# Well, His Heart Was in the Right Place **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795 "2013-10-21T07:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 21, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/1 "2013-10-21T07:59:50Z")
[Thai man arrested after trying to donate methamphetamine to flood relief center](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/thai-man-arrested-after-trying-to-donate-methamphetamine-to-flood-relief-center/2013/10/15/44de7a7c-357b-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html) We’ve been having our annual bout of rainy-season flooding, and last Monday a Thai man tried to donate “11 methamphetamine pills in a small plastic zip-lock bag” at a flood-relief center. Excerpt: **“'Looking high, he showed the volunteers the drugs and told them, “I don’t have any money to donate. Will these do?’” Pawat said. “Little did he know that the volunteers were actually from a civil drug suppression task force”.”** Now he’s looking at 10 years in the pokey. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/2 "2013-10-21T08:39:43Z")
_ **Ten years?** _ For some _crosstops?_ I dunno, it seems to me like, here you are at an emergency relief center because there is some kind of natural disaster going on. Presumably you’re off duty from work and thus have left your narc hat at home… perhaps a simple, “Go home, speed freak guy – you’re way too high!” would have sufficed. Jeez, ten years! ---
**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:** [October 21, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/3 "2013-10-21T15:04:50Z")
He could consider himself lucky. I don’t know where the line is drawn, but above a certain number it’s the death penalty. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/4 "2013-10-21T17:18:58Z")
Note to self: Get out, get out quick, but remember before evacuating to emergency shelter in Thailand that I need to grab copious quantities of illegal narcotics as I may not be able to procure them in said shelter. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/5 "2013-10-21T17:25:27Z")
Maybe this could be the beginning of the story of an evil meth dealer who wants nothing more than to give to charity and become a high school chemistry teacher. Oh, Thaisenberg, will you ever win? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/6 "2013-10-21T18:20:47Z")
Little floodies, pa rum pum pum pum I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum That’s fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, StG ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/7 "2013-10-21T23:45:12Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > He could consider himself lucky. I don’t know where the line is drawn, but above a certain number it’s the death penalty. The death penalty. For the same thing many of our mothers were given as diet aids back in the sixties. For (essentially) the same thing we give hyperactive children today. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/8 "2013-10-22T00:02:19Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > The death penalty. For the same thing many of our mothers were given as diet aids back in the sixties. For (essentially) the same thing we give hyperactive children today. Hmmm. The drug laws of some SE-Asian nations are notoriously draconian – sometimes to the very unpleasant surprise of travelers who did not do their research. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-his-heart-was-in-the-right-place/671795/9 "2013-10-23T00:10:34Z")
Some? Make that all, and throw in East Asia and South Asia too. But yeah, it’s often all fun and games on the traveler’s trail until they get popped. Stories are legion. [Tuk-tuk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tuk-tuk_in_Sri_Racha_01.jpg) drivers up North in Chiang Mai are notorious for selling drugs to tourists, then reporting the buyers to police. The drivers get a reward and the drugs back to sell to someone else.