RidgeRunner

1 million US hispanics reach voting age every year.

A couple more election cycles and we will be welcoming the new president to the Casa Blanca.

I doubt it.

I bet the police are not happy now

They are not making thousands robbing tourists anymore.

yes they are! This scam will not go away, be real!

Exactly.

They don't want to see any more videos on the beach of thugs pounding on tourists.

Now they are attempting to move the shakedowns off the beach & up to "the jet ski scam dispute office."

Pizzas are still 69Bt at PIZZAPIZZA in The Avenue Mall. 2nd Rd across from Soi 13.

Mae Sri Ruen has dishes starting around 50Bt.

This is a good value, clean, aircon, Thai restaurant that serves up lots of noodle dishes and other favorites.

Located on Pattaya Klang just 50 meters or so east of 3rd Rd. They have plenty of parking in the rear.

They have a branch in Jomtien at the Sukhimvit end of Theprasit Rd. and several others I hear.

The Yamaha Filano resembles the Vespa. New models are even being painted in those nice Vespa like colors.

"The survey of 200 beach vendors of food and beverages revealed that 80 percent of them set up beach chairs beyond restricted areas."

I say, screw them. Off the beach entirely.

They have been abusing the beach and tourists for years and years. They blew it. By By.

Here is an article from 2008. Even the Chonburi Governor was ignored by Pattaya Police and City Hall.

http://www.mangozeen.com/2008/05/19/pattaya/chonburi-governor-threatens-all-powerful-beach-chair-mafia.htm

What Insurance Company in their right mind would under write a policy on these scumbag Jet Ski operators,their time would be wasted on a daily basis trying to stop the operators from scamming the insurance companies,but,maybe before too long,the Insurance companies will be complaining to City Hall about being scammed!...Time will tell!.....TIT.

Certainly the insurance agent is in on it too.

Go check next month to see how many claims are filed.

I will bet zero.

I too noticed the "Jet Ski Dispute" box opposite the police station. It makes for a pretty good definition of irony.

The Deputy Mayor says the jet skis are insured.

That box must be the insurance company office. Since there are multiple claims each day totalling 200,000Bt or 300,000Bt it makes sense to put an insurance office next to the beach.

GOOGLE picked up photos suspects Pokai & Brockway photographed together in Bangkok, November 2013.

Richard Moore was murdered in February 2015.

Get her the 946 model.

The neighbours and I have phoned the 1337 Pattaya City complaint line over a hundred times about a nusiance!

My well connected Thai landlord won't complain about the nearby karaoke (owned by police) that disturbs us all night till 6AM.

Usually, just 2 or 3 drunks screaming into a thousand watt speaker. No walls!! The karaoke is open air!!

50% of his renters have moved out.

The landlord fears his family could be in danger if he complains.

looks like there are 3 permenant officers manning that office so I guess business is good

About a year ago, Police announced a 24/7 special police patrol along the beach. Officers dressed in orange shirts. Anybody see them?

"Officers dressed in orange shirts and caps will patrol the Pattaya Beach area 24 hours a day in an effort to reduce crimes, especially those that involve Tourists. Checkpoints in three areas along the 2km stretch of Pattaya Beach from North Pattaya to the entrance of Walking Street will be set up."

Wonder how much?

Looks like it's been upgraded to Ohlins shocks and probably a few more performance items.

I did see a Paul Smart Sport Classic in a shop on ThongLor a couple years ago. (Behind Villa Market.)

Sweet.

Today there are no chairs and no income on Wong Amat beach (Naklua soi 18).

The result of Thais misbehaving and getting spanked by the government.

If only every Thai could get penalized for bad behavior.

Looks much better now, just like a TAT brochure.

More sand and less scammers. Nice.

Yea great for becoming burnt like a lobster in about 30-45

minutes on the beach with no umbrellas to protect white skinned

tourist from the sun....

O-yea Thai girls will not even go to the beach with-out umbrellas

during the day....

I have been to the beach hundreds of times.The worst scammers

I ever saw was ice cream sellers,foot massagers,trinket sellers

Wouldn't it be nice if the umbrella people didn't try to control the area? The audacity of that disrespectful lowlife, throwing tourists off a public beach like they were a pack of mangy dogs! Not the first time either.

Let's be honest. They were paying off police so they could exploit public property and they made the place look like a slum.

The spiteful jerks worked their butts off every morning setting up thousands of empty chairs and even became abusive to those that didn't want to use their services.

Bye Bye

Today there are no chairs and no income on Wong Amat beach (Naklua soi 18).

The result of Thais misbehaving and getting spanked by the government.

If only every Thai could get penalized for bad behavior.

Looks much better now, just like a TAT brochure.

More sand and less scammers. Nice.

As much as I enjoy seeing Muslim extremists suffer, the entire GW Bush Iraq/Afghanistan episode has lowered the value of the USA "stock."

They may not like the USA but it was nice when we could be counted on to be fair.

Unfortunately the USA fell right into BinLadens trap.

The US Military operation in the Middle East is the extremists biggest recruitment tool.

I was surprised to read that Ducati Thailand produced a limit edition Paul Smart Scrambler. 24 units for the Thai market only.

Paul Smart flew in for the reveal.

I liked the Paul Smart Sport Classic but not so sure of this livery on a Scrambler.

Freud said that superstition represents the expectation of trouble. Believing the amulets will prevent and protect from trouble is like inviting it in.

I could have saved him from that cancer. Hop on one foot around the coconut tree 3 times.

I bought my own folding beach chair, folding table and beer cooler. All I need is a shady spot away from those venders.

Carrying a chair, and a table to the beach in order to save 40 baht? You can't be serious! And where is the shady spot on beach in Pattaya or Jomtien. Don't tell you carrying a beach umbrella as well.

The price to sit under a umbrella all day is about 1 dollar...

Yes one dollar for a whole day..

Also loads of empty beach for those who are too cheap to spend

one dollar...

Who really cares if the chairs are not first first class...

Its perfect really 2nd class chairs for a 3rd class beach and

4th class dirty ocean water.....

The price is a $1 but sometimes they say $10.

Besides that, they set up thousands of empty chairs to block tourists from using the area.

Sometimes they abuse tourists that want to use the open space.

They leave their crap there in the evenings and the place looks like a slum.

Aggressive, rude vendors pester the tourists all day long.

They had their chance. Screw them.

Set up umbrellas when a person requests one is the answer and haul that crap out of there at sundown.. And if they scam, come down on them like a ton of bricks.

Today is the deadline (again) for all the jet skis to carry mandatory insurance.

Looking for volunteers to go crash a jet ski to test out the new insurance coverage.

Wong Amat beach, Naklua soi 18.

Chair service suspended until further notice.

Good!

Now the place is starting to resemble the photos in the TAT brochures.

New price - 143,000Bt - 20% - 6,000 kilometres + 108,400Bt.

Call the General.

This guy was just doing charity work when he was roommates with Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker ...... who pled guilty on six felony charges: conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy, conspiracy to destroy aircraft, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to murder United States employees, and conspiracy to destroy property.