British tourist left shocked after ‘Wild West’ amid rolling brawl among club hostesses and dancers

[neverere]

Too many monkeys, not enough bananas.

[kiwinz]

yep his  'girlfriend'  is definitely  a Bloke . . . how will he explain this back home  😱

17 hours ago, webfact said:

28-year-old Jack Fitzmaurice after he had recovered somewhat from his injuries on Sunday morning. He suffered abraisons when a violent conflagration erupted among over 20 women, which began when one became piqued by his Thai girlfriend, 35-year-old Sunaree Tungprakhon (right), at a Soi Buakhao Go Go club in Pattaya.

Riotous scenes as Thai nightlife workers let rip when tensions overflowed at a well-known Pattaya Go Go bar early on Sunday morning. Police are investigating the matter as a serious disturbance although it is not clear if charges have been filed or are being pursued by the victims involved.

28-year-old British holidaymaker Jack Fitzmaurice found himself chased by screaming dancers, bar hostesses and staff from a nightclub in Pattaya’s Soi Buakhao on Sunday morning after feminine pique turned into jealousy and rage among the bar’s workers when he was seen to be engaged with his 35-year-old Thai girlfriend. The UK man was left lying outside the club with cuts and abrasions in a bewildered state as police restored order.

 

Pattaya police are investigating a brawl and an outbreak of violence at a well-known nightlife venue in the city early on Sunday morning in which a 28-year-old British tourist was an assault victim when he was attacked by over 20 Thai women, many of them working as hostesses at the Paradise A Go Go club on the city’s Soi Buakhao, a popular destination for foreign tourists and in the heart of the city’s nightlife centre.

Significantly, the city’s entertainment district has been experiencing a revival this year as numbers rise inexorably with the recovery of the country’s foreign tourism industry.

 

by Carla Boonkong & Pranee O' Connor

 

Full story: Thai Examiner.com 2023-11-23

 

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[kiwikeith]

12 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

you talk as if thailand is the only place where fights break out in bars? savages, to use your term, exist in every country

I agree with you  but Pattaya seems to be getting worse, but saying that  Auckland nz is crazy with. Murders and shops being ram raided by young kids every night and big gang and meth problems 

[NobbyClarke]

Brit involved with a fight!

Dancer's fighting over him!

A lot of undisclosed information in this story.

He's famous for his 15 minutes.

Let's find the truth about this unbelievable story.

I've never seen this happen before and I have absolutely no doubt that you there is more to this.

[Thechook]

I guess he didn't see the sign. "No BYO"

[Straight8]

lay down with dogs, you end up with fleas

[mikecha]

17 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

you talk as if thailand is the only place where fights break out in bars? savages, to use your term, exist in every country

look at the uk every weekend a war zone  we were in Swansea a while ago more fights ang agro  there than here 

out of mind frunk men and woman slagging all of including police  

[cdemundo]

12 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Just in case someone ask: Are all people who enjoy sun, fun and beer "low life morons"?

 

What do you and the other good people do?

No sun, no fun, no beer?

Yes, I am always fascinated how many self-proclaimed "good people" take enough interest in nightlife and sex trade topics to join in just to distance themselves.

I am not interested in golf, but I don't jump into topics about golf to establish that fact.

For the thick and slow, (and I know you are out there) I am saying the "good people" get their rocks off reading about the activities, places and people they like to condemn.

So who are the real low lifes?

[OneMoreFarang]

1 minute ago, cdemundo said:

Yes, I am always fascinated how many self-proclaimed "good people" take enough interest in nightlife and sex trade topics to join in just to distance themselves.

I am not interested in golf, but I don't jump into topics about golf to establish that fact.

For the thick and slow, (and I know you are out there) I am saying the "good people" get their rocks off reading about the activities, places and people they like to condemn.

So who are the real low lifes?

I met a couple of my customers, owners and managers of companies, in bars, drinking beer and sometimes playing with the girls.

 

Who is or isn't a low life has little to do with their social status. If you know the girls well, ask them which customers are a-holes. It might be people who you don't expect it from. 

[jacko45k]

18 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

you talk as if thailand is the only place where fights break out in bars? savages, to use your term, exist in every country

And that makes it OK in your book?

[fondue zoo]

 

Everybunny was kung fu fighting ♪

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

7 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

And that makes it OK in your book?

It's called real life. 

[jacko45k]

7 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's called real life. 

It could also be called unacceptable behaviour.....

Surprised by the venue... not a place I have been in for ages, but when I did it was empty of customers.....hard to blame the actions of the 20 dancers on a Brit customer, but hey, some will. A ban on opening over the peak season might be warranted. Same as the security beatig up on customers, shouldn't happen. 

[daveAustin]

16 hours ago, ravip said:

It happens ONLY in Thailand?

You have never heard of these incidents happening in any other country?

How about your home country?

Just asking to find a 100% civilized place without any savages to live peacefully.

It was in Thailand and this is a forum about Thailand! derrr

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

It was in Thailand and this is a forum about Thailand! derrr

And a Pattaya specific section and topic at that...... I really don't see why people need to deflect in some perplexing attempt to say it's acceptable!

[daveAustin]

5 hours ago, vangrop said:

This names everything, a drunken tatooed English hooligan holidaymaker, what did you should expect from a drunken tatooed English national. It is a rethoric question. In europ when i see them in my resort, I  immediatly check out from these animals. They behave like monkeys, they are not able to speak  let us say to express themselves classic understandable English. They are even worse than th immigrants they alow.

Reported and ignored. Congratulations. 

[nobodysfriend]

 

If this is his girlfriend , he quite deserved it .

[fondue zoo]

It's a pirate den of iniquity!

 

#that<deleted>eishilarious 

 

 

 

If you put the "bar brawl" footage to music it's not that bad.

I was trying to work a Roadhouse meme into this but too lazy.

 

[owl sees all]

Sounded really exciting.

 

Any Video footage. Would get a billion hits on Tiktok.

[Grumpy one]

20 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

you talk as if thailand is the only place where fights break out in bars? savages, to use your term, exist in every country

This is quite true, but the loons here seem to have a much shorter and more flammable fuse

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

It could also be called unacceptable behaviour.....

Surprised by the venue... not a place I have been in for ages, but when I did it was empty of customers.....hard to blame the actions of the 20 dancers on a Brit customer, but hey, some will. A ban on opening over the peak season might be warranted. Same as the security beatig up on customers, shouldn't happen. 

It also shouldn't happen that customers don't pay and misbehave.

 

I have to admit I don't mind that in Thailand it is well known that if you misbehave there will be consequences, right now, and not a year later in a court of law. Most people know that and behave. Win/win for all people who don't like trouble. 

[Ralf001]

20 hours ago, CDG931 said:

Any pretext is good to trigger these savages.

 

 

 

Soapdodger - 28.

Girlfriend - 35.

 

Seems like elderly girl friend got her adult diaper in a twist watching him ogling girls his own age and started a melee....

 

It would appear Soapdodger - 28 aint a granny grabber after all !!

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It also shouldn't happen that customers don't pay and misbehave.

 

I have to admit I don't mind that in Thailand it is well known that if you misbehave there will be consequences, right now, and not a year later in a court of law. Most people know that and behave. Win/win for all people who don't like trouble. 

I have  read the OP and link, but saw no mention the customer misbehaved....only the staff of the venue. More details might clarify, but for 20 staff to attack a customer, at random, is not good business. So you are off at a tangent of your own creation.

[fondue zoo]

 

8 hours ago, neverere said:

Too many monkeys, not enough bananas.

 

That, or everyone had bananas.

[fondue zoo]

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's called real life. 

  

 

Add jelly and it's this.

 

 

 

[TroubleandGrumpy]

More of the amazing Thailand on show in the media - day after day after day - and they wonder why 'real' tourists are reluctant to come.

Maybe finally they will listen to what Expats have been saying for many years about all the crime, graft and dangers.  Only kidding - they will never listen - and there is always some reason outside Thailand to blame.   

[NextG]

19 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Obviously not you.

Can't count how often I visited a Pattaya Gogo incl Paradise.

And no trouble in Paradise and elsewhere since 2004.

If your not drunk as a skunk, check your bin and behave like a human, a Gogo it one of the safest places to be in Pattaya.

Erm….☺️🤭 I think you might be contradicting yourself there 

[Dcheech]

21 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

you talk as if thailand is the only place where fights break out in bars? savages, to use your term, exist in every country

 

 

Finally, the site is up. What better way to celebrate than our own what-aboutery squad, having a go.  What about Tunisia, Taiwan or Tuscaloosa? 

Well what about them? We are in Thailand, not Togo. Talking about pole girl scrums & beat downs in Pattaya, a Family Friendly Holiday Resort, not the Enchanted Tiki Bar at Disneyworld. 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I have  read the OP and link, but saw no mention the customer misbehaved....only the staff of the venue. More details might clarify, but for 20 staff to attack a customer, at random, is not good business. So you are off at a tangent of your own creation.

I am 99% sure 20 staff didn't attack a customer, at random. You can be sure there was a reason. Otherwise, why would they do it? 

Why do I "know" this. Almost 30 years in Thailand including thousands of visits to bars. Things don't just happen without any reason. 

[stupidfarang]

20 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Always a great idea to take your "girlfriend" (who is also a "dancer") into another go-go bar full of "dancers" whose sole purpose is to do exactly what his "girlfriend" has done.

Yes agree, I would think it is not really about him, maybe his GF (dancer) was knowen by the other dancers and there was past history hence the fighting, the UK guy wanted to stop the fighting and that is when everyone turned against him. Tourists do not understand how things work here and trying to stop a fight between thais is a no no