News Forum - Khon Kaen Police give residents iron rods to protect themselves

[Thaiger]

Cash-strapped Khon Kaen Police launched a new initiative to help protect residents from violent drug addicts and psychiatric patients. They have supplied communities with long iron rods to control them. Khon Kaen Police admit they have been forced into the measures because the province lacks police officers. Pattaya Police introduced a similar initiative in June. The Commander of the Khon Kaen Provincial Police, Noppakao Sommanat, invited 180 leaders and residents, especially men, from each community in the province to provide training under the project named โครงการนาคาพิทักษ์ รักษ์ประชา 1 ตำบล 1 ทีมไม้ง่าม which means resident protection project, one sub-district, one protector […]

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[Skip]

Give the residents guns and watch the incidents diminish rapidly

[Fanta]

Am I the only person that laughed out loud at this? Cops giving weapons,’training & permission to civilians to take the law into their own hands. TiT

[jobapps]

speaking as a a martial artist of some years with a black belt, using a  big iron rod to stop a drug addict does not offer that many options off the top of my head but you  can certainly use it to keep them away .. .that being said .. maybe they should hire IP Man .. wing chun uses the long stick or kendo ...are the police really using these poles  .. they would certainly be useful for crocodiles thats for sure or to prod elephants ...id never seen a police force using this sort of controlling tool, batons yes ... maybe they are scared of biting. As someone said giving civilians training gives them the opportunitiy to sue when something goes wrong or someone gets prodded to their death.

Edited September 14, 2022 by jobapps

[Zorba_the_Geek]

47 minutes ago, Skip said:

Give the residents guns and watch the incidents diminish rapidly

Because that's worked so well in America right?

[Zorba_the_Geek]

I've never heard of drug users under treatment getting violent. That's usually a trait of psychosis in a very low percentage of the user population while high. Think of the odd raving alcoholic hobo, thats about the same level with meth users. Fact. 

Having said that.

Imagine if they offered appropriate medication to mentally disturbed people or those trying to kick the habit instead of fear and loathing. 

Then maybe they wouldn't need to worry about needing more police to protect the public from them. 

This Thaiger reporter, has a particular bias against drugs and drug users, even beyond the media norm, and it shows, she was even directed to change a derogatory headline by her editorial boss recently. She needs a scientific drug education. And less foaming at the mouth propaganda.

Edited September 14, 2022 by Zorba_the_Geek

[Guest1]

2 hours ago, jobapps said:

speaking as a a martial artist of some years with a black belt, using a  big iron rod to stop a drug addict does not offer that many options off the top of my head but you  can certainly use it to keep them away .. .that being said .. maybe they should hire IP Man .. wing chun uses the long stick or kendo ...are the police really using these poles  .. they would certainly be useful for crocodiles thats for sure or to prod elephants ...id never seen a police force using this sort of controlling tool, batons yes ... maybe they are scared of biting. As someone said giving civilians training gives them the opportunitiy to sue when something goes wrong or someone gets prodded to their death.

I don't even think that this "forks" are iron:

 

 

[Cabra]

Police encouraged vigilantism is something I was not expecting. Not even from Thailand. 

[KaptainRob]

I have visions of Khon Kaen residents walking around town with these defensive 'weapons' .... ROFLMAO

[robsamui]

5 hours ago, KaptainRob said:

I have visions of Khon Kaen residents walking around town with these defensive 'weapons' .... ROFLMAO

This is unusually insightful . . . if they've already got thousands of drug-addicted psychotics running around like a zombie holocaust, they're preparing for the tens of thousands more when their first cannabis crops mature.

It'll be sometime towards the end of the year when the first batches of the 30 million cannabis-growing permits comes to fruition with the first crop. Seeing that the Thai media has already recorded innumerable cases of people going insane, having allergic reactions and "brewing dangerous cocktails" with the "deadly cannabis bark and berries", this is a wise precaution.

If nothing else, we are indebted to the Khon Kaen plods for immortalising this group of contestants proudly posing for the Yokel of the Year Award.

It's truly world-class and will be virtually impossible to top - things just don't get any yoklier.

 

 

Edited September 15, 2022 by robsamui

[ThaiFoodGuy]

10 hours ago, Zorba_the_Geek said:

Because that's worked so well in America right?

Actually, according to Politifact, it is true that violent crime in open-carry states is considerably lower than in states without open-carry laws (although they say it's meaningless and shouldn't influence policy and is therefore half true):

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/oct/09/matt-gaetz/violent-crime-lower-states-open-carry/

[Mazz11]

14 hours ago, robsamui said:

This is unusually insightful . . . if they've already got thousands of drug-addicted psychotics running around like a zombie holocaust, they're preparing for the tens of thousands more when their first cannabis crops mature.

It'll be sometime towards the end of the year when the first batches of the 30 million cannabis-growing permits comes to fruition with the first crop. Seeing that the Thai media has already recorded innumerable cases of people going insane, having allergic reactions and "brewing dangerous cocktails" with the "deadly cannabis bark and berries", this is a wise precaution.

If nothing else, we are indebted to the Khon Kaen plods for immortalising this group of contestants proudly posing for the Yokel of the Year Award.

It's truly world-class and will be virtually impossible to top - things just don't get any yoklier.

"deadly cannabis bark and berries"

Please elaborate, I would be very interested to here about the deadly bark and berries you speak of. 

[HiuMak]

On 9/14/2022 at 7:03 PM, Thaiger said:

They have supplied communities with long iron rods to control them. Khon Kaen Police admit they have been forced into the measures because the province lacks police officers.

I do hope they IRON things out.