Thread: Arrest made in bloody row between Bangkok rescue crews

Police have arrested a man who allegedly fired a gun during a turf war between rival rescue crews at a Bangkok hospital on April 11, resulting in a bystander being wounded.

Police announced on Monday morning that Neung Laokaew, 26, had been taken into custody in Sai Mai district the previous afternoon on a warrant issued by a criminal court.


He is charged with attempted murder, illegally possessing a gun and carrying a gun in a public place.




Arrest made in bloody row between Bangkok rescue crews

The two groups were bickering over which areas each one could pick up accident victims for transport to hospital.


Savitree Sriviset, 22, the girlfriend of Ruam Katanyoo worker Thanachote Inkham, was shot in the melee.


Neung allegedly fled on his motorcycle.

And they wonder why a good portion of the world won't take their institutions, business acumen and officialdom seriously.

Petty and disparaging Thainess.
Sometimes, it's simply embarrassing - even for observing Thais.

Are the rescue crews on commission?

Originally Posted by Luigi

''...was shot in the melee.''

Is that a euphamism for something, Luigi? Is there a separate story here...!?

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Are the rescue crews on commission?

Reckon Bsnub's spent more time in the Kingdom than you.

That's how it goes in the world of Por Tek Tung, Thailand's premier group of professional body snatchers.

Careering around Bangkok in battered pickup trucks, the organization's minimally trained members serve as doctor and hearse for accident victims in a city that has almost no emergency services.

These are no dreamy-eyed do-gooders: Fistfights occasionally erupt when rival organizations try to tug bodies from the same road accident.

Competition over bodies has occasionally proved intense enough for rival groups to resort to violence. The police once fired warning shots to stop 40 Por Tek Tung collectors armed with wooden clubs and hammers from fighting six collectors from a rival group.

Mr. Niroot took part in one of the most famous confrontations, in which half a dozen body snatchers were hospitalized after fighting over a motorcyclist's body.

"It is very ugly fighting over a body, but I would do it again," Mr. Niroot said, describing how he split open a rival's head with a piece of wood after knives and a gun had been drawn. "


While many in Thailand suggest more worldly motivations for the fights over bodies, Por Tek Tung employees react with indignation at any suggestion of pillage. Thais often conserve a considerable portion of their wealth in thick gold necklaces, but few bodies arrive at morgues with jewelry of any kind.

"Things go missing by the time a body gets to the morgue, but this has nothing to do with Por Tek Tung employees," said Kurom Buaphoom, who has worked for five years at the organization.

That's a good read from an old Ch4 documentary on the various Wars of the Bodysnatchers.

Another version in high quality, but you need to lock the orientation on your phone as halfway through the movie angle changes.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Reckon Bsnub's spent more time in the Kingdom than you.

So the commission is the gold draped stiffs.

Same same but different ...

And from the hospitals for the injured... and the families for the dead.


Why do you think they go around shooting and hacking each other up with machetes.


For Buddhist karma?

Yeah..... like Channel 4 wouldn't have doctored most of that bullsheet for viewing figures

Why have you underlined most of it to look like they are factual links?

As a matter of fact I saw a couple of those ambulances over Songkran, both different coloured scouting up and down the road. I did move to the pavement pretty sharpish

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Yeah..... like Channel 4 wouldn't have doctored most of that bullsheet for viewing figures

Actually, they took it from a New York Times report.

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/n...-death-in.html

Originally Posted by Luigi

The two groups were bickering over which areas each one could pick up accident victims for transport to hospital.


Savitree Sriviset, 22, the girlfriend of Ruam Katanyoo worker Thanachote Inkham, was shot in the melee.


Neung allegedly fled on his motorcycle.

They should zone the city with each crew having their own turf, just like other mafias do.

Quite a good idea really .
If another crew gets to the victim first , just shoot one of them, and then you get a victim to take to hospital as well .

Originally Posted by jabir

They should zone the city with each crew having their own turf, just like other mafias do.

They have.

Bkk was halved between Poh Teck Tung and Ruamkatanyu foundations..

A few years ago, there was a serious night time boat collision ferrying passengers to or from a full moon party.

The priority ambulances did no triage on site, but took the bodies, dead or alive, to the hospital offering the biggest rewards.

All transport had to pass close to at least 3 international hospitals in order to reach the greatest reward, paid by the hospital furthest from the incident.