Suspended jail terms and 5,000 baht fines for 29 caught drinking at Sukhumvit Soi 22 pub

[webfact]

Picture: INN

 

INN reported that Thong Lo police investigated after hearing loud music emanating from a pub on Sukhumvit Soi 22  in downtown Bangkok at 2 am Saturday night. 

 

They arrested 29 people for drinking and disobeying the Covid-19 regulations. There were 13 men and 16 women. 

 

They all soon appeared at the South Phranakhon court and were given one month jail terms reduced to 15 days as everyone admitted their wrongdoing. 

 

The sentences were suspended for one year and everyone was fined 5,000 baht. 

 

In addition two managers of the establishment are being prosecuted separately for not having a licence to operate, not having an alcohol serving licence, contravening the Bangkok Covid regulations and other offences. 

 

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[JohnOFphon]

Boys in brown will be partying soon. Just hope they don't break any rules!!! 

[RichardColeman]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

INN reported that Thong Lo police investigated after hearing loud music emanating from a pub on Sukhumvit Soi 22  in downtown Bangkok at 2 am Saturday night. 

I'd have doubled the fine for stupidity - 2am, loud music, only an idiot would put the boom box on full and think the police wouldn't arrive

[ikke1959]

only 29 of the 121 caught??? It must be only the foreigners....

[Chelseafan]

Wow, must be serious. Usual 500 baht fine increased to 5000!!

 

[Salerno]

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

only 29 of the 121 caught??? It must be only the foreigners....

 

Bangkok ... not Pattaya.

[Caldera]

Sounds like a sensible punishment for irresponsible party goers.

[Rael007]

3 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

only 29 of the 121 caught??? It must be only the foreigners....

A Thai friend of mine was one of those busted that night.  He texted me the next day as he was waiting at the courthouse to pay his fine.  He said there were about 30 patrons at the pub that night and a majority of them were Thai.  Ironically, I was out at another pub with him and his friends earlier that night, and when that one closed, he suggested we all go to Soi 22. 

I passed and went home, because being a small overcrowded Soi 22 hole-in-the-wall, after hours no less, didn't seem too smart.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

In addition two managers of the establishment are being prosecuted separately for not having a licence to operate, not having an alcohol serving licence, contravening the Bangkok Covid regulations and other offences. 

Yet another establishment with no operating licence.

Yet if this is the case one wonders how "taxes" are collected?

[hotchilli]

52 minutes ago, Rael007 said:

A Thai friend of mine was one of those busted that night.  He texted me the next day as he was waiting at the courthouse to pay his fine.  He said there were about 30 patrons at the pub that night and a majority of them were Thai.  Ironically, I was out at another pub with him and his friends earlier that night, and when that one closed, he suggested we all go to Soi 22. 

I passed and went home, because being a small overcrowded Soi 22 hole-in-the-wall, after hours no less, didn't seem too smart.

Frequenting any pub while a ban is in situ is not smart.. but maybe you think it is?

[Ventenio]

Reasons why I LOVE It here...

 

1. cheap women

2. cheap rooms

3.  cheap food

4.  cheap drin...........5000 baht fine...........

 

Reasons why I'm leaving

 

1.

[Udox]

5 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

only 29 of the 121 caught??? It must be only the foreigners....

The rest were in disguise as trees and leaves

[IAMHERE]

8 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

Wow, must be serious. Usual 500 baht fine increased to 5000!!

 

To make up for capturing only 10% of the bad guys/guyettes.

[Andycoops]

13 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Yet another establishment with no operating licence.

Yet if this is the case one wonders how "taxes" are collected?

Hardly anyone in Thailand pays tax, with no license they are not registered as a business.

[hotchilli]

16 minutes ago, Andycoops said:

Hardly anyone in Thailand pays tax, with no license they are not registered as a business.

Yet they operate in full sight of everyone... no license to operate as a bar, no licence to sell alcohol?

Surely local government or police or customs & excise must check every operating business?

 

[StevieAus]

16 hours ago, Ventenio said:

Reasons why I LOVE It here...

 

1. cheap women

2. cheap rooms

3.  cheap food

4.  cheap drin...........5000 baht fine...........

 

Reasons why I'm leaving

 

1.

The fine was for breaching quarantine regulations not a cheap drink.

In my country the fine would have been the equivalent of about 24,000 baht so it was cheap.

 

[BestB]

23 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

only 29 of the 121 caught??? It must be only the foreigners....

different events at different places.

 

121 is in Pattaya from 2 places, this is from BKK one place