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Drivers should always remember that failing to park their cars properly can lead to a quarrel.
Pol Col Thanong Posisthakul of the Bang Phlad station rushed to the parking lot of Mansion 87 in Soi Charan Sanitwong 87 at 11.30pm on Tuesday after a report of a shooting.
The victim, Passawat Kraidej, a 36-year-old taxi driver, was seriously injured after being shot and was sent to Yanhee Hospital in Bang Phlad district.
Malee Kwankeaw, 38, told police that the gunman was her boyfriend Phannarin Rassamimaree, 36, a closed-circuit camera salesman, and they shared an apartment adjacent to the parking lot belonging to Mr Passawat.
Mr Phannarin was angry and had words with Mr Passawat because the taxi was parked poorly and Mr Phannarin could not park his pick-up truck in his reserved slot.
After the shooting, Mr Phannarin drove away, Mrs Malee told police, adding that she could not remember the first two letters of his licence plate. The only thing she knew was that it was registered in Bangkok and the plate's four numbers were 1973.
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Thieves help their victim
Pathum Thani - Police thought it was strange that thieves gave a truck driver a cutter to free himself plus pocket money before getting away with 1.5 million baht worth of rubber sheets.
Chawalit Charoensuk, 46, was found sitting in his empty truck with a cut on his left wrist in Lat Lum Kaeo district early on Monday morning. The truck owner told police he was hired to transport rubber sheets from a factory in Chon Buri to a tyre factory in the district. He arrived at the factory gate too early, at 8pm on Sunday.
"I took a bath at the security booth and slept in the truck. I was woken at 2am by a group of four to five men, who claimed to be police. They dragged me from the truck and took me to a pick-up truck with a siren on its roof, blindfolded me and put duct tape over my mouth, while the others drove the truck away."
He said he was taken to a house and at dawn the thieves took him to where the truck was parked. They asked whether he had any money and when he said he did not, they gave him some money and a cutter. Police found his story very suspicious and started investigating.
Officers discovered the victim had bought insurance to cover any damage to the rubber, adding to one million baht in compensation.
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Suspicious killing
Chumphon - A man was shot dead last week because he could not find a 100-baht banknote quickly enough for his killers.
Durian vendor Masugri Malaheng, 26, was shot three times in the head outside a seafood restaurant in Lang Suan district around midnight by two teenagers.
His wife, Thanatgan Nuirat, 28, told police the couple had just left a restaurant when two teenagers on a motorbike approached them. She said they asked for 100 baht, saying their gas tank was almost empty.
She quoted one teen as saying: "Too late, you're a dead man," before he pulled out a gun and shot her husband from behind. The same gunman then got off the motorbike and shot him twice more before fleeing the scene.
Chumphon police, however, noticed that the wife showed no signs of grief. Police later discovered she bought insurance for her husband two months earlier worth 750,000 baht.
The couple had lived together for seven years and had one child. They ran a small business selling durian in Chumphon and Yala.
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Queue here for the waterfall
We are all familiar with standing in line at popular restaurants, cheap goods sales and theme parks, but some may find it hard to adopt to queuing for a visit to a waterfall.
The National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department has come up with the idea of issuing coupons to visitors at the country's most popular waterfalls at national parks in a bid to limit tourist numbers at the sites.
Tourist groups with the new coupons will be allowed to enjoy the water for four hours only. After four hours, they are required to say goodbye to the waterfalls so other groups can enter the site.
This will ensure that the tourist numbers match the parks' capacity.
According to the department, the scheme will be launched at the Erawan waterfall in the Erawan national park in Kanchanaburi province on Father's Day this year, which is on Dec 5.
Now there are about 2,400 visitors to the waterfall each day. The number jumps sharply on holidays, officials say.
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