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[paultain]

Thai Tour Guide Shot Dead Japanese Tourist

A Thai tour guide surrendered himself to the police confessing that he had shot dead one Japanese tourist and wounded another, after a heated argument during the trekking in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand.

On 26th April, 2011 the tour guide, Apichart Inphisak, 41, turned himself in to the police and admitted to the crime that he had committed earlier at 10 a.m.

Mr. Inphisak guided two Japanese tourists, Hiromichi Nagano, 59 and Takushi Condo, 43, to Chiang Rai mountainous area, visiting the Lisu people, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group.
Takushi was constantly complaining and cursing especially about the tour while travelling in the green Suzuki jeep, Mr. Inshisak said.

Even when they were trekking in the woods, the complaining continued, he added.
When Mr. Inshisak could not tolerate the criticism any longer, he started his verbal retaliation which subsequently instigated an intense argument between the guide and tourists.
Suddenly Takushi extracted his gun from the holster and shot the tour guide but he missed, Mr. Inshisak reported.

The guide added that in the heated moment he shot back at both Japanese tourists six times, which had wounded one and killed the other before making his escape.
At the crime scene police found the body of Takushi with two punctured wounds – one in the head and one in the back. The police also noticed an empty gun holster on the deceased’s waistline.

One of the three backpacks found at the scene contained 100 of $100 bills, a total worth of $10,000 and a 9mm. pistol.

The other tourist, Hiromichi was also shot in the head but he managed to seek help from local people, who took him to the hospital, the police reported.
Based on police’s background check, two tourists were members of Japan’s third most popular gang. Takushi was in fact the leader of the gang. In 2006 Takushi was allegedly accused of a murder in Tokyo.

These Japanese gangsters do not appear to be the trekking type of tourists, as indicated by the reported grumble, the police speculated.

Police believe that the gangsters may have a hidden agenda in the woods and hence requesting the trekking trip.

Story from here;
http://www.pattayada...panese-tourist/

[Yelstone]

Paul,

Thank you for the link.

Fascinating read and an unusually skillful trekking guide. Something does not sound right here.
--
Gene

[paultain]

Yelstone, on 27 April 2011 - 03:38 PM, said:

Paul,

Thank you for the link.

Fascinating read and an unusually skillful trekking guide. Something does not sound right here.
--
Gene

Maybe they were looking for lost gold, from the Japanese war

[snick]

That does it
I'm staying in Pattaya where it is safe

[69billy]

paultain, on 27 April 2011 - 03:15 PM, said:

Police believe that the gangsters may have a hidden agenda in the woods and hence requesting the trekking trip.

mmmmmm..So Paul are you going to tell us about all the trekking trips you been taking with the LBs up in the woods...???

[Yelstone]

paultain, on 27 April 2011 - 03:44 PM, said:

Maybe they were looking for lost gold, from the Japanese war

Paul, maybe you are right.

What I find unusual is the gun possession in the north of the country.

As I heard from a sailor, who arrived from the Med and who had to pass the
pirate infested areas on the way to Thailand, that they have to drop all their weapons into the water
before they entered the Thai territorial waters.

It is interesting what the Thai law says.

[John McClane]

Reading that made me laugh so hard. W T F ?

[Darkside Apprentice]

Paul, thanks for highlighting this article.

Why do hardcore gangsters have to be so pushy and complain all the time, the ride is to rough, missed that picture op, my feet hurt blah blah blah....

[cherri_me]

hmmmm ... japanese would be Yakuzas treking in the golden triangle with $10,000 ...... my bet is that they weren't going there to donate to the hill tribes .....

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[paultain]

69billy, on 27 April 2011 - 03:53 PM, said:

mmmmmm..So Paul are you going to tell us about all the trekking trips you been taking with the LBs up in the woods...???

I'm saying nothing.... you know too much aready

[paultain]

Yelstone, on 27 April 2011 - 03:53 PM, said:

Paul, maybe you are right.

What I find unusual is the gun possession in the north of the country.

As I heard from a sailor, who arrived from the Med and who had to pass the
pirate infested areas on the way to Thailand, that they have to drop all their weapons into the water
before they entered the Thai territorial waters.

It is interesting what the Thai law says.

Yes, back in the VN War, there was such a thing as gold drops, which were dropped by the US Air America, to help the rebels in Cambodia and Lois. Instead of dropping it at the proper location they were given, some of the pilots dropped them at another location, close to the borders, that only they knew. Later in the early 80’s, these pilots returned to Thailand after they retired from the air force, recruiting mercenaries in Bangkok, to go in and retrieve the said gold.

Back then when I had my ago-go bar in Nana plaza, I got a visit from Tony Poe and two pilots, looking to form a group to go and fetch it. I told them it was a waste of time, because during those past 3-4 years, it was long gone, and some farmer was sitting fat like a lord, and it wasn’t worth the risk.

My guess is, things like that happened in WWII, ether they got wind of something back in Japan from an old soldier. Could even be something valuable, like an old Japanese Buddha statue that is worth millions back in Japan.

But to have a notorious Japanese gang leader, to go himself to cut a deal with the hill tribes on the drug scene, with only $10,000 which doesn’t seem to be enough for a thing like that, from a man of his stature, is a bit off the mark. As the coordination of such things have been put in place many years ago, and he would have used his own soldiers for any new changes.

The thing that got me most was the fact of ‘armed tourists running about with gun in holsters’.

My guess is, we’ll never know what they were after, but it was something important that they wanted to do it themselves.

[travis bickle]

I can understand the yakusa guys carrying reveolvers...but why would the tour guide to carry a revolver.?..is it standard practice in that part of the world?Surely the yakuza guys weren't just mere trekkers...more likely setting up a drugs deal with the hill tribes...

[eldiablo]

I dunno what hey were looking for, but they found KARMA.

[jasonbalmer]

travis bickle, on 27 April 2011 - 07:50 PM, said:

I can understand the yakusa guys carrying reveolvers...but why would the tour guide to carry a revolver.?..

Only the ones that cater to gangsters

The thing that struck me as not exactly screaming "self defense" was the statement that the dead guy had a shot to the head and one in the back. Hmmm ...

And the guy that lived took a shot to the head?

Sounds to me like Khun Tour Guide is not unskilled in the use of a sidearm.

[Jason_Bourne]

jasonbalmer, on 28 April 2011 - 03:23 AM, said:

Only the ones that cater to gangsters

The thing that struck me as not exactly screaming "self defense" was the statement that the dead guy had a shot to the head and one in the back. Hmmm ...

And the guy that lived took a shot to the head?

Sounds to me like Khun Tour Guide is not unskilled in the use of a sidearm.

I have to totally agree. Who shoots to the head in self defense. Head shots are for execution.

Now I have yet another reason why I don't like to use tour guides.

[Twoshots]

Sounds like another Suicide to me.

[deutsch]

"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see."

We will never know the truth.

However it is always fun to speculate

[nagaraka]

What baffles me is the money.
I'm positive the tour guide is lying and I don't know why the yakuza wouldn't go trekking. Many Japanese are into it.
Sometimes I had to carry large amounts of money on me and it was all circumstantial. No more than 5k though. But I'm not a yakuza.
It could be they were planning to buy something for themselves and no related to business.