“Funny air” seizure in Pattaya entertainment zone by Region 2 Police

PATTAYA:--Region 2 Police attached to the Child and Women Protection Unit seized a cylinder of Nitrous Oxide from a stand situated in front of a Walking Street Discotheque in the early hours of Wednesday which is sold under the name “Funny Air”

A balloon full of the gas is available for sale and can be inhaled, offering customers an immediate feeling of drunkenness without consuming alcohol. The “Funny Air” is available at five separate locations on Walking Street for 120 Baht per Balloon and has been available since earlier this year.

Despite regular patrols along Walking Street by local Police Divisions who would have seen the stands which are situated on the pavement, the Child and Women Protection Unit have now decided the “Funny Air” stands are breaking the law.

Two assistants aged 17 and 19 were detained and the “Funny Air” stand situated outside of Lucifer’s Discotheque was removed on Wednesday and taken to Banglamung Police Station.
Full story:http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/99911/funny-air-seizure-pattaya-entertainment-zone-region-2-police/

-- Pattaya One 2013-08-22

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha , ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho, i can imagine there will be a few laughing policemen trying it !!!

120 baht's worth wouldn't get me feeling drunk but I would rather have the alcohol.

I'd rather have the funny air than some of the weird glow in the dark cocktails you see.

that will really help Pattayas women and children, meanwhile there are babies living on the beach with mentally retarded mothers and they turn a blind eye

Despite regular patrols along Walking Street by local Police Divisions who would have seen the stands which are situated on the pavement, the Child and Women Protection Unit have now decided the “Funny Air” stands are breaking the law.

​I do not know if is just me but I see a lot on walking street that is illegal but they obviously do not...

Two Thai teenagers arrested for selling 'funny air'

BANGKOK, August 22, 2013 (AFP) - Two Thai teenagers have discovered laughter isn't always the best medicine after they were arrested for selling balloons containing "funny air" -- or laughing gas -- to tourists.

The pair, aged 17 and 19, were charged Wednesday with trafficking in controlled substances, punishable by a maximum five-year jail term, after allegedly selling balloons containing nitrous oxide in the tourist resort of Pattaya.

The gas, known locally as funny air but more commonly referred to as laughing gas, induces euphoria and laughter when inhaled.

It has several legitimate uses, including numbing pain during medical procedures such as dentistry.

Nitrous oxide is legally available in many countries, including the United Kingdom, but is controlled in Thailand.
"They were charged under medical laws... that ban selling or importing nitrous oxide," Police Lieutenant Colonel Passkorn Paikit told AFP, adding the balloons are commonly sold in the tourist hot spots of Ko Samui and Ko Pha Ngan.

"(The balloons) sell for 120 baht ($3.5) each and its effect can last for five to ten minutes," he said.


-- (c) Copyright AFP 2013-08-22

For those brits who have been to Blackpool fun park in years past, do you recall?

Maybe change the Uniform to brown and the helmet to the CHiP's motorcycle helmet, change it to accept 10B coins and put it in Walking St.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha , ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho, i can imagine there will be a few laughing policemen trying it !!!

I doubt they'll give up sniffing glue when this stuff goes for 120 Baht

Reminds me of the ' Grateful Dead concerts' but it cost less then .

These guys should have set up outside of Parliment. They'd have made a fortune.

I,d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy

I tried it... I didnt know <deleted> was happening as I was drunk already and this funny air just about made me pass out....

Had I known before hand.. I would have just taken a few home for those restless nights

A rather dangerous stuff for walking street, a good whiff of the stuff and when you come round you could probably someone emptied your pockets.

Dentists mix it with oxygen. Take it straight long enough with no air and you might well pass out. Better to alternate breaths of air and 'funny air'. Wondered how long it would take for a crack down.........

Total crap, in-hail laughing gas and all it does it make your voice go to a higher pitch so you sound like Donald Duck or in Pattaya Donald Dick!

Why pay 120 baht when you can go and stick your nose next to a semi-trailer exhaust for free? Just make sure you don't laugh so loud that you can't hear the reverse beep signal.

Total crap, in-hail laughing gas and all it does it make your voice go to a higher pitch so you sound like Donald Duck or in Pattaya Donald Dick!

I think you will find that is Helium that you are talking about Brian. Not Nitrous Oxide

Total crap, in-hail laughing gas and all it does it make your voice go to a higher pitch so you sound like Donald Duck or in Pattaya Donald Dick!

Ah, you're confusing it with helium...

But I do think mixing it with significant amounts of alcohol already in the blood, esp. there on Walking Street, is a recipe for something unpleasant.

Edited August 22, 201312 yr by hawker9000

Sorry, you are both right, I am confusing helium! A senior moment with memory loss

Total crap, in-hail laughing gas and all it does it make your voice go to a higher pitch so you sound like Donald Duck or in Pattaya Donald Dick!

Err ... that would be 'helium' Not nitrous oxide.

"Two assistants aged 17 and 19 were detained and the “Funny Air” stand situated outside of Lucifer’s Discotheque was removed on Wednesday and taken to Banglamung Police Station."

The the funny air equipment will now be installed inside police stations nation wide, to help the over serious and constantly overbearing police to "just lighten up a bit"

A friend of mine and I obtained a 4ft tank of nitrous oxide from a hospital and attached a 7 ft long hose to it and used to pass it around for hits back in the late '60s, never really overdid it though because we read up on the effects of too much inhaled at one time, is very bad for your heart. It was considered empty for oral surgery at 30lbs pressure. Had many funny times with it .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Total crap, in-hail laughing gas and all it does it make your voice go to a higher pitch so you sound like Donald Duck or in Pattaya Donald Dick!

The article is talking about Nitrous Oxide, otherwise known as Laughing Gas. You are thinking about Helium. Two totally different products.

Charge the two teenage workers but not the owners of said stands or the makes of said stands?

Brilliant.