Midweek rant: Back where we started – Pattaya district chief still crusading

[webfact]

Midweek rant: Back where we started – Pattaya district chief still crusading

 

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The midweek rant is today celebrating a quarter century of consecutive posts.

Has anything changed? Has anything got better as a result?

No.

Not that I expected it to. This is Thailand, after all, as the mother-in-law is wont to remark.

Hi-So and so’s are more out of control than ever beating up pregnant girls now.

Dogs are increasingly more important than people, even attacking kids at playgrounds.

Teachers are still using their kids as punching bag practice.

Defamation remains a bigger crime than corruption.

Money settles everything no matter how serious.

Road rage participants carry knives and guns just for the fun of it.

Bangkok is still not finished.

And what’s worse – the sales staff still follow me about at Home Pro!

People have said the column should be translated into Thai – maybe that would help…but I doubt it.

So today I return to the man who inspired the column back on February 15th.

That was twenty four hours after Valentine’s Day when Bang Lamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong was pictured in a short time room with a British tourist with his pants down.

The tourist’s pants that is – Naris always wear the trousers in Pattaya.

On that famous occasion Naris was trying to stamp out sex.

He thought he was doing everyone a favor, which in Thai means impressing his superiors with random illogical actions.

He and his minions had made a complete hash of that and of course nothing has changed there.

Pattaya’s golden goose continues to lay its eggs, no one will be surprised by that.

But – rhetorical question alert - what has Naris done since?

He has moved into mini-crusades to rid the resort of gambling and drugs.

How very noble of him. But at least he can be relied on to continue in classic style.

In his first after hours and drugs raids everyone had already gone home.

Someone had been tipped off and no arrests were made. The lights were off.

Public money was completely wasted on those fantasy forays into the night.

So he turned to gambling.

This time he targeted a group of grannies playing the Thai card game Dummy and four, aging wives of foreigners were arrested.

How safe we now feel in our beds at night.

Though I think some might be asking, who was actually the Dummy in all this?

Then finally Naris got a result. Or so it seemed.

Dozens of teens testing positive for drugs at a nightclub and more than a hundred sachets of “ice” in a locker.

But none of the teens had anything incriminating on them. That was on the floor. The packages contained hardly anything.

And the owner was nowhere to be seen – so he hauled in the manager on eight charges.

Whoopeedoo!

Basically Naris’s 2017 crusade has netted a UK pensioner, a manager doing his job and a few grannies having a beer and a game of cards.

Meanwhile…… 

The resort he claims to be working for is suffering one of its worst environmental crises in decades.

The sea is filthy, the fish are dead, the operators are going home and the news is spreading to potential tourists far and wide.

The snatch thieves and lady boys continue to rob everyone blind.

The cops arrest electronic cigarette vendors instead of the taxi mafia who act as though they own the place.

Maybe they do, though some would argue that is the police’s job.

People both foreign and local fall down the holes that the administration can’t fill in.

And innocent visitors get electrocuted in the street because of hanging wires.

Thank goodness the tunnel is finally open – oh, it isn’t.

 

It’s being repaired before it even opened.

I would just like to know one thing.

What do you actually do Khun District Chief?

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-08-02

[Thaiwrath]

25 minutes ago, webfact said:

But – rhetorical question alert - what has Naris done since?

Lined his pockets.

[barrywhite]

Deport anyone who complains, is  most  likely.

[ChrisY1]

I think the authorities want Pattaya to deteriorate....:)

[ratcatcher]

Perhaps Pattaya HAS already deteriorated?

[NCC1701A]

all i know is we must save Soi 6 at all costs.

 

even if we have to call in an air strike on our own position.

[Ulic]

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

all i know is we must save Soi 6 at all costs.

 

even if we have to call in an air strike on our own position.

"Danger Close"

[JohnLick]

Pattaya - that's the family friendly city where I should spend my yearly holiday and money?

 

Sounds great...

 

filthy ocean, but I can swim in the hotel's pool.

 

No pavements but I can carry my kids in hands.

 

Want to get afternoon beer? No can do sir until 5pm.

 

A small beer at a bar for 'just' $4? Amazing

 

A bottle of wine classified as garbage by anyone ever visiting US/EU/AU from just $12? Count me in

 

Hundreds of Chinese tourists on the beaches with bright orange vests? Yay!

 

.... yes honey, this holiday will be pArAdIsE

[champers]

Pattaya is growing; there are new hotels being built as well as an enormous mall close to the city centre. The infrastructure improvements needed should be the top priority for the mayor. Getting involved in petty issues suggests that this is where he feels more comfortable. Major infrastructure planning and enactment should be overseen by someone with a commercial, rather than military, background. Horses for courses.

[dcnx]

The butt hole of Asia.

 

Let it rot.

[YetAnother]

6 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Perhaps Pattaya HAS already deteriorated?

long past beyond hope

[YetAnother]

45 minutes ago, JohnLick said:

Pattaya - that's the family friendly city where I should spend my yearly holiday and money?

 

Sounds great...

 

filthy ocean, but I can swim in the hotel's pool.

 

No pavements but I can carry my kids in hands.

 

Want to get afternoon beer? No can do sir until 5pm.

 

A small beer at a bar for 'just' $4? Amazing

 

A bottle of wine classified as garbage by anyone ever visiting US/EU/AU from just $12? Count me in

 

Hundreds of Chinese tourists on the beaches with bright orange vests? Yay!

 

.... yes honey, this holiday will be pArAdIsE

pity the folks that live there; we, in the far up country only read about these things; till people there finally bolt and become our new neighbors; we Have heard about this thing called 'crime'

[jesimps]

9 hours ago, barrywhite said:

Deport anyone who complains, is  most  likely.

Arrest beer pretties.

 

[Stargeezr]

The Pattaya and Phuket City mayors need to get together and see what they have In common.

  Is it Graft? Is it corruption? Is it the ability to try may everyone think that they are the best mayors

yet?  What ever they do, not much will actually happen. I guess these district chiefs should also have

a get together and discuss these topics.  As if anything they do will change, well in my opinion

not likely.  Nice Rant though.

Geezer