Japanese Yakhuza Gangster Shot Dead By Thai Tour Guide

[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.pattayadailynews.com/en/2011/04/27/thai-tour-guide-shot-dead-japanese-tourist/

[pdogg]

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

Japanese gangstas carrying 10K USD opening fire in the Golden Triangle screams out drugs to me.

[Luung]

You've got the Ruskies down in Pattaya & the Japs up here, same, same, but different!?.. Just another deal that went wrong, only this one got broadcast.

What I'm interested in hearing is, 'What punishment, if any will be dealt out to Khun Apichart'??

Got to be an opium deal (temple balls) IMHO; the fuckin' stuff's worth more than it's weight in gold in that form!... I really don't think this would happen over a dope or even a smack deal, for that matter... Not unless the Japs were flexing up. (And I really don't think this is related to the 'Meth' world either, BTW)!

CMX is full of silly little Japanese, 'cardboard cut out' villains, either on the run or living on the cheap, they run much of the karaoke, upper crust hostess & gambling scenes too.

Unfortunately, over the years I've seen a lot of them meet an untimely demise... It would almost be a shame if it wasn't for the badness I know they're capable of, I've actually had quite a lot of fun with a few of them in the past.

I've got a few 'Lisu' friends too, some of the loveliest people you're ever going to meet anywhere on the planet, honestly!.. But they will sell you just about any substance/thing, known to man... Animal, vegetable of mineral... Add that to the mix, especially as opium cultivation has been back on the rise again.

In spite of royal incentives & all the rest of it, opium poppies are by far the most lucrative cash crop for farmers up here in the North! :money:

Tanks for posting Paultain, this is the sort of 'non' Lonely Planet stuff we need to be informed about if we're to get a rounded view of this place.

[Lefty]

Apichart Inphisak deserves a medal for killing that Jap cocksucker. Too bad he only wounded the other one. Godless heathens anyway. The only thing we did wrong in WW2 is we didn't kill enough of them bastards. I will never get over the inhuman atrocities they committed in the Philippines and Manchuria. Fuckers were cannibals too. The Aussies found many fallen comrades with the meat removed from their bones by the Japs. Hell, they even ate their own dead fellow Jap soldiers sometimes and it wasn't always because there wasn't anything else to eat.

Enola Gay and Bockscar should have made followup runs. :growl:

[SiamSam]

Yeah but tell us how you really feel about the Japanese Lefty!? :)