Gambling and Covid: Foreigners arrested in big show of force in Pattaya this morning

[talahtnut]

 

I bet wev'e not heard the end of it.

[StevieAus]

8 hours ago, colinneil said:

This just shows that the plonkers supposedly running this place have absolutely no idea.

One of them reckons there are no gambling dens here, main honcho says hey are going to stamp it out, just more BS, at least all the BIG plod bosses got there 15 minutes in the spotlight.

There is no prostitution either!!

[Bangyai]

16 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

How many of your brit friends compulsively buy lottery tickets or bet on sports games?

 

Er ....none actually since you ask. And pointing out a fact is not bigotry, Ask anyone who has been to Sihanoukville or find out what is happening over the river at Mae Sot.

 

The reason gambling is illegal in China is because for all their faults , the CCP recognize this fact .

 

I also had a very attractive Filipna girlfriend , but she did not gamble. Unfortunately, her future Filipino husband was hopefully addicted to horse racing and got into heavy debt. In the end he stole 11,000 pounds from the post office and fled to the USA.

Later , missing his family , he returned to the UK where he asked my mother for advice which was that it would look a lot better if he voluntarily turned himself in to the police before he was caught. He did this and was lucky to only be sentenced to a year in an open prison.

 

Political correctness has become a kind of bigotry in a class of its own whereby the politically correct try to browbeat anyone who dares to suggest that different cultures or races have different customs and vices. 

 

 

 

Edited January 9, 2021 by Bangyai

[Ventenio]

the average wage is 300 baht a day.  youtube and whatever shows them rich people all the time....rich, super rich, the richest...

 

people love money, hate really working.   they have one chance, strike it rich...maybe that is their fate.

 

when you get older you realize how dumb it is....nobody knows any outcome, unless you are soooo connected it's not gambling it's a sure thing.  then you lose on the sure thing.  lol

 

yea, disease.  horrible.   but there are some deeper problems with the brain needing some endorphin or something...... 

Edited January 9, 2021 by Ventenio

[Andy from Kent]

 

 

What's going on in the back  room with the two fellows standing in the opening?    Apparently it's worthy of the long haired person filming it.

 

 

[Harry Fingerling]

Zero chance of eradicating gambling here. Card games are prolific in most towns, black lottery, online sites and even dice games at funerals in the temples. Seems Thais are very akin to the Chinese who live to have it on.

[Magenta408]

Salt is an important commodity. It has to be worthy.

[DefaultName]

Am I the only one who heaves a sigh of relief when "foreigners" turns out to be non-fallangs?

[Madeline Thompson]

They're all wearing masks so, well, they did obey that regulation.  Not social distancing

though!

[Andrew65]

At least they weren't playing Bridge!????

[Leaver]

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Arrested were 21 gamblers - 14 Chinese,

 

Finally, some big spending Chinese in Pattaya.  ????

[WrongTree]

Another misleading headline...????

[Marsupienemi]

8 hours ago, paddypower said:

where can I get a T shirt that says ''I'm NOT a Foreigner, I'm a Farang'.

I don't know, but I love this one, I definitely want 1 like this for my gf ! 

[SupermarineS6B]

This is Thailand's future if it's not stopped right now...... Thailand will just become like Cambodia, a Chinese Casino ........    I wonder if they've checked with the CCP if it's ok to arrest "Chinese High Rollers" ?   ......  I'm looking forward to when farangs will be begged to come back into Thailand and save them from all this pie in the sky dreaming of raping the Chinese.......   Trouble is, once you've forgotten where you came from, you're out at sea without a rudder..........  

[ThaiFelix]

9 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

Nobody was tipping them off that the big guns are coming?

Probably didn't pay any "envelope fee".

No they were sacrificed to impress their leaders that they were doing their job, and particularly now while under the spotlight.  And if it has to be done then it has to be one of the games that are comprised mainly of foreigners so as to retain the Thai's 'good reputation' but also to ensure that no "dont you know who I am?" types get caught up in the raid.

[GeilGeilertzen]

Thailand’s national income for 2021will be based in fines from tourists.  
And they won’t expel anyone as fining them are seen as the source of all income ????

Edited January 9, 2021 by GeilGeilertzen

[kensisaket]

New definition of a Covid "hotspot", rooms 517 & 518 at a hotel in Jomtien.  

[BobinBKK]

9 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Im glad to see no Farang there, that would have been headline news

Yep! No farangs ????

[Pancho]

I have an old friend of 30+ yrs from Viet Nam.

He describes it as a serious problem.

[ThaiFelix]

1 hour ago, Ventenio said:

the average wage is 300 baht a day.  youtube and whatever shows them rich people all the time....rich, super rich, the richest...

 

people love money, hate really working.   they have one chance, strike it rich...maybe that is their fate.

 

when you get older you realize how dumb it is....nobody knows any outcome, unless you are soooo connected it's not gambling it's a sure thing.  then you lose on the sure thing.  lol

 

yea, disease.  horrible.   but there are some deeper problems with the brain needing some endorphin or something...... 

interesting post.  I remember taking a short trip to southern china back in the 80's when China first opened up.  I was chatting with a tour guide who told me that people were somewhat accepting of their position in China until the introduction of TVs allowing them a window to the outside world.  When small portable TVs became available and some areas of China were able to pick up TV stations from places like Macau, Hong Kong etc, they became aware of how the outside lived.  Outside people lived in big houses often with a room each person while whole families shared one room in China.  Often 2 cars per house whereas in China you were lucky with two bicycles.....etc.  People then became discontented with their lot and that became the beginning of hordes of Chinese wanting to leave.

 

I think gambling is a way people think they can quickly improve their lot but unfortunately people dont know where to stop.  It becomes a disease.  Enough is never enough or you are chasing your tale trying to pay for your losses.

 

 

[Showtime]

The headline really needed to say Foreigners.  Talking about offensive, especially when Thai were also arrested.

[Showtime]

Those pesky foreigners are responsible for all of Thailand's problems!

[JGV]

Pathetic

[MayPutThai]

10 hours ago, Olmate said:

White cap guy must be from where?

Singapore?

[MayPutThai]

26 minutes ago, Showtime said:

Those pesky foreigners are responsible for all of Thailand's problems!

Only those foreigners! Never Thai. The 5 are also not Thai

[2530Ubon]

Only places that are being busted are the ones that aren't paying for police protection. In Ubon, we have a couple of dens who advertise 100 baht free bet coupons without fear of recrimination - right smack bang in the middle of the city. Everyone knows about it but nobody gets in trouble. Corruption is the issue, not gambling.

[chuck holmes]

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Gambling and Covid: Foreigners arrested in big show of force in Pattaya this morning

 

Image: We Love Pattaya

 

Every policeman worth his salt in Chonburi and Pattaya was in attendance this morning in a very well publicized raid of a gambling den in two rented rooms of a Jomtien condo. 

 

All the top brass were there flexing their muscles in a show of force against foreigners, illegal gambling and most of all, flagrant disregard for the Covid-19 regulations. 

 

The raid at 1 am in Sai 2 was led by Region 2 chief Maj-Gen Thiti Saengsawang accompanied by the head of the Chonburi provincial police Pol Col Ekkaphop Inthaweewat. 

 

There were also men from all three local Pattaya constabularies - the Pattaya force itself, Nong Prue and Bang Lamung. 

International crime officers swelled the ranks of the raiding party.

 

Arrested were 21 gamblers - 14 Chinese, 5 Thais, I Cambodian and one Singaporean. Taken into evidence were gambling tables, cards and chips. 

 

Ekkaphop said this was a state and national RTP measure against the spread of the virus. He said that the gamblers - most of them foreigners - had a flagrant disregard for the spread of the virus.

 

They were playing poker style games.

 

Two rooms on the fifth floor of the building - 517 and 518 - had been rented on a daily basis. 

 

The inquiry would be expanded. 

 

We Love Pattaya reported that five of the Chinese were on overstay and the Cambodian had entered Thailand illegally.

 

They will all be facing charges related to both gambling and contravention of the Covid emergency decree.

 

Source: We Love Pattaya

 

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Good report all of them for being stupid not following the law.

[keithkarmann]

11 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

I thought there were no gambling dens in Thailand? ????

Also prostitution is illegal.

[thairookie]

4 hours ago, Pj2738 said:

Foreigners arrested in big show of force in Pattaya this morning

about 25% Thai

The headlines should have just been : "Chinese cartel arrested in big show of force in Pattaya".

[SiSePuede419]

Weird.  I thought POKE HER was the National Sport. ????