Iranian Couple Arrested And Fined For Having Sex On Jomtien Beach

[Lance_A_Lot]

I applaud the local police for the measured and civilized response. 500 baht fine for public sex at 4:30 am, sounds about right. Its also pleasing to hear they were both released. They sound like a lovely romantic couple letting loose on a holiday. I am sure they came here for more freedom and a wild holiday but they were simply misinformed. Who can blame them for thinking Pattaya is a place for libertine behavior?

Imagine how they would have been treated under Sharia Islamic Law in Iran?? ... the lady always seem to bear the brunt of the alleged 'crime.'

Believe it or not, there are 'exhibitionists' who get off on such public play!

Might be a good idea for a new type of bar or club? Amateur night (or pros!) where such performances are actually encouraged and customers

actually pay to watch!

[dude007]

So much for high quality, late night photojournalism using a phone camera:

http://www.komchadluek.net/detail/20090904...34;ด.html

Looks like he'd have been better off riding a wave or two.

I thought they were not allowed pork...

But what's the purpose of having all this videotaped and publicly dispatched? Disgusting papperazzi...

[turbotojo]

Sounds like a re-enactment of a scene in the movie "Boogie Nights" with everybody standing around watchin'....

Not a bad flick that one. I think I have it on my hard drive. Hard something anyway.

I don't know why sex is so taboo? I wouldn't stand for being fined for doing something that I am genetically engineered for.

Oh well, Thailand............................................

[sedeflonga]

Since the article states "...he spotted a crowd watching something on the beach and some of the tourists were shooting video clips with their mobile phones." it is clear they didn't do it in private and thought Thailand was a place where this could be done in the open...very much unlike home.

I am waiting for clips to arrive on liveleak, break or youtube. Anyone else?

yup, where is da video clip

[lincsong]

Hmmmm would a couple do that back in Iran? Stupidity at its finest - go back to a hotel.

What's YOUR problem Britmaveric??? Let the kids (and the crowd!) have some fun... some "Maveric" you are

[astral]

A 500baht fine is a joke.

[JRinger]

this story reminds me of the guy who was arrested for having sex, on the beach with a dead woman.

Standing before the judge, he was asked, "what kind of man are you, making love to a dead woman?", he answered, "But your honor, I thought she was English"....

[peteryeah]

lol at the mob here... it's not that big a deal really relax they did something a little crazy and got a little embarrasment and a small fine for it... sure they can laugh about it in due time and all is well. stop acting like the pretty people who never wronged.

[JayBangkok]

If it's in good, if it's in deep, then it's in-decent

[martyboy]

I applaud the local police for the measured and civilized response. 500 baht fine for public sex at 4:30 am, sounds about right. Its also pleasing to hear they were both released. They sound like a lovely romantic couple letting loose on a holiday. I am sure they came here for more freedom and a wild holiday but they were simply misinformed. Who can blame them for thinking Pattaya is a place for libertine behavior?

'A lovely romantic couple' with tourists photographing them!!! I dare say in Iran they would have been flogged and in Saudi hanged.

[kutjebu]

No they didn't know it was not legal,because Iran is a very tolerate country.

We have seen that on TV last month....hehe

[siamjimi]

I have followed the numerous replies to this post. One missing link is the couple comes from a religious and utterly supreme group of this planet (this is their opinion of themselves compared to the rest of us infidels) - thus - they stray from home turf and act this way defying their own rigid religious laws - however - that area of the world will not allow religious freedom nor will they allow for open travel for all countries such as they have been given to travel here to Thailand.

I hope their names and this obsurd act will follow them back to Iran where they will be stoned in the public square for their actions. I myself am not afraid to have sex on jomtien beach at 0430 in the morning and have a 500 baht each fine. Now let me go to Iran and have public sex and lets see what happens. Both these people need to be reprimanded the same as anyone else would in their own country.

[Sturbuc]

Hmmmm would a couple do that back in Iran? Stupidity at its finest - go back to a hotel.

1. congratulations to the police for handling it this way.

2. why doesn't anybody mind about privacy - neihter the couple because of some audience nor the police by publishing the full names.

Might cause big problems for the 2.

3. I do understand there's a kick to have sex on the beach ; thought about this myself but i'm aware that sex in public is charged in many countries.

@ siamjimi: why have to be stoned for death?????

Edited September 4, 2009 by Sturbuc

[Wuffy]

I find it rather horryfying the number of people saying they hope it follows them back to Iran and gets them stoned.

Just because the state is highly religious and has strict religious laws doesn't mean they are strict believers.

Since when are we subject to the laws of our 'home' country and the laws of the country we are visiting?

I personaly hope nothing happens to them back home. IF they indeed live in Iran, since it jsut says they are Iranian.

[guava]

I have followed the numerous replies to this post. One missing link is the couple comes from a religious and utterly supreme group of this planet (this is their opinion of themselves compared to the rest of us infidels) - thus - they stray from home turf and act this way defying their own rigid religious laws - however - that area of the world will not allow religious freedom nor will they allow for open travel for all countries such as they have been given to travel here to Thailand.

I hope their names and this obsurd act will follow them back to Iran where they will be stoned in the public square for their actions. I myself am not afraid to have sex on jomtien beach at 0430 in the morning and have a 500 baht each fine. Now let me go to Iran and have public sex and lets see what happens. Both these people need to be reprimanded the same as anyone else would in their own country.

I'm no fan of Islam as a religion (understatement of the year). It would seem likely this couple weren't too hung up on it at the time either.

But to rejoice in any possibility of them being severely punished or even stoned to death for a very minor crime - well that sounds positively Islamic to me... Like all the other crimes committed in the name of religion.

Careful you don't become what you seem to despise. We mock people like this when they can't leave their ridiculously oppressive conservative "values" at home, and also we mock them when they do?

These guys screwed up, they've been punished and humiliated - I hope that is the end of it, and they perhaps take a message of tolerance home with them. It's looking unlikely though.

[RKASA]

Well at least he was cheapening his own kind, not the poor soles of Thailand who get far to much abuse from foreigners. One thing nobody has mentioned, these people were no doubt muslim, yet they frown on us infidels, apparently we are more disgusting than pigs, and shouldn't call ourselves human-beings (hypocrites??) Now I would have sex with my wife on a beach, I think it's daring and romantic, but there's no way my wife would be willing if she thought someone could be watching, and I say well done to whoever has done it and got away with it, it's even worth the 500bt for the kicks and memories, but muslims - how dare they call us disgusting pigs, don't we remember how they behaved on Bondi beach 2yrs back - running up and hitting women who ventured out in a bikini. Now we really know how they are feeling!

There are a lot of Christians in Iran, Iraq, and even Afghanistan they just keep a lower profile. 

[glegolo]

ASMG

Another typo.... another threat

your welcome....

Glegolo

Edited September 4, 2009 by glegolo

[ASMG]

If Ahmedinjad will hear about this you're toast!

[agudbuk]

Stupidity? I don't think they are that stupid. It was intentional. They did it in front of a crowd, watching and shooting videos...

Some way to add to their excitement. 1,000 baht is a cheap price to pay for such a good experience!

At 4-30 in the morning were they filming with infra red or were the crowd indecently close .

She really was the early bird that got the worm

[chillibilly]

... a young, striking Persian couple totally embraced upon the warm sands of Jomtien...as if they were along the sands of the Tigris River...sounds erotic to me. --They were lucky not to have the camera men from Pattaya News out filming them. (Oh wait, it wasn't a motorbike accident or theft).

Note: Persians are of a different ethnic group than Arabs. They are very well educated and have a rich history which dates back before the Roman Empire. True, their government is very conservative, but most Iranians, I know, do not support the garbage that is going on in Iran. I can understand how a young couple from there could get "drunk" on freedom and get carried away.

[CaptainNemo]

If they did it in Iran she, at least, would probably have been stoned to death. They were probably intoxicated with a sense of freedom here! Come to think of it, they were probably just intoxicated.

...or just stoned!

They were probably just gagging for it after growing up in Iran... it must be a complete sensory overload landing in Thailand after growing up in an islamofascist state!

[dttk0009]

I think a lot of you are confusing Iran with Saudi Arabia. Not that that's shocking in any way.

[OxfordWill]

Hope there isnt some iranian official reading thai visa and jotting down their names.

[Dap]

Is there anything about this that doesn't make Thai cops and Thai justice look incredibly naive and stupid???

B500 Fine - A joke.. anywhere else its a night in jail at minimum, plus a court appearance and a fine in the $100's

"didn't know sex in public was illegal" - I applaud the Iranian for at least trying this unbelieveable excuse... and at the Stupid cops and justice system that bought it.

The whole thing is beyond reality for me... This surely is the "Twilight Zone"

CS

"Toontown"

[TVBP]

Hey...

where can i find those videos clips turists took?

[TPI]

I find it rather horryfying the number of people saying they hope it follows them back to Iran and gets them stoned.

Just because the state is highly religious and has strict religious laws doesn't mean they are strict believers.

Since when are we subject to the laws of our 'home' country and the laws of the country we are visiting?

I personaly hope nothing happens to them back home. IF they indeed live in Iran, since it jsut says they are Iranian.

Maaate! try being an Aussie and beeing seen holding a young child in your arms in Thailand, even tho the child might be your grandchild some wowser in Oz will complain to the police and you are facing pedaphile charges even though you are overseas!

Good luck to them, what a "rush" to have so many people taking part in your lovemaking!

[Brewsta]

Hmmmm would a couple do that back in Iran? Stupidity at its finest - go back to a hotel.

Well as soon as they are out the clutches of the Clerics off come the Burkas and in this case everything else. Maybe Ahmadinejad will put Thailand on the 'Blacklist"

Human Nature with a hint of bravado?

When I work in K Saudi Arabia,my students regularly spend their weekends extending their libido (casino,vodka and those wonderful East European ladies) in Dubai, Bahrain, etc.

Then these same Libertines return to KSA and resume their prayers & more 'conservative' existence - praying 5 and 10 times daily between Sat and Wed).

Considering the oft inhumane punishments meted out (was every Fri on Channel ** in KSA from amputa...tion to exe...cution in public), I am hardly surprised that a Pattaya beach would seem the perfect place to expend some harmless energy..

Hope that they got some %age for the photos though.....

rgdz,

Brewsta

Edited September 4, 2009 by Brewsta

[Jimjim]

Hmmm, he and his girlfriend may get even more serious punishment if they ever go back to their home country...

[toybits]

So where are the photos or video clips of these couple coupling???

Sounds like a re-enactment of a scene in the movie "Boogie Nights" with everybody standing around watchin'....

[ScubaBuddha]

He he...wonder what happens to this couple when back home and the families discover their holiday photos and videos at YouTube???

Yes exactly. Is anyone else concerned what may happen to these couple when they return home after their names have been published openly like this?

Anyway, the world would be a much better place if we could all just drop and have sex anywhere in public, IMHO!!