News Forum - Phuket Shooting at a fresh market leaves 2 dead, 3 injured

[Thaiger]

A man opened fire on a fresh market in Phuket Town, shooting and killing 2 people and injuring 3 others in the hail of bullets. The shooing took place this morning at Phuket City Municipality Fresh Market 1 in Phuket Town on Ranong Road. Police were notified around 10:20 am of the shooting and Phuket City Police responded with rescue workers from the Kusoldharm Foundation along with them. When authorities arrived to the scene of the crime, they found 5 people who had been hit with gunfire at the front of the main building, in front of a seafood stall. […]

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[Lifeboat]

Such an unnecessary waste of lives.  

[Dmitrii]

Is dying of COVID really worse than of poverty and desperation?

I am 90% sure that this tragedy has been provoked by the stress of anti-covid restrictions bringing people on the brink of surviving. People loose their businesses and means to maintain their families, it easily can turn them into desperate psychos.

[kmc]

This is 100% the result of covid restrictions.  Could not agree more with Dmitrii.  But there will be, of course, those thick-skulled creatures who believe covid is the only evil mankind is facing — but those people are idiots.

[NCC1701A]

there is something fishy about this story. 

[Russellprout]

4 hours ago, Dmitrii said:

Is dying of COVID really worse than of poverty and desperation?

I am 90% sure that this tragedy has been provoked by the stress of anti-covid restrictions bringing people on the brink of surviving. People loose their businesses and means to maintain their families, it easily can turn them into desperate psychos.

What rubbish. Blame everything on Covid. These sorts of disputes have been happening pre Covid notoriously  with motorcycle taxis but also were someone as set up a food cart in competition.

[Fanta]

Blame it on Covid restrictions and try to portray the shooter as a victim? Over 5 million dead, some people still won’t take their medicine and here some people try to misrepresent a multiple murder as a sign of desperation simply to further their own selfish agenda. Shame on you! No-one in Thailand is starving. The murderer was a stall owner that drove away in his Fortuner. He killed 2 people and wounded 3 more. Shame, shame, shame. 

[Scotty]

Well that wasn't in the Sandbox brochure...

[vlad]

life's cheap in Thailand if you have a disagreement here you don't argue, pull your gun out and sort out the problem. They don't think about the consequences. Who remembers the Police Lieutenant in Udon Thani  who calmly walked into Macro's meat section pulled out his gun and shot his pregnant wife killing her and the baby, couldn't give a toss.

[vlad]

10 hours ago, Dmitrii said:

Is dying of COVID really worse than of poverty and desperation?

I am 90% sure that this tragedy has been provoked by the stress of anti-covid restrictions bringing people on the brink of surviving. People loose their businesses and means to maintain their families, it easily can turn them into desperate psychos.

Or could it be a member from a locked thread infiltrating another new thread. Using a VPN.

[Rain]

2 hours ago, vlad said:

Or could it be a member from a locked thread infiltrating another new thread. Using a VPN.

Ya never what some members might be capable of when they're pushed.

[Stonker]

8 hours ago, Russellprout said:

What rubbish. Blame everything on Covid. These sorts of disputes have been happening pre Covid notoriously  with motorcycle taxis but also were someone as set up a food cart in competition.

 

8 hours ago, Fanta said:

Blame it on Covid restrictions and try to portray the shooter as a victim? Over 5 million dead, some people still won’t take their medicine and here some people try to misrepresent a multiple murder as a sign of desperation simply to further their own selfish agenda. Shame on you! No-one in Thailand is starving. The murderer was a stall owner that drove away in his Fortuner. He killed 2 people and wounded 3 more. Shame, shame, shame. 

Absolutely - how can one fishmonger shooting another in broad daylight in the market possibly get twisted to blame Covid restrictions?  

Edited January 8, 2022 by KaptainRob
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[Stonker]

3 hours ago, vlad said:

life's cheap in Thailand if you have a disagreement here you don't argue, pull your gun out and sort out the problem. They don't think about the consequences. Who remembers the Police Lieutenant in Udon Thani  who calmly walked into Macro's meat section pulled out his gun and shot his pregnant wife killing her and the baby, couldn't give a toss.

Not necessarily 'cheap', but due to 'jai yen' many Thais don't escalate issues but they have an on-off switch instead - all or nothing.

[Raugh]

Not sure why Thai people are considered somehow more volatile at times than other humans.

Get off yer high horses imho

[Alavan]

11 hours ago, kmc said:

This is 100% the result of covid restrictions.  Could not agree more with Dmitrii.  But there will be, of course, those thick-skulled creatures who believe covid is the only evil mankind is facing — but those people are idiots.

This kind of logic is proof of the twisted reasoning of antivaxers.

[Rain]

3 hours ago, vlad said:

life's cheap in Thailand if you have a disagreement here you don't argue, pull your gun out and sort out the problem. They don't think about the consequences. Who remembers the Police Lieutenant in Udon Thani  who calmly walked into Macro's meat section pulled out his gun and shot his pregnant wife killing her and the baby, couldn't give a toss.

Of course. Oriental savages.

These folks require a sound civilising mission that might set 'em straight.

[BigHewer]

6 million registered guns in Thailand. On average one for every 10 -11 people (though many own multiple weapons so this doesn’t mean one in 10-11 Thais own a gun).

When mental health is pushed to the brink, people do stupid things. 

I sincerely hope we don’t see a repeat.

[JamesR]

He must have been very poor to have driven off in a Toyota Fortuner. 

Most people would like to have one, nothing to do with his finances and the effects of covid etc as had been suggested by some.

[vlad]

3 hours ago, Stonker said:

Not necessarily 'cheap', but due to 'jai yen' many Thais don't escalate issues but they have an on-off switch instead - all or nothing.

If he did an argument with another stall holder why did he shoot 5 people ??

[Stonker]

1 hour ago, vlad said:

If he did an argument with another stall holder why did he shoot 5 people ??

The story's becoming clearer - he shot the other fishmonger and those with him.

[JackIsAGoodBoy]

18 hours ago, Fanta said:

Blame it on Covid restrictions and try to portray the shooter as a victim? Over 5 million dead, some people still won’t take their medicine  

The average age well over 80 and even the CDC director just came out with the fact that overwhelming majority had 4 or more comordibities. It is not a plague but the restrictions are cruel and very harsh to some businesses.

[Smithydog]

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[vlad]

So is he still on the Run ? can't be that hard to locate him on Coconut Island. Why were the Phuket 6 Tourist's allowed to have there  Mugshots plastered on various media outlets yet a Mugshot of a Thai Murderer has not been published  ? 

[Poolie]

40 minutes ago, vlad said:

So is he still on the Run ? can't be that hard to locate him on Coconut Island. Why were the Phuket 6 Tourist's allowed to have there  Mugshots plastered on various media outlets yet a Mugshot of a Thai Murderer has not been published  ? 

No. He was arrested last night on the mainland and taken back to Phuket in the small hours.

[Rain]

9 minutes ago, Poolie said:

No. He was arrested last night on the mainland and taken back to Phuket in the small hours.

Well, guess we can put this griping story to rest.