SOURCE: Pattaya One News: September 11th 2008

Car Chase Ends in the Bushes.

On a wet Thursday morning police stationed in Pattaya, and later assisted by officers from Banglamung, engaged in what proved to be an unsuccessful high speed chase of a vehicle that had been noted as being connected with a series of burglaries in Sattahip.

The vehicle had been spotted by alert officers in south Pattaya but when they tried to get the driver to stop he ignored them and took off at speed in the direction of Central Road. Officers radioed colleagues and a roadblock was established but the driver broke through after aiming his car at a policeman on a motorbike. The officer bailed out before the car struck his bike.

Like a scene from a bad B-grade movie the chase continued down Sukhumvit Road and then off into the wilds of eastern Pattaya. It only ended when the Thai male driver of the car was forced into an unsealed side road and decided he had a better chance of escape if he legged it, Indiana Jones-style, into the surrounding jungle.

Officers with weapons drawn trudged off into the undergrowth in what proved to be a futile search for the alleged thief. The man simply disappeared into the bushland and police abandoned the search. Nonetheless, they now have his car and inside the vehicle was an ID card, giving the man’s age as 32 from Suphanburi. Police are hopeful of arresting the man at a later date, as long as he doesn’t take up residence in a tree somewhere.

I guess the BIB didnt have their wellies with them!

he legged it, Indiana Jones-style, into the surrounding jungle.

Officers with weapons drawn trudged off into the undergrowth

Why do I get the impression those brave members of the BiB were less than enthusiastic about entering the woods at might? Perhaps watched a few too many Thai movies with ghosties and ghoulies running amok.

This is news??

Must be a slow day.