Twelve people arrested at Pattaya underground bar for allegedly drinking alcohol and violating Covid-19 measurements

[snoop1130]

 

Eleven foreigners and one Thai national have been arrested in an underground room during a Pattaya bar raid while allegedly drinking alcohol that Pattaya police stated was violating the current Thai emergency decree to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

 

Pattaya Police also stated the group was violating a variety of other rules and laws such as the communicable disease act, limits on gathering (The limit is five people, however, around drinking alcohol the limit is ONE person), and Chonburi provincial orders around Covid-19.

 

A team from the Nongprue City Police led by Colonel Chitdaecha Songhong raided the ‘FAT BOYS BAR & GRILL’ at the entrance of Soi Boon Sampan 5/1 in Nongprue at about 8:00 P.M. last night, July 26th, 2021.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/07/27/twelve-people-arrested-at-pattaya-underground-bar-for-allegedly-drinking-alcohol-and-violating-covid-19-measurements/

 

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[Kevin Taylor]

Any minute now the usual mob will start posting comments of lock them up and obey the rules or some such nonsense.

[Doctor Tom]

8 minutes ago, Kevin Taylor said:

Any minute now the usual mob will start posting comments of lock them up and obey the rules or some such nonsense.

Which is exactly what they should do with them.  They are irresponsible fools, who put everyone else at risk and contribute to lengthening this pandemic. What other interpretation of this kind of anti social idiocy is there?  

[bkk6060]

I truly believe some of these people have mental problems.

They have to be in a group or party situation or else they think they have no life or are missing something.

Hey, just stay home and drink a beer and watch TV for a few weeks it won't kill you.

[GrandPapillon]

yeah, that should really stop COVID from spreading, that big cluster of drinking farangs, with those arrests ????

 

 

[Doctor Tom]

6 minutes ago, GrandPapillon said:

yeah, that should really stop COVID from spreading, that big cluster of drinking farangs, with those arrests ????

 

 

I take it that is sarcasm?   If you add this 12 to the 66 arrested yesterday in the Naklua club, so 78 individuals, how many do each of them see and meet with outside those  bars, 5, 10, 20, others. it could easily be as many as 800 odd people, exposed to possible risk just by those two bars.  It only takes one covid infected person to do that. That's how it spreads and why the rest of us are banged up at home waiting for it to ease. 

[Alwaysthailand]

Lock them up or obey the rules...come on man, for gods sake.

[Saraburi121]

People just miss social interaction in person whether it involves alcohol or not.  No matter if it's foreigners in a bar or at their home, local folk drinking together at the beach, kids congregating at the mall, villagers having a cold one after a days work.  It's hard to suppress human nature. 

[Kerryd]

That is a "biker" bar as well (HA). Wonder if someone from a rival club may have tipped the cops off for a laugh.

[Chris.B]

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

I truly believe some of these people have mental problems.

They have to be in a group or party situation or else they think they have no life or are missing something.

Hey, just stay home and drink a beer and watch TV for a few weeks it won't kill you.

 

You only say that because you haven't any friends to drink with! ????????

 

 

[Dmaxdan]

I'm sorry but these people are phenomenally selfish.

We all know that this regime don't need much of a excuse to implement a total, nationwide alcohol ban.

And eventually that is what will happen if these idiots, both Thai and Farang continue to flout the current Covid restrictions.

 

Edited July 27, 2021 by Dmaxdan

[worgeordie]

were they all fat boys , going underground and still getting caught .....

regards worgeordie

[Walker88]

2 hours ago, Kevin Taylor said:

Any minute now the usual mob will start posting comments of lock them up and obey the rules or some such nonsense.

I know of a place like this in Bangkok, though I've never entered it. It draws a regular crowd, according to those who work there. Now 2 of those regulars are fighting for their lives with Covid, at least one in Bumrungrad on a ventilator (the other, I don't know the hospital he's in)..

 

Hey, but they can take solace, should they lose their battle, that they exercised their 'civil rights and didn't let any Thai authorities tell them how [these foreigners] should live in someone else' country. No sirree!.

 

 

[Kevin Taylor]

5 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

I know of a place like this in Bangkok, though I've never entered it. It draws a regular crowd, according to those who work there. Now 2 of those regulars are fighting for their lives with Covid, at least one in Bumrungrad on a ventilator (the other, I don't know the hospital he's in)..

 

Hey, but they can take solace, should they lose their battle, that they exercised their 'civil rights and didn't let any Thai authorities tell them how [these foreigners] should live in someone else' country. No sirree!.

 

 

Their choice, Most of us want our own choice back again. Sorry about your friends but tell me were they in the so called at risk categories or were they healthy people with no other health problems.

[GrandPapillon]

5 hours ago, Doctor Tom said:

I take it that is sarcasm?   If you add this 12 to the 66 arrested yesterday in the Naklua club, so 78 individuals, how many do each of them see and meet with outside those  bars, 5, 10, 20, others. it could easily be as many as 800 odd people, exposed to possible risk just by those two bars.  It only takes one covid infected person to do that. That's how it spreads and why the rest of us are banged up at home waiting for it to ease. 

well I guess the same thing is happening when they go to a local 7/11, and come into contact with possible carriers

 

the point is, it doesn't really matter where, it will spread one way or another, maybe not drinking between friends, but going to TESCO or 7/11 or wherever you go where people are stuck together, even at the waiting line to get tested

[NanLaew]

16 minutes ago, GrandPapillon said:

well I guess the same thing is happening when they go to a local 7/11, and come into contact with possible carriers

 

the point is, it doesn't really matter where, it will spread one way or another, maybe not drinking between friends, but going to TESCO or 7/11 or wherever you go where people are stuck together, even at the waiting line to get tested

During the Group stages of the recent Euro football, three players, one player from the Scottish team and two from the English team, met up for a post-game chat in the tunnel as they were team mates at an EPL team. Subsequent routine Covid testing showed the Scots player was Covid-positive and he went into quarantine. The two English players tested Covid-negative but had to self-isolate but not quarantine from fellow team members even for training, until a second test came back negative.

 

Most people understood why the Scottish guy had to quarantine while others argued that all players from both teams, regardless of all yielding negative tests should have been self-isolating. The key to the decision was that the three players in question were in close proximity and chatting as a small group for more than 15 minutes. That exceeded the criteria for spreading the virus. Playing 90-minutes, even with goal celebrations (there were none) does not convey the same Covid transmission risks.

 

So, taking that criteria and applying it to your flawed 'local 7/11' argument, shopping there or at Tesco carries the same risk as 22 players doing 45-minutes each way in the open air. However, sitting in a small, air-conditioned room with your five biker buddies and a waitress is akin to having a 15-minute chat in the players tunnel.

 

This analogy brought to you by a hard-fought, goalless draw (again) at Wembley.

[JayClay]

I know that it seems to be a requirement of forum membership to be totally unable to see life from the viewpoint of any situation other than your own, but it's all very easy to judge people who do these things.

 

It's all very well if you're living in a content environment with somebody or have a family or friends nearby to socialize at home with... I imagine that in that case lockdowns are little more than a temporary annoyance. If you're by yourself then the feeling of loneliness can be excruciating . At least when restaurants were open for dine-in you could have some interaction with people when going out to eat, but when that gets taken away you're left to sit at home all day bar the odd trip to the supermarket. We're not solitary creatures. We need social interaction.

 

Not to mention people who are living in an unhappy partnership/family situation. That must be just as bad or probably even worse.

 

Now I don't go to these gatherings, because I don't fancy the associated risks, but I can understand why others might feel the need to do so.

[tonray]

7 hours ago, worgeordie said:

were they all fat boys , going underground and still getting caught .....

regards worgeordie

Fat Boys are considered to have a pre-existing condition and can get in the front of the vaccination queue too

[jacko45k]

9 hours ago, Kerryd said:

That is a "biker" bar as well (HA). Wonder if someone from a rival club may have tipped the cops off for a laugh.

Yeah, I hear the nearby 'Honda Wave Badasses' had it in for them!

[Excel]

10 hours ago, Kevin Taylor said:

Any minute now the usual mob will start posting comments of lock them up and obey the rules or some such nonsense.

yep you can count on it

[metisdead]

Some troll posts and the replies have been removed. 

[toolpush]

10 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I truly believe some of these people have mental problems.

They have to be in a group or party situation or else they think they have no life or are missing something.

Hey, just stay home and drink a beer and watch TV for a few weeks it won't kill you.

A few weeks? That is what they said back in February 2020........

[chrissables]

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

During the Group stages of the recent Euro football, three players, one player from the Scottish team and two from the English team, met up for a post-game chat in the tunnel as they were team mates at an EPL team. Subsequent routine Covid testing showed the Scots player was Covid-positive and he went into quarantine. The two English players tested Covid-negative but had to self-isolate but not quarantine from fellow team members even for training, until a second test came back negative.

 

Most people understood why the Scottish guy had to quarantine while others argued that all players from both teams, regardless of all yielding negative tests should have been self-isolating. The key to the decision was that the three players in question were in close proximity and chatting as a small group for more than 15 minutes. That exceeded the criteria for spreading the virus. Playing 90-minutes, even with goal celebrations (there were none) does not convey the same Covid transmission risks.

 

So, taking that criteria and applying it to your flawed 'local 7/11' argument, shopping there or at Tesco carries the same risk as 22 players doing 45-minutes each way in the open air. However, sitting in a small, air-conditioned room with your five biker buddies and a waitress is akin to having a 15-minute chat in the players tunnel.

 

This analogy brought to you by a hard-fought, goalless draw (again) at Wembley.

Has anyone notified covid to only strike after 15 minutes?

[klauskunkel]

9 hours ago, Kerryd said:

That is a "biker" bar as well (HA). Wonder if someone from a rival club may have tipped the cops off for a laugh.

Probably "The Honda Click Clique"...

[jesimps]

They should've been at Bang Sue Railway Station yesterday, no alcohol, but thousands of people queuing in close proximity waiting for the covid jab. Many of those were then going to return to their home provinces. If the people in the bar hadn't been partaking of alcohol ie having a quiet beer or two, would they still have been arrested? Rhetorical question.

[jesimps]

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

During the Group stages of the recent Euro football, three players, one player from the Scottish team and two from the English team, met up for a post-game chat in the tunnel as they were team mates at an EPL team. Subsequent routine Covid testing showed the Scots player was Covid-positive and he went into quarantine. The two English players tested Covid-negative but had to self-isolate but not quarantine from fellow team members even for training, until a second test came back negative.

 

Most people understood why the Scottish guy had to quarantine while others argued that all players from both teams, regardless of all yielding negative tests should have been self-isolating. The key to the decision was that the three players in question were in close proximity and chatting as a small group for more than 15 minutes. That exceeded the criteria for spreading the virus. Playing 90-minutes, even with goal celebrations (there were none) does not convey the same Covid transmission risks.

 

So, taking that criteria and applying it to your flawed 'local 7/11' argument, shopping there or at Tesco carries the same risk as 22 players doing 45-minutes each way in the open air. However, sitting in a small, air-conditioned room with your five biker buddies and a waitress is akin to having a 15-minute chat in the players tunnel.

 

This analogy brought to you by a hard-fought, goalless draw (again) at Wembley.

Anyone with sense knows that the reason the police raided this small gathering was because they were having a few beers. See my post on Bang Sue Railway Station.

[Gudge]

7 minutes ago, jesimps said:

Anyone with sense knows that the reason the police raided this small gathering was because they were having a few beers. See my post on Bang Sue Railway Station.

Most likely someone tipped them off that dirty filthy farangs were gathered together flouting the Covid rules and drinking beer.

 

[10baht]

9 hours ago, Saraburi121 said:

People just miss social interaction in person whether it involves alcohol or not.  No matter if it's foreigners in a bar or at their home, local folk drinking together at the beach, kids congregating at the mall, villagers having a cold one after a days work.  It's hard to suppress human nature. 

I may be mistaken but death from CV-19 will do a dandy job of suppressing human nature.

[vandeventer]

10 hours ago, Alwaysthailand said:

Lock them up or obey the rules...come on man, for gods sake.

Maybe they all had vaccines and were wearing masks.

[riverhigh]

5 hours ago, GrandPapillon said:

well I guess the same thing is happening when they go to a local 7/11, and come into contact with possible carriers

 

the point is, it doesn't really matter where, it will spread one way or another, maybe not drinking between friends, but going to TESCO or 7/11 or wherever you go where people are stuck together, even at the waiting line to get tested

Your are comparing apples ot oranges. There are big differences between people going to the "Fat Boys Grill" and "Tesco/7-11". Entering "Tesco/7-11" people wash their hands and wear masks at all times. At bars such as "Fat Boys Grill" patrons do not wear masks and the more they drink the less cognisant they are obout social distancing. Also, when you go to  "Tesco/7-11" you do your business and leave, you do not linger around for hours on end for pleasure drinking, no social distancing, and no mask.

Edited July 28, 2021 by riverhigh
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