Tourist talking to Jomtien municipal officers before sprinting away | Photo via Pattaya Mail

 

Jomtien municipal officers were called into action on April 30th to address reports of a foreign man behaving suspiciously along Jomtien Second Road in Pattaya. Initially, the situation seemed manageable, with the individual amicably interacting with officers and pedestrians. However, tensions rose when the man unexpectedly took off running, leaving both residents and authorities concerned.

 

Local residents have increasingly voiced their unease over the man's erratic actions. One witness reported seeing him talking to himself earlier that morning, while another claimed he attempted to chase a dog with apparent harmful intent. These incidents have compounded fears, particularly as some locals assert that this isn’t the first occurrence of such behaviour.

 

 

 

In response, Jomtien municipal officers and the police have reassured the public of their commitment to closely monitor the situation to maintain community safety. The strange incidents have fueled a significant public discourse, with many online commenters calling for stricter visa regulations and tougher measures against foreign nationals who could compromise safety.

 

The growing public concern highlights the need for effective communication and intervention strategies by local authorities to handle such issues sensitively while ensuring the protection of the community. As investigations continue, residents hope for a resolution that will alleviate their fears and restore a sense of security in the area.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Thaiger 2025-05-01

 

 

Foreigners? In Pattaya, foreigners should probably be considered one of the main groups like Ruski and Brit  who I often see around. A slim body might also mean the person is bald, and as for flip flops, I’ve often seen Brits wearing them outside.

The strange incidents have fueled a significant public discourse, with many online commenters calling for stricter visa regulations and tougher measures against foreign nationals who could compromise safety.

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I'm not a big fan of resetting the visa-exempt stamp to 30 days, but I guess this will happen before the end of June at the latest. It seems like the agenda, and it was the earthquake that set things back (no pun intended) a little bit. That earthquake was crazy.    Seems like Thailand can use all the tourist money it can get, and nothing super crazy has happened (yet).  Dude with his shirt off running is strange, but not visa changing.   Last year at a few border crossings I saw zero farangs.  zero.   No idea the perfect number of days/months, but longer seems better and just do a better job monitoring with the smart cars.   Maybe much harsher penalties for overstay.   

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

calling for stricter visa regulations and tougher measures against foreign nationals who could compromise safety.

Yes please, implement an entry fee of 1000 Baht. Cash only.

I would like to go off topic and ask a question..

When did the Brits lose their super cool,I think It started way back in the good old days about mid sixties to early seventies?

May the mods could move this to appropriate forum for discussion.

Thank god just a concern and not an outrage... 

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Could be an AN forum member. 

 

I always wonder that.

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

I always wonder that.

Another click for the next badge?

60 day visa has nothing to do with this.

There is an easy solution. Ask him to leave the country within 48-72 hours

This has just become a thread for people to demonstrate their racist attitudes. Anti Arab  Anti  Anti Anti Brit  & Anti weed the latter being anti Russian. Isn't it time for the moderators to close down racist threads? The guy wherever he came was obviously a nutter - wearing a cats head in this heat!

18 hours ago, Jone500 said:

A slim body might also mean the person is bald, and as for flip flops, I’ve often seen Brits wearing them outside.

WTF does being slim have to do with being bald? 

As for often seeing Brits wearing flipflops outside, what are you on about?   They are for wearing outside, why would you wear them indoors?   And every nationality wears them, especially the Thais.

4 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

This has just become a thread for people to demonstrate their racist attitudes. Anti Arab  Anti  Anti Anti Brit  & Anti weed the latter being anti Russian. Isn't it time for the moderators to close down racist threads? The guy wherever he came was obviously a nutter - wearing a cats head in this heat!

Yes, far too many racist comments on these forums.  A lot of older people just can't accept the way the world is changing. 

Eventually there will be no distinct races.  Most people will be interbred with other races.  

Also eventually all the old racists will be dead and forgotten.

Another of Pattaya's finest....

Mental illness seems rife in the area under discussion.

 

Or, at least, higher than the normal population...by far.

 

Why is this?

 

There are reasons.

One reason might be that the population of humans which flock to these shores is very ATYPICAL of the population of humans in the countries from which these guys hail.

 

6 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

These nutters always have a specific look about them.

I think it is some sort of muscle wasting and long-term improper diet brought on by habitual (long-Term)

Drug Dependency.

3 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Obviously you are experienced 

Yes indeed. I once smoked a joint, but not in Thailand. 

2 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Yes indeed. I once smoked a joint, but not in Thailand. 

Once in your lifetime and never again? If it's true....congrats.

23 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

he attempted to chase a dog with apparent harmful intent

They're eating the cats; they're eating the dogs!

Get him out.

Happens in many places not just here

 

classed as - Midday sun exposure positively affects mental health 

8 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

These nutters always have a specific look about them.

Yes, and they are always shirtless

".............he attempted to chase a dog with apparent harmful intent."

 

Looks like he could do with a good feed - maybe he fancied a "hot dog" Korean style? 

No wonder with tabby moggies head!

😂😂😂😂🚀

1 hour ago, Keeps said:

You forgot pricks from Sweden.

Yeah, I know. They are terrible.

2 minutes ago, Jone500 said:

Are you even aware that whenever there’s an incident where a foreigner is harmed by a Thai regardless of who’s right or wrong Brits are always quick to criticize Thai behavior? So why is it that when some other foreigner acts stupidly toward locals, we’re not even allowed to question whether that person might be Brit?

 

No, I'm not aware of that - because it's not true (the first part)...  the second part - you're allowed to accuse anyone of being a Brit, but read the last few sentence of this response before you let your foot off the clutch... 

 

What I am aware of is this: whenever an incident occurs where one person hits the news for the wrong reasons, it's common for many to swiftly condemn the behaviour in question. And rightly so. However, for those capable of balanced thought, such incidents are typically judged on the individual merits of each case.

 

Take, for example:

- If a Thai national is assaulted by a group of Westerners, those Westerners will justifiably face strong verbal condemnation. At the same time, some will naturally ask what might have provoked such aggression.

 

- If a foreigner is attacked by a group of Thais, the response is much the same: the Thais are criticised, but some will also question what led to the escalation.

 

This is how balance works.

 

Its also entirely fair when a Brit behaves badly, they attract criticism and a dose of vitriol. The same standard should, and must, apply when a Thai individual or an individual or any nationality behaves badly. Fair-mindedness requires consistency.

 

But.... when certain individuals (a handful of them on this forum specifically) consistently post only negative commentary about the British, while remaining conspicuously silent when Thais or other nationals behave badly its clearly dumb, narrow minded bigotry....

... and that bigotry shines brightest when a foreigner of unspecified nationality is involved, and the same people immediately leap to negative assumptions about the British - then we're no longer talking about reasoned judgement. We're talking about bias. And not merely suspected bias, but a clear, demonstrable pattern of anti-British sentiment which is exercised repeatedly by the same ineloquent, poorly educated, moronic fools...

 

In such contexts, balance means calling out wrongdoing, regardless of nationality, allegiance, or skin tone. That’s the standard of any honest, rational mind. When that principle is abandoned, the motivation is no longer fairness - it's prejudice, plain and simple.... and it's the same ineloquent, poorly educated, moronic halfwits who repeatedly fit this pattern... 

 

..... But when that standard is repeatedly abandoned, what we're left with its tribalist prejudice masquerading as moral judgement, and without fail, it’s the same tiresome parade of ineloquent, half-literate, intellectually bankrupt simpletons who churn out this one-sided drivel like clockwork.

 

They don’t reason. They don’t question. They regurgitate their bias like a broken record stuck on stupid, fuelled by bitterness, insecurity, and an ego wildly out of step with their IQ... they're the bottom-feeders of the commentary world.

 

 

 

 

30 minutes ago, Jone500 said:

Importantly, Brits often criticize the Russians for their actions, especially Russian members of AN, who have never had the chance to defend themselves, unlike...

 

Then I'd argue those Brits who criticise any individual, Russians or otherwise based solely on their nationality and not their actions to be stupid, fuelled by bitterness, insecurity, and have an ego wildly out of step with their IQ...  and also be bottom-feeders of the commentary world....

 

Almost the same as someone 'singling' out Brits for anti-Russian commentary amongst a cacophony of bigoted halfwits from other nations on this forum.

 

 

 

 

 

6 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

... and that bigotry shines brightest when a foreigner of unspecified nationality is involved, and the same people immediately leap to negative assumptions about the British - then we're no longer talking about reasoned judgement. We're talking about bias. And not merely suspected bias, but a clear, demonstrable pattern of anti-British sentiment which is exercised repeatedly by the same ineloquent, poorly educated, moronic fools...

 

Welsh, Scottish, Irish (from Northern Ireland), and English are all considered British. There is no discrimination.

9 minutes ago, Jone500 said:

Welsh, Scottish, Irish (from Northern Ireland), and English are all considered British. There is no discrimination.

 

Well, some posters don't even bother disguising the breadth of their bigotry - they don’t confine it to just four nations.... They lazily smear all Westerners with the same sweeping brush the moment a story involves a Thai and a Westerner, or any grouping thereof.  If there’s a Westerner involved, the narrative is already written in their narrow, bitter minds....

 

... Equally pathetic are the cretins on the other side, those who leap to condemn any Thai involved in an altercation with a Westerner, fuelled by their own flavour of knee-jerk xenophobia.

 

It's not judgement; it’s just reflexive bile dressed up as commentary.

 

And at those fringes of the bigotry spectrum sits the handful of truly irredeemable frothing halfwits who appear utterly incapable of writing with even a shred of intelligent balance.

 

No nuance, no fairness, no context? These things are foreign concepts to them. All they know is how to bash, blame, and broadcast their own warped delusions.

 

 

 

On 5/1/2025 at 5:36 AM, baansgr said:

No problems like this a few years ago before they allowed weed and 60 day entries. Ban weed and ban it quickly

 

Definitely the 60 day entry caused this. 🙄

21 hours ago, leonard beaven said:

I would like to go off topic and ask a question..

When did the Brits lose their super cool,I think It started way back in the good old days about mid sixties to early seventies?

May the mods could move this to appropriate forum for discussion.

The mods were indeed part of the less than cool scene in the UK 60s! Perhaps fueled by Keith Moon and The Who!

21 hours ago, baansgr said:

No it does not. You really need to educate yourself...maybe read about cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and see the effects it has...but I suppose being a dopehead, dippy hippy trippy and ganga man you won't get past page 1... 

It seems you're the one who's not up on what weed does. Those symptoms are about making one sick to thew stomach, which I've never seen happen in myself nor any of the hundreds of people I knew who smoked. Weed does calm people. I've also never seen anyone get violent using just weed. Alcohol and speed, yes. People who are against weed and who have never tried it have no idea how it affects people, and reading biased propaganda doesn't help.