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Originally Posted by Minder
"As the gun was unlike any they had seen before – it fired with a switch rather than a conventional trigger – they suspect the man may have been a weapons expert and will contact Interpol to see if his description matches the profile of a known international terrorist, Col Samarn said."
Where are our BM's with military backgrounds please? I am thinking it is a gun designed to fire after being submerged in water, if so my money is on attempted robbery (piracy?) rather than a fallout.
Still one for the weird file though....Enjoy.
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Yes this is a very interesting story, I received a copy via email and was scratching my head when I read it.
Forget the assumptions. Assumption is the brother of all F*** Ups so lets stick with what we know.
This guy boards this boat after swimming out to it in wet gear, so he has some training and he has weapons in a wet bag so he has gone with the intent to kill or harm or threaten.
He has a gun which looks like it has been constructed from a hand held catapult with 2 cylinders taped together with a switch rather that a trigger, run to a battery , using shot gun rounds.
If it is a switch then it is designed to run an electrical current to set off the charge in (what looks like a shot gun round) the 2 cylinders.
The normal method is for a firing pin to set of the percussion cap in the round and exit the projectile, which is based on pressure so it will work under water and in most conditions etc.
Although if he is under water seems strange why he would use an electrical system and not the standard percussion which will work better under water, even if it his in his dray bag. Why risk the chance of it getting wet.
Anyone that knows anyone (myself included) can get a gun (9mm semi auto )for not a lot of money in Phuket, so if this guy is an international terrorist or hit man why not use one, it is much more reliable than that home made crap.
This would suggest that he does not have access to a network of terrorist friends or little money and he has asked or had to make himself locally.
One thing seems sure he boarded the boat with the intent to kill or steal, hence the weapons in the dry bag, and he has some weapons experience, although not a great deal if he can easily be over powered by a guy 20 years older than he when he is holding a gun and knife and over powering him and his girlfriend.
If it was a hit and he was going to kill then why tie them up and not just kill them both straight away, nice and clean and step off board, why wait an hour and then say you are going. Not the MO of an experienced hit man I would have thought.
I suspect the motive was robbery and he intended to tie up his victims and sail them off somewhere and drop them off. He had marine experience as he can dive, so perhaps it was a desperate attempt to get off the island from a boat that was only 50 meter off shore. Unlucky victim perhaps.
I am not convinced that this is Carlos The Jackal trying to flee to South America after killing the President.
The nonsense in the press has more to do with the fact that the local police are not used to dealing with much more than people not wearing their crash helmets at check points.
It will be interesting to see what theories and truth evolve.
Best Wishes
Drew