Thread: 53 year old female tourist reeled in and jailed for feeding bread to fish in Phuket

A 53-year-old Russian woman has been arrested in Thailand's Phuket Province and is awaiting a court hearing after she was caught feeding some bread to fish near ecologically sensitive coral reefs in the popular tourist destination.
The woman, Olga Smirnova, has been in pretrial detention at a police station in Chalong, as she didn't have the money to be released on bail before the Thai judges make their decision.

"We managed to talk to officials at the police station, where the woman is being kept. The Russian citizen did not have the money needed for the bail, which is almost $3,000, and that's why she is awaiting the trial there," a Russian consulate representative told RIA Novosti news agency.



The diplomat added that the mission hasn't received any official notification in connection with the arrest of its citizen.

Smirnova has been charged with "feeding fish in a forbidden area or in an area with coral reef," the Russian official said.

The maximum punishment for the environmental law violation is a year behind bars, a 100,000 Thai Baht ($2,850) fine, or both.

The Russian tourist was detained at Plab Pla beach on Koh Racha Yai on Sunday, the Phuket Gazette reported. She was caught feeding bread to the fish while the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) was patrolling the area, the local media said, adding that such DMCR checks are "routine."

"We are taking a very strict stance on this. She has to pay the bail and remain in Thailand until her case is processed by a court," head of the local Marine and Coastal Resources Conservation Division told the Phuket media.

After being detained, the woman was shown a copy of posters placed across the island warning of the rules, according to the officials.

Environmentally harmful tourist activities at the coral reefs near three islands off Phuket’s east coast have been banned by Thai officials as a serious offense. A stricter approach has recently been adopted by the officials, who last year banned interference in any marine wildlife at the popular tourist sites.

In May 2016, a Chinese tourist and his guide were apprehended on an island near Phuket, when they were caught feeding coastal fish, the Phuket News reported.

"I would like to say that we are serious and are really making arrests. We have given enough warnings," a Thai official said at the time, adding that he had given orders to "make an example so that no one else will dare to take such actions."

In January, another Chinese tourist was arrested in the Phuket area. He was fined 100,000 Thai Baht for poaching parrotfish.

https://www.rt.com/viral/378040-tour...-feeding-fish/

Bail of almost $3,000? WTF!!

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Chinese tourist was arrested in the Phuket area. He was fined 100,000 Thai Baht for poaching parrotfish.

Poaching is far more serious than feeding fish bread, yet the fine is the same!

Originally Posted by Neverna

Bail of almost $3,000? WTF!!

That's a lot of bread

Mafia are going to be shitting themselves now if they get caught dumping body's in the ocean.

Originally Posted by Neverna

Bail of almost $3,000? WTF!!

This is Tai-lan you not tai you mus pay you do wrong you mus pay this is tai-lan

*Thai smile*

Discretion is not very Thai, wouldn't it have been easier to simply say "please don't do that." Hope this makes news in Russia and backfires on these fools.

Originally Posted by BobR

Discretion is not very Thai, wouldn't it have been easier to simply say "please don't do that." Hope this makes news in Russia and backfires on these fools.

These fools couldn't give a flying monkeys asshole what anyone thinks they are so far up their own ass. Didnt you know this is tai lan she no tai she mus pay this is tai lan you do no good

*Thai smile*

^ Meanwhile a trawler behind him is dragging up coral dead body's and any other shit it's chains can pull off the ocean floor to pound into pellets to feed those shit awfull prawns they so highly treasure.

Originally Posted by BobR

Discretion is not very Thai, wouldn't it have been easier to simply say "please don't do that."

They probably did.

She probably fired back 'I'm only feeding them some fucking bread you fucking morons' in a Russian accent.

I got done 1 time at chong chom border crossing with 1 too many cartons of cigarettes I bought at the duty free in the casino.

I honestly didnt think anything of it, duty free naturally sold them to me no problem.

Got to the thai side and a totally plainclothes thai dude with a dust mask & sunglasses on grabbed me by my arm, hard, and tried to drag me off. I thought it was some retard tout trying to get me to buy something or some shit so I did what any human would of done after he wouldn't let me go:

I shoved that fucker so hard he fell on his ass.

Whelp turns out he was a customs "spy" and identification isn't required whilst assaulting foreigners. He was not pleased.

I sat on the side of the road in bracelets for 5 hours under armed army guard refusing to pay the, wait for it, 100,000 baht fine for the "cigarettes" but nobody spoke english so they got a motorbike taxi guy to explain to me that:

this is tai lan you no tai you mus pay this is tai lan you do no good you no pay you go to jail long time you do bad you no good

Ended up paying 14,000 baht after being taken to the "big boss" with about 8 other thai men in 2 toyota trucks taking my picture & shit the whole way.

Over 1 carton of cigarettes and a fuckhead who thought it would be clever to grab onto people without identification or anyway of making it known that they were, infact, customs people.

Fuck these idiots.

*Thai smile*

^
Same thing goes on at the market just down the road from Chong Chom. There are vendors(?) there selling cheap cigarettes. As soon as 2 friends of mine made a purchase they got surrounded by plain clothed police. Then transferred to the local nic where they negotiated a fine(?) of 10,000 Baht. My friends didn't know what they'd done wrong.

Are you saying they bought the smokes in Thailand and got charged?

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Then transferred to the local nic where they negotiated a fine(?) of 10,000 Baht.

I would have let them take me to jail and negotiated in court but it was Friday or Saturday and I would have stayed there for 2 nights. On top of that, I had to mail my passport in to my employers on monday for them to handle a visa. Couldn't risk a delay so paid the fuckin "fine". I was beyond fuming. Ive never been around that many Thais that wanted to fuck me over publicly in my entire time here. This was only like 10 months ago and was a straw that broke the camels back. Ever since Ive been looking into moving to another country or back to the states.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

My friends didn't know what they'd done wrong.

This is tai lan they no tai they not people only fa-long not same thai people thai lub thai because tai-lan numbur one

ei ei

Originally Posted by brisie

pass the bong, Jeff

puff puff pass homie

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

"I would like to say that we are serious and are really making arrests. We have given enough warnings," a Thai official said at the time, adding that he had given orders to "make an example so that no one else will dare to take such actions."

They're f*ing carp, which are garbage fish, in America we're spending many millions of Dollars trying to kill them off in several states as an invasive species.

Originally Posted by BobR

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

"I would like to say that we are serious and are really making arrests. We have given enough warnings," a Thai official said at the time, adding that he had given orders to "make an example so that no one else will dare to take such actions."

They're f*ing carp, which are garbage fish, in America we're spending many millions of Dollars trying to kill them off in several states as an invasive species.

I think it was a stock photo and the criminal, thoughtless, unconservationist Russian was feeding fish in the sea in a protected area.

I'd like to see a copy of the flyer that says no feeding the fish. I can imagine it says no killing or taking of fish, no damaging the reef, but no feeding?

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

*Whatever you do, don't google 2 men and a fish

I only see one man in the picture....

Don't try that shit with Piranhas... unless you can afford to lose a few inches.

Originally Posted by Slick

I got done 1 time at chong chom border crossing with 1 too many cartons of cigarettes I bought at the duty free in the casino.

I honestly didnt think anything of it, duty free naturally sold them to me no problem.

Got to the thai side and a totally plainclothes thai dude with a dust mask & sunglasses on grabbed me by my arm, hard, and tried to drag me off. I thought it was some retard tout trying to get me to buy something or some shit so I did what any human would of done after he wouldn't let me go:

I shoved that fucker so hard he fell on his ass.

Whelp turns out he was a customs "spy" and identification isn't required whilst assaulting foreigners. He was not pleased.

I sat on the side of the road in bracelets for 5 hours under armed army guard refusing to pay the, wait for it, 100,000 baht fine for the "cigarettes" but nobody spoke english so they got a motorbike taxi guy to explain to me that:

this is tai lan you no tai you mus pay this is tai lan you do no good you no pay you go to jail long time you do bad you no good

Ended up paying 14,000 baht after being taken to the "big boss" with about 8 other thai men in 2 toyota trucks taking my picture & shit the whole way.

Over 1 carton of cigarettes and a fuckhead who thought it would be clever to grab onto people without identification or anyway of making it known that they were, infact, customs people.

Fuck these idiots.

*Thai smile*

Karma innit.

Ya gota love this pathetic fukin shit house EH.

Ya can fuk someone up with a crowbar, eat their eyes and cut their legs of with a machete then pay of the corrupt cops 500 baht but if ya feed the fukin fish some sticky pudding ya going down the slammer to be fuked over.

I simply love living in this shit house only because it's so fuked up.

This shit never happens in Perth, the place is boring as fuk.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Karma innit.

^ Yup, happened in righteous Buddha land - therefore it must be just, and deserved...

Perhaps she was a fish called Wanda, with anorexia nervosa, in a previous life...