Famous entertainment venue in Banglamung raided on Sunday morning, hundreds of tourists flee

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By Nop Meechukhun

 

Banglamung, Chonburi – A popular entertainment venue, CLUB ONE Pattaya, was raided in the early hours of this morning, October 23rd. A number of drugs were found and confiscated while roughly 200 Thai and foreign customers escaped.

The raid began at around 3:00 AM. on Sunday by officials from Pattaya City Police Station, Chonburi, and Region 2 police. Upon arrival, a number of tourists, estimated to be around 200, were found dancing and drinking. The authorities then ordered an employee to turn off the music and a drug examination on all customers.

 

But while the officers were examining, one male customer began shouting and refusing to be inspected. Then, chaos began when hundreds of tourists tried to push through the guards’ defense lines and fled from the scene to escape the inspection. Due to less officials than customers, most tourists managed to slip away.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/10/23/famous-entertainment-venue-in-banglamung-raided-on-sunday-morning-hundreds-of-tourists-flee/

 

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Over 200 Revellers All Flee Pattaya Pub Raid
by TNR Staff

 

The raid on a Pattaya pub with the Thai headline saying, “Chaos – arresting at Pattaya pub – customers flee and owner blows up.”  Photo: TV Channel 7

 

A RAID on a high-end pub in Pattaya by a team of policemen from Provincial Police Region 2 and Pattaya police station failed to control the over 200 revellers who all pushed their way through the cordon and escaped,  TV Channel 7 said today (Oct. 23).

 

When the police team arrived at the posh pub located on  Petchtrakul Road, North Pattaya, they saw that a large number of Thai and foreign customers were drinking and dancing to loud music amidst colourful stage lights and ordered the DJ to switch off the music and turn on the main lights.

 

They then told the customers to separate into two groups of men and women to check their identification and undergo urine tests for drug consumption.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/23/over-200-revellers-all-flee-pattaya-pub-raid/

 

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[champers]

This place has just changed name, it was previously called Bone. It is on Soi Pettrakul (correct spelling) behind Terminal 21 and was busted earlier in the year for still being open at 5am. It was also open last NYE even though at the time it was still forbidden for nightclubs to open.

There seems to be some long running dispute with the BIB resulting in these sporadic raids. It seems the issue is in regard to the size of the brown envelope.

Incidentally, there are a lot of Thai beer garden type places on that soi and I doubt they all close on time.

Edited October 23, 2022 by champers

[2baht]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

A RAID on a high-end pub in Pattaya by a team of policemen from Provincial Police Region 2 and Pattaya police station failed to control the over 200 revellers who all pushed their way through the cordon and escaped,  TV Channel 7 said today (Oct. 23).

To serve and protect! ????

[Lucky Bones]

Priceless.

Couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.????????

[alex8912]

What a wonderful way to start the high season. Every single Thai and foreigner there should post how they feel about being treated in Thailand during their holiday when out having a great time. Then the music stops and you have to pee!!! What are a bunch of idiot cops think they are doing to tourism!! Where else wound this happen when you're on a holiday? The parties in Riyadh don't even go down this way!  Pathetic!

[jacko45k]

What a fiasco. They seem to want to include local visitors from perhaps Bangkok in the 'tourists' group here...but I suspect most customers here were Thai....the video did not really look that bad. Not quite the mayhem one would expect. 

How did the fire safety features measure up? 

[bkk6060]

It is really pathetic if anyone supports a place where patrons are selling, possessing and taking drugs.

The place should be shut down permanently!

[nigelforbes]

This is the part that's more interesting, the foreigners who were there apparently decided not to stay and simply left:

 

"failed to control the over 200 revellers who all pushed their way through the cordon and escaped,  TV Channel 7 said today" 

[smedly]

16 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

What a wonderful way to start the high season. Every single Thai and foreigner there should post how they feel about being treated in Thailand during their holiday when out having a great time. Then the music stops and you have to pee!!! What are a bunch of idiot cops think they are doing to tourism!! Where else wound this happen when you're on a holiday? The parties in Riyadh don't even go down this way!  Pathetic!

Spot on, I have spoken about this many times, holiday city with tourists running the gauntlet of the constant threat of police raids across the city clubs and bars alike, I remember pre-covid when you could get a drink anytime of the early hours without all this constant harrassment and corruption, covid is over - there is no such thing as "new normal" , lets get back to actual normal and put an end to this stupid corrupt nonsense 

[smedly]

16 hours ago, nigelforbes said:

This is the part that's more interesting, the foreigners who were there apparently decided not to stay and simply left:

 

"failed to control the over 200 revellers who all pushed their way through the cordon and escaped,  TV Channel 7 said today" 

why would they stay, the police have become a real problem in Pattaya - shutting down bars for no good reason - demanding money to re-open - it is now a big issue and needs to be stopped - greedy ###.

[smedly]

16 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

It is really pathetic if anyone supports a place where patrons are selling, possessing and taking drugs.

The place should be shut down permanently!

you address the dealers not the users or the venues - that approach gets nowhere 

[JoseThailand]

1 hour ago, champers said:

Soi Pettrakul (correct spelling)

It should be Pettrakun

[smedly]

21 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

How did the fire safety features measure up?

exactly

[Mickeymaus]

3 minutes ago, smedly said:

Spot on, I have spoken about this many times, holiday city with tourists running the gauntlet of the constant threat of police raids across the city clubs and bars alike, I remember pre-covid when you could get a drink anytime of the early hours without all this constant harrassment and corruption, covid is over - there is no such thing as "new normal" , lets get back to actual normal and put an end to this stupid corrupt nonsense 

There are laws against drugs and there are laws regulating the closing times. So you support people that don't care about laws? 

[alex8912]

16 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

It is really pathetic if anyone supports a place where patrons are selling, possessing and taking drugs.

The place should be shut down permanently!

In your world then the beaches and hotels will all have to shut down. What are you even getting at here?? Who said the PATRONS are selling drugs? Or even doing drugs?

Edited October 24, 2022 by onthedarkside
flame comments removed

[alex8912]

2 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

There are laws against drugs and there are laws regulating the closing times. So you support people that don't care about laws? 

Yes. No one has to know what the closing time is at any venue anywhere. 

[heybuz]

1 hour ago, 2baht said:

To serve and protect! ????

to serve and collect.

[Mickeymaus]

Just now, alex8912 said:

Yes. No one has to know what the closing time is at any venue anywhere. 

It is 2 o'clock in the morning. The manager of this club for sure knows this. And now you too ????

[sammieuk1]

All that pocket money vanishing and with the police awake at 3am how stupid this operation looks ???? 

[smedly]

30 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

There are laws against drugs and there are laws regulating the closing times. So you support people that don't care about laws? 

did I say that ?

[Aussieroaming]

The keystone cops meets Benny Hill.

[RichardColeman]

31 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

There are laws against drugs and there are laws regulating the closing times.

Yes, and probably laws about bad police preparation , but nobody will get fired for letting 200 escape

[scubascuba3]

Never heard of it, it's a Thai tourist place not farang tourist, might be an interesting story if it was insomnia

[tandor]

wun wabbits wun.

[Tarteso]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

were found dancing and drinking.

Oh No!!! What a horror !! ????

[outsider]

This is all a part of the new promise and commitment to the protection and welfare of tourists, I assume.

 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, Mickeymaus said:

There are laws against drugs and there are laws regulating the closing times. So you support people that don't care about laws? 

This is Thailand, nobody cares about laws, not the police, not the PM.

[mjakob007]

its all part of confidence building measures to attract more tourists...

as wowed by TAT...

 

upon reading this news, another 25Zillion ran to airline counters to but tickets to LoS

[jacko45k]

When on earth is the 4am permitted opening decision going to be finalized.... it has been yapped of and procrastinated over for far too long now?