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SOURCE: Pattaya One News: September 11th 2008

Hotel Cleaner jumps to her death in North Pattaya.

Early on Friday Morning, Police Major Sureeya from Pattaya Police Station was called to the Markland Hotel in Soi 1 off Pattaya Beach Road to investigate reports of a suicide.

At the base of the building, Police inspected the body of Khun Amornrat aged 20, who was employed as a cleaner at the Hotel.

A co-worker explained to Police that she had gone to the 27th Floor to clean the Restaurant and Police think she jumped from this high floor due to the state of her body.

The victim’s Sister explained to Police that she had been working at the Markland Hotel for about 6 months and on Thursday Night, she had gone on a date with a Thai Man. She returned to her room at approximately 4am and was in a depressed state according to her Sister who she lived with.

The Mobile phone of the victim was checked and minutes before she jumped, she is known to have called a male employee of the Hotel, who is now being questioned by Police. The case has been recorded as a suicide.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya One News

Photograph of tall building

SOURCE: Pattaya People: September 12th 2008

Kinky Times

Tourist Robbed in Night of Passion

Two people were brought into Pattaya Police Station on the morning of the 12th September for causing a disturbance.

The man, 50 year old Australian Mr. John Hamilton accused Miss Beer, his escort for the evening, of stealing money from him whilst they were playing games in his condo on Pratamnak Road.

She denied theft and counter acted by reporting the Australian for improper conduct, defamation of character and cheating; by not being a good sport in getting very angry and not treating her with respect.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya People

Australian: Mr. John Hamilton accused of improper conduct, cheating and anger

By strange coincidence, following the constant heavy rain in Pattaya and Jomtien I purchased some fish and chips and Gaviscon at Simon's in Jomtien and I was reminded of this Lancashire joke which so many people on Thai Visa enjoyed all those years ago.

I think I will be forgiven for ressurecting (it). We could all do with a good laugh in the 'rainy season'..........

I like it! Too true!

Don't forget from a landline to dial 1234- before a non-local call for 85% discount.

I have been to Angeles City, but I gotta say I personally like Pattaya much better. Aside from my preference of Thai women to Filipina, I found the Phillipines to be a bit run down for my taste. Sure there are some that like to go there regularly, but it is not for me. I doubt I will be returning to the Phillipines anytime soon unless one of my Filipino friends invites me.

Been thinking about going there, for some time, but put off by stories of how difficult it is to get around. Can you advise me of any web sites/ forums that give good information about life in AC please. Also, is it like Pattaya, in that you can just turn up and get an hotel, and is there a high/ low season ( I understand there are a lot less tourists visiting the Phillipines than Thailand, and AC is not really a tourist destination as such?

Thanks for any advice.

It is not difficult to get to. Just fly to Manila then book a coupon taxi in Manila airport to AC.

I think AC is over rated, more of a last chance saloon for OAP's. For younger people (around 30-40) far better to go direct to Cebu and enjoy the life there. It is impossible not to have a great time in Cebu.

SOURCE: Pattaya One News: September 11th 2008

Press Conference Announces Arrest of Armed Robber.

On Wednesday evening Major General Bundit, the chief of Chonburi Provincial police, held a press conference at Sri Racha station to announce the arrest of a 30-year-old Thai male who has been charged with allegedly using a pistol to hold up and rob four 7-11 convenience stores over a period of a month in the Sri Racha area.

CCTV pictures from each of the stores showed a man wearing a full-face motorbike helmet walking into the stores, pulling out a gun, and demanding cash as well as more than a fistful of mobile phone cards. Arrayed before the suspect were enough phone cards to start his own mobile telephone shop. Police claimed he had absconded with the equivalent of 50,000 bahts worth of cards as well as collecting over 30,000 baht in cash.

The man was traced to a room in Laem Chabang but police were unable to find the pistol he used in the robberies. The man confessed to his crimes but said he had already thrown the pistol into the sea as he planned to live off the proceeds of his crimes for a few months.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya One News

Robber sporting his trademark helmet

SOURCE: Pattaya One News: September 11th 2008

Car Chase Ends in the Bushes.

On a wet Thursday morning police stationed in Pattaya, and later assisted by officers from Banglamung, engaged in what proved to be an unsuccessful high speed chase of a vehicle that had been noted as being connected with a series of burglaries in Sattahip.

The vehicle had been spotted by alert officers in south Pattaya but when they tried to get the driver to stop he ignored them and took off at speed in the direction of Central Road. Officers radioed colleagues and a roadblock was established but the driver broke through after aiming his car at a policeman on a motorbike. The officer bailed out before the car struck his bike.

Like a scene from a bad B-grade movie the chase continued down Sukhumvit Road and then off into the wilds of eastern Pattaya. It only ended when the Thai male driver of the car was forced into an unsealed side road and decided he had a better chance of escape if he legged it, Indiana Jones-style, into the surrounding jungle.

Officers with weapons drawn trudged off into the undergrowth in what proved to be a futile search for the alleged thief. The man simply disappeared into the bushland and police abandoned the search. Nonetheless, they now have his car and inside the vehicle was an ID card, giving the man’s age as 32 from Suphanburi. Police are hopeful of arresting the man at a later date, as long as he doesn’t take up residence in a tree somewhere.

SOURCE: Patttay People: September 11th 2008

Snatch Incident Causes Bike Accident

Police were called to an accident on the 9th September on Third Road.

As officers were investigating the damage of two overturned Honda motorcycles and a Toyota Van, other officers were interviewing two ladies at hospital who had just been treated for arm injuries that they acquired in the accident.

One of them, 25 year old Miss Yadaporn stated that whilst they were riding along the road, a man on a bike came from behind and grabbed her gold necklace. She fought back and grabbed his wrist but in so doing both lost control and they crashed into the rear of the parked Toyota van.

And guess who was being interviewed at Pattaya Police Station; yes the culprit, 25 year old Wichien.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya People

SOURCE: Pattaya People: September 11th 2008

Teenager Charged with Mobile Theft

As 17 year old Suwat Sriumkarn was walking happily along South Pattaya Road one sunny morning on the 10th September, his dreams for the day came to a swift end when he was confronted by police officers.

He was found with a mobile phone in his possession, which he stole from 21 year old Pechpan Prasert who came along to testify that Suwat had robbed him in the market area further down the road.

What Suwat didn’t know was that Pechpan quickly contacted his brother who is a local police volunteer and it wasn’t long before the search for the culprit came about and Suwat was found.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya People

Good post!

I have lost track of the number of PM's that I have received from con-men/women courtesy of my In-Box.

As this is not health related I am moving it to the General forum, which also has a wider readership...

I think they put something in it to make it addictive (besides the caffeine). All of my high school friends (yes, since High School) who drank it back then are stuck on it now.

Something about it. We'll be bringing cases, I guess! LOL. then it's the cafe yen from there on... I guess it's better than being hooked on booze...

But, But, but Sheryl! I am very unhealthy without my Mountain Dew! I is in the interest of the physical safety of the general public and the general economy (not to mention other critical factors) than I find my Mountain Dew fix in LOS!

I agree, Mountain Dew is very addictive. However a food scientist warned me off it because excessive intake can cause your testes to shrink from the size of Victoria plums to that of Damson plums.

I understand that this is something to do with yellow dye that is added to the drink.

Google it for more scientific information.

And I thought it was just cold outside! (sounds like someone here is gullible to just about any urban legend). Don't ya think any government in the world would stop it if this was true? It surely would have made the general media (which is why urban legends are confined to water cooler discussions and anonymous internet chat--same goes for the wite man inventing the HIV virus, the US paying people to bomb the World Trad Center just for an election and on and on...

Here's what google came up with (the first hit)...most are about urban legends and how they get started...like waking up with a kidney missing...

http://www.snopes.com/medical/potables/mountaindew.asp

I would keep writing but I have to pud yao (but I'm having a difficult time finding "it)!

There is no smoke without fire. I believe that Mountain Dew causes testicular atrophy. It is no good quoting American-originating webpages denying the fact.

Unfortunately, the internet is full of lies and as the movie 'Supersize Me' showed, eating Mc'Donalds food to excess causes serious liver damage.

It is upto you!

I believe I found the source of Urban Myths! Here's an interview with the man that made the movie. Hardly liver damage (hey, the movie maker's words, not mine). http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...756C0A9629C8B63

If one is concerned about their health, the drinking in LOS is responsible for more deaths than the fast food chains (read the paper- how many farangs die in a pool of their own blood as a result of alcoholic disseminated intravascular coagulation precipitated by liver failure)? One week in BKK last month- two died (one in an airplane and one in his hotel) not sure how many others were reported that week. (no reference, just opinion).

That is a bit rich. Fast food will always cause more deaths than drinking. 1/3 deaths smoking, 1/3 deaths obesity, 1/3 deaths others. Drinking is about 10% maximum (and those usually due to accident/misadventure).

As for Quote: "how many farangs die in a pool of their own blood as a result of alcoholic disseminated intravascular coagulation precipitated by liver failure)?

Well I would guess very few. I presume that you mean 'Portal hypertension' which is end-stage liver disease and will come forwarned before haemmorage.

The facts remain that in general food and drink of the present age is killing us. 1/3 of deaths are due to bad food and drink. Alcohol in reasonable doses, unless one has the genes of liver disease is usually physically harmless.

Today should tick you pink. All the water wells & boreholes owners are appreciating the rain.

In the UK the water companies would say "It's the wrong kind of rain"....

You can buy motion detectors; similar to those in 7-11 that go Bing-Bong when the beam is broken. 500 Baht, but heavy on batteries, unless you buy a DC adapter. TOP TIP!

I did not see anything in the Thai news reports about this, although I suppose not all burglarys can be reported.

For those of you interested. English laws have changed recently allowing burglars and intruders to be murdered in cold blood by householders, except for being stabbed in the back or ambushed deliberately.

Good news at last in England.

Amazingly available in the Middle East, even though it is pronounced 'Mountain Jew'!?

SOURCE: Pattaya One News: September 10th 2008

Tourist Police arrest Long Neck Hill-Tribe illegal workers in Sattahip.

Following orders from Police Major General Atagrit, the National Commander of Tourist Police, Police Captain Suprapan, a sub-inspector at Pattaya’s Tourist Police Station led an operation to arrest a group of illegal immigrants thought to be working at Kow Shee Jang in Sattahip.

The group of illegal immigrants who come from the mountains in North Thailand are not classed as Thai Nationals and are easily recognizable by their long necks covered by metal rings.

The Galiang People also known as the Karen Long Neck Hill-tribe can often be seen in Thailand but they are not permitted to work in Thailand without work permits and visas. The team of Tourist Police Officers located a Galiang village at the location which replicates their dwellings in the mountains of North Thailand.

It has been set up as a Tourist attraction. A total of 11 Galiang People were arrested and taken to the Immigration Office for deportation. Khun Wirasak, a Thai national, was arrested in connection with the Galiang People and was charged with harboring illegal immigrants.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya One News

Pattaya Police, hot on crime, round up illegal workers

SOURCE: Pattaya One News: September 10th 2008

Pattaya Police announce the arrest of 13 people caught with drugs and guns.

On Tuesday Evening at Pattaya Police Station, Police Colonel Nopadon, the Chief of Pattaya Police conducted one of his regular press conferences to announce the arrest of 13 individuals involved in consumption and selling class 1 drugs and two men were caught with firearms.

Each case is thought to be unconnected. The most serious case presented to journalists detailed the arrest of Khun Yongyut aged 31 who was caught with 1,156 Yabba Tablets following an undercover operation which took place earlier in the day in front of Soi 61 on the Sukumvit Road in North Pattaya.

A further 9 Yabba Tablets seized in the other cases were on display along with two firearms which were seized from Khun Argon aged 25 and Khun Egashai also aged 25. The 13 arrestees will now face a judge in the coming days who will decide their fate.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya One News

SOURCE: Pattaya One News: September 10th 2008

Seminar discusses how to identify suspicious activity amongst foreign and Thai Tourists coming to Pattaya.

On Wednesday Morning at the Pattaya Discovery beach Hotel located on Pattaya Beach, Khun Itipon, the Mayor of Pattaya chaired a meeting of Hotel Operators and City Hall Staff members to discuss ways of identifying suspicious activity and individuals who may come to Pattaya to potentially cause a problem.

The Mayor explained that Hotel Staff should become more aware of their guests and how they act. Any suspicious activity should be reported to the National Intelligence Agency based in Bangkok so they can investigate the individuals or groups of people.

This would include international hotel guests and Thai Guests, especially if they originate from Southern Thailand Provinces currently experiencing ethnic clashes.

As this is not health related I am moving it to the General forum, which also has a wider readership...

I think they put something in it to make it addictive (besides the caffeine). All of my high school friends (yes, since High School) who drank it back then are stuck on it now.

Something about it. We'll be bringing cases, I guess! LOL. then it's the cafe yen from there on... I guess it's better than being hooked on booze...

But, But, but Sheryl! I am very unhealthy without my Mountain Dew! I is in the interest of the physical safety of the general public and the general economy (not to mention other critical factors) than I find my Mountain Dew fix in LOS!

I agree, Mountain Dew is very addictive. However a food scientist warned me off it because excessive intake can cause your testes to shrink from the size of Victoria plums to that of Damson plums.

I understand that this is something to do with yellow dye that is added to the drink.

Google it for more scientific information.

And I thought it was just cold outside! (sounds like someone here is gullible to just about any urban legend). Don't ya think any government in the world would stop it if this was true? It surely would have made the general media (which is why urban legends are confined to water cooler discussions and anonymous internet chat--same goes for the wite man inventing the HIV virus, the US paying people to bomb the World Trad Center just for an election and on and on...

Here's what google came up with (the first hit)...most are about urban legends and how they get started...like waking up with a kidney missing...

http://www.snopes.com/medical/potables/mountaindew.asp

I would keep writing but I have to pud yao (but I'm having a difficult time finding "it)!

There is no smoke without fire. I believe that Mountain Dew causes testicular atrophy. It is no good quoting American-originating webpages denying the fact.

Unfortunately, the internet is full of lies and as the movie 'Supersize Me' showed, eating Mc'Donalds food to excess causes serious liver damage.

It is upto you!

SOURCE: Pattaya People: September 10th 2008

Two Teenagers Report Fake Pattaya Policemen

Pattaya Police Station received a visit from two teenagers on the morning of the 10th September.

They were 16 year old Tibet and his friend Miss Pacharawan aged 18.

They came in to make a serious report that they had been robbed by two men claiming to be police volunteer officers.

The incident happened at Soi Khao Pai in South Pattaya, when the men aged about 30 and dressed in uniforms confronted them as they were on their way to market.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya People

They were taken in by a couple of fakers

SOURCE: Pattaya People: September 10th 2008

Accident on Sukhumvit Road

Police from Dongtan Police Station in Jomtien were called out on the afternoon of the 8th September to a road accident which happened in front of the Kanyong Homestore on Sukhumvit Road.

Together with the Sawang Boriboon they rushed to the scene where they attended to Mr. Jaroon, aged 56, for head injuries and legs which were both broken. He had been involved in a collision with a heavy lorry whilst riding his Honda motorcycle along the busy road.

According to a witness, the store lorry was coming out of the store when the bike travelling fast cut in front of it. Rather than waiting for the police, the truck driver panicked and fled the scene.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya People

As this is not health related I am moving it to the General forum, which also has a wider readership...

I think they put something in it to make it addictive (besides the caffeine). All of my high school friends (yes, since High School) who drank it back then are stuck on it now.

Something about it. We'll be bringing cases, I guess! LOL. then it's the cafe yen from there on... I guess it's better than being hooked on booze...

But, But, but Sheryl! I am very unhealthy without my Mountain Dew! I is in the interest of the physical safety of the general public and the general economy (not to mention other critical factors) than I find my Mountain Dew fix in LOS!

I agree, Mountain Dew is very addictive. However a food scientist warned me off it because excessive intake can cause your testes to shrink from the size of Victoria plums to that of Damson plums.

I understand that this is something to do with yellow dye that is added to the drink.

Google it for more scientific information.

Samak actually said on TV broadcast:

" If you can't afford to eat Pork then eat Chicken".

Then followed up with; " Walk instead of taking public transport" ......

I get the feeling that Samak will come to a very sticky end; lifeless probably..............

SOURCE: Pattaya People: September 9th 2008

Girl Fights Back in Attempted Robbery

Police and Sawang Boriboon were called to the Bali Hai Pier area on the morning of the 9th September to answer a call from a distressed young lady.

There they found a 17 year old young man and 16 year old Miss Wassana who told them they had been attacked by a gang of men using guns who attempted to steal her bike and possessions.

The cowards set upon them but somehow she got up the courage to fight back and managed to get away with a few bruises.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya People

SOURCE: Pattaya One News: September 9th 2008

Fire caused by depressed Yabba Smoker at South Pattaya Apartment Block.

Police and Fire Rescue Units were called to an Apartment Block in South Pattaya on Monday Night to deal with a fire, thought to have been caused by a man smoking Yabba inside his room.

The fire was put out quickly and Police moved in to arrest the occupier of the 2nd Floor room, Khun Watanna aged 29. He was taken to Pattaya Police Station where he confessed to smoking the class 1 drug and claimed that he was depressed following an argument with his girlfriend and when he had finished smoking, he forgot to extinguish a candle used to heat up the Yabba Tablet.

He was charged with class 1 drug consumption offences and will have to pay compensation to the owner of the room that was damaged in the fire.