Tourists Face 10 Years In Jail & $30K Fine For Graffitiing Ancient Gate in Thailand

Michael W Travels ^ | 10/19/18

[wjcsux]

You aren’t in the U.K. mates! The Thai government isn’t very sympathetic to your acting like a couple of pampered SJW’s.

[Simon Green]

Where did two idiots like that get the money to go to Thailand?

I just checked Google Flights. You can get round trip airfare from London to Bangkok for under $450. Adjusted for inflation, flying’s never been cheaper.

[Mermaid Girl]

That comment is so true. When I lived there, the women looked like horses, but so many of them were so fit they looked great anyway. This was in the tail end of Thatcher’s England... before the downfall.
The men were all smokin’ hot of course (at least to this then-college coed.) All skinny, efete David Bowie look alikes.

Sigh, my beloved country is gone.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Perhaps if the cut off both hands of the perps...

[LukeL]

Hope they aren’t going to Bang Kwang.

[alexander_busek]

Where did two idiots like that get the money to go to Thailand?

I suspect that their being bored, pampered "trust fundies" or such is at least in part responsible for their irresponsibility / wanton flauting of local laws / extreme narcissism.

People who get up at 4 a.m. to crack eggs into a pan before driving 50 miles to the job site in pouring rain don't have time for this sh*t.

Regards,

[mabarker1]

I was just happy that they were not Americans.

[Simon Green]

The woman is from Canada.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

If they want to express themselves, why don't the go back home to the UK and spray paint the door to a mosque?
 

[cpdiii]

“Nope, can’t produce any sympathy.”

I would rather not see Thailand spend many dollars on their incarceration for many years. A much better punishment would be caning. Caning is short and brutal, actually very brutal. It rips your backside apart. In extreme instances it will kill you.

Give these two miscreants a choice. Several years in prison or caning. If they choose caning about half way through they would doubt their decision.

[cpdiii]

See my post # 30 about caning.

[Simon Green]

As far as I know, Thailand does not use caning as punishment for criminals.

[cpdiii]

Just damn. I misspelled caning in two posts.

[Cowboy Bob]

Wait. They are White, so I must blindly support them. Take their side. Right? Isn't that the rule now...support your race no matter what?

No. Lock them up. Hope they get the full 10 years.

[GOP Congress]

"The other artist involved in the crime, Brittney Schneider..."

Artist...ARTIST?? Seriously?? So if someone breaks into my car, do I call the cretin "an engineer?" Or robs a store, call him "a financial wizard?" 10 years PLUS caning. Scum.

[mikefive]

Food should be with held unless their families provide it.

I've spent a lot of time in Thailand, to include living there for about 2 1/2yrs. IIRC, it is the responsibility of the family to provide food for them.

I'm also surprised that the locals, even though they are some of the nicest people on earth, didn't administer some justice before they were arrested. They do not take kindly to slights on their King, their religion, or their historic sites.

My best guess, is that those two idiots will spend a couple months in a Thai prison before being sent home with "never to return" stamps in their passports.

[Huskrrrr]

Lucky for me they never caught me spray painting my initials on the pyramid. :0)

[logi_cal869]

I was about to post the same on “artist”...

[Tolkien]

The look on her/its face is funny to me.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I don’t have a big problem with this.