webfact Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 "Big Joke" kicking football betting out of Thailand during the World Cup! Pictures (3): Thai Tourist Police The Tourist Police's star striker - Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal - has given the red card to three online football betting operations in Thailand. The TPB website featured pictures of the crime busting deputy commissioner, known as Big Joke in the Thai media, taking down website operations in Hua Hin, Nakorn Sri Thammarat and Hat Yai. One picture showed him with a football. Another showed him meeting troops next to a helicopter. The joint operations with officers from Regions 7,8 and 9 resulted in many arrests and the seizure of a mountain of electronic equipment used by the gangs to take bets on the World Cup. Thaivisa notes that last week's attempt to seek the arrest of a Thai woman in London posting disparaging pictures about the military junta online seems to have been put on the back burner leading many to suggest it was a bit of an own goal. Source: Thai Tourist Police -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-06-20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anak Nakal Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 7 minutes ago, webfact said: "Big Joke" kicking football betting out of Thailand during the World Cup! No. Thai people are betting like crazy people! This story is not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzra Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 And the picture with a helicopter is to say what???? good luck to him trying to stop people from gambling, Thai punters are waiting 4 years for such opportunity to blow their hard earned cash to the wind, and than to cry and go out and rob someplace to get some money back to pay the loan sharks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Big Joke might think he is making some dent in the online gambling but it truth he is trying to push <deleted> uphill with a chopstick. If this government had a half a brain, which it hasn't, they would legalise betting for certain sports with restrictions, like registered bookies and time and bet limitations. Think of the taxes they would collect for hospitals and education er......for junta and PM popularity buying and more helicopters and huge heavy duty plastic backdrop signage for Big Joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 28 minutes ago, webfact said: The TPB website featured pictures of the crime busting deputy commissioner, known as Big Joke OK, I'll ask. What's TPB? For a split second I thought The Pirate Bay. Then I was thinking perhaps Thai PBS. Now I see a link at the foot of the article to the Tourist Police website. In one of those photo opportunity pics, behind the six bigwigs there's a sign in the background saying 'Police Tourist Bureau', which would make it PTB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 6 minutes ago, Cadbury said: Big Joke might think he is making some dent in the online gambling but it truth he is trying to push <deleted> uphill with a chopstick. If this government had a half a brain, which it hasn't, they would legalise betting for certain sports with restrictions, like registered bookies and time and bet limitations. Think of the taxes they would collect for hospitals and education er......for junta and PM popularity buying and more helicopters and huge heavy duty plastic backdrop signage for Big Joke. What do they do with those big plastic signs after these pr news conferences? Have they not heard of interactive screens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBKK Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Yup close them down! we don't want the evil of betting in Thailand. Now where was my lottery ticket? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickjones2018 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 online gambling, no cash to be grabbed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon467848 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Nice helicopter $10 million bucks worth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_EC155 .... no old Bell helos for the Big Joke, rank has it's privileges... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, Bluespunk said: What do they do with those big plastic signs after these pr news conferences? Have they not heard of interactive screens? Apparently not. Have a look at this banner. A once-off just for the opening of the naval exercise. Must of cost a fortune for the plastic and artwork. And the next day it is thrown away. Must be a recyclers nightmare and the country is covered in these heavy duty plastic advertising hoardings and now as it seems Big Joke's ostentatious self publicity banners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 You can tell by the watch the cop 2nd left is so far an honest guy in this expression laden photo opp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyL Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 If only he had the power to close down all the apps that a lot of people use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 21 minutes ago, merlin2002 said: Nice helicopter $10 million bucks worth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_EC155 .... no old Bell helos for the Big Joke, rank has it's privileges... Haven't heard the "whup whup" of those old helicopters for a while now. They used to have one at the Border Police base north of Chiang Rai, but that seems to have gone. Maybe they have finally given up trying to keep them flying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oziex1 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 And in tomorrows news Big Joke reconciles the Isralies and the Palestinians, has a lunch break then rolls back global warming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 6 minutes ago, JAG said: Haven't heard the "whup whup" of those old helicopters for a while now. They used to have one at the Border Police base north of Chiang Rai, but that seems to have gone. Maybe they have finally given up trying to keep them flying... Perhaps they're going to use them as patrol cars - with the appropriate 'wide vehicle' sign of course. Or was it 'wide boy'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 The real 'Big Joke' is that like the 'war on drugs', the 'war on betting' is completely unwinnable. It simply makes criminals out of otherwise good people. The "Big Joke" of alcohol prohibition - which didn't work. Robert Stack as G-Man and prohibition crusader, Elliot Ness. Drug use and sports betting prohibitions are in the same category although those insisting on those prohibitions all use that exact same reasoning and rationale. But it does fill the jails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane Dough Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 6 hours ago, bluesofa said: OK, I'll ask. What's TPB? For a split second I thought The Pirate Bay. Then I was thinking perhaps Thai PBS. Now I see a link at the foot of the article to the Tourist Police website. In one of those photo opportunity pics, behind the six bigwigs there's a sign in the background saying 'Police Tourist Bureau', which would make it PTB. It is Tourist Police Bureau - the actual website has it wrong.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkside Gray Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Isnt it time the Big Joke crime fighter did some real crime fighting and did something about the curruption and nepotism in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon789561 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 well they'll carry on betting regardless, one way or another. i really am starting to worry about his side kick though. where did she go? she's inactive. i think i miss her ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, Happy enough said: well they'll carry on betting regardless, one way or another. i really am starting to worry about his side kick though. where did she go? she's inactive. i think i miss her ? You and Horace Beasley both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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