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

[barmatt]

1 hour ago, meinphuket said:

Such heroes ! 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

Thats the fourth time you said that! We're not deaf.

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, cyberfarang said:

Of all tourists worldwide, Brits are the lowest denominator of the lot, they simply don`t know where to draw the line and cause problems wherever they go.

You're OK with Chinese tourists then?

[how241]

It does seem like a lot of money for what appears to be only a broken seat. Maybe there is other damage that is not visible.

[Austrian26]

man and i cant get someone to move a finger for a thai girl working at my condo that stole 100.000 baht + in funds 

[AccidentalTourist]

10000 thb for a toilet seat? Even the whole things costing less...

I am worked in hotels all my life; the manager should be arrested and no one else (maybe include the scamming police).

This is Thailand hospitality? As I always pointed out in my 25 years in the country is LOB not LOS  

[mikeymike100]

3 hours 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.

The headline of this piece " Group of British women held to ransom by armed Thai police and forced to pay £150 – for a broken TOILET " is factually correct, assuming the report is accurate. In that the armed police said they would be arrested if they did not pay up. Now who did break the toilet, we will probably never know, but to call the women "UK ignoramuses" is totally unfair. Plus asking 10,000 baht to repair the toilet is ludicrous and an obvious scam.

[BigC]

BS news headline “

held for ransom for 150 pounds “

 

maybe crime is offering discount promotion 

 

when first read this I thought it was 150,000 pounds lol

 

its some kind of a joke 

[Burma Bill]

Quote: "came back from lunch" - Scottish - liquid lunch??? Well done police.

[Cleveland]

You guys crack me up with some of the comments! Block and Tackle indeed.

[BigC]

2 hours ago, cyberfarang said:

So you sneaked an extra person into your room and expect not to pay for it. The hotel is running a business not a charitable doss house.

 

Considering the class of clientele that hotel seems to attract, I agree with you, best not to visit.

I wouldn’t want to be staying with these kind of customers lol. 

[ttrd]

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

 

We may assume that the guilty one is the one in the red dress....

 

 

Further, to reduce the movement and also the fatique on the toilet this simple saving technic can be adviced:

 

 

 

[Chris Lawrence]

Great tourist promotion event. Beautiful one day, police holding you at gun point the next. Thais can not afford this stupid exposure.

[CanterbrigianBangkoker]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

the loo at their Thai hotel was smashed

 

The one in red must have sat down too fast... The effects of an over-spiced Som Tam perhaps?

[observer90210]

The one in the pink dress far left, could have bailed all the 4 out without shelling out one single quid...with some alternative methods !!

[hashmodha]

4 hours ago, Vacuum said:

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

Sun reporting! Hmmmmm that's funny..... never heard of toilet actually breaking???..toilet seat.. .yes.......I have a jungle toilet .   10 years on ...   Just changed seat...199bht.....rain so many people sit on it.....no worries..... not easy to break a toilet......the ceramic can handle all the lasses doing their stuff.....if they can fit on them......the joys of Sun.....didn't know Its still around....the mucky stuff it used to come out with ....

[digger70]

4 hours ago, Vacuum said:

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

Get some Glasses Please.  ????

[HAKAPALITA]

Police will be looking into it for Months.

[moe666]

Happens a lot in hotels toilets, sinks and furniture. My wife worked in a hotel where the granny in a group of 4 kept doing laundry in the sink, she was shown a deep sink more approiate for laundry but insisted using the sink in the room until she knocked it off the wall and it broke. They refused to pay for the new sink and my wife picked up the phone and says calling police, they paid up.

Then the russian who ruined the mattress by pissing in bed while he slept. When the maid went to check the room at check out the mattress was so saturated the piss was leaking on to the floor. The couple had requested no maid service during their 5 day stay.

There are some real weird o out there

[IsaanFam]

Obviously viral marketing campaign.

[PremiumLane]

I see the 'hansum' old codgers of TVF are out in force on this one. What have these women's looks got to do with anything?

 

Funny, because you are the same lot that moan about how childish the Thais are. 

[Mavideol]

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

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

sorry mate, it was the one on the left in pink, I was with her ????

[Pattaya28]

I reckon "red dress" let rip.

Ripple effect caused the breakage.

[dallen52]

Had a friend go through the shower screen at Whitehouse condo Soi 11 .

It literally exploded into hundreds of bits.

Cut a fair bit too.

The owner wanted 30,000 baht or he would call the police and get his visa cancelled. 

One of the golf club cronies. 

And I well believe he would have the corrupt contacts to make it happen. 

 

No they didn't pay. 

Left the hotel. 

 

And the hotel didn't call an ambulance service either.

[SupermarineS6B]

Some lookers there.........

[SammyT]

18 minutes ago, PremiumLane said:

I see the 'hansum' old codgers of TVF are out in force on this one. What have these women's looks got to do with anything?

  

Funny, because you are the same lot that moan about how childish the Thais are. 

Toilet seat clearly broken by blunt force. Girl in the red dress' ass clearly capable of creating such significant blunt force. Absolutely relevant comments being made by posters

[andygrr]

 I've seen this before the maid takes the cover of the cistern and then when putting it back on let it slip,

The cistern covers are heavy and looking at the damage it only broke the plastic toilet seat 300 to 600 baht to fix.

[andygrr]

 I've seen this before the maid takes the cover of the cistern and then when putting it back on let it slip,

The cistern covers are heavy and looking at the damage it only broke the plastic toilet seat 300 to 600 baht to fix.

[wabothai]

Very strange that the press shows up for such a non-story.

[dallen52]

Oddly I always check out the loo seats in hotels, because they are invariably always loose, or off centre.

And having had one slip off and trap the goolies, I don't want that to happen again. 

[NoshowJones]

5 hours ago, Vacuum said:

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

Good looking, the one in the red dress???????? Could do with a good diet