Shooting at pre-school (Thailand)

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Irish_Tom said:
Ditto. I have a constant low-level feeling of dread that something terrible could happen to my wife and little one. I'm sure it's not healthy, and it's far from rational, especially as I don't have the same concern for my welfare, but maybe that's just part of being a parent.
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I can absolutely relate to this, something always lurking in the back of my mind. If they're out and time starts creeping on past when i'm expecting them back, my mind goes to dark places. As with you, my own welfare is low on my list of concerns.
 
Updated OP with latest info:

The gunman had been to a court hearing on a drugs charge before he launched his attack, a police spokesperson told reporters.

The former officer was discharged from the police force last year for drug use.


Police are giving more details about what happened.

The gunman became agitated after arriving at the nursery to find his child was not there, officers say.

He subsequently opened fire on and crashed his vehicle into a crowd of bystanders, before returning home and killing his wife and child, police spokesman Paisan Luesomboon said.
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Eyewitness Paweena Purichan, 31, told the AFP news agency that she had encountered the gunman driving erratically after the attack.

"He intended to crash into others on the road," she said. "The attacker rammed a motorbike and two people were injured. I sped off to get away from him."

She added that the gunman was well known in the local area as a drug addict.
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Custor said:
Did this always happen in history or does media now aid mentals/physchos go out in a blaze of glory?

Not blaming media. Asking if this is a logic to be ‘remembered’ or make an impact by nutters?

Or have nutters always nuttered?
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They're will always be nutters. Were probably in the period of less nutters that's ever existed.
 
Bbc:
How did the attack unfold?

The attacker stormed the centre in the town of Uthai Sawan, 500km (310 miles) north-east of Bangkok, at about 12:30 local time (05:30 GMT) on Thursday.

One of the teachers at the centre told local media they thought the man wanted something - after all, they knew him because his son attended the same centre, even though he had not been there for a month.

Carers tried to lock the doors, but the man proceeded to attack indiscriminately.

"The shooter came in around lunchtime and shot four or five officials at the childcare centre first," district official Jidapa Boonsom told Reuters news agency.

"At first, people thought it was fireworks," she said.

The attacker, she added, then forced his way into a locked room where children were sleeping, stabbing them. Only one is said to have survived.

A teacher who managed to escape described the knife "like one for cutting grass - it was curved".

From there, the man fled as police were alerted and launched a manhunt.

AFP news agency quotes an eyewitness who was riding a motorcycle to her shop when she saw him driving away erratically.

"The attacker rammed a motorbike and two people were injured. I sped off to get away from him," Paweena Purichan said, adding, "There was blood everywhere."

He fled the scene in a white four-door Toyota pick-up truck with Bangkok registration plates and went home, where he killed himself, his wife and their son, police said.

Who are the victims?

The number of fatalities is at least 38, including 22 children. Some of the children were as young as two.

A number of them were care centre staff, including some killed as they were having lunch outside the nursery and others who tried to lock the man out.

Other adults - and at least one of the children - were killed as the attacker fled from the scene.

At least 12 people have been wounded.
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Jesus, it just gets worse as the details come out.

Drug induced craze? Or simply a disgusting animal?
 
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Dis86 said:
But...drugs should be legalised and available for all.
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Strange you would try and make a point about that and not the legalised firearm that he used to kill the children.

I know you aren't pro gun.

If you are referring to the other thread though, that was people arguing the pros and cons of legalising marijuana, not all drugs.
 
VincentHanna said:
Strange you would try and make a point about that and not the legalised firearm that he used to kill the children.

I know you aren't pro gun.

If you are referring to the other thread though, that was people arguing the pros and cons of legalising marijuana, not all drugs.
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He used guns, a car and a knife. Strange you would try and make a point about guns...

Multiple people across multiple threads have called for the legalisation of all drugs.
 
Dis86 said:
That guy suggested it there for example.
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Hahaha :D That was not exactly a detailed proclamation or call to legalise all drugs, as you suggest. However I can understand how it could be interpretted as such, in the literal, by the nonsensical.

Any proper examples, or are they all of a similar vein?
 
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Le Clandestin Brun said:
Hahaha :D That was not exactly a detailed proclamation or call to legalise all drugs, as you suggest. However I can understand how it could be interpretted as such, in the literal, by the nonsensical.

Any proper examples, or are they all of a similar vein?
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So when you say legalise drugs, you didn't mean legalise drugs?
 
Aren't Thai police like incredibly corrupt?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58405215

He, along with six others, was pictured wrapping plastic bags around the head of a 24-year-old arrested for selling methamphetamine pills. The suspect eventually died. He has admitted to mistreating the suspect but denied demanding a bribe.
When police raided Mr Thitisan's luxury home in Bangkok they found a dozen high-priced cars.
The Customs department believes he owns at least 42 cars, one of them a rare Lamborghini Aventador Anniversario, of which only 100 were made, priced in Thailand at 47 million baht ($1.45m; £1.05m).
So how did he amass such wealth, at the age of 39, on a salary of just 43,000 baht - or just over $1,000 - a month?
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I mean when that's a police chief... suspect that it is highly likely that not only are much of them hypocrites when it comes to drug use it's a fairly easy bet that that they actually are a cog in the sale of drugs.

Such is the bane of an incredibly unequal society that hypocritical moral panics are used to maintain order for the elites.
 
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Dis86 said:
So when you say legalise drugs, you didn't mean legalise drugs?
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I didn't simply blanket "legalise drugs", I said "legslise possession of drugs" specifically in regards to a thread on stop and search, which would lead to positive changes in that regard.

Just one small slice of the psychedelic pie.

To save you inquiring, the entire system needs a reform and there are many aspects which need changes in regulation, criminalisation, prosecution and support structures.
 
Le Clandestin Brun said:
I didn't simply blanket "legalise drugs", I said "legslise possession of drugs" specifically in regards to a thread on stop and search, which would lead to positive changes in that regard.

Just one small slice of the psychedelic pie.

To save you inquiring, the entire system needs a reform and there are many aspects which need changes in regulation, criminalisation, prosecution and support structures.
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So legalise carrying them around but...nothing else? I mean that makes no sense at all.
 
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