Millions of people throughout Thailand right now are celebrating Songkran with water fights but spare a thought for 2 males in Hong Kong unlucky enough to come across some humourless cops while celebrating the Thai New Year. The pair had been arrested by the party-pooping officers for disorderly conduct after they fired water weapons at them at a Songkran occasion on Sunday in Kowloon City, a district that many people name “Little Thailand.”
The short-on-humour cops reckoned the fun-loving competition duo used the event as a canopy to focus on legislation enforcers.
Cheung Lok-chuen, a chief inspector in Kowloon City, last evening told South China Morning Post (SCMP) that the men, aged 25 and 26, were taking pictures the water weapons at shut range on the Songkran Festival. He said…
“It was initially a enjoyable occasion for everyone, however some people had ulterior motives to focus on the cops who maintained order and other participants on the scene.”
Cheung reckons the acts aimed toward breaching public peace may have been deliberate. He added that further arrests were attainable and the district crime squad is handling the case.
A three-minute video clip uploaded to YouTube a day after the event on Sunday appears to show individuals, together with the 25 yr old, capturing water guns at law enforcement officials and reporters from TVB, the city’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster.
A police supply told the SCMP that the 25 yr old man, a security guard, was a YouTuber behind the channel “Bravedogdog” and had been arrested for disorderly conduct in February after he allegedly made noises and interrupted buyers at a Mong Kok outlet of the AbouThai grocery chain.
He was upset that the chain’s founder Mike Lam King-nam had testified for the prosecution in a national security trial associated to an unofficial Legco primary in 2020.
A police spokesman added the men’s acts had been proven in a video clip and posted online with inciting words.
Dark didn’t touch upon the case throughout a Legislative Council meeting yesterday but stated some have been putting up “soft resistance” to incite discontent towards the federal government.
As many Thais know, water splashing and squirt guns are used during Songkran to drive away bad luck. Unfortunately, unhealthy luck in the shape of these humourless cops returned to arrest the fun-seekers..