Pattaya police start renewed crack down on illegal motorbike racing

[webfact]

 

By Goong Nang(GN)

 

Pattaya – More than 100 motorbike racers from the Central and Northeast parts of Thailand reportedly gathered in the Pattaya area this past week, leading to Pattaya Police seizing 20 illegal motorbikes and initiating a crackdown.

 

A team from the Pattaya City Police led by Colonel Kunlachart Kunlachai cracked down on motorbike racers near Pattaya Beach yesterday afternoon (February 12th).

 

Colonel Kunlachart told TPN media, “We were notified by anonymous concerned citizens that motorbike racers from the Central and Northeastern parts of Thailand were holding a gathering/event near Pattaya beach this week and took proactive measures to stop it.”

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/02/13/pattaya-police-start-renewed-crack-down-on-illegal-motorbike-racing/

 

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[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Colonel Kunlachart told TPN media, “We were notified by anonymous concerned citizens that motorbike racers from the Central and Northeastern parts of Thailand were holding a gathering/event near Pattaya beach this week and took proactive measures to stop it.”

If they had their own pro-active sources other than concerned citizens they would have stopped it before they arrived.

A simple statement on FB or other social networks stating: Come here & race you lose your bike!!

[mikebell]

This must be a first!  Proactive Plod?  Whatever next; ensuring all riders wear helmets?

[Tony M]

What a nonsense article. This happened in Jomtien yesterday. The beach road was busy with illegally modified bikes. Not 100, but many hundreds.  The photo - op was opposite the Chao Doi coffee shop, and the police (maybe a dozen of them) were checking and impounding bikes that were already parked.  While doing that, they took no notice of the dozens of loud exhausts riding past the photo op. In the resort opposite, several dozen bikers had been partying noisily all night, and were unable to exit the resort until the police moved on. The police could actually have blocked the exit to the resort, gone inside, and arrested/impounded all they wanted, but I guess they couldn't be bothered.  This was actually a repaet of  what happened last year, and the photo-op was in the same place.