Bangkok - Police ready cranes to clear roads

[dirtydog]

Police ready cranes to clear roads

The police threatened to use cranes and trucks to move taxis parked on roads all over Bangkok if cabbies who support the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) do not stop blocking the streets.


The red-shirt protesters began blocking key roads across the capital on Thursday afernoon to pressure Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign.

They gathered outside the the Constitution Court, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government House and Democrat party headquarters in Bangkok, and in Pattaya where the 14th Asean Summit is to begin on Friday.


Bangkok's traffic police commander Weerapat Tansrisakul said his men were trying to negotiate with the taxi drivers who blocked all traffic lanes around the Victory Monument.


If the talks failed police may have to use cranes and trucks to remove the taxis and clear the roads, he said.


The UDD leaders said about 20,000 taxis would block roads around Bangkok for another three days if the government does not meet their demands for a general election and the resignation of the foreign minister and three privy councillors.

Bangkok Post

[Muadib]

If they move one taxi, two more are likely to take it's place... Why not just roll out the tanks... Oh yes, the army is neutral during public uprisings...

You can bet the ASEAN summit is going to be inundated with red shirt protesters this weekend... This has the ingredients of an eventful weekend... Tex may get his war yet...

[blackgang]

I also say use tanks, but a dozed blade on em and shove the cars into piles and say fuck off when they bitch that you smashed their car,
There has to be an end to this gangland tacticsm no matter the color of your skivies.

But if they are going to use cranes they should be equipped with Electro mags like in scrap yards and that way it be a lot faster to move the cars into the back of dump trucks and harder on the cars.

[Bobcock]

Drop a few whilst moving them, no compensation available.

That'll fuck 'em.

[Loy Toy]

I still think Samak's idea (and when he was Bangkok's governor) about using helicopters with huge magnets is the best idea and to clear Bangkok's traffic jams.

And who said he was an uneducated chef in wolves clothing?

[withnallstoke]

How many cranes have they got. I reckon it will take between 220 - 300 to lift a taxi, unladen, and more if it's occupied. Anybody know a good crane trainer?