Local "Dancing Gran" still alive and kicking after homeless person found dead in hit and run

[webfact]

Local "Dancing Gran" still alive and kicking after homeless person found dead in hit and run

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Fears that a Walking Street attraction known as "The Dancing Grannie" was the person killed in a hit and run in Pattaya have proved to be unfounded. 

 

Police had responded after a homeless person was found dead at 1.20 am on beach road in a curfew breaking hit and run on Tuesday morning. 

 

Pattaya chief of police, Pol Col Khemmarin Phitsamai told 77kaoded that they don't know who the victim is and the vehicle couldn't be properly identified.

 

CCTV was not working. 

 

Some CCTV nearby was actually functional but that did not film what is believed to be a four door pick-up out breaking curfew.

 

But there was some good news. The victim was not a woman called "Yai Kha Dance" or The Dancing Grannie who prior to lockdown entertained crowds with her routine on Walking Street. 

 

Reporters found her happy and well in Soi 14/1 with relatives after reports circulated online that she was the victim. 

 

Bundai Seemaneerat gave reporters a dance and a song to prove that she was still alive.

 

She said she would be back in Walking Street when all this Covid-19 business is over. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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[mikebell]

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

CCTV was not working. 

 

I wish I had a baht for every time Pattaya Plod used this excuse for their laziness; inefficiency; corruption.  I could afford to live elsewhere.

[KhunKenAP]

Why has the city and police not fixed all the CCTV cameras during this extended time out. Crime has probably risen, (even though no official statistics).

 

In most crimes and accidents this excuse always seems to come up. No excuse, Pattaya City must act. 

[Chelseafan]

1 hour ago, KhunKenAP said:

Why has the city and police not fixed all the CCTV cameras during this extended time out. Crime has probably risen, (even though no official statistics).

 

In most crimes and accidents this excuse always seems to come up. No excuse, Pattaya City must act. 

 

You're assuming the CCTV WASN'T working...????

 

[Hayduke]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

CCTV was not working. 

 

It’s also  possible that the CCTV camera in question was and is ‘unfixable’. If the original purchase order for cameras allowed for say…a certain number of empty 'shell' cameras (which look exactly like real ones) then there’s that much more money available to be siphoned off and divided by the uniforms involved. It’s sometimes called corruption.

 

 

 

Edited June 10, 2020 by Hayduke

[Bob A Kneale]

5 hours ago, KhunKenAP said:

Crime has probably risen, (even though no official statistics).

So what do you base that on, then?  What are the unofficial stats?

Edited June 10, 2020 by Bob A Kneale

[mok199]

One vehicle ,perhaps the only vehicle, and one pedestrian perhaps the only pedestrian, in a Thai city under curfew and it still results in a fatality......S.O.S

Edited June 10, 2020 by mok199

[phetchy]

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"the vehicle couldn't be properly identified." -  "what is believed to be a four door pick-up"

 

That narrows it down a bit - the colour would help - black, white, silver or bronze perhaps?  

 

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, phetchy said:

 

That narrows it down a bit - the colour would help - black, white, silver or bronze perhaps?  

 

It was likely to be the only or one of few on the road during the curfew, and still it cannot be traced!