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Well done another one off the street & NOT a home made 12guage But an S&W

Keep at it

I don't think Saudi Arabia was any better. I remember driving across the desert from Riyadh to Al Khobar many years ago. The desert was littered with discarded coke tins and supermarket plastic bags for the entire journey. On my occasional visits to Malaysia I have been impressed with the general standard of cleanliness and tidiness. I think Singapore has the best solution with swingeing fines for non compliance with litter disposal regulations.

Singapore dissapointed me in this regard, it's still a long way from the cleanliness of Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and other places in Europe. A couple of cities have fines for littering, way lower than in Singapore, but most can do without and manage to stay clean nonetheless. They put sufficient manpower in rubbish collection, and that's all the difference.

In Singapore they have something called a Corrective Work Order where all the naughty people have to wear an orange jacket with CWO on the back and have to spend several days cleaning up the rubbish that inevitably

gets thrown down, they could maybe use that idea on the beach here.

I nwould suggest if they got EVERYONE who broke the rules here into that there would be NO Trash as the cleaners would outweigh the dumping ability of the public

Seems to me this has been on before some years ago with pics of the local barges taking out trash & dumping it at night & back it comes. Not forgetting the out flow from under the tunnel running through Siam Bayshores land into the bay inc. 'floaties'

I remember watching that muck getting soaked up into drums on the back of trucks for Songkran

Ah well nothing much changes , BUT , there are many places in Asia , Europe,USA etc.

Check out Mekong in Vietnam & Galveston Bay in Texas

Not just inThailand !!

More Info need on this.

This does not bode well for anyone concerned from the scant information available

Tragedy for all concerned

Post Partem + Alcohol NOT a good mix . An observation not factually known by me.

I thought Pattaya was already full of cat houses.

& Dogs needing a pampering & Hotel

O M G

This cannot be correct as No One is POINTING

Mistaken ID & at 290 overpriced

Front Page is the Paper Kidding ????

Pattaya media 'Amateur Hour' with all mates / friends standing in as presenters etc.

I have NEVER seen one that could get a media job in a professional organisation,USA / UK / Australia.

But it sure is entertaining

Russian Victim , Russian alleged Thief

Is this keeping it in the family ???

Is this one of the reasons the Russian Embassy is 'beginning' to think Pattaya is unsafe ?? for its citizens

Whether suicide or not Tragic way to go

R I P

Suicide is a sad Final Ultimate and to solveable problems.

I would storm the joint with an automatic weapon and demand my clothes back.

Maybe even the whole SWAT Entry Team .

Seriously , if you can write Thai why the heck wouldn't you mark your clothing ????

Been using the same lady every time we are here never had a problem NEVER counted or had anything go missing.

Good Luck I consult at $250.00 per hour

ah right sorry for the confusion, useful to note that the tourist police although labeled as "police" are far from it - "tourist mediators" might be closer to the mark and no insult intended as they generally do a good job IMO but asking them to take action against known mafia types here would be no different than you taking you own action - they'd be putting themselves at risk

The ONE thing they are NOT & that is POLICE.

They are volunteers & have NO powers. They are to assist & seem to do that most of the time , but they cannot assist if you don't make them aware.

But , they are not a Police Unit & you cannot expect them to act accordingly although there are those among them who 'strut' as if they have got some sort of power but you get that in any organisation with uniforms

Ho Hum !

The kid obviously had an explosive personality

Interestingly at the PCEC the other Sunday there was an Australian who is a genuine Han Shi / Sifu (Grand Master / Professor ) giving a talk on his first book from the 70s on Australian Police Corruption.

He teaches SWAT Teams / Interrogators etc all over the world & has been coming to Patts for many decades. He could tell you who is 'Real' here. He will not get 'involved' here it is his getaway place.

Don't know if that is a help I went to see him because he was a Teacher at our SWAT School in early 2001 on less than lethal weapons

Another good catch

BUT there's the b****y Pointing Pic again

Good Job

That should slow him down

Outrageous behaviour

But not restricted to Pattaya

One of seveal alternatives that will appear I am sure

'Refused to press charges'??????

What is he hiding would be my first question

Ahhh Pattaya !!! Fireworks of every description available here

Pattaya 'BEGINNING' to earn a bad rep ???

Bit late for that but at least one Consul has the guts to mention it.

Taking peoples passports? I am sorry but this bit I don't understand? When did this become routine in Pattaya? That is just wrong.

The Embassy official is bang on. Nice to see a Country grow a pair and man up.

Who is next? Australia maybe, one of the Scandnavian's??

Australia ?? ya gotta be kidding They left an Aussie Tourist on the brink of death in Phuket a few months ago after he was an innocent victim of a road crash & his insurance wouldn't pay the hospital because he had hired a motorcycle.

Aussie public raised the funds to pay the bloodsuckers out & get him back to his home in New South Wales Luckily .

Aussie embassy quoted "we are keeping an eye on the situation & offering assistance where we can "

555

Doesn't sound very SAFE if you can just walk away with it

but who would trust a bank nowadays?

In the context of this thread that is a monumentally stupid reply.

Hear Hear !