Bangkoktraveler Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Robberies do happen in Thailand. 4 of those buggers tried robbing me but before they got to me, they had robbed another farang and left him behind for dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Was watching Lost Series 3 last night. In Episode 9 Jack has a flashback to when he was chilling out in Phuket and got the shit kicked out of him by 4 or 5 Thai guys (they didn't like his tattoo). Obviously LOS has developed a reputation for this sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrenova Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Whatever the truth behind this story, you cannot justify a multiple onto one attack be it for robbery, revenge or just to pass the time of day. The fact is that Thais have a love of violence and never more than when the odds are firmly stacked on their side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGJAM Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 You are right on the one hand, but in a situation where you just "lose it" and passion or emotion takes over, that is another story, and rational "civilized" people may well lose it in certain circumstances. Yes but people who "lose it" go to jail, in the West Anyway, I can perfectly understand and sympathize with someone who walks in on a very violent esp on a loved one and "loses it". I may also be one of those who "lose it" BUT: 1. that's very rarely the case with these gangs of Thais butchering singles or vastly outnumbered foreigners. It's usually over extremely trivial matters where the Thais are oftentimes the ones in the wrong too. 2. I doubt I would go on and on beating an already unconscious body. That's where most people, thugs included, usually stop (or at the very least are made to stop). Continuing to mayhem a totally defensless unconscious body laying on the ground strikes me as extremely savage and barbaric, worth of animals not humans. That's sadly the norm in most 3rd world cultures and it's certainly the case in Thailand. Thanks for the update on the guy, sorry to hear he is not doing any better. It does now seem that some witnesses or such have come forward and given more information to gather that it was a robbery? I would think that since the case involves a foreign tourist the police have been forced to move a little their lazy asses and have "pressured" some of the many people (working there) that they know must have witnessed the scene (remember where and when it happened) and who (this being the smiling Paradise that it is) hadn't initially volunteered any infos nor had helped the guy (during and just after the beating, seems he spent quite a bit of time laying into the bush)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGJAM Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Was watching Lost Series 3 last night. In Episode 9 Jack has a flashback to when he was chilling out in Phuket and got the shit kicked out of him by 4 or 5 Thai guys (they didn't like his tattoo). Obviously LOS has developed a reputation for this sort of thing. I hope so and it's about time too! BTW, the word isn't "developed", it's "earned"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 1. that's very rarely the case with these gangs of Thais butchering singles or vastly outnumbered foreigners. It's usually over extremely trivial matters where the Thais are oftentimes the ones in the wrong too. 2. I doubt I would go on and on beating an already unconscious body. That's where most people, thugs included, usually stop (or at the very least are made to stop). Continuing to mayhem a totally defensless unconscious body laying on the ground strikes me as extremely savage and barbaric, worth of animals not humans. That's sadly the norm in most 3rd world cultures and it's certainly the case in Thailand. It's called evolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 "...Yes but people who "lose it" go to jail, in the West..." Not always, many situations where people lost it and walked. Depends on the circumstances, and the jury, jurisdiction etc...some are never tried. Agree this was a savage act. Did you ever see the famous footage of the Thammasaart uprising? there is one point where they have a guy strung up by the neck, obviously dead, yet people are still blind with rage and beating him with sticks and kicking him. Savage is an understatement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 The guy was already dead when they hung him to that tree outside the university. The mob had been told he was a communist Vietnamese agent. He was actually a second year student at Chulalongkorn. Good old Samak played his part in stirring up the mobs. Now he may become PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Must be karma ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Here's the story from Pattaya Daily News Norwegian beaten unconscious by thugs at beer bar Boonlua Chatree A Norwegian tourist was beaten and badly injured by a gang of Thai men at a group of beer bars in the early hours of December 30, the attackers stealing the manâ??s property and leaving him unconscious as they rode away on their motorcycles. Pattaya Police Station received a report of the incident at 2:30 a.m. from an anonymous caller, and rushed to the Wonderful Beer Bar group of bars alongside Second Road. There are 15 beer bars located on an area of about 10 rai of land, with a stand of trees to the rear of the bars. The officers found a number of tourists drinking, and more than 200 bargirls who appeared unaware that anything had happened. Amongst the trees at the rear of the bars, however, police found the unconscious figure of a man. He was identified as Geir Andre Sirevag, a 26-year-old Norwegian citizen. The ground was covered in blood. Sirevag, who was shaven-headed, had traces of blood at the base of his left ear from a wound, and there was a swelling on his head. The area above his left ear had an indentation and his eyebrow was bleeding. His body was bruised. The officers with great difficulty carried him out by his arms and legs, and sent him for treatment to Pattaya Memorial Hospital. Police attempted to question eyewitnesses at the scene, but no one was willing to speak. Later, however, one witness spoke in secret. A Thai man described as being short and overweight had come to the bars with three associates. Everyone was afraid of them. The gang had a problem with the Norwegian man, and they surrounded him and beat him until he was unconscious before carrying him out and throwing him into the trees 20 meters away. They took all his property, then came back to their motorcycles that were parked in front of the bars and calmly rode away. A woman who officers suspect was a beer bar staff member called the police. Pol Col Nopadol Wongnom, superintendent at Pattaya Police Station has ordered a full investigation of all the bar staff members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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