{"id":11300,"date":"2023-12-25T01:14:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=11300"},"modified":"2023-12-25T01:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:14:26","slug":"from-songkran-splashes-to-handcuffs-two-hong-kong-males-arrested-for-capturing-humourless-cops-with-water-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=11300","title":{"rendered":"From Songkran splashes to handcuffs: Two Hong Kong males arrested for capturing humourless cops with water (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Millions of individuals throughout Thailand at present are celebrating Songkran with water fights but spare a thought for 2 men in Hong Kong unlucky sufficient to come across some humourless cops whereas celebrating the Thai New Year. The pair were arrested by the party-pooping officers for disorderly conduct after they fired water weapons at them at a Songkran event on Sunday in Kowloon City, a district that many people call \u201cLittle Thailand.\u201d<br\/>The short-on-humour cops reckoned the fun-loving competition duo used the event as a cover to focus on regulation enforcers.<br\/>Cheung Lok-chuen, a chief inspector in Kowloon City, final evening advised South China Morning Post (SCMP) that the lads, aged 25 and 26, were shooting the water weapons at shut range at the Songkran Festival. He said\u2026<br\/>\u201cIt was originally a enjoyable event for everybody, however some people had ulterior motives to focus on the cops who maintained order and other participants on the scene.\u201d<br\/>Cheung reckons the acts aimed at breaching public peace might have been planned. He added that additional arrests had been possible and the district crime squad is dealing with the case.<br\/>A three-minute video clip uploaded to YouTube a day after the occasion on Sunday appears to indicate individuals, together with the 25 yr previous, taking pictures water weapons at police officers and reporters from TVB, the city\u2019s largest free-to-air broadcaster.<br\/> <a href=\"http:\/\/reportersrealm.xyz\">Manageable<\/a>  informed the SCMP that the 25 12 months previous man, a security guard, was a YouTuber behind the channel \u201cBravedogdog\u201d and had been arrested for disorderly conduct in February after he allegedly made noises and interrupted shoppers at a Mong Kok outlet of the AbouThai grocery chain.<br\/>He was upset that the chain\u2019s founder Mike Lam King-nam had testified for the prosecution in a national security trial related to an unofficial Legco main in 2020.<br\/>A police spokesman added the men\u2019s acts had been shown in a video clip and posted online with inciting words.<br\/>Hong Kong Security Minister Chris Tang didn&#8217;t touch upon the case throughout a Legislative Council assembly yesterday but stated some have been putting up \u201csoft resistance\u201d to incite discontent in opposition to the federal government.<br\/>As many Thais know, water splashing and squirt guns are used during Songkran to drive away dangerous luck. Unfortunately, dangerous luck in the form of these humourless cops returned to arrest the fun-seekers..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of individuals throughout Thailand at present are celebrating Songkran with water fights but spare a thought for 2 men in Hong Kong unlucky sufficient to come across some humourless cops whereas celebrating the Thai New Year. The pair were arrested by the party-pooping officers for disorderly conduct after they fired water weapons at them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11301,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions\/11301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}