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Teens with a point to prove

Three Nakhon Nayok teens won praise for asking staff at a roadside checkpoint to test them for drugs, after their teacher questioned their honesty.

The lads, aged 15, turned up on March 1 at a checkpoint set up by the Ban Na district office and volunteer defence corps. The staff were calling over motorists to take a drugs test as part of the district’s policy to keep youngsters clean of drugs and send users to rehab.

Staff at the checkpoint were stunned when the youngsters, who attend a school nearby, asked if they could test their urine for drugs.

Schoolmates Natthaphong, Siththichok and Chattuphak said they were out on their bike and happened to see the checkpoint testing station so approached.

“Uncle, test my urine,…