Pattaya to be rebranded as World sport destination

[Tazwa]

Jetski Olympics.

The country with the most tourists scammed wins!

[IAMSOBAD]

They should bulldozer the entire Pattaya and start over.

[Jingthing]

They should bulldozer the entire Pattaya and start over.

That's radical but historically speaking the great Chicago fire and the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake turned out (looking long term) to have helped both cities become much better.

[Jingthing]

i CAN SEE IT NOW.....

Pattaya promoting The lady Boy Marathon

I think you've got a winner there!

Build on your strengths.

[canuckamuck]

Their never going to get the coverage past the media censors.

[thailand49]

I love sports and live in Pattaya, cycle all over place and recently my insurance agent saw me and told me " do you know what you are doing is considered a dangerous sports " It is mentioned in your policy? I said I know but it doesn't specifically mentioned cycling? So can some Thai official speak to the Insurance industry and take it off their list?

[Carrerakiss]

Sheer farce! Everybody in the world, knows what it is famous for!

There is no prostitution in Pattaya. The BIB raided the massage shop providing sex for money, only the other day.

[Carrerakiss]

What has Kobkarn been doing before she became Sports and Tourism Minister?

I believe that she has family connections that make her wealthy and socially acceptable, but no idea what she has actually done before.

Let's face it, Tourism is suffering, Koh Tao in particular, so she has to come up with an idea a day so that she can walk into the next government cabinet meeting and tell her colleagues that a fairly dire situation is being fixed by her 9,10,11 or how ever many ideas she has announced.

None of them will actually happen, but just as Hitler moved around imaginary battalions of troops, so the Thai politicians come up with idea after idea .........and do none of them.

[Carrerakiss]

Just wondering, what was actually done to make Pattaya a family destination? I mean apart from the announcement.

[canuckamuck]

I wish I had made a collection of bizarre announcements and press releases over the years. it would make an awesome thread.

[penwithcris]

Pattaya a 'Sport's Hub'?

I needed a laugh to cheer me up and this headline has given it to me

I've watched a fair amount of 'pole vaulting' in Soi 7, and engaged in regular muff 'diving' searching for that perfect 10

Lots of disillusioned 'high jumpers' to be found atop high rise buildings, and I once enjoyed a 'triple jump' with three obliging newbies from Buriram Province

Lots of 'hurdles' to be overcome to retain my residency status

I've avoided the'shot' only because the assailant was high on yaba. Tried 'pistol shooting' in the bowels of Tiffany's but the number of dead bodies lying around put me off

Have also attempted wrestling' but ended up biting my own willie by mistake when I was held in a Boston crab

Lost 11-0 at 'ping pong'to a bar girl who didn't even have a bat

Think I'll do what I do best - be an interested voyeur rather than a participant

[glasswort]

Bicycle lanes that will rapidly become parking for cars, street vendors and anything else if the recently completed wheel chair paths in Pattaya are anything to go by!

[sscsamui]

Oh ya... More Gambling, good idea... and more bookies .... nice

[Jingthing]

I wish I had made a collection of bizarre announcements and press releases over the years. it would make an awesome thread.

Yep.

Can anyone beat this one?

[DrTuner]

Just wondering, what was actually done to make Pattaya a family destination? I mean apart from the announcement.

They brought in the Russians. They tend to bring their own women, I reckon that already counts as a family.

[CNXTim]

Junta travel with Browning 50 cal. equipped Landrovers - Now this.

Time for the good folk at TAT to look seriously at their meds...

[Thomas Hannah]

Plenty of bikes to ride already ,,in pattaya,,

[lapd]

Bicycle lanes , there will be stalls and motor bikes parked on them within a couple of weeks hours minutes seconds.

Fixed and fixed.

[aparasher]

Well...I was waiting for Pattaya to be given correct branding...It is definitely a sports capital. There is variety of sports taking place every day like horizontal gymnastic, cat (politically correct name) hunting, fly fishing and other type of sports.

[jaywalker]

I apologize if people have already made suggestions like this, but...

Pattaya can have its own unique sports;

The Jet-Ski Scam Dash: This is where you run for life after a jet-ski scammer tries to hit you up for a BS 20,000 baht repair bill.

Lady Boy Wrestling: In this one, you have to wrestle off two or more lady boys who try to embrace and pickpocket you on Beach Road.

Or...Hop-scotch down the beach avoiding the broken glass, the 10 meter dash when crossing 2nd Road, Limbo dancing around traffic on Soi Diana, the "Ugly Man" contest on Soi 6 (as EVERY man there is a hansum man), motorcycle taxi rodeo....

[drgoon]

Base jumping?

From a hotel balcony ??

[drgoon]

Just wondering, what was actually done to make Pattaya a family destination? I mean apart from the announcement.

Another announcement confirming the first announcement.

[Songhua]

I wish I had made a collection of bizarre announcements and press releases over the years. it would make an awesome thread.

Yep.

Can anyone beat this one?

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They came close with that one JT. The Kombi's still parked there.

[bristolgeoff]

unless you make all that bar area into fields or golf courses.never going to happen

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[Jingthing]

You can't use the lipstick on a pig analogy about rebranding Pattaya because Pattaya ALREADY has lipstick ... for days!

[fantom]

I apologize if people have already made suggestions like this, but...

Pattaya can have its own unique sports;

The Jet-Ski Scam Dash: This is where you run for life after a jet-ski scammer tries to hit you up for a BS 20,000 baht repair bill.

Lady Boy Wrestling: In this one, you have to wrestle off two or more lady boys who try to embrace and pickpocket you on Beach Road.

Or...Hop-scotch down the beach avoiding the broken glass, the 10 meter dash when crossing 2nd Road, Limbo dancing around traffic on Soi Diana, the "Ugly Man" contest on Soi 6 (as EVERY man there is a hansum man), motorcycle taxi rodeo....

I think this is a good idea and so bad for so many to mock, surely it behoves all to make it a success by building on strengths. I thought the bar girl beer belly hurdles should be a winner, the Ladyboy egg and spoon race (2 spoons of course), not to mention ensuring happiness is spread to all by the ever popular synchronised soapy massage with happy ending should prove popular. There is of course the more robust sports like bar girl ping pong trap shooting which should get the TV cameras whirring too.

[samba2014]

[MobileContent]

I would like to see a sports event for soi dogs.

Competitive contest for dogs crossing streets with busy traffic.

The winner ... LIVES.

The winner should be shipped over to Sakon Nakhon for a nice dinner.

[petercool]

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