No Happy Endings On Soi 6

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No happy ending after police raid Soi 6

After gathering in force late on a mid-week night, a team of 350 police officers launched a series of raids on no less than 50 bars in Soi 6 in central Pattaya in the search for illicit drugs, narcotics dealers, and women dressed as women.

The entire cast had assembled in the car park at the Soi 9 station, no easy task given their numbers, where they were told their assignment. A rather large number apparently managed to suppress a smirk as they mounted their vehicles and drove off into the evening.

The street was blocked at both ends (if you'll pardon the term) and a mobile drug testing unit was set up in the middle of the soi. By the time this had been set up it was allegedly interesting to note the number of sheepish-looking foreigners who appeared to emerge into the bright street light from some of the darkened bars, many of them clearly having dressed with the lights off after being disturbed from a sound slumber.

After testing about 500 people, all the police managed to find were 16 women (dressed as women) and ladyboys (dressed as women; in most cases anyway) who returned a positive swab, meaning they had recently ingested illegal drugs. Not a single illegal drug was found, which was of some surprise to the assembled constabulary given the raunchy nature of Soi 6.

They were hoping to catch a lot of people engaging in drug using and selling, but instead attracted the ire of many bar owners and managers who wondered why such a cultural icon as Soi 6 kept being targeted by the local authorities. Police said they were concerned that drugs might be sold to unsuspecting tourists during this current high season and they wanted to prevent this from occurring.

The bars of Soi 6 were open for business the following afternoon and into the night and most hoped the sledgehammer-like raid was just a storm in an erectile dysfunction cup. [more…]

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-- Pattaya One 2011-01-20