Prachuap Immigration arrest Belgian for dangerous driving

[webfact]

Prachuap Immigration arrest Belgian for dangerous driving

 

 

A contingent of immigration police under the command of Prajuab Khirikhan immigration chief Pol Col Sutthipong Phutthipong served a warrant on a Belgian man connected to dangerous driving.

 

Marc W., 59, is now in the custody of the Hua Hin police.

 

He is said to have driven negligently causing injury and damage. The warrant was issued by the Hua Hin court on January 28th 2020.

 

Sutthipong told Naew Na this was all part of immigration chief  Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang's policy to rid Thailand of law breaking foreigners.

 

They urged the public to call 1178 to report illegal activity.

 

Source: Naew Na

 

 

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[ThreeEyedRaven]

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

 

He is saidto have driven negligently causing injury and damage. The warrant was issued by the Hua Hin court on January 28th 2020.

 

Sutthipong told Naew Na this was all part of immigration chief  Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang's policy to rid Thailand of law breaking foreigners.

More than 3 months to serve the warrant is not very efficient.

As for law breaking, when will they get round to arresting the Thai drivers who drive recklessly across the country every day?

[colinneil]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sutthipong told Naew Na this was all part of immigration chief  Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang's policy to rid Thailand of law breaking foreigners.

 

 

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

[bluesofa]

2 minutes ago, colinneil said:

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sutthipong told Naew Na this was all part of immigration chief  Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang's policy to rid Thailand of law breaking foreigners.

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

The time-honoured tradition comes into play for those: 500 Baht and wai.

[Dmaxdan]

3 minutes ago, colinneil said:

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

Swept under the proverbial carpet?  

[keith101]

3 minutes ago, colinneil said:

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

TIT they cant deport locals only foreigners which is what they want .

[Mango Bob]

Why don't they take the same kind of actions against Thai's the drive recklessly, always there brakes fail when going through a red light, trying to pass someone who doing 100 kmh because they are going to slow.

[Thailand Noobie]

Do foreigners have own number to call and report about reckless Thais? I think they'll need big call center to take our calls 555

[OnTheGround]

The foreigner full name is in the original article in naew na.

That usually never happen when the offender is a thai person.

Fair?

 

Name and shame foreigners. Ignore the 1000 of thai drivers who not follow traffic rules and cause harm to property and people.

Edited May 8, 2020 by OnTheGround

[darksidedog]

The overriding principal of any Nations laws should be equanimity for all.

While guests should not be dealt with leniency, neither should they be overly punished.

Naming a person for an offense committed by numerous locals every day, shows Thailand does not understand that basic principal, along with many other things obviously beyond them. Shameful really.

[ezzra]

18 minutes ago, colinneil said:

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

Valid argument had the laws of this land would have been on equal footing between us and them but it is not, so one law for them and all the others for us...

[Canuck1966]

I wouldn't say Thais are reckless, they tend to wreck more

[smedly]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

Prachuap Immigration arrest Belgian for dangerous driving

so immigration are now traffic cops lol

 

what powers of arrest do immigration have with regard to traffic law enforcement - this country gets weirder by the day

 

 

[smedly]

32 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sutthipong told Naew Na this was all part of immigration chief  Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang's policy to rid Thailand of law breaking foreigners.

it really is getting close to that final nail 

 

next it will be western foreigners banned from Thailand by Immigration for not wearing a helmet

 

This is getting really bad folks - unless something drastic happens here soon western tourists will be giving Thailand a wide birth, it really is getting ridiculous 

[northsouthdevide]

I often thought the same thing when big joke was never off the front page. 

[bluesofa]

8 minutes ago, Canuck1966 said:

I wouldn't say Thais are reckless, they tend to wreck more

Oh I dunno. Since the Covid restrictions they have been reckless.

[smedly]

32 minutes ago, colinneil said:

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

it seems they have found a new form of discrimination against western foreigners

 

I would like to know what this person actually did wrong - he probably deserves it but that doesn't excuse the selective application of the law

[OnTheGround]

With next to zero outbound flights, and Thailands 2 billion biometric system, the 'offender' was not a flight risk. 

Sending out a contingent to arrest him, seems way over the top.

 

'charges of "driving negligently causing Others have suffered physical or mental harm, serious injury and damage to property of others'

 

Not clear if it was only hit & run vehicle damage, or more. Was this on public road, or in a mall parking area with slow moving cars? Physical harm would be minor then.

As usual, important info missing.

 

[bluesofa]

6 minutes ago, smedly said:

43 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sutthipong told Naew Na this was all part of immigration chief  Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang's policy to rid Thailand of law breaking foreigners.

it really is getting close to that final nail 

next it will be western foreigners banned from Thailand by Immigration for not wearing a helmet

This is getting really bad folks - unless something drastic happens here soon western tourists will be giving Thailand a wide birth, it really is getting ridiculous 

Perhaps the head of immigration should be put in charge of TAT. Then he could tell it as it is. It would stop the foreign tourist trade dead.

Perhaps he could promote a new slogan: "Breathe out of turn and you're out"

 

<For the hard-of-learning: The text above may contain traces of sarcasm>

[connda]

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

Only dirty 'law-breaking' foreigners matters to these racists.  The fact that their own citizen's abysmal driving practices kill more people on the roads world-wide is beyond their limited brain capacity - and blaming foreigners for the ills of Thailand is simpler.

[finnsk]

We do not know anything about the case, what has he done wrong ?

 

If he drive with his head under his arms he should go back to Belgium asap, we forreigners are guests in Thailand and must show good behavior to get respect from the local people.

 

Funny that immigration police now is traffic police, maybe they can do better jobs on the roads with their fast BMW cars. Every day I see thai people driving drunk or without any knowledge to trafic rules, many thai drivers is very dangerous drivers, but that is ok ? There is a lot of jobs for the im police, with better meaning, to do on the roads.

 

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by finnsk

[connda]

56 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

The overriding principal of any Nations laws should be equanimity for all.

While guests should not be dealt with leniency, neither should they be overly punished.

Naming a person for an offense committed by numerous locals every day, shows Thailand does not understand that basic principal, along with many other things obviously beyond them. Shameful really.

Thailand is an inherently racist country where it seems that most officials openly hate and loath foreigners.  "We only want your money then get the hell out", seems to be the underlying message.

[Somtamnication]

At this rate, there will be no Thais driving in the year 2525 AD! There is a song about that, btw.

[NCC1701A]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He is said to have driven negligently causing injury and damage.

thank god the streets are safe again. 

 

[NCC1701A]

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

the population of Thailand is 69,773,037. 

[Grumpy one]

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

???? ????

[soi3eddie]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He is said to have driven negligently causing injury and damage. The warrant was issued by the Hua Hin court on January 28th 2020.

 

Sutthipong told Naew Na this was all part of immigration chief  Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang's policy to rid Thailand of law breaking foreigners.

 

They urged the public to call 1178 to report illegal activity.

 

 

Why did it take so long to track him down? Also, no details of the actual alleged incident. Suspect "hit and run" for which a payment at the time would probably have avoided his arrest.

 

How about a call number (or FB/Line account) for foreigners to report all the illegal activity of Thais? In the name of satefy of course - sounds fair no?

 

[jvs]

He is said to have driven negligently causing injury and damage.

If that is true then it is a good thing he got caught!!

For the posters who think that Thai people do not get arrested for the same offence,get of your

high horse!!!

Yes no matter what department a Royal Thai Police Officer works for they all have power to arrest,they are police!!

To look at this case and say it is discrimination is totally of the wall.

[darksidedog]

A grammar police post has been removed along with all of the off topic replies it generated.

[Wiggy]

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

What about all the thousands of Thais breaking driving laws every day?

Thais wouldn’t do a thing like that.