Drunken Assault Shocks Pattaya as Tourist Attacked Unprovoked

[Don Giovanni]

17 hours ago, rough diamond said:

Who takes a "peaceful morning walk" at 4.40am?

What difference does it make what time he went for a walk??

 

The foreigner was assaulted without reason by a drunken Thai thug.

 

Why don't you focus on that aspect of the story instead???

 

The Don.

[Hamus Yaigh]

It seems like AI generated news reports hasn't figured out how to make the story seem real and not off the fiction shelf. One of the limitations of using a LLM one might surmise.

[Kinok Farang]

18 hours ago, rough diamond said:

Who takes a "peaceful morning walk" at 4.40am?

A Pakistani looking for some brown love with the nearest Kathoey.

[ignore it]

Surprisingly no lady-boys were involved.

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

When officers questioned Thana, he openly confessed to the unprovoked attack, attributing his behaviour to intoxication from "downing a small bottle of white liquor." Witnesses claimed the man, known in the area for his disruptive antics, was gathering bottles along the beach before the surprising assault.

6 months in a cell to dry out

[black tabby12345]

Despite Thana's pleas for lenience, the authorities seemed unmoved, given his extensive criminal record. Investigations revealed his long-standing history of petty offences and violent conduct, often leading to numerous arrests and imprisonments.

 

Lowlife scumbag.

Good for nothing.

Deserves to be put to death.

And it stops this vermin from harming others for good.

[Kinok Farang]

2 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

It's a big world out there, sonny. Lots of different people from different cultures. My dad, born in 1921, serving in WWII, always woke up by 5:00 AM and would sometimes go for a walk around his neighborhood. Are you trying to blame the victim? Because - you're racist and don't like dark skinned people from south Asia, therefore they don't have the right to go around minding their own business unmolested? And even if he WAS partying all night, so what? He wasn't bothering anyone, and has the right to walk where and when he pleases. 

Congratulations,a brown man attacking another brown man and you managed to bring racism into it.Some achievement.

[Aussie999]

21 hours ago, rough diamond said:

Who takes a "peaceful morning walk" at 4.40am?

Irrelevant, most likely journalistic licence, in other, simpler terms, BS.

[Aussie999]

7 hours ago, save the frogs said:

you take your chances being out at 4:40 am 

he's lucky he didnt encounter a vampire 

 

Or worse, an angry katoey.

[Aussie999]

Why do so many focus on"peaceful morning walk" at 4.40am," it's irrelevant to what happened. Some of you would make piss poor conversationalists, just can keep to the main subject. You remind me of a mate who suffers from ADHD.

[Magictoad]

23 hours ago, rough diamond said:

Who takes a "peaceful morning walk" at 4.40am?

Many of us do. What's your problem?

[metisdead]

A post with a derogatory ethnic slur comment toward Pakistani people has been removed.

[CanadaSam]

The other side to this story is a guy who has saved up for a while for his "holiday" in Thailand, and now has to deal with bruises, perhaps a "black eye" for the remainder of his holiday, which would personally make me stay in my hotel room until my departure, with many curses towards "safe" Thailand, and of-course, the story told many hundreds of times upon my return to my country.

 

The ongoing repurcussions of such needless violent acts towards innocent tourists causes far greater harm than, I think, the gov't realizes.

[jacko45k]

19 hours ago, Don Giovanni said:

What difference does it make what time he went for a walk??

Well in this case he could have avoided being 'stunned and bleeding' had he waited but a few hours for the sun to be up!

[Harsh Jones]

23 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

It's a big world out there, sonny. Lots of different people from different cultures. My dad, born in 1921, serving in WWII, always woke up by 5:00 AM and would sometimes go for a walk around his neighborhood. Are you trying to blame the victim? Because - you're racist and don't like dark skinned people from south Asia, therefore they don't have the right to go around minding their own business unmolested? And even if he WAS partying all night, so what? He wasn't bothering anyone, and has the right to walk where and when he pleases. 

If he was high on meth or E and looking for ladyboy to back scuttle then just spare us the sympathy. 

[Harsh Jones]

16 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

The other side to this story is a guy who has saved up for a while for his "holiday" in Thailand, and now has to deal with bruises, perhaps a "black eye" for the remainder of his holiday, which would personally make me stay in my hotel room until my departure, with many curses towards "safe" Thailand, and of-course, the story told many hundreds of times upon my return to my country.

 

The ongoing repurcussions of such needless violent acts towards innocent tourists causes far greater harm than, I think, the gov't realizes.

Anyone with even the slightest clue knows that if you have self preservation in mind,  you have one job. And that is to avoid beach road between 3 and 5 am. 

[watchcat]

On 4/17/2025 at 10:01 AM, rough diamond said:

Who takes a "peaceful morning walk" at 4.40am?

 

Well if you take morning walks it's aperfect time to do them.

[jacko45k]

36 minutes ago, watchcat said:

 

Well if you take morning walks it's aperfect time to do them.

Why not just an hour later and catch the sunrise?

[watchcat]

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Why not just an hour later and catch the sunrise?

 

It'll wiill getting hot by then.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, watchcat said:

 

It'll wiill getting hot by then.

No, it actually induces a bit of a breeze.  It is 05.30 now and a pleasant 27 deg C.

[Ralf001]

On 4/17/2025 at 5:01 PM, rough diamond said:

Who takes a "peaceful morning walk" at 4.40am?

 

Many do, myself included... sometime earlier.

[watchcat]

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

No, it actually induces a bit of a breeze.  It is 05.30 now and a pleasant 27 deg C.

 

Doing much power walking (4 hours) didn't think so.

[jacko45k]

21 hours ago, watchcat said:

 

Doing much power walking (4 hours) didn't think so.

Hell no, stupid idea marching around covered with sweat bands like a nut job..... I remember going to the park with a USA girlfriend  once and she wanted to stomp around with all this gear on.... I suggested, 'Can't you folks just go for a walk!'

[Emdog]

On 4/17/2025 at 5:01 PM, rough diamond said:

Who takes a "peaceful morning walk" at 4.40am?

That is the time when Pattaya's atmosphere is at it's most vibrant!

[StandardIssue]

On 4/17/2025 at 6:19 PM, Patong2021 said:

 

Muslims.  The Fajr or dawn prayer  would have been at 4:50 AM or shortly thereafter.

Or, he may have been a morning person.  Sunrise is at 6 Am in Pattaya with.  dawn - Twilight is 60-70 minutes before sunrise so 4:40 AM puts it at the time right before the sun starts to appear. I love the early morning. It is the happiest time of the day for me. The sun isn't too hot, the beach is tranquil and so very quiet, and birds start their morning songs. I get up with the sun, and give thanks for being alive for another day.

or, he may have  had a  busy night with one of Pattaya's sex workers and was returning to his abode.

 

Doesn't matter, really as  he had the  right to walk  without being attacked by a drunken hooligan.

 

Of course he had the right, but was it smart? In the USA, if you are white man, you don't go for a late night stroll in downtown Compton and expect to be OK

[impulse]

On 4/17/2025 at 5:17 PM, snoop1130 said:

before the surprising assault.

 

I'd challenge characterizing it as "surprising".  Disturbing, sure.  But other than Iqbal, I don't think anyone else is surprised.