News Forum - British tourist smashes up Bangkok 7-Eleven (video)

[Grumpish]

Could be some kind of drug induced episode, amphetamines of some sort or mushrooms maybe. But the body language doesn't really fit, especially once he is out of the door, it is more in line with that seen with angry little men in need of therapy or a few weeks getting their butts kicked in a prison cell. 

[ace035]

4 hours ago, Pinga said:

What is wrong with you? You think breaking a keyboard and throwing a couple of trays on the ground should equate to 30 days in jail and a lifetime ban? Are we in Iran? what next- cut off his arms?

You are involved with him and covering him up. I've been to Thailand numerous times. That's the punishment they're going to get especially farangs

[Manu]

12 hours ago, Grumpish said:

Could be some kind of drug induced episode, amphetamines of some sort or mushrooms maybe.

To me he is definitely on something, you just need to see his look, especially when filmed behind the counter, a mixture of confusion, agressivity and madness, and then somehow blank when he leaved the place. Everytime I have seen this look together with this behaviour in Thailand, it is pratically always from people on yaba mixed with alcoohol. Wouldn't suprised me if it was the case for that guy.

[JohninDublin]

15 hours ago, Pinga said:

What is wrong with you? You think breaking a keyboard and throwing a couple of trays on the ground should equate to 30 days in jail and a lifetime ban? Are we in Iran? what next- cut off his arms?

I think your reply is well into the realms of OTT. He clearly put the staff and customers in fear for their safety. As regards the lifetime ban, it's a privilege, and not a right to enter someone else's country, abuse of that privilege should be met appropriately. That is why when you are expelled from a country, your exit visa is marked to indicate this. That's what immigration officials are looking for when you hand over your passport on arrival. This tells other countries you are visiting that you are likely to be a problem. 

If as the report says, he is a Brit, then with the recent re-introduction of stamping UK passports in the EU, anywhere he travels within the EU, he might be challenged. The consequences are that if he was later denied entry into say, France, that would also be recorded in his passport, so now he has two expulsions recorded against him, making it unlikely that he will be accepted elsewhere. 

There is a way around this, which is to "lose" and apply for a new passport, so that the stamps are not present, though you are still likely to be on a database in the country(ies) where you were refused admission. Current waiting time for a UK passport is 10 weeks, but that was before the passport office recently announced a 5 week strike.