Pattaya beach turns into unregulated booze and kratom market

[snoop1130]

 

Pattaya Beach, a once serene paradise for tourists and locals, is now teetering on the edge of chaos as unlicenced vendors run rampant.

 

Once discreet, these sellers now brazenly set up stalls along the shoreline, peddling kratom-laced cocktails and alcoholic beverages, ignoring the law with apparent ease. Despite frequent police patrols, vendors openly resume business the moment officers leave, leaving residents and tourists baffled by the seemingly powerless enforcement.

 

The personal consumption ruse has become the latest trick in their playbook. Vendors disguise alcohol and kratom drinks as if they’re meant for personal use, only to resume selling freely once the coast is clear. The scene isn’t limited to drinks either. A makeshift market has emerged, with beach chairs rented out to sunbathers, transforming the beach into an unregulated hub of trade.

 

 

More than just a nuisance, these unregulated activities are also creating serious disruptions. Food and drink vendors with pushcarts, and even motorised vehicles, have joined the fray, parking on the beach roads and causing traffic jams. Local drivers and tourists face increasing congestion, a frustrating experience in what should be a relaxing environment.

 

“This lawlessness isn’t just a petty nuisance, it’s a public safety issue,” said one frustrated visitor. “Traffic is blocked, there’s nowhere safe to walk, and the police don’t seem to be able to control it.”

 

As Pattaya Beach’s illegal vendors continue to defy enforcement, questions arise over the effectiveness of current policing efforts. With public order and safety hanging in the balance, residents are calling for urgent action to restore peace at one of Thailand’s most popular beaches, reported Pattaya Mail.

 

By Puntid Tantivangphaisal

Photo courtesy of Pattaya Mail

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2024-11-15

 

 

[redwood1]

Prostitution and drugs on the beach......Pattaya really is a family resort.....

[hunkidori]

Here's a few Baht in an envelope to turn a blind eye. That's how businesses  are allowed to operate in Pattaya

[harryviking]

What about all the big talk about promoting Pattaya as a family resort?? Now . we that live a few hours drive from Pattaya have to reconsider going there for two - three days with our families?? This is easy to fix! High fines and arrest if they return should be enough! Confiscating their goods is also a way to go! Doing nothing means only one thing.....corruption"😆

[klauskunkel]

Waiting for RTP to issue statement:

There are no illegal vendors in Pattaya

(there is also no prostitution, or gold chain snatches either, it's a family resort after all!)

[renaissanc]

Do I really need to go to Pattaya to tell the Police how to solve the problem? Just arrest them one by one, fine them 50,000 Baht, and confiscate their stalls. If they reoffend, jail! Problem solved!

[sammieuk1]

The world class unregulated hub of trade no less 🤔

[rick44]

I think the author of this article didn’t quite manage to hide the pro government stance 🙂

 

If everything was regulated, Thailand would just be another European country.

 

Where is the excitement in that?

 

Let's just appreciate the hard-working vendors who are there at an arm's length when you need something.

[kuzmabruk]

9 hours ago, hunkidori said:

Here's a few Baht in an envelope to turn a blind eye. That's how businesses  are allowed to operate in Pattaya

That is the law of Thailand.  Share your illegal gains and legalize them.  Until the Chinese take full control we have to suffer this corrupt regime.  

[quake]

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Pattaya Beach, a once serene paradise for tourists and locals

 

[thailand49]

They can't solve all the bike rentals parked 24/7, continuous biker racing, they drive down in a small pickup then back to Soi 9 for the evening this isn't a real police force it's an corrupt inept force.

[jacko45k]

57 minutes ago, renaissanc said:

Do I really need to go to Pattaya to tell the Police how to solve the problem? Just arrest them one by one, fine them 50,000 Baht, and confiscate their stalls. If they reoffend, jail! Problem solved!

Doubt most of them could muster 5000 baht.  There is an eversion in Thailand to destroying people's livelihood.... and liberal marketing is part of the freedoms here. What were they expecting when they made the Beach such an open space, and the streets a traffic jam. 

[wombat]

9 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Prostitution and drugs on the beach......Pattaya really is a family resort.....

Myself my wife and unborn child are shocked at these scurrilous allegations we to to pattaya beach to lounge in the CoCoNut Bars golden sands and crystal water...never have we experienced anything like has been described

[Asquith Production]

54 minutes ago, rick44 said:

I think the author of this article didn’t quite manage to hide the pro government stance 🙂

 

If everything was regulated, Thailand would just be another European country.

 

Where is the excitement in that?

 

Let's just appreciate the hard-working vendors who are there at an arm's length when you need something.

A very simplistic view if serious. Illegal goods cause a  blackmarket controlled by gangs who then fight over territory and violence becomes inevitable. 

[Grumpy one]

2 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

Waiting for RTP to issue statement:

There are no illegal vendors in Pattaya

(there is also no prostitution, or gold chain snatches either, it's a family resort after all!)

What about snatches with gold chains  

[Snackbar]

Go to England 

[NobbyClarke]

LOS or Land of Chinese/Indian mafia in Pattaya or the Russians in Phuket?

[Thingamabob]

This is Thailand. An easy-going attitude to some unharmful aspects of law and order is part of the culture, and why many people enjoy life here. If you don't like it go somewhere else.

[quake]

26 minutes ago, Grumpy one said:

What about snatches with gold chains  

 

Never come across a gold chain hanging down.

But rings and studs yes.  

 

 

[quake]

2 hours ago, renaissanc said:

Do I really need to go to Pattaya to tell the Police how to solve the problem? Just arrest them one by one, fine them 50,000 Baht, and confiscate their stalls. If they reoffend, jail! Problem solved!

 

That's nice of you. 

 

I like the free enterprise Thai street karts.

Good on them. 

 

[WoodyKenny]

3 hours ago, harryviking said:

What about all the big talk about promoting Pattaya as a family resort?? Now . we that live a few hours drive from Pattaya have to reconsider going there for two - three days with our families?? This is easy to fix! High fines and arrest if they return should be enough! Confiscating their goods is also a way to go! Doing nothing means only one thing.....corruption"😆

Easy to fix... Have another hit... No police and if you do fine one he has deep pockets...  Corruption 101.

 

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Pattaya Beach, a once serene paradise for tourists and locals, is now teetering on the edge of chaos as unlicenced vendors run rampant.

So tell the police to do their job.

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

leaving residents and tourists baffled by the seemingly powerless enforcement.

Useless

[quake]

There seems to be a lot of pattaya haters this week on Asean Now.

Funny how if they hate the place so much , why do they come to the pattaya sub forum.

very strange behavior.

 

I wonder if they are just fools with an axe to grind,  after getting burned by a Bar Girls.

keep it up haters. 

 

 

 

[mikeymike100]

2 hours ago, renaissanc said:

Do I really need to go to Pattaya to tell the Police how to solve the problem? Just arrest them one by one, fine them 50,000 Baht, and confiscate their stalls. If they reoffend, jail! Problem solved!

 

32 minutes ago, Snackbar said:

Go to England 

Quite the police there, UK,  seem, just as inept, preferring to go after Facebook posters and 'tweeters' rather than going after, shop lifters and car thefts/burglaries.....

[mikeymike100]

5 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

So tell the police to do their job.

Do the Thai police, actually know their job? I am just wondering what it says in their job description?

[Slocum]

2 hours ago, rick44 said:

I think the author of this article didn’t quite manage to hide the pro government stance 🙂

 

If everything was regulated, Thailand would just be another European country.

 

Where is the excitement in that?

 

Let's just appreciate the hard-working vendors who are there at an arm's length when you need something.

Irrelevant....not the issue point to solve this problem..

[nausea]

It all adds to the flavour 555.

[Ben Zioner]

Forget the Pattaya sewer, go to Langkawi. 

[quake]

11 hours ago, hunkidori said:

Here's a few Baht in an envelope to turn a blind eye. That's how businesses  are allowed to operate in Pattaya

 

You think that is unique to Pattaya.

Oh the naivety.