Army with guns khao takiap

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Army with guns khao takiap

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I went to khao takiap this morning, right to the end next to the golf course, to look if they had started work on The Sanctuary site yet and was amazed to see the army with guns there :shock: Does anyone know what it is all about. They were staked out like snipers with machine guns :o
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Someone important having a round of golf?
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who JW?
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Probably preparing for the upcoming elections... :D

Seriously though, just on the beach south of the golf course there is a line of (6 to 8 ) very nice beach villas that I've heard are for the sole use of high ranking army officers and visiting dignitaries so I suspect someone important is staying in one of them.
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The Army? With guns? Outrageous! Whatever next....?

Armies do tend to do drill / practice sometimes, and the golf course is on their land. Or as HH suggests, 'brass' in town.
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Read the papers....the peaceful elections are not that peaceful

could well be a security checkpoint thing..... no cause to worry at all bro

Its when you see lines of tanks you get worried. :wink:
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Korkenzieher wrote:The Army? With guns? Outrageous! Whatever next....?
Well, with the cut backs the *****'s are making in the UK, we'll be lucky to have peashooters :roll: Then again, we're joining the French... so at least we'll have a plentyfull supply of white flags. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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:agree: :lach:
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LOL, just making sure that the right General wins!
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Well for the tourists and visitors to Hua Hin, it must look a bit weird, a road full of armed snipers :oops: Just the sort of image you want for a day on the beach 8) Khao Takiap twinned with Huntington Beach, very relaxing :?
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BANGKOK - United States Marines have finished training Thailand's military and police to use electroshock Tasers to inflict "intense pain", shoot a blinding neurotoxin spray and explode non-lethal grenades, one year after the Thai army unleashed snipers and armored personnel carriers against an anti-coup insurrection in Bangkok in which 91 people died.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_ ... 7Ae01.html
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I just pray that this election goes smoothly , this is a beautiful country...
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Hua Hin Yoga said...
I just pray that this election goes smoothly , this is a beautiful country...


We all share your sentiments but we all also know that the chances of this election going smoothly are nil to nothing.

There is more chance of myself being considered as a 'pearl of wisdom' on this forum than a smooth election.
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Siani wrote:I went to khao takiap this morning, right to the end next to the golf course, to look if they had started work on The Sanctuary site yet and was amazed to see the army with guns there :shock: Does anyone know what it is all about. They were staked out like snipers with machine guns :o

Well, looks like there's a simple explanation:

From today's Bangkok Post:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... ing-drills
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