# Thai Police Arrest Rapist **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318 "2007-08-29T03:27:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/21 "2007-08-29T18:42:07Z")
I feel like this could be merged with the Super Troopers thread. “Banana… bananatree f\*cker! Do you need assistance?!” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/22 "2007-08-29T18:44:42Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] They look the other way? Really? Because if some guy’s getting beaten to death by a family of banana trees, the natural reaction is to want to watch. [/QUOTE] BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! > [@pendgwen](#): > > How exactly does one rape a banana tree? Do you remember that demo from sex ed on how to put on a condom? He extrapolated. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/23 "2007-08-29T18:48:51Z")
Actually…, banana trees are used by farm boys in Cuba as a first sexual experience a lot. This was often joked about during school year, where farms boys were teased about it. As I understand it, and no I never tried it, you poke a hole more or less penis sized on the banana tree and go at it. Since the banana tree is more of a soft grass and very wet…, well you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/24 "2007-08-29T18:54:56Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] A ladle. [/QUOTE] Technically wouldn’t the ladle be the perpetrator? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/25 "2007-08-29T19:58:18Z")
[QUOTE=ShelliBean] I don’t understand how a society deems rape to be trivial enough to warrant a short prison sentence but major enough to look the other way for murder in retribution? [/QUOTE] I knew a guy that was briefly in a Thai prison. From his description four years sounded like a life sentence. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/26 "2007-08-29T20:20:36Z")
Point taken. ETA - just where the heck do you hang out that you are hanging with former Thai prison inmates? I know, I know. It was probably some _Brokedown Palace_ type scenario. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/27 "2007-08-29T20:33:43Z")
[QUOTE=lalenin] Actually…, banana trees are used by farm boys in Cuba as a first sexual experience a lot. This was often joked about during school year, where farms boys were teased about it. As I understand it, and no I never tried it, you poke a hole more or less penis sized on the banana tree and go at it. Since the banana tree is more of a soft grass and very wet…, well you get the idea. [/QUOTE] I was worried more about what the gay ones did. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/28 "2007-08-29T20:35:16Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] This post has been **BANANAD** by the **BANANARAPIST!**. [/QUOTE] My eyes! They bleed! ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/29 "2007-08-29T20:39:53Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] I was worried more about what the gay ones did. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] I guess those would go right to the bananas and skip the tree. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/30 "2007-08-29T20:47:31Z")
[QUOTE=ShelliBean] Point taken. ETA - just where the heck do you hang out that you are hanging with former Thai prison inmates? I know, I know. It was probably some _Brokedown Palace_ type scenario. [/QUOTE] Sort of a friend of a friend situation. There are a lot of expats in Bangkok, but it can be a kind of small community. This guy was German, married to a Thai. He ran a business as a partnership with a Thai fellow. According to the German guy\*, he was arrested because he wanted to close his shop and move to Japan, where he’d been offered a lot of money as a computer consultant. He made decent money in Thailand, but would make very good money in Japan and he was frankly getting a little tired of the place. His business partner was concerned because he would be losing his major source of income, and eventually got the German arrested on some (allegedly) trumped up charges. The German’s wife’s family pulled some strings and eventually got him out and supposedly the Thai business partner was arrested for filing a false police report. German dude was in jail for about a week. He said it was a very small, crowded cell, about 10x10 with about 15 prisoners in it. They’d curl up on the ground to sleep, lots of vermin, no clean water, had to do ablutions in a corner of the cell, beaten once a day when he couldn’t respond to the dialect of Thai that his guards spoke, etc. I heard this from him first hand, not sure how reliable he was. It was soon after he’d been incarcerated, and he looked _much_ thinner than when I’d seen him previous. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/31 "2007-08-29T21:02:51Z")
I read that the cows weren’t offended at all. They thought it was a bunch of bull. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/32 "2007-08-30T01:35:42Z")
[QUOTE=lalenin] As I understand it, and no I never tried it, you poke a hole more or less penis sized on the banana tree and go at it. Since the banana tree is more of a soft grass and very wet…, well you get the idea. [/QUOTE] Does this signifigantly damage the banana plant? If so I could see why a law would be passed against this. But, it still seems odd to talk about prosecuting a rape of a banana tree. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/33 "2007-08-30T01:51:32Z")
Anyone know if banana rapes carries a stiffer penalty than date rape? Okay, I’ll stop now. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/34 "2007-08-30T02:48:15Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Anyone know if banana rapes carries a stiffer penalty than date rape? Okay, I’ll stop now. [/QUOTE] _snerk_ ---
**Author:** ![netsplit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@netsplit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netsplit)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/35 "2007-08-30T03:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] [QUOTE=Siam Sam] … of women, cows and banana trees. Story [here.](http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1348488.php/Thai_police_arrest_serial_rapist_of_women_cows_banana_trees) I do like his quote: “Anyone who has had sex with a cow knows there is nothing odd about it at all.” But … banana trees??? As for the part at the end about the penalty for rape in Thailand being only four years, I’ve never really known what the penalty is, but it would not surprise me if that’s true. Rape is still blamed largely on the victim, especially outside of Bangkok. Also especially upcountry, the family of a victim will often simply get ahold of the perp if possible and kill him; the police will usually look the other way in that case. Might be some paperwork to fill out. [/QUOTE] This post has been [color=“#5555BB”] **BANANAD** by the **BANANARAPIST!**.[/color] [/QUOTE] I see your [color=“#5555BB”] **BANANARAPIST** and raise you one graping by **THE GRAPIST**![/color] ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/36 "2007-08-30T03:06:53Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Anyone know if banana rapes carries a stiffer penalty than date rape? [/QUOTE] Sorry, I can’t resist this one… Well, I think that date rape has a chance of carrying a much stiffer penalty - since dates are real trees, date rape will have the chance of inflicting a splinter. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/37 "2007-08-30T03:33:33Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] He said it was a very small, crowded cell, about 10x10 with about 15 prisoners in it. They’d curl up on the ground to sleep, lots of vermin, no clean water, had to do ablutions in a corner of the cell, beaten once a day when he couldn’t respond to the dialect of Thai that his guards spoke, etc. I heard this from him first hand, not sure how reliable he was. It was soon after he’d been incarcerated, and he looked _much_ thinner than when I’d seen him previous. [/QUOTE] Sounds about right from what I’ve heard, although I’ve not any personal experience in this area. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/38 "2007-08-30T03:35:17Z")
[QUOTE=ShelliBean] I don’t understand how a society deems rape to be trivial enough to warrant a short prison sentence but major enough to look the other way for murder in retribution? [/QUOTE] All part of the wonder of living in Thailand. It has its own set of logic, gleaned apparently from some other universe. Every day is a new adventure. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/39 "2007-08-30T04:01:43Z")
Hmmm. Four years for rape, but I just remembered that _lese majeste_ will get you something like 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318/40 "2007-08-30T05:28:59Z")
I just saw an Oprah episode about this. You know, treefucking. Where you fuck, or get fucked by, a tree. Then again, maybe that was just a dream I had. > [@netsplit](#): > > I see your BANANARAPIST and raise you one graping by THE GRAPIST! Looks more like a blueberrying by the blueberryist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-police-arrest-rapist/417318.md?page=3)