Thai Valentine's Day police crackdown

[dtaai-maai]

BANGKOK: -- With the festival of love nearly upon us, police are asking for parental cooperation in not letting those under the age of 18 wander outside after 10pm on Valentine’s Day.

Royal Thai Police spokesman Maj-General Piya Uthayo yesterday said the national police chief was worried about youths acting inappropriately, taking drugs or engaging in other forms of vice on the day, hence police would be dispatched to patrol public parks, theatres, karaoke bars, night venues, dormitories, apartments and hotels.

In particular, they ask for parents to keep their youths at home after 10pm on February 14.

If police find anyone under 18 outside after this time, they will be brought to police stations for their parents to pick them up, he added.

Intending also to ask night-entertainment venues not to allow the under-aged to enter their premises, with the concomittant risk that they could engage in sexual activity, police will ensure the venues do not stay open later than what the law allows, or else they could face temporary closure, Piya said.

Police will also punish shops that sell alcohol to under-aged persons, and will set up checkpoints to stop drunk and/or reckless riders.

Moreover, they will seek the public's cooperation, especially women, who are asked not to wear racy clothes or high-value ornaments, which could put them at risk because criminals will take advantage of large crowds on the day.

Nice to see the police are still getting their priorities right...

[lomuamart]

Yawn - not at you dm,
Each year it's the same. I promise that a calendar could be composed based on stupid, repetitive, grannies, blue rinsed idiots who think they're better than us but basically are just worried about their position in society - money.
Enough.
Give 'em Mary Whitehouse.

[Takiap]

I agree Lomu.........as if teenagers are going to keep a lid on their sexual desires so that they can let loose on one day of the year. Isaan is full of teenagers walking around with kids, and I seriously doubt they were all conceived on Valentines day.

I also always amazes me how a boy is deemed old enough to do national service, and perhaps even serve on the front line, and yet they're not old enough to drink a beer of have a shag. Surely, even in Thailand, people realize today's 16 year old kids are not like they were 75 years ago.


Like you say, a bunch of old fart who are desperate to hang on.

[Lung Per]

Same same every year. Who do they think they are with their twisted morals?

[Spitfire]

Yeah, it's ridiculous. Who the hell will listen to this message anyhow? Sounds to me that it's being announced to appear like the authorities are doing something but they forget that nobody is listening.

What do you expect with apathy towards social values prevalent in most Thai homes? What matters is the acquisition of money and face, with this sort of moral stuff taking a back seat in a disproportionate section of society.

OK, not everyone, but many I should think.

It also sounds like the 19th century trying to tell the 21st, or even the 20th, century what to do. They certainly do not live in the real world.

With social media and all the other frills that young kids have now, is it any surprise that every teenager has possible 'encounters' to investigate?

Valentine's Day is nothing more than an excuse for kids to justify what actually goes on all the time right round the calender no matter what.

Scooter-boy will try to score whether it's Valentine's or not....and succeeds all the time regardless of anything.