Pattaya is not only getting overrun by colonies of rats, it has also become a magnet for another kind of pest, commonly known in the UK as lager louts.

Gangs of poorly educated, low socio economic class young men, especially from the UK, are now pouring into Thailand, and heading to Pattaya with the sole purpose of causing trouble whilst on holiday in what they perceive as Sin City, the Blackpool of the East.

We are seeing the kind of young Europeans who normally goes for a drinking binge holiday in Spain now coming here bringing with them their aggressive, noisy and troublesome attitude. As a result, many people, especially families, stopped going to Spain and southern Europe because of these hooligans terrorizing everyone in their drunken crazed condition. However, things have now changed and prices have soared in these areas. Lower prices on airfares and of course the attractive price level of everything else here in Pattaya is now attracting these youngsters to come here and threatening to destroy whatever good reputation that is left with the Thais of foreigners.

http://www.pattayapeople.com/default.asp?F...;IdArticle=7119

in the age of cctv , here and the UK one wonders why these identities have passports , seems that the anti-terror guys are only doing 1/2 of what they should .

What a load of Bull, where does this comic get its copy from?

If anything there are less of The “Brit Thugs” in Pattaya than at anytime in the past 10 years

Good low season fodder for the ever-so-well behaved local Thai community…garbage

Does anybody know where in Pattaya and when that picture was taken?

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Maestro

I will say again (as someone felt that they should delete my first post for no reason, anyone care for an explanation?)

Pattaya was invaded a long time ago, why the need for the news now?

I agree with madjbs, Pattaya has been like that for years.

I would say that pic was in Europe during one of the najor football tournaments. No Thai's visible and the people are generally too heavily dressed. They also don't look English.

i dont think that picture was in pattaya or even thailand ,think some football match some time ago,just blown up the photo and there is a guy with a donkey jacket on and a cap at about 10 oclock in the picture,a cold climate photo imho

I agree that the picture was not taken in Pattaya or Thailand.

What a load of Bull, where does this comic get its copy from?

If anything there are less of The “Brit Thugs” in Pattaya than at anytime in the past 10 years

Good low season fodder for the ever-so-well behaved local Thai community…garbage

My thought as well. The pic came from Europe.

And the OP did not say that a bulk of those thugs now board RyanAir and go to Prague or other ex-Soviet bloc places.

Another poster said the numbers of UK thugs has dwindled over past 10 years - about the time low cost airlines and new EU member countries have converged.

Load of rubbish!!!! Utter tripe!!!

From my "why do I know this" department, The picture is from Copnehagen, and feature Arsenals and Galatasarays finest following: translated into married and semi-married middleclass guys with 2.1 kids, trying to defend their respective supremo races.

C´mon then!

Load of rubbish!!!! Utter tripe!!!

Slow news day, rehashing old news. Let's not leave out our european yobs.

From my "why do I know this" department, The picture is from Copnehagen, and feature Arsenals and Galatasarays finest following: translated into married and semi-married middleclass guys with 2.1 kids, trying to defend their respective supremo races.

C´mon then!

Load of rubbish!!!! Utter tripe!!!

why do utter rubbish always end up on this forum

Does anybody know where in Pattaya and when that picture was taken?

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Maestro

Yes, it was at the Arsenal v Galatasary European Cup (UEFA I think) final in Copenhagen a few years back.

Absolutely nothing to do with Pattaya.

Pictures like this can be seen practically anywhere in the world , where on a saturday evening large groups of not neccessarily british hooligans gather to consume large amounts of alcohol, Saturday evenings in Roma a Queensland bush town 700kms in land from Brisbane, has regular running Battles between Rival groups of Jillaroos(Female farmhands), that put rampaging Bulldogs supporters to shame The american pacific fleet were banned from singapore for exactly the same sort of bad behaviour, Canadian Regiments were kicked out of germany for wrecking a town.The famous Scottish Regiment The Cameron Highlanders were shipped out of germany in disgrace for going on a rampage and partially destroying the Town of Minden in the 60,s , I wont even mention football supporters no matter what country they come from or support!!there are always going to be an element of idiots who once they leave their homes on a saturday evening turn into the hooligans from hel_l,There must be some members out there who served with the forces in thailand or malaysia in 1964, Anzac day 1964 a Friendly Rugby match was arranged between the australian and New Zealand forces stationed in thailand, as a guest Prop playing for the kiwis ,I enjoyed the usually niceties of scrum behaviour, ear biting, nose twisting , nut squeezing and so on,as the match progressed the violence got worse, Freddy Mua our star Maori winger got stiff armed, and knocked out,it was on!!a very defined and cultured discussion took place between both teams and supporters resulting in 47 arrests ,over 90 injured lots of blood, yours truly had his jaws wired up for 3 months (I dont recommend drinking Mekhong and coke through a straw) How many of you can say they have never behaved like a dill at sometime or other due to over indulgence, But still the picture did its job and got a few comments Nignoy

Someone said they don't look English. Please define the looking English bit.

Clearly this photo was not taken in Thailand and such journalism only promotes this type of behaviour.

PP obviously survives on advertisement subscriptions, maybe it is time that those who place adverts were to tell PP they are not happy with the level of journalism and are considering taking their business elsewhere.

BB

Someone said they don't look English. Please define the looking English bit.

Wearing an Arsenal (English) football shirt rather than a Galatasary (Turkish) football shirt.

The flags on the floor are Turkish football flags too.

Someone said they don't look English. Please define the looking English bit.

Skinhead haircut, tattoos and stupid clothes.

Hands down worst lager louts in the world are Scandi(s). I dare anyone to proof differently - they take it to another level when on the piss.

Someone said they don't look English. Please define the looking English bit.

Skinhead haircut, tattoos and stupid clothes.

.........and frontal gold teeth........

......being the display plumage of the slums.............