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Published on December 20, 2007

 

Police were alerted yesterday to a group throwing rocks at a car driving through Lat Phrao district but no injuries were reported.

City police chief Pol Lt-General Assawin Kwanmuang said later he had instructed 88 police stations across the city to be vigilant in the search for such groups and perpetrators would be dealt with strictly.

Samphan Warong, a 50-year-old clothes-seller, filed a complaint yesterday after his car was stoned while he waited at a red light at Ratchada-Lat Phrao intersection. After moving about three metres from the lights he said he heard something strike the rear of his car with a loud bang.

Something seemed to have fallen from the pedestrian crossover above but he was not able to stop immediately for fear of causing a traffic accident, he said.

Samphan pulled over 20 metres from the intersection and found two small dents on his car's rear hood.

"I'm so angry because I've just bought this car three months ago," he said.

Phaholyothin Superintendent Colonel Akhom Janthanarach said police suspected youths threw small rocks from the crossover, and that it was more like an act of mischief than a robbery attempt.

Several rock-throwing incidents have been reported recently in central Thailand, which have caused in tragic results.

Her Majesty the Queen took a six-wheel truckdriver under her care after he was blinded by an attack in Ayutthaya in October.

And early this month, a cafe singer was killed by a 1.5-kilogram rock thrown at her by two young men on a motorbike following an abusive exchange in Kamphaeng Phet.

In October 2004, famous comedian "Jo Mokjok" was killed in a stone attack on the Asia Highway in Ayutthaya's Bang Pa-in district by a group of youngsters during an attempted robbery.

The Nation