Koh Phangan: The party's over for noisy beach bar - foreign DJ and helper arrested

[rooster59]

Koh Phangan: The party's over for noisy beach bar - foreign DJ and helper arrested

 

Image: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported that locals and tourists in Ban Tai on Koh Phangan had repeatedly complained to the local police about noise all night long from a beach bar.

 

But nothing was done and every night their sleep was disturbed to the early hours.

 

So they went over the heads of the local constabulary and called in the AHTD - Thailand's Anti Human Trafficking Division.

 

Chief of the AHTD Pol Maj-Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha sent in his men at 11.30pm on Thursday night where they found 100 Thai and foreign tourists at the bar.

 

Soraya P., 29, identified herself as the person running the place.

 

DJ Rolf M., aged 29, (who Naew Na said had the nationality "Deutsch") was arrested for not having a work permit.

 

His helper Maximilian P., 28, (also "Deutsch") was arrested for not having his passport with him or having it handy.

 

Soraya was arrested for employing them.

 

All three were taken away.

 

Source: Naew Na

 

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[sanuk711]

25 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Naew Na reported that locals and tourists in Ban Tai on Koh Phangan had repeatedly complained to the local police

Yes it doesn't take long.......LOL....... when I lived in Pattaya I had a farang Karaoke open in a townhouse 3 doors down. The noise through the walls was terrific (the the tenants in the other 2 houses just abandon and ran away.) but as I am really smart, I had done a deal with the owner for a years rent up front big discount--big mistake.

 

Response from police was---go tell them we say make it quieter or we will  come drive by.......yes brilliant plan.

 

They must have missed some payment(s)....because one day they were just gone Amazingly my wife seem to sleep through it all, although she spoke very little English, I  did notice when she was cleaning she seem to able to sing most of the words from......I'll do it my way......

[ThomasThBKK]

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

His helper Maximilian P., 28, (also "Deutsch") was arrested for not having his passport with him or having it handy.

 

Nice reason for arrest. 

[yellowboat]

100 customers?   Surely some sort of compromise could have been reached; egg cartons on the wall, better speaker placement or displacement, or cheap IR headsets.  Most "sound systems" in bars have too few speakers pounding out far too much volume.  A more distributive system allows for more sound and lower volumes.  Speakers are cheap.  

 

So, if you do not like your neighbors, accuse them of human trafficking.  

[spiekerjozef]

That's the influence of the brown envelope.

Wish Rolf M. einer guter Zeit im Knast.

[spiekerjozef]

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

His helper Maximilian P., 28, (also "Deutsch") was arrested for not having his passport with him or having it handy.

AUSWEIS !

[happydays]

“So they went over the heads of the local constabulary and called in the AHTD - Thailand's Anti Human Trafficking Division.

 

Chief of the AHTD Pol Maj-Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha sent in his men at 11.30pm on Thursday night where they found 100 Thai and foreign tourists at the bar.”

 

Anti Human Trafficking Division? Who had been trafficked - the DJs or the tourists?

[Basil B]

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

egg cartons on the wall,

It appears to be an open air "Beer Bar", so what walls.

 

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

So, if you do not like your neighbors, accuse them of human trafficking.  

Nowhere does it say the neighbours accused them of human trafficking, probably an educated guess by the police as it was a beer bar.

[mickey rat]

Making noise is a job reserved for Thais. They should have known better.????

[ThomasThBKK]

http://oxabeachkohphangan.com/

 

Seems to be this, weekly techno parties in a small beach bar.

 

 

Human trafficking... yeah sure... so pathetic. But glad everyone sees now that no one should come to Thailand to have fun.

 

The whole point of Phangan is electronic music parties afaik, bunch of old <deleted> playing fun police again it seems, whatever... thailand is dead a long time for party tourists anyway, everyone should know by now to stay way. 

 

 

[transam]

25 minutes ago, happydays said:

“So they went over the heads of the local constabulary and called in the AHTD - Thailand's Anti Human Trafficking Division.

 

Chief of the AHTD Pol Maj-Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha sent in his men at 11.30pm on Thursday night where they found 100 Thai and foreign tourists at the bar.”

 

Anti Human Trafficking Division? Who had been trafficked - the DJs or the tourists?

Think they just wanted someone to deal with who is not on a payroll....????

[thaibeachlovers]

2 hours ago, yellowboat said:

100 customers?   Surely some sort of compromise could have been reached; egg cartons on the wall, better speaker placement or displacement, or cheap IR headsets.  Most "sound systems" in bars have too few speakers pounding out far too much volume.  A more distributive system allows for more sound and lower volumes.  Speakers are cheap.  

 

So, if you do not like your neighbors, accuse them of human trafficking.  

I was driven away from Tong Nai Pan Yai by a noisy bar ( lost 3 days paid in advance too ). I went to see the racket at 2 am and found the noisy beach bar with 1 customer and a dog. Complaint to the resort owner elicited no help.

By all means arrest the antisocial hooligans for anything, so long as it gets them gone.

[thaibeachlovers]

10 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

http://oxabeachkohphangan.com/

 

Seems to be this, weekly techno parties in a small beach bar.

 

 

Human trafficking... yeah sure... so pathetic. But glad everyone sees now that no one should come to Thailand to have fun.

 

The whole point of Phangan is electronic music parties afaik, bunch of old <deleted> playing fun police again it seems, whatever... thailand is dead a long time for party tourists anyway, everyone should know by now to stay way. 

 

 

I certainly hope all the yahoos that think it's OK to ruin people's beach experience with antisocial noise at all hours do get the message and stay away. They have awful Had Rin to ruin their ears in, so go there and leave nice beaches to people that enjoy the beach.

[Thechook]

Another nail for tourism

[thaibeachlovers]

36 minutes ago, happydays said:

“So they went over the heads of the local constabulary and called in the AHTD - Thailand's Anti Human Trafficking Division.

 

Chief of the AHTD Pol Maj-Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha sent in his men at 11.30pm on Thursday night where they found 100 Thai and foreign tourists at the bar.”

 

Anti Human Trafficking Division? Who had been trafficked - the DJs or the tourists?

Who cares, just arrest all of them for anything, the selfish antisocial yahoos.

[GeorgeCross]

i still don't get these idiots that go to islands insanely popular with youngsters and with well earned reputations for being wild and hedonistic..

 

then complain its too noisy -

 

go and find a quiet island if you want to be tucked up in bed with a coco by 7pm. there's 100's of them

 

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, Thechook said:

Another nail for tourism

Hardly. Get rid of the young antisocial yahoos and people that enjoy beach ambience will start going to the beach again.

[ThomasThBKK]

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I certainly hope all the yahoos that think it's OK to ruin people's beach experience with antisocial noise at all hours do get the message and stay away. They have awful Had Rin to ruin their ears in, so go there and leave nice beaches to people that enjoy the beach.

It's a party island, get over it.... 

 

There's no other purpose to go there, never was any other purpose than full moon parties etc.

 

It's like going to ibiza, staying at playa den bossa and then complaining about drunk tourists and music - braindead. 

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, GeorgeCross said:

i still don't get these idiots that go to islands insanely popular with youngsters and with well earned reputations for being wild and hedonistic..

 

then complain its noisy - absolute wbankers

Phangan never used to be a party island away from Had Rin, and the other beaches were quiet relaxing places, USUALLY. Unfortunately there's always some greedy Thai that is prepared to ruin other beaches by opening an antisocial party bar.

If the rot has indeed made lots of other Phangan beaches noisy, that might explain why western tourists ain't going to LOS anymore.

You are accusing the wrong people of being absolute <deleted>.

[WalkingOrders]

3 hours ago, ThomasThBKK said:

 

Nice reason for arrest. 

Never <deleted> off a cop. Not in Alabama. Not in Thailand. ????

[khunPer]

2 hours ago, yellowboat said:

100 customers?   Surely some sort of compromise could have been reached; egg cartons on the wall, better speaker placement or displacement, or cheap IR headsets.  Most "sound systems" in bars have too few speakers pounding out far too much volume.  A more distributive system allows for more sound and lower volumes.  Speakers are cheap.  

 

So, if you do not like your neighbors, accuse them of human trafficking.  

Egg cartons are used as Cheap Charlie acoustic adjustment – they actually works – but egg cartons don't give any noticeable sound insulation. Furthermore a beach bar is partly, or mostly, open air, so not much need for adjusting sound reflections, and not much space for insulation.

 

If you want a sound level with the right punch, you need to perferm a certain amount of dB sound pressure level at that area, no matter how few or many speakers used – mind you, it's a beach bar, not a closed room, where multiple speakers is another issue (my professional work was in audio business, designed sound systems for several discos, and furthermore cinemas and theaters, and open air venues, among others).

 

Sound travels very well in open air, especially at night, where it's not only the low frequencies (i.e. bass) that travels. It has to do with temperature difference between ground level – or sea surface – and air. Something we realized with the huge European open air summer festivals, where the FOH (front of house, i.e. PA-speakers by the stage) performed much better at night. The audience, or just warm soil/cement/ground/seawater, is normally warmer than the air above them at night (in summertime, or warm climate), and the level where the warmer air meets the cooler air become an excellent highway for sound pressure; in an open air concert venue that is just above the heads of the audience.

 

Speakers are cheap, but good speakers are not.

 

By the way, I live on the beach opposite Koh Phangan's Haad Rin with the famous/infamous Full Moon Parties, and a number of other moon-parties. The FMP is on the other side of the narrow isthmus on the Sunrise Beach and it's dead silent on "our"side, whilst the other parties are on the middle, and especially the Black Moon Party offers us free music till sunrise. Koh Phangan is 11 kilometers away in straight line over the sea, but during nights with calm weather the music is clearly identifiable, even behind closed doors. It's only black Moon once a month, where the FOH distribute to the sea-side, so the solution for that night's is to head out for a local Black Moon Party, instead of jumping up-and-down in the bed, following the funky bass from "over there"...????

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Soraya was arrested for employing them.

You can only rub s**t in peoples faces for so long... then it comes back around!

[WalkingOrders]

2 hours ago, yellowboat said:

100 customers?   Surely some sort of compromise could have been reached; egg cartons on the wall, better speaker placement or displacement, or cheap IR headsets.  Most "sound systems" in bars have too few speakers pounding out far too much volume.  A more distributive system allows for more sound and lower volumes.  Speakers are cheap.  

 

So, if you do not like your neighbors, accuse them of human trafficking.  

Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that Thai only know one way set up a sound system of any kind. Turn all knobs to the right until stop. Setup complete.

[thaibeachlovers]

6 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

It's a party island, get over it.... 

 

There's no other purpose to go there, never was any other purpose than full moon parties etc.

 

It's like going to ibiza, staying at playa den bossa and then complaining about drunk tourists and music - braindead. 

 

 

If that's true, it's very sad for Phangan. I went there all the time and it certainly wasn't a party island outside Had Rin.

There's no other purpose to go there, never was any other purpose than full moon parties etc.

I suppose you haven't been around long enough to know what it was like before the yahoos took over, but you obviously don't know what it used to be like. Phangan became a tourist island for the relaxing QUIET beaches.

[khunPer]

13 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

It's a party island, get over it.... 

 

There's no other purpose to go there, never was any other purpose than full moon parties etc.

Only Haad Rin, where the FMP, and other Moon parties are held, is a party area.

 

There are multiple other reasons to visit Koh Phangan, which is a major meditation and yoga destination back from the late hippie-era, called "New Age", because of it's beauty and silence.

 

Neighboring Samui is the party island, and it was originally hippies from Samui that sailed over to Sunrise Bach in long tail boats – because the police on Samui got too interested in their mushroom drinks, the folks from that era told – they brought their guitars and made bonfires on the beach, and was singing all night until sunrise. Haad Rin was at that time uninhabited and only accessable climbing over the cliffs, or by boat. First time was in the late 1970s to celebrate a birthday, and that night it was also full Moon, and the party was so good that the guests decided to do it again at next full Moon. And so they have done, ever since...????

[soalbundy]

35 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

http://oxabeachkohphangan.com/

 

Seems to be this, weekly techno parties in a small beach bar.

 

 

Human trafficking... yeah sure... so pathetic. But glad everyone sees now that no one should come to Thailand to have fun.

 

The whole point of Phangan is electronic music parties afaik, bunch of old <deleted> playing fun police again it seems, whatever... thailand is dead a long time for party tourists anyway, everyone should know by now to stay way. 

 

 

Moderation is unknown in Thailand. Noise pollution is torture for residents, fun (possibly) for the customers who in a drunken stupor don't notice it and live far away. They could start now on the Ark Bar on Koh Samui if it's still going.

[Vacuum]

3 hours ago, ThomasThBKK said:

 

Nice reason for arrest. 

A valid reason.

[ThomasThBKK]

5 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

A valid reason.

 

An absolute braindead reason, carrying your passport with you to have it stolen and to be sold to thailands notorious passport faking network just to be issued to a bunch of terrorist is extremely stupid. 

 

Quote

 Two passports were traced to Thailand, to the island resort of Phuket where there is a thriving trade in fake passports. In the wake of the disappearance of MH370 the world, if it had not been paying attention before, quickly learnt that Thailand was one of the world’s key sources of stolen and forged passports. Aviation expert Sylvia Wrigley, in her book The Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, suggests that a stray bullet from hijackers may have caused the plane to decompress. Whether or not terrorism was involved in the flight’s disappearance remained unclear for many months.

https://medium.com/@john.stapleton_366/thailand-worlds-centre-for-fake-passports-56e8ed0d640f

 

If the music is too loud, you fine and/or arrest the bar owner, which is thai. It is really that easy. Problem solved. But for that the rotten cops here would have to do their jobs, of course it's easier to rip off a bunch of foreigners instead.

 

 

 

 

[Vacuum]

14 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

An absolute braindead reason

No, a valid reason to arrest him until he can provide his passport. I didn't mean that he should carry it on him.

 

Think about it, he could be one of those dreadful overstayers...

Edited February 22, 2020 by Vacuum

[Youlike]

1 hour ago, Thechook said:

Another nail for tourism

I'll never go back to Chaweng Samui where we had to hear very super loud music all night long untill 6 am....