Police raid North Pattaya Amusement Arcade



PATTAYA: -- Players as young as 4 years old are suspected of being allowed to play an illegal arcade game giving players a chance to win money at an Amusement Arcade in North Pattaya.

Based on a tip-off, Pattaya Police, along with District Licensing Officers, conducted a raid of the Mario Land Arcade at the Central Shopping Arcade in North Pattaya just before 11pm on Saturday.

Inside were 10 children aged between 4 and 15 years, who were playing an illegal arcade game which allowed players to purchase a card which they would top-up with anything between 10 Baht and 100,000 Baht.

The card would be inserted into the Machine and players would have a chance to win money in return, which contravenes Thailand’s strict Anti-Gambling Laws.

Full story: http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/218241/police-raid-north-pattaya-amusement-arcade/


-- Pattaya One 2015-09-28

Thailand’s strict Anti-Gambling Laws. Laughable in the extreme with, I seem to recall reading a few month's back, twenty-two known casinos operating in Bangkok. The bigger issue in this instance should be the ages of some of the children present. What on earth are their parents thinking of? As is not unusual in Thailand; out of sight out of mind. What has happened to this particular operation? Closed down or a small on the spot fine and allowed to continue?

Where is the picture of the 4 yo in handcuffs?

Thailand's gambling laws are, as every other law, selective. The untouchables are allowed to operate casinos and reap massive profits, and many of those who own the illegal casinos are the same people who make the laws that ban legal ones supposedly on the grounds that Thais, alone in SE Asia, are too immature to gamble responsibly. The real reason, of course, is that the untouchables would lose their billions of baht from their own operations.

This place has operated as an amusement arcade for close on 10 years that I can remember. The games are not that different from the ones up stairs in Central about 50 metres away.

This place has operated as an amusement arcade for close on 10 years that I can remember. The games are not that different from the ones up stairs in Central about 50 metres away.

The difference is that the games in Central do not give customers the option to gamble for money.

What has happened to this particular operation? Closed down or a small on the spot fine and allowed to continue?

Reading the full report would answer your own question and eliminate your irrelevant speculation.

Thailand’s strict Anti-Gambling Laws.

By all means...utilize police resources to run children out of an amusement arcade...

This certainly is more safe than raiding opium dens and arresting adult patrons at Las Vegas style casinos...

Great photo op to show the Pattaya police are enforcing the law...just like a photograph a few months ago showing the city tearing down a couple buildings that were illegally built off Walking Street. Great job! (NOT) Meanwhile the whole stretch on buildings on the bay side of Walking street are illegal (built on Royal land is my understanding) and where are the walking guys in brown along the Beach Promenade after midnight to prevent attacks on tourists and money stolen? Too much of a challenge I think.

BIB are certainly hitting the big time crooks hard now. Maybe amongst other corrupt things they control they are now interested in little 4 year old boys.

If im not mistaken most of the gambling dens are operated or run by the BIB, the internet and newspapers have away too many news about it.

It is a problem, seen it where the bar boys gamble their whole 1000-2000 baht tip away, again and again and again.

What you think those older kids are gonna do when they run out of money? Steal, sell yaba, maybe even prostitution.

It is a problem, seen it where the bar boys gamble their whole 1000-2000 baht tip away, again and again and again.

What you think those older kids are gonna do when they run out of money? Steal, sell yaba, maybe even prostitution.

Bar boys getting tips of 1000-2000 baht are probably already prostitutes.