Crime Former U.S. Soldier Arrested After Disturbance at Pattaya Beer Bar

[Georgealbert]

 

Picture courtesy of พัทยา จุดเกิดเหตุ 

 

A former U.S. soldier and language teacher, identified only as “Mr. James”, aged approximately 65, was arrested by Pattaya police on the evening of 13 July, after causing a disturbance at a beer bar on Soi 5, Pratumnak.

 

According to eyewitnesses, the American national became enraged after a female staff member rejected his advances. In a fit of anger, he allegedly knocked over a pot of incense, spat at two female employees and kicked over a menu board outside the venue before walking away.

 

 

However, the incident did not end there. A short while later, Mr. James reportedly returned to the scene armed with a metal rod and a sharp object, appearing intent on further violence. The bar’s security staff, trained for such scenarios, quickly intervened, disarmed him and detained him until officers from Pattaya City Police Station arrived.

 

Authorities stated that Mr. James, who appeared to be in a disturbed or intoxicated state, will be questioned once he has calmed down. He only gave authorities basic details stating he was formerly in the US military and had worked as a language teacher.

 

If an agreement over damages cannot be reached, legal proceedings will follow.

 

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from พัทยา จุดเกิดเหตุ 2025-07-14

 

 

 

[jacko45k]

24 minutes ago, Georgealbert said:

he allegedly knocked over a pot of incense, spat at two female employees and kicked over a menu board outside the venue before walking away.

Jeez, I wonder why she didn't fancy going with him!

[Gsxrnz]

Makes you wonder how he lived this long.

 

And why does his Thai have a Brummy accent? 

[Jim Blue]

Wonder what  language he used to " teach " ?

[fredwiggy]

That's how you take down someone. No hate, revenge or kicking in the head while down. Subdued.

[Quentin Zen]

1 hour ago, Georgealbert said:

language teacher, identified only as “Mr. James”, aged approximately 65, was arrested by Pattaya police on the evening of 13 July, after causing a disturbance at a beer bar on Soi 5, Pratumnak.

 

I don't know how many times I have to say this.... Foreign language teachers are almost ALWAYS up to no good.   This one appears TYPICAL.  Drinker, goes after women in a bar, gets in a fight......

 

How anyone could pay money to let these criminals spend time with their kids is beyond me.  

 

Soon the International fanboys will come out and say that's not possible there......oh it is.  

[JAG]

5 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

I don't know how many times I have to say this.... Foreign language teachers are almost ALWAYS up to no good.   This one appears TYPICAL.  Drinker, goes after women in a bar, gets in a fight......

 

How anyone could pay money to let these criminals spend time with their kids is beyond me.  

 

Soon the International fanboys will come out and say that's not possible there......oh it is.  

Don't worry @Quentin Zen, we're all aware of your obsessive dislike of, and expansive stereotyping of  foreign teachers in Thailand!

 

What we aren't aware of, of course, is what drives it - perhaps you couldn't hack it?

[JAG]

I wouldn't place too much weight on the former American soldier bit.

Given the size of the US military, a lot of American males will have been in it.

 

He does seem to be a plonker though doesn't he?

 

Security chaps were effective.

[dinsdale]

14 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

I don't know how many times I have to say this.... Foreign language teachers are almost ALWAYS up to no good. 

One of the dumbest comments I've seen on here and I've seen plenty.  

[dinsdale]

53 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

And why does his Thai have a Brummy accent? 

Yep. A very odd American accent that's for sure. As for being a former soldier what on earth does that have to do with anything.

[save the frogs]

If a hooker rejects you, it's pretty bad. You really got no game. 

 

[Quentin Zen]

Don't defend these fake teachers in Thailand.

Drinkers.

Getting in fights.

Last month there was a story of a kid drinking and driving.  another fake teacher.  

They are super creepy people.

Some without degrees

Many broke

Almost all have no clue about how to teach.

 

Back in 2015 when a fake teacher told me he liked them young, paid to get them young, drank, loved to drink and drive, got high, and about 10 of his fake "teachers" all seemed at home......well, that was enough for me.   

 

Anyone can do that fake job.   

 

This is just one more example of the morals these clowns have.  

 

It just feels dirty thinking about those scum.  

 

I will troll them and their fanboys and defenders forever.   

[KhunLA]

2 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

If a hooker rejects you, it's pretty bad. You really got no game. 

Don't think you need game for a hooker, just money and not being disgustingly fat and or ugly.

 

Apparently explains why so many here are grumpy & miserable 

 

On topic ... PoPo should have took him back to his room or home, grab his passport, wallet/CC pay for damages & compensation, maybe a fine.   Then straight to the airport, and deport him, with a ban for life.

[fredwiggy]

26 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

I don't know how many times I have to say this.... Foreign language teachers are almost ALWAYS up to no good.   This one appears TYPICAL.  Drinker, goes after women in a bar, gets in a fight......

 

How anyone could pay money to let these criminals spend time with their kids is beyond me.  

 

Soon the International fanboys will come out and say that's not possible there......oh it is.  

I don't know how many times I have to say this. Those who lump all of a certain type of people into one category are ASSUMING, which a few do here all the time. You can only go by YOUR OWN personal experience with the FEW you personally know. Unless you know the MAJORITY you cannot even begin to understand anything about the majority. I personally have known at least 20 English teachers and I haven't seen any of them acting anything besides appropriate. Of course I don't live with any of them so I can't assume I know what goes on in their personal lives at home. 

[dinsdale]

6 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

Don't defend these fake teachers in Thailand.

Drinkers.

Getting in fights.

Last month there was a story of a kid drinking and driving.  another fake teacher.  

They are super creepy people.

Some without degrees

Many broke

Almost all have no clue about how to teach.

 

Back in 2015 when a fake teacher told me he liked them young, paid to get them young, drank, loved to drink and drive, got high, and about 10 of his fake "teachers" all seemed at home......well, that was enough for me.   

 

Anyone can do that fake job.   

 

This is just one more example of the morals these clowns have.  

 

It just feels dirty thinking about those scum.  

 

I will troll them and their fanboys and defenders forever.   

Keep posting. Every time you do you look more and more foolish.

[Jethro Tull]

7 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

Don't defend these fake teachers in Thailand.

Drinkers.

Getting in fights.

Last month there was a story of a kid drinking and driving.  another fake teacher.  

They are super creepy people.

Some without degrees

Many broke

Almost all have no clue about how to teach.

 

Back in 2015 when a fake teacher told me he liked them young, paid to get them young, drank, loved to drink and drive, got high, and about 10 of his fake "teachers" all seemed at home......well, that was enough for me.   

 

Anyone can do that fake job.   

 

This is just one more example of the morals these clowns have.  

 

It just feels dirty thinking about those scum.  

 

I will troll them and their fanboys and defenders forever.   

Can you show us on the doll where the fake teacher touched you  ??

[Quentin Zen]

2 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

I don't know how many times I have to say this. Those who lump all of a certain type of people into one category are ASSUMING, which a few do here all the time. You can only go by YOUR OWN personal experience with the FEW you personally know. Unless you know the MAJORITY you cannot even begin to understand anything about the majority. I personally have known at least 20 English teachers and I haven't seen any of them acting anything besides appropriate. Of course I don't live with any of them so I can't assume I know what goes on in their personal lives at home. 

if the shoe fits

 

take off the rose-colored glasses

 

you think 30,000 baht in Thailand instead of real money back home is OK because they really want to help these schools?  

 

Imagine this guy 

1 hour ago, Georgealbert said:

In a fit of anger

yea, imagine this guy with your ten year old daughter.   

 

terrible.

 

disgusting

[fredwiggy]

4 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

Don't defend these fake teachers in Thailand.

Drinkers.

Getting in fights.

Last month there was a story of a kid drinking and driving.  another fake teacher.  

They are super creepy people.

Some without degrees

Many broke

Almost all have no clue about how to teach.

 

Back in 2015 when a fake teacher told me he liked them young, paid to get them young, drank, loved to drink and drive, got high, and about 10 of his fake "teachers" all seemed at home......well, that was enough for me.   

 

Anyone can do that fake job.   

 

This is just one more example of the morals these clowns have.  

 

It just feels dirty thinking about those scum.  

 

I will troll them and their fanboys and defenders forever.   

How many fake teachers do you actually know personally? 

 

Do you realize most adults drink? How many teachers do you have evidence of getting in fights?

 

Check the stats on how many people drink and drive here.

 

Creepy to you might be normal to others, and how many creepy people do you actually know that are teachers?

 

How do you know anyone doesn't have a degree unless it's somehow proven?

 

To stay here you can't be broke, or at least not for long, unless you stay under the radar, which teachers can't

 

How would you know if they don't have a clue how to teach unless you know any personally, and that would only be a very limited amount personally wouldn't it?

 

Back in 2015 you have experience with ONE teacher that did those things, so again, you can't lump all teachers into that category can you?

[dinsdale]

1 minute ago, Quentin Zen said:

if the shoe fits

 

take off the rose-colored glasses

 

you think 30,000 baht in Thailand instead of real money back home is OK because they really want to help these schools?  

 

Imagine this guy 

yea, imagine this guy with your ten year old daughter.   

 

terrible.

 

disgusting

Work in an international school an Bt60,000 would be on the low side. As I said above the more you post the more foolish you look. 

[fredwiggy]

Just now, Quentin Zen said:

if the shoe fits

 

take off the rose-colored glasses

 

you think 30,000 baht in Thailand instead of real money back home is OK because they really want to help these schools?  

 

Imagine this guy 

yea, imagine this guy with your ten year old daughter.   

 

terrible.

 

disgusting

I've taught and helped an English school, but I don't fit your resume.

 

I'm hardly blind to what happens in the world, so I don't need rose colored glasses.

 

30K, along with retirement, is a good chunk of change, especially if you prefer to live here instead of back home.

 

Anyone touches my daughter, no matter if he's a teacher, cop, politician or president, will end up being disposed of by a vacuum cleaner. 

[NickyLouie]

maybe fattie lost weight Thai jail ?

 

 

[LennyW]

The most interesting part of this story is the well-behaved security guards!!

[Quentin Zen]

James, after being rejected by a female employee, flew into a rage. He allegedly spat on two female staff members (see end of video), knocked over an incense pot, and kicked down the bar’s menu sign before fleeing the scene.

The situation escalated when James returned shortly after, armed with a metal rod and a sharp object, threatening physical harm.....

 

------------

 

A foreign language teacher in Thailand.  

 

Nothing to see here, just a normal day.  

 

 

[fredwiggy]

1 minute ago, Quentin Zen said:

James, after being rejected by a female employee, flew into a rage. He allegedly spat on two female staff members (see end of video), knocked over an incense pot, and kicked down the bar’s menu sign before fleeing the scene.

The situation escalated when James returned shortly after, armed with a metal rod and a sharp object, threatening physical harm.....

 

------------

 

A foreign language teacher in Thailand.  

 

Nothing to see here, just a normal day.  

 

 

The large majority of foreign English teachers here.

 

Wake up, have coffee and breakfast, shower, get dressed, go to school, try and teach a mostly uninvolved classroom English so they might better their lives.

 

Go to the store, help the local economy buying necessities.

 

Go home, make up work for the next days classes, eat dinner, spend time with wife or girlfriend, go to sleep, repeat 5 days a week, weekends make up more school work, try to take a break and have some time with girlfriend, wife or friends.

 

Nothing to see here, just a normal routine for a foreign English teacher. 

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, Quentin Zen said:

I don't know how many times I have to say this.... Foreign language teachers are almost ALWAYS up to no good.   This one appears TYPICAL.  Drinker, goes after women in a bar, gets in a fight......

 

How anyone could pay money to let these criminals spend time with their kids is beyond me.  

 

Soon the International fanboys will come out and say that's not possible there......oh it is.  

Well at least the school's vetting process could do with improvement. It isn't only about their English language abilities  before setting them loose on kids. 

[BKKBike09]

He deserved a beating for his execrable attempt at speaking Thai.

[JAG]

43 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

Don't defend these fake teachers in Thailand.

Drinkers.

Getting in fights.

Last month there was a story of a kid drinking and driving.  another fake teacher.  

They are super creepy people.

Some without degrees

Many broke

Almost all have no clue about how to teach.

 

Back in 2015 when a fake teacher told me he liked them young, paid to get them young, drank, loved to drink and drive, got high, and about 10 of his fake "teachers" all seemed at home......well, that was enough for me.   

 

Anyone can do that fake job.   

 

This is just one more example of the morals these clowns have.  

 

It just feels dirty thinking about those scum.  

 

I will troll them and their fanboys and defenders forever.   

Personally I find your obsession with teachers, and assumption that they are all drunken whoremongering pedophiles creepy. 

 

You sneer at low salaries, so tell us, How do they afford all the excesses you list on the 30K you assume they earn?

 

Mind you, given the huge wealth you so often boast about your grasp on reality- in terms of money certainly, is perhaps doubtful!

 

No, I (and probably most other teachers, working or retired on this forum) rather suspect that you either failed to get a job or were dismissed from the "profession". What was it, inadequate qualifications, rejected at interview or sacked for misbehaviour, laziness, drunkenness perhaps or simple incompetence?

 

You can say what you say as much as you like - people have you "sussed" as rather a strange obsessed fellow, who has an epic chip on your shoulder for some reason, shouting in the wilderness!

 

[Will B Good]

Mr James......seriously?

[Will B Good]

2 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

The bar’s security staff, trained for such scenarios, quickly intervened, disarmed him and detained him until officers from Pattaya City Police Station arrived.

 

Nicely worded......sounds so much better than....."promptly beat seven shades out of him"

[dinsdale]

15 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

James, after being rejected by a female employee, flew into a rage. He allegedly spat on two female staff members (see end of video), knocked over an incense pot, and kicked down the bar’s menu sign before fleeing the scene.

The situation escalated when James returned shortly after, armed with a metal rod and a sharp object, threatening physical harm.....

 

------------

 

A foreign language teacher in Thailand.  

 

Nothing to see here, just a normal day.  

 

 

And you base your ridiculous generalising post "Foreign language teachers are almost ALWAYS up to no good" on this. There's more than 10,000 foreign teachers in Thailand and I know from experience not all are up to scratch but this doesn't mean ALL foreign teachers are "ALWAYS up to no good." Stupid statement. By experience I mean >20 years teaching here in Thailand. Why don't you share with us what your experience is. From your posts I would say very little indeed.