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High on drugs and brandishing a metal pole would see cops in other parts of the world give you a face full of pepper spray, tazer you, clobber you with a baton, or worse, just shoot you dead but not here in Thailand.

Sky-high Somchai needs to be treated gently and that’s exactly what happened in Kalasin on Saturday when cops got reports of a man on the road whacking cars with a metal pole.

It took patient plods almost 40 minutes to talk the 25-year-old into dropping his weapon.

Down the station he told his new mates – he claimed they’d all been to the cock fighting together last week – that he’d dropped some yaba and an evil spirit was after him so he used the metal pole to protect himself

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