SOURCE: Pattaya Today: April 1st 2007

Farangs’ water meters stolen

Foreigners and locals arising from their beds at Sukhumvit’s Sukarm estate found that they couldn’t have a shower with their early morning tea.

At first they thought it was a water power cut, which are not unknown in Pattaya, but then they realised that their meters had been nicked in the middle of the night.

Mr Rolf Jakob, aged 60, said he had gone up and down the soi and realised that more than 15 meters had been removed.

This had never happened before and he found the inconvenience too much to bear. Police arriving at the scene stated that the robberies had occurred between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. and that the reason was theft for resale.

Apparently, some householders are prepared to pay cash to have an old meter replaced by a better looking model.

SOURCE: Pattaya Today: April 1st 2007

Farangs’ water meters stolen

Foreigners and locals arising from their beds at Sukhumvit’s Sukarm estate found that they couldn’t have a shower with their early morning tea.

At first they thought it was a water power cut, which are not unknown in Pattaya, but then they realised that their meters had been nicked in the middle of the night.

Mr Rolf Jakob, aged 60, said he had gone up and down the soi and realised that more than 15 meters had been removed.

This had never happened before and he found the inconvenience too much to bear. Police arriving at the scene stated that the robberies had occurred between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. and that the reason was theft for resale.

Apparently, some householders are prepared to pay cash to have an old meter replaced by a better looking model.

Pattaya Today the masters of the understatment,what a bloody joke of a publication it is