No smoking? Now Hua Hin police get tough with beach booze ban

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No smoking? Now Hua Hin police get tough with beach booze ban

 

Picture: Thaivisa

 

HUA HIN: -- Just when it was expected that signage would begin to go up to ban smoking on Hua Hin's beach comes an altogether different directive.

 

A sign has gone up near the Centara Hotel forbidding the drinking or distribution (sale) of alcohol.

 

The sign that Thaivisa believes went up on Monday is 'signed' by the Prajuab Khirikhan provincial police.

 

No mention is made of any fines - or jail terms - for breaking the no drinking rule.

 

Smoking has been banned on twenty Thai beaches including the long coastline in Hua Hin from November 1st.

 

A jail term of one year or a 100,000 baht fine has been mentioned for violators. 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-10-17

[White Christmas13]

8 minutes ago, Gunnar Horpestad said:

Hurrayyyyyyyy for stupidity
What in the hell are they thinking?
They must be totally brain dead.
On the beach:
No eating
No drinking
No smoking
What is next???
No swimming????

Yeah swimming should be banned

[observer90210]

Saudi Arabia 4.0 ?

[Just Weird]

30 minutes ago, Gunnar Horpestad said:

Hurrayyyyyyyy for stupidity
What in the hell are they thinking?
They must be totally brain dead.
On the beach:
No eating
No drinking
No smoking
What is next???
No swimming????

Eating is allowed.

Drinking is allowed, alcohol isn't.

 

[NCC1701A]

same as USA. Everything on the beach in California is banned.

parking in some areas is 600 baht.

you can eat and drink non alcoholic beverages.

beaches closed after dark.

no swimming without lifeguard.

in Southern California beaches are patrolled after dark by police with FLIR night vision mounted on top of their vehicles to locate and arrest anyone on the beach.

 

same in many other states. exceptions are a few camp sites on beaches.

 

consuming alcohol anywhere in a public place in illegal.

[darksidedog]

I'm sure the tourists will be flocking to Thailand in waves. Not. I can't remember ever going on a holiday anywhere and not having a few beers at the beach. I hope this dunce gets sacked fairly speedily for this nonsense.

[InMyShadow]

The crash of the ruble hasn't deterred the Russians but not drinking on the beach probably will

[wirat69]

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

Eating is allowed.

Drinking is allowed, alcohol isn't.

 

What do you drink on the beach if it isn’t Chang or Leo... some unhealthy sugary drinks?? Get real... remember that fish sh*t in the water!!

[khunano]

Returning to my home country after many years in Thailand I will become a potential tourist. Though I'm not quite sure whether I will want to spend my vacation time in a country where I'm not even allowed to choose what kind of drink I can enjoy on my beach chair. Cheers!

[Xaos]

Hurrayyyyyyyy for stupidity
What in the hell are they thinking?
They must be totally brain dead.
On the beach:
No eating
No drinking
No smoking
What is next???
No swimming????

Yeh I was like whaaat? So tourists cant have cold one on the beach? Why would anyone come here then?

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[Thechook]

Please stay off the sand

[RichardColeman]

Hey holiday companies - I dare you to mention this in your brochures !

[thhMan]

Less skin infections from the dog pooh on the sand and human pooh in the water cant be a bad thing.

Maybe all the laws are to prevent people from all the nasties on the beach/sewer?

[petedk]

I know this isn't every beach yet but that is what I predicted when they banned the sale of alcohol. The next stage would be a complete ban of alcohol. I am sure other beaches will soon follow.

 

I can't see this being enforced though. I go to a small beach south of Pattaya (Baan Ampur) and in the evenings there are hundreds of Thais sitting on the beach eating, drinking whiskey and smoking.

 

It isn't only tourists that will be hit but also locals enjoy a drink and a smoke on the beach.

[petedk]

5 hours ago, Gunnar Horpestad said:

Hurrayyyyyyyy for stupidity
What in the hell are they thinking?
They must be totally brain dead.
On the beach:
No eating
No drinking
No smoking
What is next???
No swimming????

No drones

 

Absolutely no farangs.

[ukrules]

4 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

same as USA. Everything on the beach in California is banned.

parking in some areas is 600 baht.

you can eat and drink non alcoholic beverages.

beaches closed after dark.

no swimming without lifeguard.

in Southern California beaches are patrolled after dark by police with FLIR night vision mounted on top of their vehicles to locate and arrest anyone on the beach.

 

same in many other states. exceptions are a few camp sites on beaches.

 

consuming alcohol anywhere in a public place in illegal.

 

Yep, the above kind of laws is why people come to (or should I say used to come to) places like Thailand.

[robertson468]

If this law comes to Samui, it will really upset some big time bar owners who have put out tables, futtons and arrange fire shows at night so that the tourists can have a lovely evening with beer and cocktails.  Likewise there is a huge bar on the beach at Chaweng that would probably go ballistic with this law!  Not to mentione the Full Moon Party at Koh Pangnang!

[ukrules]

I can see what will happen now.

 

Someone will be sitting on a beach covered in every imaginable piece of garbage - like the Jomtien beach photo.

 

They will be surrounded by empty beer bottles and thousands of cigarette butts per square meter of sand which all comes in from the sea while drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette and they will be fined and carted off to jail.

 

Never to return in the future, and they will tell all of their friends of their ordeal.

 

In a way I hope these greedy <deleted> decimate their tourist industry because they deserve it.

[ttrd]

5 hours ago, Gunnar Horpestad said:

Hurrayyyyyyyy for stupidity
What in the hell are they thinking?
They must be totally brain dead.
On the beach:
No eating
No drinking
No smoking
What is next???
No swimming????

You forgot - no sex, and no jetski scam - ahhh the last is still allowed (in a way)....;)

 

[hhinhh]

When the police pops up have a secret look at what they wear. If it is one of the Chang sponsored advertisement shirts make sure you mention the right brand of beer that you drank to get away without fine.

[hhinhh]

When the police pops up have a secret look at what they wear. If it is one of the Chang sponsored advertisement shirts make sure you mention the right brand of beer that you drank to get away without fine.

[masuk]

5 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

Yeah swimming should be banned

NEXT, they'll be banning throwing plastic into the sea or on the beach!!!!

[jenny2017]

5 hours ago, Gunnar Horpestad said:

Hurrayyyyyyyy for stupidity
What in the hell are they thinking?
They must be totally brain dead.
On the beach:
No eating
No drinking
No smoking
What is next???
No swimming????

No swimming. ( At least in Pattaya) 

 

 It's gettin' hilarious now. 

[RichardinHuaHin]

6 hours ago, Gunnar Horpestad said:

Hurrayyyyyyyy for stupidity
What in the hell are they thinking?
They must be totally brain dead.
On the beach:
No eating
No drinking
No smoking
What is next???
No swimming????

How about no thinking?  That should make them the most money if they fine people.

[USPatriot]

It was OK to go after the smokers! now it's not Ok to go after the drinkers?

 

Be careful what you wish for.. remember Hitler was only starting with the jews

[jenny2017]

5 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Eating is allowed.

Drinking is allowed, alcohol isn't.

 

Good looking girls in bikinis are allowed, prostitution isn't.

[KittenKong]

44 minutes ago, ukrules said:

 

Yep, the above kind of laws is why people come to (or should I say used to come to) places like Thailand.

 

Not me.

 

I like tidiness and law and order. I dont like anarchy and corruption and filth.

[Jimbo1964]

Just put it in a travel drinks mug. You can get a beer or something stronger in them and no one will be the wiser.......

[dinsdale]

[jenny2017]

5 minutes ago, Jimbo1964 said:

Just put it in a travel drinks mug. You can get a beer or something stronger in them and no one will be the wiser.......

How about a lot of fun with a modified cooling system?