Thread: Thai father kills 4 children following spat with wife

Police negotiators laid siege to a house in the country’s south Monday after a man allegedly shot dead four of his children following a dispute with his estranged wife.

The shocking spree is the latest murder rampage in a country where lovers’ quarrels frequently escalate into fatal shootings, partly because of the easy availability of guns.

Police said the man barricaded himself inside his house in southern Trang province after murdering two sons and two daughters early on Monday morning.

“Police had to use a ladder into a bedroom to remove the bodies of the children,” local police captain Wittawat Paiboon told AFP, adding that the man, who had locked himself in another room, had a long and troubled relationship with his estranged wife.

Wittawat said the man was coherent when speaking to negotiators and did not appear to be drunk or on drugs.

Renowned to outsiders for its laid-back, welcoming vibe, Thailand is also a country awash with firearms where disputes are all too frequently settled with a bullet and a body.

Barely a week goes by without a new headline-grabbing killing, usually stemming from a humiliation — or loss of “face” — over a personal or business dispute.

High-profile cases last year included a woman executed by an angry lover in a mall, and a bus driver shooting a passenger in the chest because his victim had repeatedly criticized his road skills.

The Thai government does not provide a specific breakdown for annual gun murders outside of the country’s deep south, where a local Muslim insurgency has killed more than 6,400 in the last decade.

But the Gunpolicy.org website, an online database of global gun statistics run by the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health, believes Thailand has one of the highest gun homicide rates in Asia.

It estimates 3.48 murders per 100,000 people in Thailand, on a par with the United States.

According to the Interior Ministry, there are 6.1 million registered firearms in Thailand, a country with 67 million people.

GunPolicy.org puts the total number of firearms at closer to 10 million, once the thriving black market trade is counted.

Thai father kills 4 children following spat with wife | Inquirer Global Nation

RIP, children...

Beggars understanding.

When Thais break up, they break up

Sad

Now that shit *does* happen in the West as well.

Breakups send some spouses over the edge into insanity.

Good


NEWS > CRIME Trang man kills self 9 hours after shooting dead his 4 children 8 Feb 2016 at 20:31 5,818 viewed5 comments WRITER: ONLINE REPORTERS

TRANG — The man who shot dead his four young children at their home in Palian district on Monday morning turned the gun on himself after a nine-hour standoff with police.

Trang man kills self 9 hours after shooting dead his 4 children | Bangkok Post: news

^ well he wasn't going to be able to live with what he did now was he!

What a sad world we live in.

Hatred, greed, geolousy and so called adult behavoir and then the weak and innocent suffer.

What can one say but absolute disgust against our fellow human being.

May he rot in hell!

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

Barely a week goes by without a new headline-grabbing killing, usually stemming from a humiliation — or loss of “face” — over a personal or business dispute.
3.48 murders per 100,000 people in Thailand, on a par with the United States.

As bad as the 'states. That is fucked up.

Sure, that evil shit goes on elsewhere, many times over.....
but talking from experience myself, when Thais part there is no Child Support Agency to enforce payment to look after the children of that broken relationship, but a hatred and a longing to forget each other at all costs, the ultimate being loss of face, or death as we see here.

Originally Posted by Tank Girl

Aye, fucking Thais, eh?

Yup, as mentioned

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Now that shit *does* happen in the West as well.

Originally Posted by Cujo

As bad as the 'states.

Originally Posted by Tank Girl

Originally Posted by Dillinger

When Thais break up, they break up

Sad

Aye, fucking Thais, eh?

Texas Man David Conley Accused of Killing 2 Adults, 6 Children in Dispute With Ex - NBC News

Dad who killed his kids dies in prison

Evil father killed his two sons after luring them into loft with new train set before torching house - Mirror Online

Oleg Belov killed his 6 children, pregnant wife and mother 'over son's haircut' | Metro News

Your "newbe" explains your indigence, I used to be offended by bad comments about the Thais and probably owe several members here apologies for comments I made when they referred to the locals as "monkeys."
Stay here about 5 years and learn more about "Thainess" and you'll understand, 80% of the so called men here never grow up, their emotional development stops at 10.

Stay here about 5 years and learn more about "Thainess" and you'll understand, 80% of the so called men here never grow up, their emotional development stops at 10.[/quote]


make that 4 and i'd agree. i have psychological evidence to support 4. 555

RIP young one's

Originally Posted by BobR

Originally Posted by Tank Girl

Originally Posted by Dillinger

When Thais break up, they break up

Sad

Aye, fucking Thais, eh?

Texas Man David Conley Accused of Killing 2 Adults, 6 Children in Dispute With Ex - NBC News

Dad who killed his kids dies in prison

Evil father killed his two sons after luring them into loft with new train set before torching house - Mirror Online

Oleg Belov killed his 6 children, pregnant wife and mother 'over son's haircut' | Metro News

Your "newbe" explains your indigence, I used to be offended by bad comments about the Thais and probably owe several members here apologies for comments I made when they referred to the locals as "monkeys."
Stay here about 5 years and learn more about "Thainess" and you'll understand....

Er... Tank Girl is a Westernized Thai that grew up in Thailand....

Always amusing to read of those seeking to exculpate Thailand from its idiocy by levelling similar criticisms against other countries as if the same condition prevailed equally around the world.

Poor saps simply can't, or won't, accept that whereas human aberrant behaviour occurs everywhere, here it is the system and that is what is so terrifying.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

May he rot in hell!

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

here it is the system

Please explain what part of the system encourages fathers to murder their child in custody disputes.

^ No doubt they would, mate...

Originally Posted by Luigi

Originally Posted by BobR

Originally Posted by Tank Girl

Originally Posted by Dillinger

When Thais break up, they break up

Sad

Aye, fucking Thais, eh?

Texas Man David Conley Accused of Killing 2 Adults, 6 Children in Dispute With Ex - NBC News

Dad who killed his kids dies in prison

Evil father killed his two sons after luring them into loft with new train set before torching house - Mirror Online

Oleg Belov killed his 6 children, pregnant wife and mother 'over son's haircut' | Metro News

Your "newbe" explains your indigence, I used to be offended by bad comments about the Thais and probably owe several members here apologies for comments I made when they referred to the locals as "monkeys."
Stay here about 5 years and learn more about "Thainess" and you'll understand....

Er... Tank Girl is a Westernized Thai that grew up in Thailand....

Cheers Luigi ...I'm not that westernised, even though I spent my adult life (10+ years after uni in UK) I still can't cope without Thai food.
I stlll got a funny accent to go with my pumpkin face and monkey brains.
My first language is Lao, my second Thai, my third is northern English, some of my relatives and friends speak weirder languages too. and we all really sexy asian engineer chicks ;p



In response to

Originally Posted by BobR

"newbe"

Bob, and

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Always amusing

"SeekingAsylum"

I know exactly what Thai men and break-ups are like, I grew up in a remote border village where most people do not get education beyond primary school, and was in the first generation to even go to secondary school, never mind Russell Group university. You might be surprised how often newspaper headlines deviate from reality of Thai norms - even in the village. Seems like you just read the headline and extend it to everyone.

Human behaviour, whether it is deviating from farang norms or not is part of the system in most countries in the world if you think about it. Just in some places it is dressed up with laws and made to look respectable.
Most of the world is developing world, and full of stupid brown monkeys - so it does prevail equally and unequally around the world.
I don't see any of this nutty behaviour in my own backward farmer male relatives. Some of them are a bit tedious, might bore you to death...

Anyway, my mum is in hospital now, in monkeyland, so I haven't got time for this bollocks.

^^^^she's great... good on yer tank girl

But I'm calling BS. "Grew up in a remote border village"
That's not the writing or attitude of anyone who grew up in a remote border village.
(caveat: unless her father was the local drug/gun running warlord )

What double nicking troll can this be?