Pattaya: All Quiet on the Walking Street Front after bombs rock Bangkok

 

Image: Ruk Siam News

 

Ruk Siam News reported that everything was as normal last night in Walking Street after bombs and fires rocked the capital earlier in the day. 

 

Tourists were sauntering about in the famed red light district despite the trouble in Bangkok.

 

The media reported that the Pattaya police had been issued with emergency instructions to mobilize officers to set up checkpoints all over the resort. 

 

More than 20 officers were mobilized to look out for trouble that might threaten tourism and residents.

 

 

One checkpoint looking out for weapons and drugs was set up outside Big C on Sukhumvit Road.

 

Nothing untoward was found. 

 

Source: Ruk Siam News

 

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we are definitely in a higher state of readiness here in Hua Hin.    

56 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

More than 20 officers were mobilized

Does that mean they were plugged in and put on fast charge?

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

One checkpoint looking out for weapons and drugs was set up outside Big C on Sukhumvit Road.

 

Nothing untoward was found. 

 

Ofcores not, the only thing this check point does are to slow the traffic down 

All quiet on the Walking Street anyway

Don't mess with the officer with the jackboots and goggle eye glasses. He'd be a real fun spoiler. 

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

One checkpoint looking out for weapons and drugs was set up outside Big C on Sukhumvit Road

Dear terrorists, please come to us for an inspection. Krap

Tourists were sauntering about in the famed red light district . . . .?

 

Red light district ? Surely not. !!!!

Any excuse for the BIB to conduct a military style exercise and intimidate the tourists. (if any)

Even the Chinese must be sick of taking their photo.

 

Here in Bangkok you wouldn't even know something had happened unless you were right there. No-ones talking about it.

3 hours ago, kwan said:

Tourists were sauntering about in the famed red light district . . . .?

 

Red light district ? Surely not. !!!!

The red lights were only there for making the traffic stop, nothing more.

 

18 minutes ago, bendejo said:

The red lights were only there for making the traffic stop, nothing more.

 

Yes of course - at Zebra Crossings. ! 55555

2 hours ago, bendejo said:

The red lights were only there for making the traffic stop, nothing more.

 

It takes more than a red light to stop somchai in his toyota.....

So business as usual - all quiet!!

16 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Don't mess with the officer with the jackboots and goggle eye glasses. He'd be a real fun spoiler. 

I think he's upset he's lost his horse

19 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

we are definitely in a higher state of readiness here in Hua Hin.    

Why do you say that please

Nothing untoward was found, so every vehicle was checked and nothing was found 555 555

6 minutes ago, Almer said:

Why do you say that please

actually i will not talk about specifics, but you remember Hua Hin was bombed two years ago.

so there is a big change right now if you look for it.

20 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Tourists were sauntering about in the famed red light district despite the trouble in Bangkok

Which apparently isn't red at all as it's a family friendly area with no prostitution to be found !

A personal attack has been removed

5 hours ago, robjohns458 said:

It ia amazing how critical all the foreigners are of anything done here in Thailand. Imyself am grateful for their hospitality and consider many of you to be dreadfully disrespectful. If things are that miserable for you, go home and try to live on your meager incomes.

 

   Speaking (and thinking) good of someone, focusing on his qualities (although seeing the person as a whole), encourages this person to activate the energy inside to see you the same way.  That needs to be done first with oneself.  

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey

Pattaya is like a ghost town the tourists can’t afford the inflated prices with the baht rate .I doubt it is going to be on the top of any Tourist List at the moment.

10 hours ago, tabarin said:

Sounds like someone who is still in the honeymoon period and thinks he needs to be a sheep that loves everything about the country, just because he stays there.

Or perhaps prefers to live a life of optimism as opposed to grinding pessimism ?

 

 

11 hours ago, bendejo said:

The red lights were only there for making the traffic stop, nothing more.

 

Christmas is coming.

On 8/3/2019 at 9:53 AM, Cadbury said:

Don't mess with the officer with the jackboots and goggle eye glasses. He'd be a real fun spoiler. 

That is a typical uniform for a motorcycle officer in the USA.

Pattaya has been lucky so far, avoiding any terrorist attacks.
But it could happen, anyone can make a bomb and explode it in a shopping mall etc. 

I try to move around and never stay too long in one place. 

 

Pattaya's finest doing what they do; fleecing the motorists; lining their pockets; extorting businesses and ignoring crime.

21 hours ago, robjohns458 said:

It ia amazing how critical all the foreigners are of anything done here in Thailand. Imyself am grateful for their hospitality and consider many of you to be dreadfully disrespectful. If things are that miserable for you, go home and try to live on your meager incomes.

I have found generally their hospitality comes at a price, particularly in the tourist areas where they are a greedy lot. More rural, they can be great. 

The ping pong show venues need to put up signs which read "enter at your own risk."

3 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

The ping pong show venues need to put up signs which read "enter at your own risk."

When was the last time you saw a ping pong show in Pattaya?  Might want to talk about something you know something about.