Australian Irish DAMON​ SIMMS​ Arrested for Setting Fire to Pool Table in His Own Hotel in Siem Reap

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Re: Australian Irish DAMON​ SIMMS​ Arrested for Setting Fire to Pool Table in His Own Hotel in Siem Reap

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"Restaurateur"......

So, who sicked the cops on him, the mom or the partner?
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His public comments on Facebook referencing heroin aren't going to do him any good. Actually he looks pretty good for an opportunistic junkie

All that aside, what crime is he accused of for setting fire to his own pool table which nobody is seemingly disputing the ownership of? He set fire to a table on his own land, correct? What was the reason for arrest?
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fax wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:37 pm His public comments on Facebook referencing heroin aren't going to do him any good. Actually he looks pretty good for an opportunistic junkie

All that aside, what crime is he accused of for setting fire to his own pool table which nobody is seemingly disputing the ownership of? He set fire to a table on his own land, correct? What was the reason for arrest?
He might have thrown stuff belonging to his mom or partner onto the pool table and set the stuff on fire.
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fax wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:37 pm His public comments on Facebook referencing heroin aren't going to do him any good. Actually he looks pretty good for an opportunistic junkie

All that aside, what crime is he accused of for setting fire to his own pool table which nobody is seemingly disputing the ownership of? He set fire to a table on his own land, correct? What was the reason for arrest?
There’s no crime. The question is just that if you’re tripping hard while having psychotic break it would be good to have your own questhouse left and not burned? And after a day or two reconsideration, feel free to burn it down if it fancies... There are drugs as dissociativies like bath salts, ketamine etc that make you do things that you may regret later, am I right?
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Apexisto wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 4:46 pm

There’s no crime. The question is just that if you’re tripping hard while having psychotic break it would be good to have your own questhouse left and not burned? And after a day or two reconsideration, feel free to burn it down if it fancies... There are drugs as dissociativies like bath salts, ketamine etc that make you do things that you may regret later, am I right?
I'm not an expert on Cambodian criminal law, but I would hope that intentionally starting a fire in an occupied guesthouse, and burning stuff that belongs to other people, is a crime.
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Apexisto wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 4:46 pm
There’s no crime. The question is just that if you’re tripping hard while having psychotic break it would be good to have your own questhouse left and not burned? And after a day or two reconsideration, feel free to burn it down if it fancies... There are drugs as dissociativies like bath salts, ketamine etc that make you do things that you may regret later, am I right?
LOL. What no crime ?
Im no expert either, but I presume the Irishman is renting the guesthouse and the landlord would like to get it back intact. Plus the fact that the OP said that he was burning stuff belonging to his wife and his mother, and of course the small question of the guests' safety.
Oh yeah, and the drugs.
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