nothing better to do. Must be a slow day at the police department.

[Xaos]

Thaksin daughter owns it

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[Phatbeets]

Wow... What a joke this government is and what it has done to this country.

Thailand has this ugly Xenophobic DDR feeling right now, it's sickening 

 

500 thb for life violent/threathenig behavior by thais but when the reputation is imperiled they will lock you up like nbd.

[Jonmarleesco]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

The Bangkok chief of police has demanded the arrest of an individual who posted a picture of a building under construction in the city claiming it was leaning and could collapse.

Nothing quite like the RTP for enforcing a law of their own interpretation. Perhaps they should first check the building before huffing and puffing about issuing an arrest warrant over publication of a picture and an observation.

 

Of course, it's quite possible that Thai Beverage has an interest in the building and Sanit needs to earn his keep - assuming he has yet to resign.

[hotchilli]

Kiss freedom of speech goodbye !!

[kamahele]

Why?

[Mad mick]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

"Leaning Tower of Bangkok" claim - poster faces five years jail!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The Bangkok chief of police has demanded the arrest of an individual who posted a picture of a building under construction in the city claiming it was leaning and could collapse.

 

Sanit Mahathavorn has ordered Lumpini cops to get the poster for contravening the country's strict computer laws.

 

Sanit said that the poster has scared the public without just cause.

 

He or she could face five years in jail and or a fine of 100,000 for the post.

 

The building in question is under construction in Ploenjit, central Bangkok.

 

Daily News reported that police know the identity of the person responsible and an arrest appeared imminent.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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leaning tower of bangkok , that post got you back on tourism map  , not a fine ,  a medal for great free world wide advertisement ? ever heard of the leaning tower of pisa  , jaunta don't get it 

[Si Thea01]

It's not over yet, rumour has it that the building will sue for defamation.

[NextStationBangkok]

Can we comment nice or like ?

 

For this how many years.....

[Srikcir]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

the poster has scared the public without just cause.

Whose "just cause?"

Is it only defined by the police or by anyone in the government?

 

The police didn't know whether there was just cause until they used their authority to investigate building safety. Perhaps the police failed their duty to adequately publicize their findings so that the public will understand there is no safety danger with the building design.

 

As a further note, the poster predicted the building could collapse. That is a conditional tense that speculates about what could happen after the building is completed! The building is still under construction so it would seem premature to say that such speculation is false. But as we've seen, the Prayut regime holds illegal any comment that has the potential for damage to the nation's reputation. So speculation becomes a victim of suppression of freedom of speech. And the police are more than willing to suppress such a constitutional right.