waerth Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 I just arrived home in Bangkok, Huai Kwang @ 23.15 after a trip to Laem Chabang to play comedy. We left Bangkok at 15.00 from Lardprao and apart from the 10 soldiers stationed at the Shell pump where we meet there were no soldiers in sight all the way to Laem Chabang. Not even on the motorway near the airport. By the time we reached Laem Chabang the driver started getting phone calls from friends telling him about the coup. His friends, whom he says life near Aksa road. reported the following: 1) Red shirts shooting Army and vice versa 2) Red shirts refusing to leave and declaring war on the army then 1 hour later 3) Soldiers fighting with each other in many locations in Bangkok. So not having the internet and our driver keeping on getting all of these calls I am starting to get very very nervous. By 21.00 we finally left Laem Chabang. We took Sukhumvit/Bangna-Trad for the first part instead of the motorway. And we then took the road passing the airport on the east side to get back on the motorway. By this time it was already past 22.00 and there were a few soldiers there. But they were not interested in stopping anybody at all. Still quite a lot of traffic, but hey this is the road to the airport. From there we went on the motorway then followed Rama IX and went right into Ratchada and I left our van at Huai Kwang. Where past 23.00 there was still quite some traffic!! And all of the way from the airport to my home not even 1 soldier. Only a police officer came to me after I left the van and told me .... he you .... go home have curfew. I waied him and walked the last bit. At the beginning of my street the noodle stand was even still open!!!!! This really is an amazing country. We have a curfew, but many seem to be plainly ignoring it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 I ignored the curfew in 92. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted May 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 I did in 2006 on the second night. Walked from my home to the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiceMan Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 If I remember correctly, foreign TV news was not shut down in 2006. It has been shut down now, so maybe this coup is a little more serious. Or better organised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Selective enforcement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 ALL Thai TV was shutdown! This is the first time I saw that!! Good thing god invented DVDs.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 ... and satellite TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 No one is fighting anyone, no shooting. The red shirts have gone home, the whistle blowers have one home, and any "soldiers fighting soldiers" would have been squelched immediately with massive fire power. Typical BS that goes around. I have been through at least 7 or 8 coups. No one has even bothered me if I happened to be out after curfew. However, if I had been doing anything "suspicious", I could have been arrested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 It isn't so much people ignoring the curfew, as it is that it was sprung on everyone so suddenly, IMO. Last time they had a curfew, I loved it! Bangkok quiet!! extremely little traffic!!! Amazing Thailand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 My Mrs flew home from studying for a month in China to find the 2006 coup had taken place several days earlier. She hadn't heard a word about it in China. Maybe things like coups and protests are not to be mentioned in the Chinese press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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