A task force of over 100 police officers led by senior officers from Chonburi and Pattaya gathered outside a pub in North Pattaya in a well planned operation to raid the after hours establishment. At 3.30 am a raiding party of officers entered the premises of The Noir Pub and Restaurant in North Pattaya where around 300 revellers were having a jolly good time.
The throbbing music was turned off and the lights turned on. For reasons known only to themselves many of the disco dancing dumb wits decided it was not wise to hang around and attempted to exit stage left stage right stage back and stage front. They did not get far as police officers had anticipated the party goers urge to head home and had cordoned off the whole venue.
The early morning drinking den was thought by the police to be a haven for drug taking, debauchery and underage drinking. The reluctant revelers now guests of the boys in brown were searched, had their ID's checked and then had the piss taken out of them by drug enforcement agents.
As expected a number of urine samples turned a pretty purple colour and 9 young persons became longer term guests and were given a free ride to Pattaya Police Station to undergo further tests for the presence of narcotic substances. Small quantities of illegal drugs were found on the persons and dumped around the premises this included 12 cigarettes that seemed to contain more than the normal tobacco contents and 5 Ecstasy tablets wrapped in tissue paper.
There was a curious incident also when a fellow claiming to be a police officer attempted to plant drugs in the club with the intention of extorting 50,000 Baht from the already unlucky patrons. Apparently the pseudo policeman slipped out from his fellow real police officers and disappeared into the night.
A senior officer explained to the gathered media that this was just one of a series of ongoing raids on late night entertainment venues with the aim of suppressing drug use and quelling the growing preponderance of fights and violent altercations that are a natural result of gangs of drug and whiskey Thai youths not always seeing eye to eye in the early hours of the morning.
