SOURCE: Pattaya Mail: Edition April 20th-April 26th

A service girl putting on her makeup outside her bar to get ready for work had a lucky escape in the late afternoon of April 8 when a bullet fired by an unknown person came down through the tin roof and struck her on the head.

The incident happened at the Foxy Beer Bar on Pattaya Beach Road Soi 6. Officers from Pattaya Police Station were called to the scene, a four-story commercial building in which the ground floor is used as the bar and the upper floors contain accommodation for the staff.

They found that the zinc awning in front of the bar had a bullet hole, and there was a patch of blood outside on the floor. The injured woman had been taken to Pattaya Inter Hospital before the police arrived. She was identified as Miss Jinda Jankern, age 36, of Phetchaburi Province.

The size of the bullet was 11 millimeters, and it had lodged in the top of her head. She had a bulge on the right side of her head, and doctors operated to remove the bullet. Jinda was lucky, because the bullet had not penetrated her skull and only embedded itself in her scalp. Doctors later allowed her to go home.

Jinda told police she had been putting on makeup in front of the bar ready for welcoming the customers. She heard the sound of something powerfully hitting the metal of the awning above her, and felt a pain on her head. She grabbed her head and felt something buried in her hair. She started to bleed, and asked her co-workers to take her to the hospital.

Officers examined the area but they found no trace of criminal activity. They have assumed that the bullet came from another area a distance away. Inquiries continue.

I was at a bar on beach road New Year a few years back when the owner (Thai) and his henchman were loosing off their pistols into the air at midnight. Aussie guy next to me remarked "Jeez would that be live ammo". I said "I'm staying under this roof just in case it is as what goes up......"

Very lucky!!!

Very lucky!!!

As she was the only person in Pattaya to get shot in the head that day or that week, shouldn't you say "Very UNlucky"

Sounds more like it was shot down through the roof instead of a stray bullet falling through. It is possible to hurt or kill someone with a stray bullet shot up in the air, but a bullet in its downward arc is not going to be traveling at the same speed as it was coming out of the barrel. Have a hard time believing it would do more than put a large dent in the zinc roof.

SOURCE: Pattaya Mail: Edition April 20th-April 26th

A service girl putting on her makeup outside her bar to get ready for work had a lucky escape in the late afternoon of April 8 when a bullet fired by an unknown person came down through the tin roof and struck her on the head.

The incident happened at the Foxy Beer Bar on Pattaya Beach Road Soi 6. Officers from Pattaya Police Station were called to the scene, a four-story commercial building in which the ground floor is used as the bar and the upper floors contain accommodation for the staff.

They found that the zinc awning in front of the bar had a bullet hole, and there was a patch of blood outside on the floor. The injured woman had been taken to Pattaya Inter Hospital before the police arrived. She was identified as Miss Jinda Jankern, age 36, of Phetchaburi Province.

The size of the bullet was 11 millimeters, and it had lodged in the top of her head. She had a bulge on the right side of her head, and doctors operated to remove the bullet. Jinda was lucky, because the bullet had not penetrated her skull and only embedded itself in her scalp. Doctors later allowed her to go home.

Jinda told police she had been putting on makeup in front of the bar ready for welcoming the customers. She heard the sound of something powerfully hitting the metal of the awning above her, and felt a pain on her head. She grabbed her head and felt something buried in her hair. She started to bleed, and asked her co-workers to take her to the hospital.

Officers examined the area but they found no trace of criminal activity. They have assumed that the bullet came from another area a distance away. Inquiries continue.

i dont think so do you?