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Phuket Police Hunt 'Lunatic' Brawling American Who Fought in Emergency Ward
By Sert Tongdee Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Wikipedia says Junie Allen ''The Lunatic'' Browning was born in Florida and raised in Kentucky. Browning was a fighter on 'The Ultimate Fighter' reality show but struggled with his anger management, according to the entry. He was warned twice for actions on the show due to his alcoholism and anger problems. The ''American mixed martial artist'' also has a Facebook page where he is pictured with a bull terrier puppy.
PHUKET: Police have mounted a Phuket-wide hunt for an American man who started one brawl in a Phuket bar then continued it in the emergency treatment ward at Patong Hospital.
Authorities at Phuket International Airport are on the alert for the man.
Police have named the suspect they wish to interview as Allen Browning, 26, a Thai boxer who fled into the night on Sunday in Patong and has not bee seen since.
Earlier in the night, Mr Browning allegedly was seen beating up on an expat woman in a bar in Patak Road, Karon. He also lashed out at Thai female bar staff when they tried to intervene, police said.
Four other tourists from Australia and the US also attempted to intervene but Mr Browning lashed out at them, too, police said.
The brawling continued when all the participants were taken for treatment at Patong Hospital.
Police have named the others involved in the brawl as Younis Essamelain, 27, Gear Smits, 68, Simon Wilson Menzies, 32, and Castro Mury, 32.
An expat woman also accompanied the men to Patong Hospital.
An officer at Chalong Police Station said that Mr Browning started fighting in the hospital but had fled by the time police from Patong arrived.
Police believe Mr Browning has been a participant in Thai boxing performances in Sweden.
British Thai boxer Lee Aldhouse is currently appealing against extradition to Thailand to face a charge that he murdered another Thai boxer, American Dashawn Longfellow, on Phuket in September, 2010.
According to bloodyelbow.com and prommanow.com, Browning gave the following account of the Phuket incident on his Facebook page:
Wow, what a helluva weekend?!.. Some [expletive] named Sie Menzies and about 10 of his friends started a fight with me, I guess just to test a ''UFC fighter guy'' at his [expletive] little bar in Karan Thailand. Had a beer bottle and glass mug shattered on my head then to make everything better, stabbed severely by some crazy Thai [expletive]. On a positive note I managed to break a few orbital bones, at least a couple jaws and some unconscious bodies laying on the ground before I blacked out from loss of blood and apparently had to be resuscitated in the ambulance. So, how was your weekend?
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Dashawn Longfellow, a former US Marine, but also a Thai Boxer? Sure? That, I read first time.
Posted by
Alfred
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December 13, 2011 14:31
Some of these guys that come here to do Muay Thai obviously aren't 100% in the head.
Posted by
phuket madness
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December 13, 2011 15:00
Isn't Thai Boxing supposed to be the "calmest" of all contact sports where the only violence is acted out in the ring? These guys are as bad as the jet-ski thugs.
Posted by
petr
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December 13, 2011 15:20
In the 3rd photo there is a policeman standing. Why did he not take charge of arresting Mr Browning, or was he only in the picture to look good in his uniform? Maybe he was too junior to be able to do anything or be of any use?
Posted by
Robin
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December 13, 2011 15:48
Unfortunately, most of the falang Muay Thai fighters have no real interest in the sport and come to Thailand merely to learn to become bigger thugs back in their home country. Sad, but true.
Posted by
Hieronymous
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December 13, 2011 15:59
DIV!!
a 500 baht fine has now turned into bigger issue for this silly boy.
there are so many people here doing thai boxing that some are bound to get into trouble at some point so it has nothing to do with the muay at all.
there are some right tools though who continue to do their moves and make their noises throughout the night in bars and clubs. they do look silly!!
Posted by
Hulkster
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December 13, 2011 16:29
I was at the bar where this lunatic lashed out at everybody.I was also at Patong Hospital after he had hit a doctor, nurse and two of my friends. At the time he was outside the hospital surrounded by at least four policemen. HOW COULD HE ESCAPE??
Posted by
dave l
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December 13, 2011 18:21
His hotel will have Passport details, His training camp will have details, easy to pick him up. But why a 500 baht fine? Introduce some real fines, the same as their own country.
Posted by
law
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December 13, 2011 19:40
Let's not forget the effect of pretty much over the counter roid sales and that many come here to train and bulk up on a cycle.
High test levels bring with them uber high aggression as a side.
Posted by
Livinlos
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December 13, 2011 19:48
poor kid, the cops will beat this kid up when they arrest him, you don't punch a nurse for free here!
Posted by
Duk
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December 13, 2011 20:00
Poor kid, Duk he's an animal that needs sorting out and banging up in the lovely sweat box that is phuket prison, they'll sort his anger management problems out by putting on the leg and waist chains and introducing him to Mr billy club .He hit innocent men and women along with a couple of our fantastic nurses and a doctor who were trying to help him, fiveyears or more in the jug on poor rations in the gladiator school of jail should see him greatly diminished upon release.
Posted by
Scunner
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December 13, 2011 22:16
If only the news could post something without bias? You guys really think this is all there is to the story? Everyone who posts and reads draws an opinion.... but that doesn't make them fact.
Posted by
Really?
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December 13, 2011 22:19
Classic story, right down to the reference to fighting with an Aussie named Simon Wilson Menzies who either is the guy who threatened to blow a plane up or someone who took his name:
Sydney man Simon Wilson Menzies, 31, was drunk and angry "when he told the female cabin crew manager on a flight this week that he could"bring the plane down if he wanted."
Menzies said: "I'm half muslim, half Aboriginal and everyone else is a white a*******. I could f******blow up the plane."
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2011/04/24/227371_ntnews.html
Posted by
Koga
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December 14, 2011 01:58
"British Thai boxer Lee Aldhouse is currently appealing against extradition to Thailand to face a charge that he murdered another Thai boxer, American Dashawn Longfellow, on Phuket in September, 2010."
And how is this relevant exactly?
Posted by
Soapbox
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December 14, 2011 09:08
Ed,
Please stop the incorrect usage of the term "expat." According to all dictionaries, expatriate means a person residing/working in a foreign country on a permanent basis. If a journalist isn't sure of their status, foreigner is correct. (Or alien if you want an officially xenophobic term.)
Posted by
Media Watcher
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December 14, 2011 09:47
Editor Comment:
We're not slaves to the dictionary, media watcher. Our rationale has been explained more than once. We are not always able to determine quickly whether a person is a tourist or an expat resident - and there are cases where it's difficult to tell, without access to visa information. How many months does it take living here before a tourist becomes an expat? Rather than use Thai and non-Thai, foreigner or farang, we use the term expat because we prefer it, and because most people understand what it means when we use it. I won't respond to you again on this issue.
ed.... if his/her visa is a tourist visa not to difficult to figure out. whether here for 1 month or 6 months.
Posted by
john s
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December 14, 2011 15:44
Editor Comment:
It may surpise you to learn, john s, that we often write about what people do on Phuket before they show us their passports. Had we been in the bar before the brawl at the weekend, we would have said: 'OK, give us photocopies before you start throwing punches.' You may go around handing out photocopies to everyone. Most people are not that generous.
do u your homework before writing an article first. then maybe u wont receive comments
Posted by
john s
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December 14, 2011 17:11
Editor Comment:
What kind of ''homework'' are we supposed to do, john s, oh great guru of journalistic excellence? Spare us your lectures, please. People who know it all have no need to read phuketwan or any other online sites.
Sorry Ed, got to agree with those criticising the use of the word expat in your stories. By implication it infers that a person is living here...and as the VAST majority of foreigners don't, it's just simply wrong.
Posted by
agogohome
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December 15, 2011 09:21
Editor Comment:
You're entitled to an opinion, and we are entitled to chose the word we think works best.
Thanks for at least publishing 'my opinion'...but yours is still wrong and I guess you'll stick with it. lol
Posted by
agogohome
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December 15, 2011 12:36
Ed, an "ex-pat" is a highly qualified, professional executive usually working for a large corporation who is posted overseas to a high-level management position and commands a good salary with numerous benefits, usually including housing, a company car, etc. The fact that you continue to claim that ex-pat is the right term to use here shows that you have a poor command of the English language. As such, you should not be working as a newspaper editor.
Posted by
Sir Marmaduke
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December 15, 2011 16:34
Editor Comment:
The language is constantly being abused or adapted to suit day-to-day practical circumstances and we intend to do our bit, Sir Marmaduke. If you prefer to be called a ''foreigner'' or a ''non-Thai,'' we can make an exception for you. Perhaps by the time you wake up to the fact that Phuketwan is not a newspaper, we may have a word that suits situations where there's no telling whether those involved are tourists or residents. ''Marmadukes'' has a nice ring to it.
Please get of the Ed's case as the term is Expat and it is actually An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing.The word comes from the Latin terms ex ("out of") and patria ("country, fatherland").
Posted by
Gaz B
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December 15, 2011 17:07
You're not an expatriate if you don't have a nice apartment or house paid for by your employer back at home, and if you're not working on a long contract involving being posted to a foreign country, and usually enjoying other benefits such as a company car, comprehensive medical care, et cetera. The vast majority (over 90%) of so-called expatriated in Thailand are nothing of the sort. They're "extourists", or extended tourists. A true expat package, for Thailand, would be a salary of at least 150,000 baht a month. My company assists and supports expatriates in Bangkok and 150,000 baht is the minimum monthly salary your company must pay to qualify for our services. Anything less and you can't call yourself a true expatriate.
Posted by
Expatriate James
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December 18, 2011 21:18
Editor Comment:
You are just as wide of the mark as Sir Marmaduke, Expatriate James. You both live in dream worlds, but very different ones.
These people did not get the concept of thai boxing....probably they would fight even if they come here to learn meditation! He might have had a really complicated and difficult childhood....
Posted by
Olly
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December 19, 2011 14:46
From Webster's Dictionary:
Definition of EXPATRIATE
intransitive verb
: to leave one's native country to live elsewhere; also : to renounce allegiance to one's native country
Posted by
Rs
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December 19, 2011 19:01
This is terrible and extremely biased reporting. You updated the story with content from a Wikipedia article, but you failed to update the story with the highly detailed and relevant account of the incident from Browning and his girlfriend themselves. (For now, you can see the account by searching the phrase junie browning email.)
Posted by
Be responsible
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December 20, 2011 05:14
Editor Comment:
We haven't heard from Junie lately. Perhaps we ask too many questions.
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Dashawn Longfellow, a former US Marine, but also a Thai Boxer? Sure? That, I read first time.
Posted by Alfred on December 13, 2011 14:31