Nana thugs strike fear into elderly store owners

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Nana thugs strike fear into elderly store owners

Published: 5/02/2012 at 02:42 AM
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A family running a clothing store in Bangkok's Nana area say they are being intimidated by thugs in a dispute over pavement space.

A woman known as Farida and two men dressed in black attire went to the front of Bob's Fashion on Sukhumvit Soi 3 on Tuesday at about 6pm. They attempted to remove merchandise displayed on the pavement.

''I told them that if they touched our stuff I would charge them with trespassing,'' said Jazz Ratisatien, 38, the daughter of the store's owner.

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Ozman_Bkk
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Discussion 27 : 09/02/2012 at 07:30 AM27
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Heartie Disc 23, I am with you. Out in the suburbs the street vendors are a part of life. Food, drink, clothing. You name it and it's here.

But Heartie is also right. Places like Nana are a different kettle of fish. Bob's Fashions might be a great company just a very bad location. I guess it was fine 35 years ago. Not real flash now though. Stand-over gangs and weak police. What a combination.
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Discussion 26 : 07/02/2012 at 01:32 PM26
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Seh Dam and Mama ,what a nice couple. Seh Dam controlling the hawkers and Mama the prostitutes. Both are breaking the law. Ittipol still allowed to oversee Nana despite his failure to control the whole criminal bunch. Stuff for a new Soap Opera "the golden pavement".
Abbub ,its a punishment to read your comments.
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Discussion 25 : 07/02/2012 at 05:32 AM25
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These thugs should be locked up with the red shirts.
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john49
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Discussion 24 : 05/02/2012 at 08:51 PM24
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ABBUB D19-Whose talking about beggars or Siam Paragon. You really should stay on the subject.
And by the way, I never called the street vendors garbage so please do not misquote me.

This article is all about thugs, corruption and the law which you don't seem to be able to grasp.
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heartie
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Discussion 23 : 05/02/2012 at 05:38 PM23
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I really like the street vendors and I couldn't imagine Bangkok (or Thailand for that matter) without them crowding the sidewalks. They add value to my daily life and I really enjoy doing business with them. So many are my neighbors - not just 'people and their stuff in my way.' They know me personally and I know them. Nana is a different story. It's always been a sleazy place full of undesirables. I'm surprised there isn't a whole lot more disputes going on there.
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Discussion 22 : 05/02/2012 at 05:04 PM22
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It would cost some police officer his life if he was to take a legal complaint against the mafia that controls the sidewalks in that area. Technically the police should take the complaint, especially if there was an injury as mentioned, but there is no officer in that area willing to risk his life to do the right thing. It is that simple.
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Discussion 21 : 05/02/2012 at 04:54 PM21
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Rather than fight it, people should just keep building on the business, capitalize on it. For example, a large contraption placed outside on the pavement so it completely blocks the footpath but has an entranceway that then turns into a spiral staircase that goes up five floors and then down five floors to exit back onto the footpath. And, as one might expect, vendors will be hawking goods all the way up and down, sort of like most pedestrian overpasses. Tesakij could sell these outright or consign them to a street thug and/or shop owner through a revenue sharing arrangement. Just a thought...
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Discussion 20 : 05/02/2012 at 04:54 PM20
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As usual, Abbub has taken his outdated, ridiculous socialist notions to the extreme.
Apparently there are only two types of people who live in Bangkok - poor, good-hearted peasants, trying to make an honest buck while being down-trodden by the other type - the super wealthy, evil capitalist business owner.
And please! Can people STOP using 'Other people do it worse, so why complain?' as a defense! It's trotted out daily to excuse Thaksin, Peua Thai policies, street vendors, poor driving, rudeness, scamming and violence. It's not a defense... It's a waste of pixels.
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Discussion 19 : 05/02/2012 at 04:15 PM19
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I could care less what little inconveniences tourists have to put up with on their way from one bar to the next or to get to the sky train to go shopping at SIAM PARAGON. And getting the beggars out of the tourist areas is hardly a solution to those ills which create stations where people beg. You cannot create a wonderful travel brochure image for tourists to escape to and where they never see anything except what they as tourists are supposed to see.

This is Thailand and as much as we might be upset by the ubiquitous corruption things are different than back home. A little disruption on the sidewalk has nothing to do with tho article's essence either, JOH D13.

And IMO getting rid of the street vendors and their goods and referring to them as garbage is not apropos and for me, unacceptable. There are so many problems in Thailand I hardly think this is a major issue. The corruption behind though, is.
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Discussion 18 : 05/02/2012 at 01:34 PM18
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It's true the police make money from renting these sidewalk spaces, but the local mafia figures do the collecting, as the boys in blue cannot be seen to be dirtying their hands. Yes, there are local bye-laws, but who is going to police the police?
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