Thread: Soldiers Beat Nightclub Guards Over 'No Smoking' Policy

PATHUM THANI — Three security guards at a nightclub in Pathum Thani province say they were beaten by around 20 armed soldiers last night for telling their Army captain not to smoke inside the premises.

According to witnesses, the soldiers arrived at the nightclub on Rangsit - Nakhon Nayok Road in a Humvee and army truck at around 1 am last night.

CCTV footage from the crime scene shows more than a dozen soldiers armed with M16 rifle barge into the nightclub and brutally beat the security guards, who are also sergeants enlisted in the Royal Thai Air Force.

One of the victims, Sgt. Tossaporn Jaemsakorn, 29, told police that the soldiers were led by an officer who claimed to hold the rank of captain. The captain told them he was raiding the nightclub to look for suspected illegal substances, but then ordered his troops to assault Sgt. Tossaporn and his colleagues, the victims reported.

Sgt. Tossaporn said soldiers beat him with the end of their M16 rifles and trampled him with their combat boots. The captain also allegedly shouted at Sgt. Tossaporn that he was punishing him for "not showing respect."

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Smoking.
The ongoing PC criminal act.

The interesting thing for me is that the "security guards" at the night club were also enlisted men.

Where I work, most of the Thai staff have at least one other job, often at which they spend more time at than their "main" (full time?) job.

I reckon this sort of thing will happen more and more now that the armed forces are in charge of the banana republic of Thailand.

Repercussions when the boss finds out?...

Great name:- Tossaporn

Great to see democracy in action .

Wonder how long it will be before some innocent dreamer turns up to do his 90 day report , says the wrong thing at the wrong time and gets a good coating out the back

Pongos having a go at Crabs. Nothing new there.

Arriving in a humvee to give some rent-a-uniforms a pasting was overkill.

Captain in big trouble

An Army investigation is under way into a notorious incident in which a captain from a cavalry battalion and his armed men beat up three Air Force police moonlighting as bouncers at a Pathum Thani pub.

First Army Region commander Lt-General Theerachai Narkwanich said the unnamed captain would be subject to severe disciplinary action once the probe was complete, as he exploited his status to order armed troops under his command to travel in military vehicles to sort out a personal problem with the three airmen.

The incident on Tuesday made headlines in Thai-language media and featured details about the captain yelling about his ties to the "Eastern Tigers", the famous military units from the East that have seen three commanders become Army chiefs, including General Prayuth Chan-ocha, now the prime minister.

Theerachai said the incident was a personal problem of a few soldiers and had affected the image of the Army, which he said utilised tens of thousands of men in the military seizure of power and post-coup operations.

Their image was tarnished by a small number of men.

The captain and his men belong to the 30th Cavalry Battalion, from the Royal Guard, in Prachin Buri province.

The captain has said he and two subordinates visited the pub early Tuesday morning, and were told by the airmen to stop smoking.

He claimed the airmen harassed him and his men, and beat one of them up.

https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...s-over-no.html (Soldiers Beat Nightclub Guards Over 'No Smoking' Policy)

Originally Posted by misskit

Their image was tarnished by a small number of men.

Try again, Lt. General.

^ Usually it's a small number of Burmese or Khmer soldiers.

Originally Posted by misskit

First Army Region commander Lt-General Theerachai Narkwanich said the unnamed captain would be subject to severe disciplinary action once the probe was complete, as he exploited his status to order armed troops under his command to travel in military vehicles to sort out a personal problem with the three airmen.

Yep...Figured that was coming...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Repercussions when the boss finds out?...

Army vs. Air force vigilantes.
This should get interesting, especially since one group was "Royal Guards", the group typically used to mount and maintain military coups.

Are some pigs more equal than others?

good to see cctv comes in handy.