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[Dram]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/american-tourist-stabbed-to-death-after-refusing-to-stop-singing-with-band-in-thailand-bar-8742041.html

An American tourist has been stabbed to death by musicians in Thailand after he reportedly refused to stop singing along with a band at a bar in a popular tourist resort, police have said.

The incident allegedly came about at a karaoke bar following a dispute over the song he was singing.

Bobby Ray Carter, from Dallas, Texas, was visiting the Ao Nang beach tourist spot Little Longhorn Saloon and became angry when the band started playing 'Hotel California' by the Eagles, rather than the song he had requested.

During the incident, Mr Carter, a father-of-two, started to sing with the band and refused to leave the stage afterwards, continuing to sing even after the band had stopped playing.

According to reports a fight broke out as the 51-year-old left the bar in Krabi in the early hours of Wednesday, with his 27-year-old son, Adam.

He was stabbed with sharpened metal poles and died on his was to hospital.

Sathit Somsa, 40, Ratikorn Romin, 27, and Noppanant Yoddecha, 26, were today questioned in connection with the murder of Mr Carter.

 

[ComputerMKII]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiFBMiJ24PA

 

[Choke on the Magic]

karaoke in Thailand: Serious business.

These musicians will now be singing the blues in a Thailand prison.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

I'd be very careful as a tourist in Thailand. This seems to happen way too often.

 

[Maleficence]

Someone needs to relax, such an over the top reaction.

 

[Chromax]

The other article I read definitely painted a different picture. It was more the father and son started picking fights with the band and ambushed them outside the bar or something.

 

[Lamel]

I'd be very careful as a tourist in Thailand. This seems to happen way too often.

Really now, does it?

 

[massoluk]

dupe

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=74075998

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

Really now, does it?

Not these specific circumstances but there have been a lot of tourist murders there. Recently another american was killed with a katana after he got into an argument with a taxi driver.

 

[Dog food is delicious]

Not these specific circumstances but there have been a lot of tourist murders there.

On the Canada and UK sites it lists a bunch of places and things to watch out for in Thailand.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/thailand/safety-and-security

 

[industrian]

I'd be very careful as a tourist in Thailand. This seems to happen way too often.

Common sense and not fucking around with the natives goes a long way.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

Common sense and not fucking around with the natives goes a long way.

Yeah, thats kind of what I meant by being careful. They don't mess around.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

Not these specific circumstances but there have been a lot of tourist murders there. Recently another american was killed with a katana after he got into an argument with a taxi driver.

Goddamn.

 

[massoluk]

Not these specific circumstances but there have been a lot of tourist murders there. Recently another american was killed with a katana after he got into an argument with a taxi driver.

Let's not overreact here, it's just a machete, not katana. It's ok.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

The case I was talking about was definitely a katana, or a sword at least.