Pattaya: "Online A Go-Go" busted - thirty arrests for Covid violations as bargirls sell "virtual drinks"

[webfact]

Picture: Siam Chon News

 

Siam Chon News reported the bust of a group of thirty people - 29 out of work go-go dancers and one foreigner - who were running a live streaming Go-Go Bar out of a rented house in Pattaya Soi 15.

 

Chonburi's deputy police chief Pol Col Thanawut Jongjira and a special  taskforce from the Muang district station arrested everyone for violating the Covid-19 regulations on illegal gathering.

 

Picture: Siam Chon News

 

Taken into evidence was streaming equipment. The foreigner was in charge of that side of things. 

 

The ladies were doing their gyratory bit and would get 150 baht for each transfer for "virtual drinks".  

 

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[RandolphGB]

When will they visit Soi 6?

 

The bars there do the exact same thing. 
 

Edited June 24, 2021 by RandolphGB

[Denim]

Go go stop stopped.

[Peterw42]

2 minutes ago, RandolphGB said:

When will they visit Soi 6?

Not sure if you are aware but there has already been some big shutdowns of bars doing streaming in soi 6, NW group etc.

Edited June 24, 2021 by Peterw42

[ftpjtm]

Excellent job stamping out virtual COVID transmission.

[RandolphGB]

3 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

Not sure if you are aware but there has already been some big shutdowns of bars doing streaming etc.

 

One quick look on YouTube and it's clear those places are still very much active.

[darksidedog]

You have to feel sorry for the girls. Out of normal options for work, so trying to make ends meet with no government help and end up busted.

[Susco]

2 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

You have to feel sorry for the girls. Out of normal options for work, so trying to make ends meet with no government help and end up busted.

 

They could try to take up a normal job.

 

Have you tried finding some house staff, like a housemaid or something lately?

 

When I look at the jobs wanted sections online, they are deserted, so I guess everyone must be doing fine

[Peterw42]

3 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

You have to feel sorry for the girls. Out of normal options for work, so trying to make ends meet with no government help and end up busted.

 

I dont know that they are "out of options for normal work", many are choosing the easy option over a 7/11 cashier job. 

[rcuthbert]

I wonder if a radical feminist has infiltrated the Ranks; or is it "Brown Envelope" related?

[Kerryd]

Lol - so many people whine on this forum about buying lady drinks (whether or not they actually contain booze) and here is a story about people buying "virtual" lady drinks !

What about "virtual" bar fines ?

Not sure where this one was filmed but I'm guessing it was somewhere similar to the one in the OP.
 

[colinneil]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

reported the bust of a group of thirty people - 29 out of work go-go dancers and one foreigner - who were running a live streaming Go-Go Bar out of a rented house in Pattaya Soi 15.

OOPS somebody forgot the BIG brown envelope.

Plod are only closing down the opposition, cannot have upstarts in competing against our controlled establishments, one of them remarked.????

[rcuthbert]

12 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

Lol - so many people whine on this forum about buying lady drinks (whether or not they actually contain booze) and here is a story about people buying "virtual" lady drinks !

What about "virtual" bar fines ?

Not sure where this one was filmed but I'm guessing it was somewhere similar to the one in the OP.
 

Awesome. Thanks dude.

[Ohyesuare]

23 minutes ago, RandolphGB said:

 

One quick look on YouTube and it's clear those places are still very much active.

 

A few still are but not on Soi 6. Doing it out of rented houses now like these ladies.

[Gecko123]

24 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

You have to feel sorry for the girls. Out of normal options for work, so trying to make ends meet with no government help and end up busted.

I'm having trouble feeling sorry for someone selling "virtual" drinks.

[Leaver]

 

Soi 6 live streams were shut down.

 

It appears one of the managers may have decided he could move the operation into his home, which was the subject of this raid.  (notice the "Repent" sign in the back of the pick up)  

 

Repent is a Nightwish Group bar.   

 

Edited June 24, 2021 by Leaver

[Orac]

34 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

Not sure if you are aware but there has already been some big shutdowns of bars doing streaming in soi 6, NW group etc.

 

Interesting that there is NW sign in one of the photos there.

 

 

[MRToMRT]

Who the F are the punters? Am I a prude to be thinking what I am thinking?

[Susco]

30 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

here is a story about people buying "virtual" lady drinks !

What about "virtual" bar fines ?

 

It all fits in with the virtual orgasms that are common in this business

[BritManToo]

33 minutes ago, Susco said:

Have you tried finding some house staff, like a housemaid or something lately?

Have you tried offering a wage of 1,500bht/hr?

[ezzra]

Anyone offering a virtual happy ending massage of an on-line full service i wonder?...

[Susco]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

Have you tried offering a wage of 1,500bht/hr?

 

You want to claim those ladies made 1500 Bht/hour, every hour?

[BestB]

40 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

You have to feel sorry for the girls. Out of normal options for work, so trying to make ends meet with no government help and end up busted.

You would feel sorry for them if you did not see their Facebook posts.

 

seafood buffets, Korean bbq buffers, nails and hair salons on daily basis.

 

rest assured they are not struggling or having hard time . Not only they have doubled their prices but not even interested going with customers 

 

these days , a 50 year old granny asking weekly minimum wage for ST

[Denim]

44 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

You have to feel sorry for the girls. Out of normal options for work, so trying to make ends meet with no government help and end up busted.

 

Shouldn't that  be :

 

' Trying to make meat end '

[BestB]

OP is incorrect. Girls do NOT get 150 baht per drink . Drinks sold for 150 baht, girls get 40-50 baht per drink

[BritManToo]

My niece earns 350bht/day working on a building site all day in the hot sun.

I'm sure she'd prefer to dance naked for a couple of hours a night sipping cocktails if given the choice, even at the same money.

 

OI don't really understand the police getting involved in a completely harmless operation in a private house.

It's not as if they were selling alcohol, or even prostitutes, just a bit of harmless video streaming.

 

[Excel]

49 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

Not sure if you are aware but there has already been some big shutdowns of bars doing streaming in soi 6, NW group etc.

Yes that whole thing was going on for some while now. Whilst I am sure we all appreciate that ladies working the bars and gogo's must be having a very bad time, I wondered exactly did the ladies actually get much out of mugs paying for lady drinks over the internet by Paypal etc or was  it a con by some of the bar owners ? Why did the streaming suddenly get pulled if it was all above board ? RTP I'm sure must have played a part in it 

[Leaver]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

OI don't really understand the police getting involved in a completely harmless operation in a private house.

It's not as if they were selling alcohol, or even prostitutes, just a bit of harmless video streaming.

 

So many people, all in one room, all coming and going from different markets, shops etc.  I guess they didn't want a live stream studio to become a "hub" of covid transmission.  

[brewsterbudgen]

43 minutes ago, Susco said:

 

They could try to take up a normal job.

 

Have you tried finding some house staff, like a housemaid or something lately?

 

When I look at the jobs wanted sections online, they are deserted, so I guess everyone must be doing fine

"Normal" jobs don’t pay as well and there's very little chance of meeting your future husband!

[BritManToo]

1 minute ago, Leaver said:

 

So many people, all in one room, all coming and going from different markets, shops etc.  I guess they didn't want a live stream studio to become a "hub" of covid transmission.  

No reports of bar girls starting COVID clusters.

It's always hi-so hookers in snobby cafe/nightclubs super spreading.

And if you're an old guy with health problems you shouldn't be mixing with either group of ladies.

(unless you're a government minister of course)