Group of British women held to ransom by armed Thai police and forced to pay £150 – for a broken TOILET

[from the home of CC]

probably too pissed to remember what happened

[DrTuner]

53 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

10K for a 'broken' toilet worth about 1500 + work. Avoid this island.

Depends. I just bought an american standard throne, 5600baht. Installed myself, work would probably have been 600-800, after which I would have had to install it again myself anyway as Somchai just doesn't have the mental capacity to install them right.

 

10k for a broken one seems about right as they'll be losing a day to put in a new one.

[DILLIGAD]

Probably gave it a ‘Glasgow Kiss’


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[SammyT]

I've seen a few movies online that start with a plumber going to do some work at a house occupied by a group of girls. 

I'm willing to offer my services if need be...

[blackhorse]

Good job they weren't Chinese ,would mean
more groveling from the powers that be.
regards worgeordie

If they were Chinese they probably would have been given 10 k for the inconvenience

[prakhonchai nick]

48 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

Four sharing a room? Good looking ladies though (especially the one far left in the photo)

My cup of tea too.  Not keen on blondes.????

[bluesofa]

5 minutes ago, blackhorse said:

40 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Good job they weren't Chinese ,would mean
more groveling from the powers that be.
regards worgeordie

If they were Chinese they probably would have been given 10 k for the inconvenience

Yes, but they'd probably have got caught by customs for the export duty, when taking it home.

[Tiredofglasshalfemptyexpat]

1 hour ago, Vacuum said:

10K for a 'broken' toilet worth about 1500 + work. Avoid this island.

Platinum member clown. Where can i buy a toilet for 1500 including work

[Juan B Tong]

Big Joke to send staff to Scotland in an effort to get to the bottoms of this one.

[bluesofa]

Just now, Juan B Tong said:

Big Joke to send staff to Scotland in an effort to get to the bottoms of this one.

Arse!

[Wiggy]

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

 The 1 in the red dress must be responsible.????

Would be like sitting on a Polo mint. 

[prakhonchai nick]

Looks like just the lid is broken.  Easy and cheap to replace

[Kerryd]

As they managed to (somehow) break the water tank on the toilet as well as the seat, you have to wonder what they were doing. They must have known enough to shut the water off as well or the place could have flooded.

The whole bit about "held for ransom by armed police" is just plain BS. Just another lot of arrogant tourists trying to get out of accepting any responsibility for their own actions by trying to make themselves look like the victims.

 

Should be arrested and charged with damaging Thailand's image. Looks like a few months in a Thai prison would do them more good than harm.

[meinphuket]

If these had been Chinese, the PM and imm. police would have grovelled and apologized to the Chinese government, and given each of these hustled women a Golden toilet

[1337markus]

I am sure when they get home and each tell 40 people of this experience then TAT will have to another PR roll out to attract tourists again. Reap what you sow.

[Justgrazing]

2nd from left wants to careful she don't get pulled for having her cat on display also .. 

[meinphuket]

If these had been Chinese, the PM and imm. police would have grovelled and apologized to the Chinese government, and given each of these hustled women a Golden toilet

[sammieuk1]

Hotel owners fault risk and wide load assessment not carried out????

[Darcula]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Jade McInnes, Stacey Robertson, Rachel McFarlane, and Emily Michie

 

Also known as Small, Medium, Large and Extra-large.

[Elreeco]

The things people do for five minutes of fame. 'Red Dress' needs to visit the gym.

[stanleycoin]

38 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

probably too pissed to remember what happened

are you on about the Sun reporters ?

[ArickChaiyaphum]

I'd have spray painted my name on the toilet wall to get my monies worth!!

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[DILLIGAD]

As they managed to (somehow) break the water tank on the toilet as well as the seat, you have to wonder what they were doing. They must have known enough to shut the water off as well or the place could have flooded. 

The whole bit about "held for ransom by armed police" is just plain BS. Just another lot of arrogant tourists trying to get out of accepting any responsibility for their own actions by trying to make themselves look like the victims.

 

Should be arrested and charged with damaging Thailand's image. Looks like a few months in a Thai prison would do them more good than harm.

 

Many cistern here in Thailand are not fixed (screwed) to the wall and as many are fitted away from the wall also.

Maybe someone landed on the lav a bit hard, smashing the seat and making the cistern rock against the wall, hence the broken back part of the chinaware.

That’s my ThaiVisa CSI theory.

 

 

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[stanleycoin]

7 minutes ago, Elreeco said:

The things people do for five minutes of fame. 'Red Dress' needs to visit the gym.

why, it cost enough for the busted Toilet. 

Edited October 25, 2018 by stanleycoin

[albertik]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

URINE TROUBLE

Great lead-in.

[SammyT]

2 minutes ago, cyberfarang said:

There is no way the toilet was damaged like that by a maid, this is obvious vandalism.

Agreed. That back bit would be pretty hard to break through normal use. We've all seen drunk maggot western girls (and guys) here. No doubt have refused to pay and the local owner has turned to the Police and the girls have turned to the media. 

 

Gonna be a good story to explain to every prospective employer for the next ten years when the "google search" part of a job application is done...

[BigC]

Must be more to this story than what’s printed 

[BigC]

They paid the money to he owner or direct to police.

 

its a bit silly saying armed police as all police are armed.

 

if the owner complained and the police we’re called to clear the dispute and the women got aggressive then this story could have another side to it

[The Deerhunter]

1 hour ago, manarak said:

it's obviously aimed at UK ignoramuses who are shocked by armed police, when in fact police is almost always armed in Thailand.

It's the kind of dishonest and manipulative reporting I dislike.

But this time it is misleading headlines and/or c$@p reporting in UK not Thailand.  Nowhere does it say the police threatened them with guns but that is the inference.

[SammyT]

2 minutes ago, BigC said:

its a bit silly saying armed police as all police are armed.

Agreed, sensationalist reporting. Pretty much Britain, NZ and a couple of Nordic countries are the only countries in the world where Police aren't armed as a matter of course.