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14 hours ago, Merylhighground said:

There are 'good' drunks and 'bad' drunks.

It sounds like you got unlucky, however experience has taught me that any drunk is potentially volatile, regardless of their nationality or disposition when sober, and keeping your gob shut, avoiding eye contact, and  if you can't avoid proximity to them, is always a wise move. Still his behaviour is inexcusable. I hope you reported the incident to the authorities. 

One of the nicest blokes I ever knew was a lovely, charming Swedish bloke when sober though when in his cups he was a downright menace; alternatively one of the least popular, most mealy-mouthed, downright poisonous blokes I ever knew, always moaning, short tempered and Thai-bashing at any chance when sober, was surprisingly a 'good' drunk; happy, eloquent, able to hold an intelligent, reasoned debate, would love everything about being in Thailand...the booze sure is a funny thing when taken in excess...

I'm sure you'll soon get the TV puritans airing their anti-booze, anti-Pattaya agendas, clouding your thread in the process...so, here's hoping you make a full recovery and get the chance to 'discuss' the occurrence with the 'English' thug.

I knew a Swedish bloke like that spoke perfect thai and English a proper charming intelligent man, however as soon as he had a drink he would turn into a complete idiot and start insulting anybody who was anywhere near him.

His friends where making him take antibus so he couldn't drink.

Just maybe the op is a bad drunk as he states he can't remember the incident properly or even what he said, so there is probably more to this than we know.

The op stated that his first bad experience in Thailand and that a falang initiated it.

Well fella it seems like you initiated it, if you go mouthing of to people you don't know even in passing you can expect a reaction, like the old saying for every action there is a reaction. It sounds to me your action of mouthing of prompted the other fellas reaction of punching you of the back of a baht bus.

If I were you I would look at this as an important lesson and change your attitude, I think you got of quite lightly in this instance.

Generally speaking Pattaya as a whole attracts a quite a lot of unsavoury characters both thai and falang, saying the wrong thing or even unknowingly insulting someone can end in serious injury or even death.

If you are unable to drink without getting obnoxious then I suggest you either give up drinking or go home to wherever you come from where it is acceptable to get drunk and be obnoxious without consequence.

I have a little question about this, my Mrs has a UK passport and has lived in the UK for almost 30 years her thai passport ran out some 15 years ago and she hasn't replaced it. When we were in Thailand in January and February she got her thai id card renewed so when we come back to Thailand in October for good will she be able to exit the UK on her UK passport and then enter Thailand on her thai id or would she need to use her UK passport to enter Thailand?

OP sorry about your situation.

In the UK you will probably not be able to get legal aid for this and solicitors are very expensive anywhere from £150-£600 per hour it is not unusual for them to ask you to put £1000-£1500 on account before they will do anything.

A place I got some good free advice for a recent court case that I had to go through in the UK was the lawforum you can ask a question for free and you will get some good advice about what to do. A lot of the people who comment on that forum are former law professionals and people going through similar situations, my case wasn't the same as yours but I got a lot of honest direct advice about what to do from a retired barrister who knew what he was talking about.

I would suggest you post your problem there and see what advice you get it is free so there is nothing to lose.