New years Eve around (4 am on Jan 1 early morning) a French guy got beaten up bu about 15 thai teenagers in Bintaban, the little soi near the Roma restaurant. He is now is hospital with severe head injuries.
That anyone witness that?
Foreigner beaten up in soi Bintabaht
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A mob passed me, running down Poolsuk at 00:45, armed with sticks. It seems likely it is the same group. I count myself lucky but the poor Frenchman clearly wasn't. Do you know him and can you post his name?
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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakin ... 23428.html
11 arrested for attacking French tourist in Hua Hin
January 3, 2014 4:38 pm
Prachuap Khiri Khan -- Police have arrested 11 suspects, most of them minors, for assaulting and seriously injuring a French tourist, in the seaside town of Hua Hin.
Simonivet Pou, 26, was attacked in one of the town's beer bar zones on New Year's Day after he tried to help another foreigner in a street brawl. The victim needed brain surgery.
"We arrested the suspects and they have confessed to their crime," Prachuap Khiri Khan police chief Maj General Tanet Suntornsuk said Friday.
He said nine of the suspects were between 15 and 17 years old, while one was 20, and another, a soldier.
The suspects told police that a drunken foreigner had offended them, so they attacked him. Pou then tried to intervene in the incident and ended up being assaulted himself.
"We have charged them with physical assault," Tanet said.
The Nation
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jumping in to help someone you do not know is very brave but sadly in Thailand also very stupid, they have a gang mentality here and do not know when to stop
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Not a great deal of difference to the UK reallyblue05 wrote:jumping in to help someone you do not know is very brave but sadly in Thailand also very stupid, they have a gang mentality here and do not know when to stop
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^ or Denmark for that matter.
French tourist brutally attacked in Hua Hin
Simonivet Pou, 26, was attacked in one of the town's beer bar zones on New Year's Day after he tried to help another foreigner in a street brawl. The victim needed brain surgery. Suspects were between 15 and 17 years old, while one was 20, and another, a soldier.
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500 Baht fine for the perpetrators, on you go lads.
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Different culture, different behavior. For all we farangs know, they knew when to stop and did so. There's a lesson to be learned here.blue05 wrote:jumping in to help someone you do not know is very brave but sadly in Thailand also very stupid, they have a gang mentality here and do not know when to stop
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What those kids did was wrong, and the Frenchman was in the wrong place at the wrong time. You never know what precipitates things like this against the original foreigner though. I've heard some tourists, and expats, spouting the foulest of Thai when drunk and in a bad mood. The type of gutter Thai that they probably have no idea the full meaning of, or the reaction it's going to cause. You start in with that kind of language directed at any Thai and 10 to 1 you're going to get a jai laun response. Or....this could just be a bunch of thug kids out to beat up anyone foreign. That happens here too. Hopefully all will be revealed in coming days. Pete
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Sorry do not follow that one. "They knew when to stop" as in when they think it looks like he is beaten enough and will need brain surgery.Homer wrote:Different culture, different behavior. For all we farangs know, they knew when to stop and did so. There's a lesson to be learned here.blue05 wrote:jumping in to help someone you do not know is very brave but sadly in Thailand also very stupid, they have a gang mentality here and do not know when to stop
You can't possible condone it because it is a different culture so different behavior therefore it is OK to beat someones brains out???
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^ and the punishment should fit the fine. Instead of the $500 baht fine they will probably get, they should spend about 10 years in a Thai prison.
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Slightly off topic, but anyway.........
During the course of last year I saw groups of armed teenagers on several occasions in and around Hua-Hin. The impression I got was that they were waiting for a rival group to arrive since they were paying absolutely no attention to anyone. However, about two months ago there were a group of around 10 to fifteen teenagers, mostly boys but a few rough girls as well, hanging around outside the newly opened Family Mart in soi 6. I went into Famiily Mart and while they did pass a few remarks, they never tried to do anything, but I got the impression that it wouldn't take much to trigger them off.
They were being quite loud and acting like a typical bunch of trouble makers, including doing their wheelies up and down the road. I was surprised that the staff at Family Mart hadn't phoned the police to have the kids removed, but then a short while later the police did arrive. Upon seeing a police pickup stop, some of the youngsters left on their bikes, and after about two or three minutes, the police left and the youngsters all returned.
My question is, why was no action taken? The police never even spoke to them.
All I can say is that things like this are, or at least were, dealt with very differently in South Africa. Typically, the police would have cautioned them and ordered them to leave. If they didn't, they would then be rounded up and taken to the police station where they would have been kept in cells overnight until their parents could be contacted in the morning. They would probably also then have been charged and would have to appear in court. Let's just say, the behavior would have resulted in punishment.
Those involved in this most recent assault wouldn't go to prison because of their age, but they would most certainly end up in a reform school. Then again, South Africa has probably changed a great deal since I left back in 1995.
Just sad to see things like this happened more and more frequently in Hua-Hin.
During the course of last year I saw groups of armed teenagers on several occasions in and around Hua-Hin. The impression I got was that they were waiting for a rival group to arrive since they were paying absolutely no attention to anyone. However, about two months ago there were a group of around 10 to fifteen teenagers, mostly boys but a few rough girls as well, hanging around outside the newly opened Family Mart in soi 6. I went into Famiily Mart and while they did pass a few remarks, they never tried to do anything, but I got the impression that it wouldn't take much to trigger them off.
They were being quite loud and acting like a typical bunch of trouble makers, including doing their wheelies up and down the road. I was surprised that the staff at Family Mart hadn't phoned the police to have the kids removed, but then a short while later the police did arrive. Upon seeing a police pickup stop, some of the youngsters left on their bikes, and after about two or three minutes, the police left and the youngsters all returned.
My question is, why was no action taken? The police never even spoke to them.
All I can say is that things like this are, or at least were, dealt with very differently in South Africa. Typically, the police would have cautioned them and ordered them to leave. If they didn't, they would then be rounded up and taken to the police station where they would have been kept in cells overnight until their parents could be contacted in the morning. They would probably also then have been charged and would have to appear in court. Let's just say, the behavior would have resulted in punishment.
Those involved in this most recent assault wouldn't go to prison because of their age, but they would most certainly end up in a reform school. Then again, South Africa has probably changed a great deal since I left back in 1995.
Just sad to see things like this happened more and more frequently in Hua-Hin.
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Thai cops not as assertive as RSA cops, somehow that does not surprise me.
In many countries you cannot be held for over 24h unless charges are made against you.
But you can be held for23h and59 mins and police will often do this. Usually lock them up till morning and then give the parents pages and pages and pages of paper work to complete before release, very effective.
In many countries you cannot be held for over 24h unless charges are made against you.
But you can be held for23h and59 mins and police will often do this. Usually lock them up till morning and then give the parents pages and pages and pages of paper work to complete before release, very effective.
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Yet another case of belligerent, good-for-nothing hair-trigger scooter boy BS. They should have the book thrown at them but when the cops and their parents don't care either, there is little hope.
Yes, the French guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time and it is debatable as to whether he should have gotten involved or not, but at 4am on New Year's Day morning after New Year's Eve festivities with all the high kids and drunks plus ladyboys on 'ya-ice' etc roaming around with not much to do or direction........well, what could go wrong?
Yes, the French guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time and it is debatable as to whether he should have gotten involved or not, but at 4am on New Year's Day morning after New Year's Eve festivities with all the high kids and drunks plus ladyboys on 'ya-ice' etc roaming around with not much to do or direction........well, what could go wrong?
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