Friday, October 14, 2011

october 1-15, 2011

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ok this one outta Africa
Black magic sperm? 
 Gang of women arrested for drugging, kidnapping and raping men to steal their semen
 
Police seize 33 condoms from three female suspects
Alarming trend sees male hitchhikers drugged, sexually assaulted and dumped by roadsides Police investigating a spate of 'ritualistic' kidnappings and sex attacks on male hitchhikers have arrested three women.
Detectives in Gweru, Zimbabwe, seized 33 used condoms from a suspect vehicle following reports of attacks on men seeking lifts in the town, as well as Harare and Mashonaland West.
 Reports in Zimbabwe have described the alarming trend of male hitchhikers being offered lifts, but then being drugged and driven to secluded spots by female attackers.
 
Targeted: Male hitchhikers are being drugged and sexually assaulted by women in parts of Zimbabwe, including Harare and Gweru town (file picture)
 The men are then forced into sex with the women, sometimes unprotected and at gunpoint, before the female rapists collect their semen and dump victims by the roadside.
 According to the NewZimbabwe.com, three women have been arrested after police found 33 condoms in a vehicle in Lower Gweru last Sunday.
 Midlands police chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Charles Makono said the women came under suspicion after asking officers if they could retrieve the bag of condoms from their car, which had just been involved in an accident.
 The three women, named as Rosemary Chakwizira, 24, Sophie Nhokwara, 26, and Netsai Nhokwara, 24, all from Mkoba 4, Gweru, were immediately arrested along with the male driver on suspicion of multiple counts of indecent assault.
 The driver also faces culpable homicide charges after the fatal accident in which a pedestrian was run over and killed.
 Zimbabwe news outlet Nehanda Radio reported that the local police station in Gweru was beseiged by an angry mob who wanted to see the arrested trio.
 One local resident in Gweru outside the police station last week said the three women were known in the town and regularly attended nightclubs there.
 Harry Mohammed Misi told Zimbabwe's Nehanda Radio: 'We are shocked with what is happening in our society where men are now being sexually-abused by women. It seems now that tables have turned.'
 'But how can they make a living through such acts? On this case, let the law take its course.
'We used to drink with them at Uptown Nite Club and we didn’t know that they were behind such cases.'
 
Police are asking for victims to come forward to an identity parade to help identify their attackers.
Investigators also hope to match the semen to some of the victims through DNA testing.
In October last year, police chief Augustine Chihuri was forced to address the female sex attack crime wave, warning that rapists would be 'professionally dealt with accordingly without fear or favour'
 Read more:
Three women arrested as detectives probe kidnappings and sex attacks on MALE hitchhikers in Zimbabwe | Mail Online




(THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A man has claimed that his wife was raped by an 'invisible man', Sin Chew Daily reported.
The youth, in his 20s, said his wife would remove her clothing, touch her own body and moan while sleeping at night, since a month ago.
He sought help from a medium, who then told him that someone had used black magic to take away the wife's 'soul' and rape her.
The couple, from Bintulu, Sarawak, lodged a police report but the cops could not do anything to arrest the 'invisible man'.

1000 boats to push flood waters October 11
BANGKOK: -- On October 11, a fleet of some 1,000 boats would help push water from the Chao Phraya River into the sea fast, Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi said Saturday.
At the boat project launch held at Nonthaburi's Pakkred Pier with 40 boats attending, Plodprasop said that this voluntarybase project would help drain water three times faster, from two knots to six knots, and prevent floodwater from pouring into Bangkok City.
He said the 1,000boat fleet would push water down to the sea on October 11, as to help lower flood in the Chao Phraya Riverside provinces such as Sing Buri, Angthong and Ayutthaya.
-- The Nation 2011-10-08


Damn Farangs and other Drunken Folks:

Pattaya Ladyboy Beaten & Ears Torn By Four Iranians

Pattaya, September 22, 2011 [PDN]; Pol. Lt. Col. Chuangchot Mongkolthanayuth Pattaya, Pattaya Police was notified there about a four foreigners who beat up a ladyboy in a hotel room on Second Road Banglamung, Pattaya. The police is investigating the case and interrogating both sides.
The victim Mr. “Poo” a ladyboy age 18 who had suffered injuries from his torn ears and had a lost a lot of blood.

  Mr. “Poo”, said that, Mr.Mohammad had agreed buy sexual services from him at 500 THB. They went to a hotel. On arrival in the room Mr “Poo” found the Mr.Mohammad’s relatives, three Iranian men waiting for him to have sex with him. They were willing to pay additionally 500 THB each.
Mr. “Poo” went to take a shower and suddenly Mr. Mohammad saw that the ladyboy was not a real woman. So he cancelled the sexual services and asked to Mr “Poo” to leave the room. Mr. “Poo” wanted 500 THB for the time he had wasted. The Iranians did not want to pay and four of them suddenly attacked him and beat him viviously until he was severely injured. Mr. “Poo” told the police.
The four Iranians have not confessed to any wrongdoing. The case is under investigation.




Kiwi drugged and robbed in Thailand
9:52 AM Monday Oct 3, 2011
Pattaya's beaches are a tourist magnet, but weren't so lucky for Kiwi. Photo / Phil Brazier
A New Zealander on business in Thailand was drugged and robbed of all his possessions in a resort hotel last week, according to Thai reports.
Lieutenant colonel Pumpat Namputha of the Pattaya police said Geoffrey Robert King was staying Pullman Pattaya Aisewan Resort when he met a "lovely" Thai woman in a department store on September 29, the Pattaya Daily News reports.
The 55-year-old took the woman back to the hotel, where he reportedly had sex, drank beer and fell unconscious.
Lieutenant colonel Namputha said Mr King awoke at 1.30am and contacted the hotel's reception asking to be sent to a hospital.
According to a doctor at the Banglamung hospital, Mr King had been poisoned with a strong sleeping agent.
When Mr King returned to his room he found he had been robbed of his passport, NZD$2,500, 1,300 Thai Baht, a credit card, a black jacket containing USD$960 and an airline ticket.
The woman has been identified as Raksanit Sarapak, 47, and police are to question her, Lieutenant colonel Namputha said.


M.D.K. and various characters of malice:


75 year old man killed as wall collapses in East Pattaya
A 75 year old man was found dead next to a partially collapsed concrete wall inside an unfinished housing estate in East Pattaya.
The family of Khun Chork’s was concerned he had not returned home on Tuesday Night and went to search for him and found him dead by the concrete wall.
Police were told that Khun Chork would often demolish concrete walls in search of the valuable steel enforcements inside them.
On this occasion it appears the wall collapsed onto Khun Chork, killing him instantly.
Police conducted a thorough search of the area and inspected the body and confirmed to us that the death was in no way suspicious although they will wait for the results of a post mortem examination before closing the case.
75 year old man killed as wall collapses in East Pattaya | Pattaya One

Five killed in Chumphon bus accident
Five killed in Chumphon bus accident
          October 11, 2011 2:09 am 
Chumphon - A Phatthalung-Bangkok air-conditioned bus overturned here early Tuesday, killing five passengers and injuring many others.

 Police said the accident occurred at 1:15 am at the Tha Sae Intersection on Phetkasem Road in Tha Sae district.
 The overturned bus crushed the five passengers - Yupin Ongart, Thitima Thongsuk, Chantima Prakakaew, and two unidentified persons.
 The bus belongs to Sup Phaisarn Tour Co Ltd. It left Phatthalung at 6 pm Monday, heading to Bangkok.
 Amnart Chusudrak, the first bus driver, told police that the accident occurred when it was being driven by his co-driver.
 Amnart said the co-driver has fled the scene and the accident occurred. Amnart said the bus's brake system malfunctioned when it was running down the hill, causing it to lose control and overturn.
 -The Nation

Twelve bodies have been found in the Mekong River in Chiang Rai's Chiang Saen district.
The bodies of three Chinese men, their hands tied and handcuffed behind their backs, were found on Friday, and another nine bodies, also thought to be Chinese, were found Saturday.
Police said most of the nine bodies had also been blindfolded, tied and handcuffed.
The dead men are believed to have crewed two Chinese-flagged cargo ships which were hijacked by drug traffickers on Wednesday.
The bodies have been sent to Chiang Saen hospital for an autopsy.
Pol Col Popkorn Khuncharoensuk, Chiang Saen police chief, said he would ask the Department of Special Investigation to step in.
Authorities from the Chinese embassy had been informed of the discovery and on Saturday travelled to Chiang Saen to inspect the bodies.
The grisly discovery has affected business in the district. Nikom Wiboonrungruang, a manager of Chiang Saen Shipping Company Ltd, said about 10 Chinese-flagged cargo ships were moored at Chiang Saen port as they dared not travel back to China due to safety concerns.
The first find came on Friday when the body of a handcuffed Chinese man was found near the Chiang Saen port.
Identified as Huang Yong, 30, he was the captain of the cargo ship Hua Ping, which was seized by soldiers of the Pa Muang task force during an anti-drug trafficking operation on the Mekong River on Wednesday after a clash with drug traffickers.
His ship, which was carrying garlic and apples, and a second Chinese-flagged ship Yu Xing 8 Hao, which was transporting fuel, were thought to have been hijacked earlier by the traffickers.
The attackers, who wanted to use the ships to smuggle drugs into Thailand from Burma, are thought to have killed Huang and his crew.
Another two dead Chinese men were found later in the Mekong River.
Their necks were broken and their faces covered with cloth, police said.
The Pa Muang task force says it killed one suspected trafficker on the Yu Xing 8 Hao during the firefight.
The others managed to flee overboard. The soldiers seized 520,000 speed pills kept in three sacks on the Hua Ping and 400,00 speed pills on the Yu Xing 8 Hao.
The drugs were worth 100 million baht.
A Chinese-owned casino near the Thai-Burmese border is suspected of being a transit point for drugs smuggled into Thailand, says the 3rd Region Army.
Troops had seized methamphetamine pills from boats believed to have carried the drugs across from the casino, located on Burmese soil opposite Chiang Rai's Chiang Saen district, said 3rd army chief Wannathip Wongwai.
The drugs were allegedly sent by the Burmese ethnic minority group the United Wa State Army (USWA).
It is not known if the drugs found on the Chinese-flagged vessels came from the casino.



Accounting for "One Time"

Bangkok Post : Police own big casino in Bangkok.
The chief of the Office of Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) has confirmed MP Chuvit Kamolvisit's claim that senior police officers own a big illegal casino in the heart of Bangkok.
PACC secretary-general Ampol Wongsiri on Thursday confirmed that his staff had found the casino on Ratchadaphisek 18 Road in Bangkok.
He said it was the same gambling den that Rak Thailand list MP Chuwit exposed in parliament on Tuesday. It was was overseen by local police and allowed in only high-stakes gamblers.
Mr Ampol said the casino was moved from Rama IX Road, Bangkok. There were also medium and small gambling dens in apartment buildings on Lat Phrao Road.
He also confirmed Mr Chuvit's remark that illicit drugs were available in toilets of almost all entertainment venues.
Mr Ampol said he questioned Bangkok police chief Pol Lt Gen Jakthip Chaijinda's insistence that Bangkok is free of casinos. He said taxi drivers could comfortably take gamblers to their favourite casinos in Bangkok.
According to a PACC source, senior police officers at two police agencies own the big casino on Ratchadaphisek 18 Road.There was also an order to close illegal casinos in Bangkok prior to the July 3 general election, intended to force Thai gamblers to visit Thai politicians' casinos in neighbouring countries. Those politicians used their profits to fund their election campaigns, the source said.
Writer: King-oua Laohong
Position: reporter


Phuket Policeman Cleared in Riddle of 780,000 Baht and Fake US Dollars

Phuket Policeman Cleared in Riddle of 780,000 Baht and Fake US Dollars
PHUKET:
A Phuket policeman accused of involvement in a case in which a South African tourist alleged he paid 780,000 baht to ''buy his way out'' has been exonerated, Phuketwan has learned.
Phuket Police Commander Major General Pekad Tantipong, Colonel Boonlert On-Kang and a Phuket lawyer gave testimony in a three- hour hearing before a Parliamentary sub-committee yesterday.
The inquiry was conducted by the Safety and Quality Sub-Committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Tourism, headed by Senator Thanee Thangpakdee.
Details have not been revealed but it is understood that the lawyer told the hearing that the sum paid by tourist Gabriel Sequeira was for work done on Mr Sequeira's behalf at a rate agreed by Mr Sequeira.
Mr Sequeira, accused of passing forged US dollars on a Phuket holiday with his family, later told the Johannesburg Star newspaper on arrival back in South Africa that he had paid 780,000 baht to police and a lawyer before eventually being able to leave Phuket and fly home.
Colonel Boonlert, who headed the investigation of the case, had previously said that police received no money and that 300,000 baht in bail had been refunded to the lawyer when Mr Sequeira was freed.
Colonel Boonlert had been transferred from Chalong Police Station in southern Phuket to Phuket City police headquarters pending the outcome of the investigation.
The call for a thorough explanation of the case came from the office of the Thai Ambassador in South Africa via the London office of the TAT, which oversees the region.
Colonel Boonlert denied any wrongdoing or police involvement in a shakedown. ''If Mr Sequeira paid over any money, then it must have been to his lawyers,'' the colonel told Phuketwan earlier this month.
The colonel said that no charge was pressed against Mr Sequeira on Phuket because police accepted the explanation that he had obtained the US dollar notes lawfully in South Africa without knowing that they were fakes.

Part-time Thai Customs Official living in Pattaya, caught with drugs



Part-time Thai Customs Official living in Pattaya, caught with drugs A part-time Thai Customs Officer, who works at the Laem Chabang port, has been arrested by Banglamung Police on a charge of possessing class 1 drugs.
Following the arrest of other suspected drug users, information on the customs official was forthcoming.
Khun Ladchai aged 34 was arrested at the Kumsab Apartments in the Lompok area of Banglamung and was found to be carrying 8 Yabba Tablets.
He was also carrying two forms of identification confirming his position as a part-time customs official.
At the Police Station Khun Ladchai confessed to using the drugs but denied initial claims made by Police that he also sold drugs, a claim which would not be backed up with evidence, therefore he was charged with possession of a class 1 drug and will appear in Court in due course.
His employees have been informed.  


Seizure of Chuwit's Bt3.4 million related to prostitution ring
The Nation
Court found condoms as strong evidences implicating Chuwit
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to seize Bt3.4 million from Rak Prathet Thai MP Chuwit Kamolvisit in connection with his suspected involvement in the prostitution ring.
The high court verdict was based on the civil proceedings under the money laundering law and would not impact on Chuwit's political office.
Although the lower court and the subsequent appellate reivew ruled in Chuwit's favour by citing his acquittal in the criminal proceedings, the high court said under the money laundering law, the defence had the burden of proof but failed to verify how the assets in question were amassed.
The case came to light after the Paveena Hongsakul Foundation, a women advocacy group, fiiled a police complaint charging that massage parlours run by Chuwit were a front for sex trade.
The prosecution launched separate criminal and civil proceedings against Chuwit and his holding company, Ho Pacific Co which operated a number of massage parlours.
By the time the case reached the judicial review, Ho Pacific and its subsidiaries had Bt3.4 million left in various bank accounts.
Among key defence arguments were that massage parlours were a legitimate business, that massage services were not illicit sex trade and that the criminal trial had ended with the verdict of acquittal.
The high court ruled that there was cause to suspect the sex trade as the company's record showed it spent Bt112,559 to buy condoms in 2002 alone. A number of former workers testified how they were trained and coerced to provide sexual services.
Furthermore a large number of disposed condoms were uncovered at various parlours run by Chuwit.
Under the verdict, the cause to suspect ill-gotten gains had warranted the asset seizure order. The defence did not prove how the assets came into its possession

Monday, September 26, 2011

September 2011

September 2011

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Me watching Thai tv news:
Northern Thailand has experienced tremendous rain and flooding for the past few months with no end in sight. One particular town is only half under water, the other half sealed off and protected by a wall of sandbags. After many weeks and many more arguments involving one half of the town against the other, the wet inhabitants decided to pull up their sandbags and share their troubles with the dry folks on the other side of town. Now the entire town is flooded. Simply genius! Its a good thing the problem was water and not fire.

Bangkok Post : Squabbling monks shock faithful
Phra Phit Papassaro, 26, is a monk at Wat Bang Khun Thian Nok in the Chom Thong area. He is accused of assaulting and threatening another monk at the same temple after an argument over an overlapping morning alms route. Phra Phit Papassaro denied the charge.
A dispute has broken out between one monk who regularly followed a particular route to collect alms and two others who he alleged scared him off, reportedly because adherents offer money.
It was possible the conflict erupted because many people make merit by giving money to monks.
Phra Jirawat claimed he collected morning alms on the same route from Wajjana Road leading to Rama II Road and received 300-600 baht every day and up to 1,000 baht on Buddhist holy days. He said Phra Jo and Phra Auan collected morning alms on the same route, resulting in the argument.

Toy helicopter full of mobile phones fails to make prison drop
A remote-controlled helicopter that crashed near a prison in Ratchaburi was being used to smuggle mobile phones and phone parts worth millions of baht to inmates, police said yesterday.
Seven mobile phones, four satellite mobile phones, a number of SIM cards, eight mobile phone batteries and three mobile phone screens were found among the wreckage of the helicopter.The smuggled phones and parts were worth a total of Bt2 million to Bt3 million, but could have fetched as much as Bt10 million on the prison's black market, police said.

Damn Farangs and other Drunken Folks:

Drunk Swede Taken For Dead Near TESCO Pattaya
A 70 plus old Swedish man with marital problems concerning his Thai wife, got drunk and went to sleep in the bushes beside the TESCO sidewalk in Pattaya. The passers by thought he was dead and called the unidentified corpse collection foundation.



Mentally Unstable German Found Walking Naked in Pattaya
A German left by his Thai girl friend when his money ran out lost his mind and started walking the streets naked. The tourists and the locals felt sorry for him and gave him 1,000 THB. The Chonburi Immigration Office was notified.



Boris aide's son dies after collapsing on notorious Full Moon Party island
The son of one of Boris Johnson’s key aides has died after collapsing on an island in Thailand renowned for staging drugs parties.
Andrew Lister, the middle son of Deputy London Mayor Sir Edward Lister, is believed to have suffered a heart attack after falling ill in his room at a guesthouse on the island of Koh Phangan last Tuesday.
Thai police claimed witnesses saw Mr Lister drinking with friends before he collapsed at around 6am after the island’s monthly Full Moon Party, attended by 30,000 revellers.
The well-known holiday destination is popular with thousands of young thrill-seeking British backpackers and has become infamous for drink and drug-fuelled full moon parties.


Andrew Lee Nash Raped Neighbor's Pigs, Gave Them Vaginal Infections
​If sex offenders are the lowest species in the joint, hog rapists are at some subterranean level yet to be discovered. But that's where Andrew Lee Nash finds himself. It began when a hog farmer in Greenwood, Mississippi called in a vet for routine examinations...
Four pigs had vaginal infections, and the vet concluded they'd been sexually assaulted. So the farmer contacted police, who set up a stake out at the farm.
Low and behold, into the trap came Nash, Greenwood's notorious pig rapist. He's now been charged with 12 counts of unnatural intercourse, which is a really cool name for a crime. If convicted, he's looking at a staggering 120 years in prison


Foreign Man found collapsed outside South Pattaya convenience store Police and Rescue Services assisted a foreign man who was found lying unconscious outside a 24-hour convenience store in the early hours of Friday.
It was reported the man was dropped at the store, located on Pattaya Second Road in front of Soi 13/3 by a motorbike taxi driver.
Police could not determine a name or nationality for the man who was carrying no identification, money or any other valuable items.
There was no indication the man had been drinking and the suspicion was he may have been drugged and then robbed.
The victim was taken to Hospital as a precaution and the Police will follow-up the case later on Friday.

Swiss man commits suicide in his South Pattaya apartment
A Swiss man reportedly killed himself as he was unable to purchase water due to a lack of funds.
Police and rescue services were called to the 2nd floor at the New Star Apartments in South Pattaya and were directed to a room occupied by Mr. Jurg Buchs aged 40.
He was lying, semi-naked on the balcony and according to his girlfriend of 4 months, Khun Jumleun aged 32, he hung himself, using a black leather belt which he attached to a metal safety cage surrounding his room balcony.
Khun Jumleun, woke up in the early part of Friday afternoon and discovered Mr. Buchs
Police detected evidence of drug taking in the room and a small amount of Marijuana and a device commonly used to ingest methamphetamine.
The body of Mr. Buchs has been sent to the Police Hospital in Bangkok for forensic examination and the Swiss Embassy in Bangkok are aware of the death.

Taxi's, Tuk Tuks, and other Mafia

Phuket Resort Blockaded: Police Mediate, Taxi Drivers Win Again
PHUKET: About 20 local taxi drivers blockaded the Evason Phuket and Bon Island resort in southern Phuket today for two hours in a dispute over access by non-approved vehicles, police said.
The dispute began at 10am and continued until after noon, officers said.
The blockade was over tour counter staff in the resort, isolated at the end of a long entry road in Rawai on Phuket's east coast, calling a vehicle that was not a local taxi.
Almost inevitably, the resort gave in to the demands of the local taxi drivers in talks mediated by Colonel Narang Laksanawimon, of Chalong police.
The colonel said resort management will allow local taxis to occupy two spaces in the resort car park, and receive priority.
If the tour operation desk calls an outside taxi again, the contract with the resort will be terminated, the colonel said.
In August, after four tuk-tuks blockaded a Patong street in a dispute with Dutch tourists and a policeman who drew a gun, Phuket Police Commander Major General Pekad Tantipong warned that future blockades anywhere on Phuket would not be tolerated.
However, local taxis and tuk-tuks continue to grow in numbers and power. Virtually every resort on Phuket is forced to offer concessions to the local drivers. Relationships vary from barely tolerable to awful.
Violent incident have increased with the power of local taxi and tuk-tuk drivers, who monopolise as much of Phuket's tourism traffic as possible and demand extortionate fares. Many of the taxis are unregulated.


Phuket taxi mob beats driver in broad daylight
PHUKET: A gang of taxi drivers encamped outside an upscale resort on Phuket's west coast today beat a local driver with an iron bar before causing a reported 50,000 baht in damage to his car.
Preecha Choowong, 38, filed a complaint at Kamala Police Station this afternoon, after receiving treatment for his head wound at Patong Hospital.
About six drivers outside the resort pulled Mr Preecha from his Honda Civic and started to beat him. One of the attackers hit him on the head with an iron bar.
"Considering the state he [Preecha] was in when he arrived to file the complaint, we told him to go to Patong Hospital for treatment first, then come back and file his complaint," said Kamala Police Duty Officer Anek Mongkol.
The attack today comes just days after the Austrian Ambassador to Thailand laid bare a caution for Phuket authorities to start taking serious steps to resolve the continual, brutal antics of lawless drivers on the island.

Phuket Tuk-Tuk Gang 'Bashed Irate German Senseless,' Says Police Report - Phuket Wan
PHUKET: A German man is in a coma at a Phuket hospital after allegedly being beaten senseless in a gang attack by tuk-tuk drivers in Patong on Thursday night.
The report alleges that the German, named as Kurt Trotnow, 53, was beaten by tuk-tuk drivers outside the Taipan nightclub in Rat-U-Tit 200 Pi Road, Patong, about 11.05pm on Thursday.
The police report says that Mr Trotnow was drunk and attacked the driver of the tuk-tuk first before he in turn was beaten and left senseless, lying in the roadway.
It is not known how it took four days for news of the alleged beating to emerge, but the fact that all emergency services on Phuket were stretched by a downpour that caused massive flooding may have led to notification being overlooked.
The condition of Mr Trotnow is reported to be very serious.

Tuk-tuk drivers in Patong were accused of beating up and stabbing two young Australians, one of them in the chest, in a case that Australian honorary consul Larry Cunningham later described as ''attempted murder.''
With the driver of a damaged tuk-tuk threatening a counter-suit, the two wounded Australians and three friends hurriedly caught a flight back to Sydney without making a statement to police.
More recently, tuk-tuk drivers blockaded Rat-U-Tit 200 Pi Road, part of central Patong's one-way street system, in a dispute with police. The blockade came because a policeman drew a gun in trying to bring peace as tuk-tuk drivers brawled with two young Dutchmen.

M.D.K. and various characters of malice.
Bangkok Post : Grandfather seeks justice
The grieving grandfather of a young boy allegedly shot dead after sneaking onto the property of a high-ranking Sakon Nakhon official to go fishing has come to Bangkok to seek justice.
Mr Sompong said two of his grandsons _ Anan, 10, and Nanthawat, 9 _ crept into the officials' housing compound at about 9pm on Aug 22 to catch fish in his pond. Nanthawat waited at the fence while Anan scouted the pond. Suddenly, he heard a gunshot and ran towards his brother who was holding a bloody thigh and shouting, "Tor [Nanthawat's nickname] help me, I'm shot."
Before he could reach his brother, he saw a man walk up to Anan and shoot him twice. Nanthawat rushed home to tell his other brother, grandfather and grandmother what had happened.
Mr Sompong went to the official's compound but could not find his grandson. Soon after midnight, neighbours in Wanon Niwat told him to go the local hospital. There he found the body of Anan who had been shot four times in the left thigh, neck and twice in the chest.
Police said later the official had gone to the police station to report he had shot dead a thief at his house. He was bailed out by local politicians that night.
Mr Sompong filed a complaint with police on Aug 23 but there has been no progress in the case, he said.

Thai man kills friend in Russian roulette
A 23-year-old Thai man has been arrested on murder charges after winning a game of Russian roulette with his friend, who was asleep at the time.
Pornthep Jaisangiam confessed to shooting his friend Sanchai Nawasnathee, 25, after a drinking binge at a karaoke bar in Uthai district, Ayutthaya province, 90km north of Bangkok, the Thai Rath newspaper reported.
Ponthep told police he was still drinking on Sunday morning while his two friends, Sanchai and Ton, slept.
Seeing a pistol in Sanchai's belt, Ponthep decided to play a game of Russian roulette with his sleeping friend. He removed all the bullets but one, held it to his own head and fired. Nothing happened.
Ponthep then held the gun to the sleeping Sanchai's head and fired, putting a bullet through his skull and killing him instantly.


International Women's headless corpse was found stranded Koh Chang.
(Hoof Hearted's nominee for best translation)
At 15:20 AM on September 12, Lt. Col. S. nerves can fate a pharmacist inspector. Koh Chang received notice from the city and its top resort island of Koh Chang Moo 4. Chang found that the deceased was a woman not to wear a big white head, no logs were floated into the waves lap the beach behind the hotel. Prompted police to coordinate volunteer rescue association for merit aid. Trat, Koh Chang District to jointly investigate the incident.
Arrived at the scene to walk down the stairs, climb down the cliff. 1 case was found dead lying face down in the nude on the beach head death was not expected to be no less than 6 days due to all parts of the body, the flesh begins to rot.
Col. nervous initially said that the deceased was a foreigner. I do not know exactly what is national. And found no traces of wounds on the body. Assumed that the reasons may have died from other areas. I was drafted into the waves lap the beach. The official cause was assigned to the volunteer rescue company. To send the body of the deceased. Wed island. For the physician to determine the diagnosis

September 15 ( Brief translation from Thai News article) [ link not prvd] Man’s body found in the sea at Klong Son, Koh Chang
On 15 September fishermen at Siam Royal View, Klong Son, Koh Chang discovered a body floating face down in the sea. Police and volunteer rescue workers attended the scene and the body was removed from the water at the pier on the Siam Royal View development.
A rope was used to bring the body ashore and it was quickly ascertained that this was most likely a murder, as the deceased had been shot several times in the neck and left eye. The right eye was also missing.

Seven Shots in the Back Kill 'Sunday Driver' With Suspected Drug Links - Phuket Wan
PHUKET: A man who took his wife and child for a Sunday drive on Phuket was murdered last night in what police believe was a drugs-related hit.
Seven bullets in the back killed Preecha Tengkeang, 30, at his home in Rawai, southern Phuket, in a soi not far from the traffic lights at the Viset Road intersection.
Police believe the killer or killers used a handmade gun known as a thai pradit that can fire up to nine bullets at once.
The killer or killers made their escape quickly into the scrub near Khun Preecha's house.


Phuket Security Guard Kills Maid at Apartment Block
PHUKET: A maid who reckoned the security guard at the Phuket apartment block where she worked was a bit young and deserved some ribbing paid with her life.
Police said yesterday that maid Sawee Sarating, 39, took to teasing security guard Narong Sripect, 23, at the block of apartments in Kalim where they both worked, north of Patong on Phuket's west coast.
Yesterday the ribbing became too much for the young security guard and he made some cracks about maids. Before much time had passed, the security guard and the maid were hurling abuse at each other.
The row ended when Khun Narong picked up an iron bar and battered Khun Sawee to death. He was talked into surrendering to police and now faces a murder charge.

Bangkok Post : Acid attack on foreigners at train station
A female foreign artist, Elizabeth Briel, reported on twitter on Friday that she and her husband had acid sprayed at their faces at the Asoke skytrain station last night.
She said the acid was directed at them from the stairway leading to the station near Robinson shopping mall.
Mrs Briel said her husband's eyes were damaged but would be okay, while she has a burnt scalp.
They were treated at Bumrungrad hospital.
The hospital said this is the third case they have seen lately.

Thai elephant steps on land mine in Myanmar

Pa Hae Po, a wounded 22-year-old male elephant holds a pole with trunk to support its balance while being treated at the Elephant Hospital in Lampang province, northern Thailand Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. The elephant received an injury on the front left foot when it stepped on a landmine on Sunday while working in the forest near the Thai-Myanmar border. (AP Photo/Wichai Taprieu)

The Associated Press Bangkok
-- Thai veterinarians say a 22-year-old elephant was wounded after he wandered into neighboring Myanmar and stepped on a land mine.
Soraida Salwala of the Friends of the Asian Elephant conservation group in northern Thailand says the pachyderm's left foot was severely hurt in Sunday's blast in Myanmar's Kayin state.
Salwala said Tuesday that the elephant named Pa Hae Po was taken to the group's hospital in the Thai town of Lampang by truck and is expected to recover.
The elephant is the 14th such casualty to be treated at the hospital since it began operating in 1993. He joins three other elephant land mine victims who remain hospitalized at the facility.
Rights groups say both the Myanmar army and rebels have laid mines during decades of conflict.  

Accounting for "One Time"

Police Involved in Illegal Logging Operation
After receiving a number of reports of illegal logging in Phitsanulok Province, forest officials raided a sawmill belonging to a police senior sergeant major.
After receiving reports about illegal logging in the area, Phitsanulok Governor Preecha Ruangjan ordered officials to raid the home of Police Senior Sergeant Major Somchai Pukasek.
The authorities found key evidence, including rubber wood, processed rubber logs, and other logging equipment.