I didn't believe my eyes the other day , when I witnessed in broad daylight a Chinese family letting their kid poop on beach rd , right in front of Central.   There is a toilet only 30 meters away , the kid was trying to poop for 5 minutes with his parents waiting and for everyone to see. And I hate to say it but it was a lot of poop. 

 

I was shocked , but then I googled poop and China and guess what , it's a normal daily activity to poop in public in China!  

 

So what do you think , should we just let them carry on with their "business" ?

 

Pattaya Central Festival 

 

 

 

Maybe we need to put up some signs : 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't get it.

What happened? 

Emergency, couldn't walk a few minutes?

Didn't know there were toilets in modern shopping malls?

Didn't know they were free?

Making a statement about their feelings of Pattaya?

 

 

 

I think its just tradition , after reading a few articles about this weird behavior. in China 

The kid could have waited or shit his pants . 

 

 

 

It goes with the hacking of disgusting loogies, urinating in

public, obnoxious loud talking everywhere you go in China....

I worked in China for 2 years and things like this is common place over there as well as India. ?


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Disgusting and no excuse for it.

Central Festival, like many malls/shopping centers in Pattaya, has free public toilets on every floor though it appears they are on the beach side of the street and maybe were unaware. 

 

However if it took the kid 5 minutes to do his business he either didn't really have to go or was just dragging it out (literally) maybe to take a break. I guess if it's common to do where they come from it might not occur to them to even ask where a public toilet may be.

 

 

 

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go. Perhaps he'd thrown a tantrum and wanted a MacDonalds, and 'paid the price.'

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Guess we would have to tread carefully down that One Belt, One Road.. 

They'd seen the beach and just thought they were helping the locals to maintain standards.

44 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I don't get it.

What happened? 

Emergency, couldn't walk a few minutes?

Didn't know there were toilets in modern shopping malls?

Didn't know they were free?

Making a statement about their feelings of Pattaya?

 

 

 

(E) all of the above!!!

would it be okay if they pick it up and put it in a plastic bag like it was dog poop?

In New Zealand it is mandatory for dog owners to pick up pooch's poop in public places. The article does not make it clear whether Mrs Chin did so on this occasion!!

Does it matter...  Thailand do not care about sanitation anyway. Here is dog poo and garbage anywhere....

Yep, a normal thing when I lived in Zhengzhou, China.  It's normal for the babies, toddlers, and children usually have a hole cut in the back of their undies and they just pop a squat.  The children usually carry some tissue with them for a gift wrapping on top of their business.  I've seen a few adults do it but it's not as common. Possibly because their public bathrooms are in the worst conditions you could ever imagine (Squatters, no doors, hole in the ground, literally shit everywhere, and the worst smell humanly known to man). It's a little different in first tier cities like Szchenchen and Shanghai but a normal thing in every other city.   That being said, you think that would be on the list of things their tour guide should educate them on what not to do in any other country in the world. 

Everyday they are spitting in the hotel corridor of my floor!! 

Already told to the hotel manager! But money is money. 

So sorry Mister... But nothing changes 

Typical Chinese Quality Tourists?

Saves 3 baht for the public toilet!

Does it matter...  Thailand do not care about sanitation anyway. Here is dog poo and garbage anywhere....

Actually I'm always incredulous about the absence of dog poo bearing in mind the number of soi dogs around. London is far worse for it.

Maybe they want their little prince to grow up to be Mr. Natural. 

Toilets? We don't need no stinkin' toilets! 

They do same in their country, why shocked to see it in Thailand!

Just now, brewsterbudgen said:

Actually I'm always incredulous about the absence of dog poo bearing in mind the number of soi dogs around. London is far worse for it.

Yeah, but isn't it weird that people find people poo on the streets much more disgusting than pooch poo? Weird, but right! 

Just now, lindaken6 said:

They do same in their country, why shocked to see it in Thailand!

They do when there is free clean modern toilet minutes away? 

44 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Disgusting and no excuse for it.

Disgusting to us - certainly, no excuse for it? how about they know no better?

40 years ago these people and their families were poor peasants crapping where they lived and worked! now they have money and the world welcomes them! despite their total lack of socially acceptable behavior!

I've travelled all over China on business and this is definitely common place. If you consider this together with their rude behaviour and no respect for others nationalities you have the "Quality Tourists" Thailand wants. Farang's are fast becoming second class tourists unless you are Russian or Australian 

The OP indicated there was a loo just thirty meters away.
This is one of the items the Chinese tourists should be instructed in, IMO.

Chinese quality tourists leaving nuggets as momentoes for Thailand !

42 minutes ago, diddygq said:

That being said, you think that would be on the list of things their tour guide should educate them on what not to do in any other country in the world. 

agreed; there is this little detail about being in another country

Brought this subject up on the condo Chinese invasion thread today, Common practice in China

It's normal in China. Worked there on and off since the late 80's. Never stopped being surprised by the filth and depravity on display. Public pooping, peeing ( men & women ) disgusting foul toilets, bins in toilets overflowing with used toilet paper, sanitary napkins etc, the spitting and the gut wrenching noise of hacking and throat clearing. Not to mention the atrocious table manners and the eating with wide open mouths. The pushing, shoving and the shouted conversations.

It really can be shocking. On one rig I worked on a Chinese rigger had squatted for a poop on the deck. The 10m walk to the toilet was too much trouble. They were too lazy to pee over the side into the ocean and would urinate pretty much anywhere outside. Consequently the vessel stunk of pi55...

City must post this sign widely ASAP!

It's another crisis!