tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38753617917680927712024-03-13T10:06:55.958+07:00Pattaya News BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comBlogger888125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-72128350839247655722015-03-11T23:54:00.000+07:002015-03-17T23:55:59.492+07:00Man Drowns in East Pattaya Lake<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nongprue Police and a Unit of The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation swung into action after reports that a body had been seen floating in a small lake nearby. At the scene in in Soi Tungklom Tanmun 27 in East Pattaya they found the body of Khun Mai who was discovered floating face-down in the lake and he is thought to have been dead for around 10 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khun Mai aged 51 had no marks on his body suggesting foul play and at this stage it is thought that due to some unknown medical condition Khun Mai had fallen into the water and drowned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khun Sai the 52 year old wife of the deceased looked on distraught as the body of her husband was brought to shore. Khun Sai explained that she had had a bad premonition of death the previous evening and begged her husband not to go fishing. He laughed it off. That was the last time she saw him alive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The body of Khun Mai was transported to hospital for a full post mortem to be carried out before his body can be released to the family for funeral rites to be carried out.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-19455405589296623792015-03-11T23:53:00.000+07:002015-03-17T23:54:04.575+07:00Hit and Run Accident Kills Man Near Bira International Racing Circuit Pattaya<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around 8am Nongprue Police and a Unit of The Sawang Boriboon Dhamma Sathan Rescue Foundation to provide assistance were called a busy highway in their district where a body had been found at the side of the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On highway 36 in front of the Bira International Racing Circuit they found the body of a man aged somewhere between 45-50. He was laying in the grass in the central reserve of the highway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The deceased did not carry any formal means of identification and appeared to have been dead for about 10 hours. The man had suffered severe traumatic injuries consistent with being hit by a vehicle travelling at high speed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The body of the deceased was taken to hospital for a full post mortem to be carried out. The police are appealing for families in the area who may have a missing family member to contact them as soon as possible. Meanwhile auto repair shops across the region are being canvassed to see if any vehicles have turned up to have repairs carried out that may be consistent with a vehicle pedestrian accident.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-84838955789508676772015-03-11T23:50:00.000+07:002015-03-17T23:52:01.360+07:00East Pattaya Police Army Drug Checkpoints<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Banglamung Police teamed up with a contingent of Royal Thai Army personnel to set up road checkpoints in the local Banglamung area. There was a simple but important aim to the operation - to identify and arrest drug users.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manpower was split into two teams one team of Police officers, district officials and Army officers took up position with a traffic checkpoint in the middle of Soi Thai Udom which intersects with Soi Pho Thi Sarn. The second checkpoint was in the middle of Soi Nern Phlab Wan in front of Sawang Boriboon Wittaya school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suspicious looking teenagers were pulled over and summarily drug tested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The checkpoint in Soi Nernplubwan came in first in the find a druggie competition and netted 27 teenagers who tested positive for banned substances. The checkpoint in Soi Thai Udom came in a close second with 25 teenagers failing the urine test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the drug failures got a free ride to Banglamung police station where further testing awaited them and if proved still positive then they face a day in court.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-18610866863182162592015-03-11T23:48:00.000+07:002015-03-17T23:49:23.445+07:00Security Guard Dies of Heart Attack in East Pattaya<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nongprue Police and a Unit of The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation were called to a house on MaiYaiLia Soi 25 in Nongprue to investigate reports of a man who had suffered fatal heart attack. At the house they came upon the body of 48 year old Khun Dawut laying face up just inside the doorway to the house and still dressed in his security guards uniform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The police spoke with his wife Khun Somjit aged 42. She said that her husband had no medical problems and was a normal fit man although he was known to work hard and spent many hours at his job as a security guard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This evening he had returned home from work. Shortly after he arrived a friend who is a motorcycle taxi driver Khun Buala aged 62 arrived to deliver a television. Khun Dawut helped his friend to carry the TV into the house at which point he suffered a seizure and fell to the ground. Moments later he stopped breathing and died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The police took photographs as evidence before Khun Dawut was transported to hospital for a full post mortem to be carried before his body can be released to the family for funeral rites to be carried out.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-2929788174785410742015-03-11T23:44:00.000+07:002015-03-17T23:46:59.344+07:00Falling Electric Pylon Kills True Corporation Technician in Soi Kao Talo East Pattaya<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nongprue Police and a unit of The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation were called to attend a fatal accident in Soi Kao Talo, East Pattaya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the scene outside The Siam Royal View Estate in Soi Kao Talo they found a concrete post carrying electrical cables that had fallen across the road. Trapped underneath the post was a Technician who works for The True Corporation. He had been crushed and trapped beneath the fallen post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khun Suppachai aged 38, who was working with his younger brother had been sent to the location to replace and move some fibre optic internet cables. Despite having received warnings that the post was in an unstable condition Khun Suppachai put up a wooden ladder and started to climb the post. The warnings proved accurate, the post fell over with Khun Suppachai falling backwards into the road and the post crushing his head and torso.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The post was eventually lifted and Khun Suppachai's body freed from the tangle of wires. His body was transported to hospital for a full post mortem to be carried out before his body can be released to relatives for funeral rites to be performed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police are investigating the incident further in conjunction with the Internet Company The True Corporation at this time.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-36826999873167100712015-01-14T01:07:00.000+07:002015-01-17T01:16:07.793+07:00Pattaya Beach Brolly Free Beach For at Least One Day<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday this week saw the first day of an experiment dreamt up by the bright sparks at Pattaya City Hall. A beach that actually looks like a beach. A 3 km expanse of golden sand, when the tide goes out totally free of any man made or man controlled structures like beach deckchairs or beach brollies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes it looks pretty and makes for a good souvenir picture postcard "Wish You Were Not Here" image to send home to the folks. Pattaya City Hall in their infinite wisdom have decided to stamp their bureaucratic control on the feature that they deam to be the most important feature of any International Beach resort "The Beach"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However Pattaya Beach is not "The Beach" that drug addled Leonardo De Cappaccino and his pot smoking compadres made famous. Pattaya is not St Tropez or Copacabana. Blackpool Beach, The Illuminations on Walking Street and kiss me quick darlink short time maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tourists surveyed on this first brolly less day were generally enthusiastic. Beach vendors not so happy after all their income has just effectively been slashed by 15%</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beach vendors as well as putting out deckchairs and picnic tables and erecting umbrellas on their "Patches" of beach that they pay exorbitant money for also put out rubbish receptacles and are constantly cleaning up after their customers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who is going to clean up after the hordes or not so many hordes of freelancer tourists on a vendor free beach?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Others who will benefit from Umbrella free beaches will of course be local clinics and hospitals with tourists thronging emergency rooms with severe cases of sunburn and dehydration and the long term effects of dramatic increases in skin cancer.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-70260111611183171942015-01-14T01:05:00.000+07:002015-01-17T01:06:15.888+07:00Disabled Child Dies in Sattahip<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police Captain SaiJai of Sattahip police station received notification of the death of a young child at a house in his jurisdiction. He went along to the scene along with medics and a rescue foundation unit to provide assistance. At the scene he found 73 year old Khun Wassana and her deceased grandson Itthikorn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khun Wassana was obviously distraught. She had brought up and cared for the young boy since he was a baby. Her son, the child's father Khun Munwong aged 35 who is in the Thai military had left the boy with his mother Khun Wassana after he had split up with his wife soon after she gave birth to the baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The little boy Itthikorn had a serious disability suffering from a rare condition that had caused his head to almost twice the normal size.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police Captain SaiJai and the village headman and concerned local residents got together to take the child to the local temple for funeral rites to be arranged.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comSattahip, Sattahip District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.6841272 100.8980732999999612.560194200000002 100.73671179999997 12.8080602 101.05943479999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-44537483823440114472015-01-14T01:03:00.000+07:002015-01-17T01:19:14.125+07:00Rayong Drug Dealer Wants to go to Prison<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An unusual and disturbing story from Rayong. Sattahip drug enforcement agents snared a low level drugs dealer in a sting operation. That's not unusual they do that every day. What is unusual is the reason he gave the agents as to why he was dealing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Sattahip agents had information that drugs were being dealt from a residence in Moo 1 Ban Chang near Rayong. They set up a sting operation with an undercover agent using 1,400 Baht in marked notes. At the location he used the notes to purchase 7 Yaa Baa (Methamphetamine) tablets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the deal went down other agents moved in and arrested the drugs dealer Khun Prasart aged 42. They searched him and his residence and found two more Yaa Baa Tablets and 0.40 grammes of Yaa Ice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under questioning Khun Prasart admitted to being in possession of class 1 narcotics and confessed to dealing drugs to teenagers in the local area. He told the agents that he started dealing drugs because he knew that he would be caught one day. When caught in all likelihood he would be sent to jail. His young brother was at present in prison in Rayong and he loved and missed his brother so much. Now he would get the opportunity to join his beloved brother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Methinks he has not only been selling these evil chemicals he has been using too many of them himself.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comSattahip, Sattahip District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.6841272 100.8980732999999612.560194200000002 100.73671179999997 12.8080602 101.05943479999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-58818640923907529012015-01-14T01:01:00.000+07:002015-01-17T01:23:32.382+07:00Pattaya Potholes Plus Motorcycle Equals Pain<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Potholes in the road are a major hazard to motorists all over the world. Driving a two wheeled vehicle in the darkness of the night in Pattaya and your chances of being injured rises significantly. Now into the equation let's put in a young female rider on her way home who may or may not have a motorcycle license but almost certainly has never been trained to handle a potentially lethal mechanical machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally add in the fact that potholes often go unnoticed and un-repaired by the authorities for days or even weeks. And cones, signs, warning lights - do they exist around here?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A unit of The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation were called to give assistance to a young lady who had succumbed to one of these ghostly road hazards. At the scene at the entrance to Soi 75 on The Sukhumvit Road near South Pattaya Road they found Khun Kanchana aged 33. Miss Kanchana had come off her bike and suffered head wounds and serious wounds and abrasions to her body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was given first aid at the scene by medics and then transported by rescue workers to Banglamung Hospital for further emergency treatment.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-12685168370246667912015-01-14T00:59:00.000+07:002015-01-17T01:32:51.542+07:00South Pattaya Road Car Motorcycle Accident<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattaya Reporters are often amongst the first responders at an accident scene. An emergency centre run by the Thappraya 2310 Foundation gets the notifications about incidents and puts out radio calls for emergency services to respond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A call came in regarding a car, motorcycle accident outside Muu Baan Rungland on South Pattaya Road. Pattaya Police and a unit from The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation responded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the scene they found a Yamaha Spark motorcycle laying in the middle of the road and laying close by it's rider Khun Am. Khun Am had suffered a back injury and was in a lot of pain. Medics gave him first aid, strapped him to a back board and transported him immediately to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital for further emergency treatment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also at the scene close by the wrecked motorcycle was a Mitsubishi Lancer car that had damage to it's front end. Reporters moved in to talk to the driver but he was belligerent, incoherent and seemed to be under the influence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Witnesses however were a little more forthcoming and described the accident laying the blame firmly on the Mitsubishi driver who attempted to make a right turn and collided with the oncoming motorcyclist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police took statements, took pictures for evidence and then moved on to try to get a sober statement from the var driver.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-59244855484059383532015-01-07T07:23:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:24:54.720+07:00North Pattaya Condo Causes a Stink With Pattaya City Hall<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khun Viravat, senior Trade Officer and a deputy mayor of Pattaya led a delegation of Pattaya City Hall Officials with the city Sanitation Engineering to sniff out a long standing problem in North Pattaya. The offensive problem was not too difficult to find as an offensive smell permanently permeates the pristine sea breezes that should be wafting through the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Local residents of soi 16 in Naklua North Pattaya have been increasingly vocal in their complaints of the increasingly bad smells coming from the nether regions of The High Rise Laguna Heights Condo. Khun Viravat and his entourage had a chat with some of the local residents and took note of their complaints and concerns and assured them that Pattaya City Hall would speedily sort out the smelly situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A meeting later with Condo management highlighted the problems that were causing the pongy pollution. Pumps at the condo building were coping with extracting the excremental sewage but were not able to transfer the resultant rancid waste water into the local drainage system leading to leakages. The condo management said that they had a three phase plan to fix the problem starting with new pumps and sewage control systems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khun Viravat passed on the concerned local residents concerns and said that his team of Sanitation engineers would pay regular visits to the area to ensure that The condo was following up on it's promises to deal with this problem.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-15952045904871214492015-01-07T07:20:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:21:48.484+07:00Pattaya Beach Vendors Left High and Dry<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khun Rankert Ekasing the Deputy Mayor of Pattaya headed for the beach this week. He wasn't there to lay out in a comfy beach deck chair shaded by a beach umbrella and cooled by a chilly bottle of Chang provided by one of the hundreds of beach vendors. Oh no Oh contraire. Khun Ekasing was not there to laze and sample the fayre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today was Big Cleaning Day. You have heard the phrase you can't see the wood for the trees. Well in Pattaya you can't see the beach for a forest of beach umbrellas. Not withstanding that there is not that much beach left as City Hall fights a loosing battle as it gives millions of Baht to friendly trucking companies dump tonnes of sand on to a rapidly eroding beach environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Khun Ekasing was the man with a plan and flanked by City Hall Officials and military officers he was there to carry out the plan come hell or high water whichever came first. The plan to was simple. Have - No have, Have - No Have, Have - No Have. The beach was to be split up into areas with beach umbrellas and areas without beach umbrellas so that tourists could have a choice as to whether to sit under the blazing sun on their hotel towel or pay a beach vendor to provide anti skin cancer protection ice cold medicinal medicines and spicy health food supplements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what about the vendors in the No have zones. To be sure they are not going to be happy chappies. Still they can all go for a beer on a Wednesday whether they have or No have as Wednesdays have been designated No Have Umbrella for the whole beach. Of course they can't sit under a cool umbrella. I wonder if someone from City Hall has just bought a serious share in Seven Eleven.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-62449790946570607692015-01-07T07:18:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:19:57.856+07:00Pattaya Knitters Knit for Cool Folks in Chiang Mai<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A seemingly innocuous house in South Pattaya was the scene this week for a gathering of a large number of Thai ladies with a large number of needles being used to give the occupants a much needed and much welcome high. No these were not needles attached to hypodermic syringes they were knitting needles grasped in the nimble fingers of dozens of volunteers. Feverish activity as the knitters knitted furiously to complete dozens of sweaters, wooly scarves and woolly hats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok I know it has been a little cool in Pattaya just lately but woolly jumpers?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The organiser of the knit in chief knit himself Khun Somsak - secretary of The Lions Club Pattaya</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January 11 to the 14th will see a road trip for the Lions Club of Pattaya who will join forces with the Lions Club of Bangkok, Lions Club of Chonburi and Lion cubs from all over Thailand as they travel up north to hand out the sorely needed sweaters and other supplies to poor folks chilling out in the hills around Chiang Mai.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-63142891112513447822015-01-07T07:16:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:18:00.806+07:00Pattaya Airport U-tapao International Upbeat About Tourist Arrivals<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An up-beat forecast from the up-beat manager of Pattaya airport. Pattaya airport? I hear you cry. Pattaya doesn't have an airport, I wish it did then I wouldn't have to take a sometimes 2 hour ride to Suvanaphum Bangkok airport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course those in the know know of the existence of what is known as U-tapao International airport. Just a thirty minute drive, with a good tailwind down the Sukhumvit Road towards Sattahip. International Airport is not quite what I would describe it but it does have a long runway that 50 years ago saw American bombers take off to bomb the Russian and Chinese backed communist armies of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Nowadays the bombers are all but gone, I am sure the occasional one still drops by to restock on fuel rather than restock with bombs but the Russians and Chinese are still a high priority for airport administrators.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charter flights from The former Soviet Union and the still communist run red giant China bring in hordes of commies and former commies every day. Yes the number of flights from Russia has decreased lately, says the airport manager, wiping a tear from one eye. The rouble is in the crapper but hey it's cold in Siberia at this time of year and the future is bright. The Russian's may be chilling out in local hot spots like Chernobyl But you can always depend on the Chinese. China the biggest economy in the world whose citizens are eager to travel and taste the delights of the world, as long as there is a Chinese restaurant available for the strictly controlled tour groups to partake of the local culture and cuisine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the manager of U-tapao International airport is right to be upbeat. He can stake his job on a regular flow of 20 to 25 charter flights a day with an average of 250 passengers per flight paying airport taxes, buying duty free souvenirs and bargain basement airport refreshments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course a selected few Chinese restaurants in Pattaya, budget hotels and the Russian tourist hot spots like the seven eleven stores on beach road are rubbing their corporate hands. The rest of Pattaya businesses are just left to reminisce of those good old days of 40 years back when Tourist dollars were real dollars spent by real tourists looking for a really good time with some really sexy girls in a little known beach resort that happened to be called Pattaya.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-60073071648450396692015-01-07T07:14:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:14:54.577+07:00Pattaya Traffic Policeman Killed by Hit and Run Killer<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattaya Traffic Police this week are mourning the loss of one of it's senior and most respected officers. Police Lieutenant Pradit aged 55 was due to retire from the Pattaya Police force in a few months time after many years of service to the citizens of Pattaya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lieutenant Pradit was slain in a senseless and callous road accident which resulted in catastrophic fatal injuries and as is sadly the norm in Thailand the killer driver doing a runner and not hanging around the scene to face the music</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattaya police, fellow traffic police officers and a unit of the Sawang Boriboon Thamasathan Rescue Foundation attended the crash which occurred on the Pattaya-bound carriageway of The Sukhumvit Highway between Central and North Pattaya, just before the exit leading to Highway 7. It was a gruesome scene. The police officers Honda Wave motorcycle laying on it's side and close by the body of Lieutenant Pradit. Witnesses to the accident including one of his Traffic Police comrades had seen Black Mitsubishi Pajero crash violently into the rear-end of the officer’s motorbike. The Pajero ran over the officer and then left the scene at high speed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An alert went out on the police radio frequencies and soon a police unit in Nongkam Police Station in nearby Sriracha District spotted and stopped a vehicle matching the description of the Killer Mitsubishi. The driver, a Thai man whose identity has not yet been revealed was arrested whilst enquiries are made and a forensic team brought in to scrutinise his vehicle which clearly showed fresh damage to the front end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having been killed whilst on duty Police Lieutenant Pradit will be bestowed all the ceremonial privileges and his bereaved family taken care of by The Royal Thai Police Force and his stunned colleagues.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-67747214543649599832015-01-07T07:09:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:11:19.116+07:00Thai Pervert Exposes Himself in Central Pattaya<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A group of Pattaya office staff were enjoying a spot of lunch in a sub soi behind The Apichart Clinic on Pattaya Third Road in Central Pattaya when a young Thai man aged somewhere between 25-30 drew up on his Yamaha Fino Motorbike and proceeded to unzip and flash his genitals at the ladies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ladies were at first bemused - this doesn't happy everyday and they got out their phones and started to take pictures and video of the disgusting display. Emboldened the pervert boldly grabbed his boldness and started masturbating - all this caught on camera. The show was soon over as is the norm with Thai men and he put it away and rode off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ladies thought this was newsworthy so they posted the offensive episode on Facebook. Soon after they however realised that this episode was potentially more serious - what if next time he took his perverted actions a step further? They called the police who came along to study the video footage. No need for the ladies to give a description of the tosser as it was all caught on tape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I talked to some lady friends about how they would deal with a similar situation. One suggested pointing to the offending member and laughing out load. Another had a more practical solution and involved two house bricks.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-17665239762340945782014-12-30T13:43:00.000+07:002015-01-07T13:44:08.678+07:00Pattaya Journalists Spend a Day on Pattaya Beach<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being a journalist in Pattaya can be a tough job. Late nights attending gruesome accident scenes. Putting their lives on the line reporting on raucous rioters or just plain mind numbing hours of boredom attending an endless stream of Pattaya City Hall committee meetings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News must be slow in Pattaya. A group of budding media moguls were given the onerous job of spending a day on the beach. Their task to report on tourist numbers, or lack of tourist numbers and what the foreign and Thai tourists get up to when they take their clothes off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well according to the Journos tourist numbers are healthy and folks seem to be taking advantage of the new beach regulations that have been set up where beach lovers can set up for their vitamin D fix without having to use the services of the beach brolly brigade.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-30757772388136852352014-12-30T13:41:00.000+07:002015-01-07T13:42:48.182+07:00Naklua North Pattaya Seafood Market<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you stroll down Walking Street in Pattaya on any evening and can tear your eyes away from the welcoming welcome girls who make such a welcome sight you will notice another bunch of welcomers brandishing menus and guiding you to their place of work at a nearby seafood restaurant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fish, crabs lobsters look great and the prices not so great. Still you are paying to dine in one of the regions prestigious if a little salubrious prime tourist traps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of the seafood on display is caught locally and sold to wholesalers, restaurateurs and the general public at a sea side market in Naklua North Pattaya. Fresh off the boat and at prices that are half what you would pay in Walking Street this is the place to shop if you have a craving for crab have a hankering for Haddock or loony about lobsters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a number of food stalls who, for a small charge will cook and present your recent purchases which you can enthusiastically devour at fold up tables and plastic stools or packed into Styrofoam to be taken home or consumed in a beach seafood picnic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Years ago paid one of my regular visits to Naklua Seafood Market - I have a particular penchant for prawns. I bought a bunch of large shrimps to put on the barbi and a couple of giant sized live crabs. The first crab was very tasty and the second placed to one side for later. The shrimp were succulent and when I turned to sacrifice the second crab - well I was to be disappointed it had done a runner and was never to be seen again.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-70767965685589331282014-12-30T13:39:00.000+07:002015-01-07T13:39:58.633+07:00Cambodian Construction Worker Chokes to Death on Chicken in Jomtien Near Pattaya<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A unit of he Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation was on standby at a Jomtien location when they received a call asking them to provide assistance to a young man who was unconscious at the side of the road and apparently not breathing. The rescue Unit rushed to the scene on Soi Chayaupreuk 1 outside the entrance to Lalana Garden Village Housing Estate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The victim a 27 year old Cambodian man appeared to have choked on a piece of fried chicken and collapsed. Medics cleared his airway and removed the chicken. CPR was administered as he was transported speedily to Banglamung Hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A taxi driver on duty at his taxi rank outside of the housing estate that two young men who appeared to be inebriated had approached him asking for him to take them to Jomtien Beach. As he got on the bike he fell to the floor convulsing and a call for assistance was made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the efforts of emergency medics at the scene and the doctors at Banglamung Hospital the 27 year old Cambodian construction worker was declared dead at the hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As is the custom The Cambodian Embassy will be notified of the death of one of it's citizens.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-39301229126910016832014-12-30T13:36:00.000+07:002015-01-07T13:37:07.475+07:00Na Jomtien Pattaya Traffic Checkpoints<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattaya Police are utilising the power of the press to get their road safety messages across to the general public. Journalists and other members of the media being invited to observe and report on the activities of the fine boys in brown as they set up extra traffic checkpoints across the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Na Jomtien near Pattaya the highway traffic officers assisted by Pattaya police volunteers set up checkpoints at the crossroads by the region 2 Prosecutors building a place for reasons I won't go into I know very well. The crossroads is a busy spot with the main road to Huay Yai district crossing the multi lane Chonburi to Sattahip Sukhumvit Road highway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The police are on the look out for motorcyclists and their passengers riding without helmets and peering through windows to spot motorists too lazy to click on their seat belts. When a stop is made paperwork is scrutinised, registration documents, driving licences and the like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst the journalists were there one motorist whose breath seemed to suggest that more attention was warranted. He was asked to blow into a breathalyser which suggested that he may have partaken of Seang Som rather than Som Tam. A group of teenage motorcyclists were pulled up for a chat. They turned out to be clean and their paperwork even cleaner.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-35236981222819013432014-12-30T13:33:00.000+07:002015-01-07T13:34:15.469+07:00Three Children Killed in High Speed Motorcycle Crash on Sukhumvit Road North Pattaya<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three teenagers killed in a horrific motorcycle accident in North Pattaya. Three 15 year old kids killed whilst riding a single motorcycle at high speed on Sukhumvit Road North Pattaya. That's three young lives snuffed out in one crash. What are the parents thinking about. Why does it seem that Thai parents don't give a monkey's about the lives of their offspring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK rant over - I am supposed to report the news not comment on social values or lack of social values in an obviously third world country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattaya Police and rescue units from The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation arrived on scene to find a 50 metre debris field of what remained of a pink Honda Scooby. Scuff marks on the road surface and nearby street furniture suggested a high speed crash although in the early hours of the morning there were no witnesses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't go into details of the blood and gore that littered the scene. One girl, one young 15 year old girl pronounced dead at the scene and two 15 year old boys pronounced dead after being transported to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and succumbing to their injuries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rest in Peace Luuk</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-66684622126092900512014-12-30T13:28:00.000+07:002015-01-07T13:35:21.896+07:00Bike Gangs Tossing Grenades Wake Up Pattaya Community<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not unusual for local residents in and around Pattaya to have their sleep interrupted by the sounds of screaming motorcycle engines as gangs of often alcohol and drug fueled Thai yobbos compete to see who can be the most obnoxious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattaya Countdown festivities over The New Year saw a dramatic increase irresponsible in idiots roaming the highways, byways and sois of this fair city. Residents in Soi Khopai awoke not just to the sound of manic mopeds but also to the ominous sound of bombs going off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police rushed to the scene but the dumb wits had already disappeared into the night. There was clear evidence of a small device that had detonated and then police came across a couple of grenades that had failed to explode. Military bomb disposal experts were called in to do what they do best expertly dispose of bombs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Residents and witnesses in the now not so sleepy community gave accounts of what appeared to be rival gangs of about 10-15 goons chasing their own tail pipes and then an escalation as they tried to wipe each other off the face of the earth by tossing hand grenades at each other.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-55454992144177303082014-12-29T07:47:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:48:34.329+07:00Brit Paints Walls of Wat Suttawat in East Pattaya<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At last a story with many happy endings. Happy for a Brit, Happy for a temple, happy for the community and unexpectedly happy for me your humble news reader.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before Christmas 77 year old Brit Mr. Terry Smith had got down on his knees and started the mammoth job of painting the perimeter walls of Wat Suttawat at the end of Soi Nernplubwan in Nongprue District East Pattaya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Terry who had converted to his Thai wife's religion of Buddhism had noticed the walls were well due to a coat or two of paint and with the Abbot's permission a bucket of white paint a brush in hand and his wife cheering him on he got down to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A video of him hard at his charitable work went viral on the Interweb with foreign and Thai posters on Facebook praising his efforts. There were a few naysayers on the forums and chat rooms who did the Bah humbug impressions and warned that he could well end up in jail for working without a work permit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This of course was never going to happen - instead over Christmas and New Year hundreds of locals , army officers the old and the not so old worked tirelessly with 20,000 Baht of buckets of donated paint to finish the job that Mr. Terry had started. Making merit and celebrating His majesty King Bhumiphol's extended reign as the King of Thailand was their declared aims</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And an additional and unexpected happy ending. I live near Wat Sutthawat Temple and took a motorcycle taxi from Big C Extra Central Pattaya a few days ago. I was rummaging in my pocket for the 150 Baht fare when the motorcycle taxi driver waied me and said you are a good guy paint temple no charge and rode off. Now that was a very nice gesture but a little disconcerting as I am a long way off the 77 years young Mr. Terry.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-86019498506605931752014-12-29T07:44:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:45:41.780+07:00Pattaya Drug Dealing Chain Arrested<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chonburi police officers accompanied by Sattahip drug enforcement agents set up a sting operation in Bang Saray District that snared a low level low life drug dealer Khun Seksak AKA Crane aged 29 who they found was in possession of 10 Yaa Baa (Methamphetamine) tablets and 1,200 baht</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The officers had already arrested another dealer in death Khun Suppachai aged 28 who was detained along with the 20 Yaa Baa tablets that he was carrying. Khun Suppachai was a good singer and did his canary impression by giving up his supplier the aforementioned Khun Crane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khun Crane was a serial loser he had only recently been released and had served 2 years in prison for an earlier drug trafficking offence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The daisy chain of drug dealing dim wits continued with Khun Crane now snitching on his supplier Khun Wut who he had recently purchased 50 Ya baa tablets to sell during the New Year holidays. Looks like they will be celebrating this New year, next New Year and hopefully many more New Years courtesy of the Thai Department of Corrections.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comSattahip, Sattahip District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.6841272 100.8980732999999612.560194200000002 100.73671179999997 12.8080602 101.05943479999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875361791768092771.post-83103628227335709092014-12-29T07:40:00.000+07:002015-01-12T07:41:28.406+07:00Young Thai Lady Dies in Fall from Central Festival Shopping Mall Pattaya<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattaya Police had only a short distance to cover from Pattaya Police Station to the second Road entrance of Central Festival Shopping Mall after a report came in that someone had jumped from the car park at the side of the Shopping Centre. At the scene they found only a blood stain on the ground as the person had already been taken by staff of the shopping mall to the nearby Pattaya Memorial Hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the hospital police ascertained the identity as Miss Nathan aged 26 from Buriram Province. It is thought that she was a shop worker at the Central Festival shopping mall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As soon as the incident had occured a security guard was confronted with the massively injured body of Miss Nathan and had rushed to inform Mall management staff. A manager decided that it was not a nice thing for the dead body to be left in situ as it was high season and the sight of a mangled body would upset Thai and foreign customers coming and going at The Mall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether she committed suicide by jumping from the 5th floor, was murdered and her body tossed over the parapet or this was an accidental death of some form we may never known as the only evidence was immediately removed.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08227042085704718032noreply@blogger.comPattaya, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri, Thailand12.9276082 100.8770812999999912.6799492 100.55435779999999 13.1752672 101.19980479999998