Man who pulled gun on driver at Chaengwattana turns out to be anti-corruption official

[Mister Fixit]

8 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Is there just a faint chance that he may have bought his position?

You beat me to it!  ????

[KhonkaenExpat]

He’s corrupted an abuse of power?? Or an over-inflated ego   

[fakename]

It doesnt matter, pull a gun, or 25 expensive watches, fat cats always go home free.

[zzaa09]

18 minutes ago, KhonkaenExpat said:

He’s corrupted an abuse of power?? Or an over-inflated ego   

Both characteristics very Thai....

 

????

[Maitdjai]

1 hour ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Junta appointed heads of national agencies don't usually threaten taxi drivers with firearms in "1st World" countries.

 

"Kindergarten" is different, with "Junta", or without!

 

 

[mikosan]

13 hours ago, Xonax said:

The car with the camera was in fact driving unnecessarily slow.

And that's a good reason to have a gun drawn on you?  Of course, I realise you are joshing...............

[gunderhill]

15 hours ago, webfact said:

Worawit’s deputy, Natcha Kerdsri, will lead the fact-finding committee assigned to investigate the circumstances.

Sorted!

[gunderhill]

15 hours ago, webfact said:

He honked his horn and overtook the taxi because he and wife were hurrying to do an errand at a state office.

I'll remember that when I'm in a hurry, and its "undertook" not overtook.

Get out of my way fool I'm doing an errand.

[gunderhill]

8 hours ago, Mister Fixit said:

You beat me to it!  ????

No, he just "shot"  to the top  due to his  errand  running abilities.

[webfact]

UPDATE:

NACC executive admits pulling gun on Bangkok cabbie

By NATTHAPAT PHROMKAEW, 
KHANATHIT SRIHIRUNDAJ 
THE NATION

 

THE NATIONAL Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has given a fact-finding committee 15 days to determine why its assistant secretary-general Piset Nakhaphan pulled a gun on a taxi driver at the Chaeng Watthana Government Complex in north Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1063376-nacc-executive-admits-pulling-gun-on-bangkok-cabbie/

[Time Traveller]

19 hours ago, Rhys said:

So he walks away free...

Why shouldn't he? Anyone invovled in fighting corruption in thailand would expect threats on their life. Having a firearm to protect one's life is a basic human right. In this incident no one was hurt. So a civil society would let him walk free.

[The Teacher]

20 hours ago, Rhys said:

So he walks away free...

Sure, of course, they mentioned that word Corruption allegedly they are none according to high ranking Government officials.

 

Even they cannot believe the garbage that they say

[Mister Fixit]

3 hours ago, gunderhill said:

I'll remember that when I'm in a hurry, and its "undertook" not overtook.

Get out of my way fool I'm doing an errand.

Well, technically, he overtook the taxi when he was undertaking an errand.

[billd766]

4 hours ago, Time Traveller said:

Why shouldn't he? Anyone invovled in fighting corruption in thailand would expect threats on their life. Having a firearm to protect one's life is a basic human right. In this incident no one was hurt. So a civil society would let him walk free.

 

Actually having a firearm is NOT a basic human right. In most western countries you have to have a damn good reason to carry a gun. You need a permit and extensive training before being allowed to carry one, and should you ever try to pull a stupid stunt like this idiot did, you would be disarmed, forcibly if necessary. The weapon would be taken away from you, you would be taken to court, fined heavily and jailed.

 

PS Billions of people around the world never have the need for a personal weapon, so why was this idiot allowed to carry one?

[AccidentalTourist]

Thats Thailand for REAL. And thats why Big Joke is just a JOKE..

[transam]

On 10/18/2018 at 11:13 AM, billd766 said:

 

Actually having a firearm is NOT a basic human right. In most western countries you have to have a damn good reason to carry a gun. You need a permit and extensive training before being allowed to carry one, and should you ever try to pull a stupid stunt like this idiot did, you would be disarmed, forcibly if necessary. The weapon would be taken away from you, you would be taken to court, fined heavily and jailed.

 

PS Billions of people around the world never have the need for a personal weapon, so why was this idiot allowed to carry one?

Wai-able Hi-so position and salary...

[Raymonddiaz]

Thai society is very hierarchical. Foreigners don't understand Thainess very well. Jungle law in LOS where registered and unregistered guns are everywhere. Be safe guys.. Don't get the many tigers out there angry.. You are being warned. 

[Loles]

an extreme idiot conceited prick as usually ...

[chang1]

On 10/18/2018 at 1:03 AM, Time Traveller said:

Why shouldn't he? Anyone invovled in fighting corruption in thailand would expect threats on their life. Having a firearm to protect one's life is a basic human right. In this incident no one was hurt. So a civil society would let him walk free.

 

How does anyone come to think this way? 

 

"Why shouldn't he?" (Walk free) - How was his life threatened? He brought the whole incident on himself by acting unhinged. He most certainly is not fit to drive a car let alone carry a gun. 

"Having a firearm to protect one's life is a basic human right." - No it is not. Being able to go about your normal daily business without worrying that the next clown you meet may want to hurt you with a gun is though. Guns are only good at ending lives they rarely save lives.

"In this incident no one was hurt. So a civil society would let him walk free." - The UK is a civil society and if this happened here armed police would hunt him down and throw the book at him. A society that thinks it is OK to pull out a gun and threaten someone for driving slow (assuming that is all it was about) is in need of a big shake up. Would it be OK to pull a gun out in Tesco if the cashier was too slow?

Do you point a gun at a slow waitress in a restaurant? 

Thinking like this is how you end up with the carnage that goes on in the USA. How a great country like that has come to not care about mass shootings in schools and other places is incredible.