In Sriracha police officers and police volunteers were manning a traffic checkpoint when a regular traffic stop and search turned up more than they bargained for. A Khun Nitthikorn aged 27 was merrily riding along on his Honda Click motorcycle when he was flagged down.
Police checked him out and whilst looking round his motorcycle they examined a bag in the shopping basket at the front. Inside they found a quantity of .38 ammunition and some packages with an unknown substance. Always on the lookout for drugs the officers poked and prodded the package until one of them suddenly realized what the substance was. Explosives!! The cool Khun Nitthikorn was driving around Sriracha with a bag of ammunition and a TNT type explosive dumped in his shopping basket.
In the west he would have been on the ground in a flash and the bomb squad, Swat teams and anti-terrorist squads screaming to the location. But this is not the west this is Thailand.
Khun Nitthikorn was politely questioned as to where he got the stuff from. He said that he was happy some friend had given him the ammunition and explosives for free and had absolutely no idea, as most Thai motorcyclists have no idea of anything that his load was at all dangerous.
Khun Nitthikorn's day got a little worse when the officers took the piss and he failed a drugs test.
So the nutty Khun Nitthikorn was now down at the police station facing drug charges whilst the police brass sort out what to do with the explosives.
