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Get Off My Lawn |
 Attributing their behavior to "drunken revelry" these two brain surgeons don't look so drunk now. And they just happened to have a can of spray paint in their back pocket. God, the folks surrounding them look pissed. "BANGKOK (AP) — A Briton and Canadian face up to 10 years in prison on charges of spraying paint on an ancient wall in northern Thailand, police said Friday. Security camera footage purportedly showed Furlong Lee and Canadian Brittney Lorretta Katherine Schneider, both 23, spraying a message on the walls of the Tha Pae Gate in the northern province of Chiang Mai at around 4 a.m. Thursday. Pol Col. Teerasak Sriprasert, chief of the Chiang Mai police, said that the tourists are in custody and have been charged with vandalizing registered ancient artifacts, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a million baht ($30,650) fine. Teerasak said the pair admitted sprayed the message out of drunken revelry. He said that Lee, who is from Liverpool, admitted that he wrote "Scouser Lee" on the wall while Brittney told police that she wrote the letter "B'' underneath it. The 13th century Tha Pae Gate is part of an ancient wall that forms a square around Chiang Mai's inner city." Link "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | ||
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delicately calloused |
Stupid should kill. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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We should have similar penalties for our National Parks, Monuments and public lands. People are vandalizing sites at an alarming rate, it needs to be stopped! ________________________________ "Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Imbeciles. Horsewhip them, then prison. | |||
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Uh oh, no trophy? | |||
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| Get Off My Lawn |
One of the comments from the link- "Look on the bright side...10 years of Thai food"  "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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I have no sympathy for this behavior. Like UTsig, I'm tired of seeing irreplacable artifacts destroyed simply because some jackass wants to spray his name on it. This is a real problem here in Utah. Why many young people feel the need to destroy is a complete mystery to me. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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23 and still doing stupid stuff like this? Enjoy your time in Tai prison, guessing Bangkok will be a verb now. HK Ag | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Teens? It says they're 23. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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| Get Off My Lawn |
Fixed "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Web Clavin Extraordinaire |
Anyone remember Michael Fay getting caned in Singapore all those years ago?? ---------------------------- Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter" Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time. | |||
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Yup. IIRC, the Simpsons did a parody of that incident involving Austrailia and a "booting" instead of a caning. Check their social networks (guaranteed these two idiots tweet, Instagram, or farcebook) and see if they had any references before they decided to do this on "the spur of the moment". Then give them the full penalty a Thai would likely suffer if they were to do such a thing. Stupid like this should have a steep cost. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Liverpudlian, nuff said... Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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The Joy Maker |
I remember Weird Al singing about it. 
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
They are in Thailand. Subject to Thai laws. Throw the book at them! Max time and other "inconveniences". Probably will not serve as much of a learning tool for other idiots, but it should impress a few. And we should have the same kind of punishments for the assholes who damage or destroy historically important artifacts, etc. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Cleaning the wall and the another public caning. Why spend $ housing these morons? ========================================== Just my 2¢ ____________________________ Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right ♫♫♫ | |||
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A good brisk caning sounds appropriate. Dumb asses need a meme to never misremember. | |||
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25 is the new 15. | |||
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| Ammoholic |
Yes, and that is absolutely the first thing that came to mind. | |||
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