# Bombs Blast Bangkok
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 3, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653 "2015-02-03T00:23:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653/81 "2015-09-29T15:13:03Z")
> [@Ale](#):
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> By the way, I used to live close to a condo called Porn Mansion…
Porn Mansion. In Bangkok. Ya gotta love Thailand.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653/82 "2015-12-04T01:13:38Z")
A small update. In addition to the two guys in custody here in Thailand, it looks like [Turkish authorities have popped that Muslim Thai lady and her Turkish husband](http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/784497/erawan-suspects-arrested-in-turkey). Details remain sketchy though.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653/83 "2016-02-16T03:50:00Z")
Another update: The Uighur perp has [recanted his confession](http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crime/864820/shrine-bombing-suspect-recants-confession-claims-torture), claiming it was tortured out of him. I have no doubt they tortured him but still think he’s the guy.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653/84 "2016-02-16T23:40:49Z")
How much of a tourist industry is there in Bangkok?
Has this had much effect?
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653/85 "2016-02-16T23:42:58Z")
The tourist industry is huge, absolutely huge. And it’s had very little effect. What little effect there was seems to have disappeared.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653/86 "2016-05-11T10:12:49Z")
And the main train station in Bangkok, Hua Lamphong, was [bombed this morning (Wednesday morning)](http://www.bangkokpost.com/vdo/thailand/968477/ping-pong-bombing-at-bangkoks-hua-lamphong-train-terminal-2-injured). Just a small bomb fortunately, what they call a “ping-pong bomb.” Two injured, no deaths.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-blast-bangkok/711653/87 "2016-05-11T23:23:32Z")
Well, this latest “bomb” [appears to have been just an accident](http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/968477/explosion-at-bangkok-train-terminal-2-injured). Supposedly someone such as a teenager had discarded a small bottle with gunpowder or at least some gunpowder residue inside it, and some poor bastard, one of the two injured, grabbed it to to use as an ashtray for his cigarette. Bang!
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