The Pattaya Times

[Pdoggg]

 

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Just after midnight on July 6 Pattaya Police were informed that the body of a man had been found on the tenth floor of Tower A, View Talay Condominiums, Pratumnak Hill, Pattaya.

There the body of sixty-two year old Swede, Sten Lundholm, was discovered in a peculiar position, sitting with his face in a bucket of water. There was a set of golf clubs lying across his shoulders. He had bruising on several parts of his body and medics estimated he had been dead for five or six hours.

A handwritten note was taken from a nearby table, as evidence, by investigating officers although its contents have not been revealed.

Twenty-six year old Weawmanee Luangkratoke, who says she works at a bar where Mr Lundholm was a regular customer, discovered the body. She claims Mr Lundholm did not appear in the bar that evening and so, after her shift, she went round to check on him.

Receiving no answer at the door she asked the security guard to use a spare key and they discovered the bizarre scene.

Statements have been taken and the body removed to the Police Hospital for post-mortem and to try to establish the cause of death. At this stage the police have not ruled out a murder staged to look like suicide.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/226765/murder-suicide-body-swede-found-jomtien/

 

[Pdoggg]

Trouble on Soi LK Metro.

I get confused which bar is which on that soi.

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At 4am on the morning of July 12 the Pattaya Police were informed of an assault on a tourist at the Showgirl Go Go Bar on LK Metro, central Pattaya.

Outside the venue an unidentified western man was being treated by medics for wounds to both sides of his face and he was bleeding heavily from a head injury. After emergency treatment he was taken to hospital.

Witnesses said he ran out of the bar claiming he had been attacked for not paying for a drink. Staff inside the venue claim he had run up a bill of 4,130 baht and refused to pay it. They said nobody working at the venue was involved and that he had been beaten by other guests.

The police were not convinced by this story and asked for CCTV footage only to be told the cameras were not working. The venue manager has been taken to the police station and charged with ‘being open after hours.’

No staff have been arrested for the assault.

The injured tourist was treated at the hospital and then quickly discharged himself after being told that this particular venue has a record of beating up guests and he feared somebody would turn up to look for him in the emergency room.

He declined to be interviewed or to identify himself, probably wisely.

There have been many warnings on social media about this venue and westerners have been warned before to avoid it.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/227109/foreigner-beaten-in-central-pattaya-a-go-go/

 

[sustra2]

this one?

https://www.facebook.com/PattayaShowgirls/

[Pdoggg]

Nirun Condo is a low end condo complex between 3rd Road and Sukhumvit near Pattaya Klang.  I've heard you can buy there for as little as 500K baht. They even have a couple of swimming pools.  Mix of Thais and farngs.

 

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Nirun Grand Ville in Central Pattaya Raided for Overstayers

On the morning of July 15, Pattaya police, immigration officers and members of the Tourist Police Department carried out a coordinated search of the Nirun Grand Ville Condominiums,, Soi Arunothai, Central Pattaya.

After a thorough search of the premises no illegal substances were found and all foreigners, apart from two, were able to produce their passports with valid and current visas.

The two who were unable to produce their passports have been taken to the police station by immigration officers.

Pol Col Apichai said that he called for this search in line with the city policy to reduce crimes and remove overstaying foreigners.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/227525/nirun-grand-ville-raided-overstayers/

 

[Pdoggg]

 

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Indian tourist grabbed in the Klangs.

At 1am on the morning of July 17 Pattaya police were informed of a robbery outside Mona’s Bar on Soi 14, Pattaya Klang.

Mr Shailesh Kimar, a thirty-four year old Indian tourist informed officers, through a translator, that a ladyboy grabbed him and snatched a gold necklace worth around 12,000 baht before escaping towards Pattaya Sai 3.

Officers radioed a warning in an attempt to catch the thief but there was no sign of him.

CCTV footage of the area will be studied as police try to identify the suspect.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/227593/another-indian-falls-foul-ladyboy-snatch/

 

[donnykey]

21 hours ago, Pdoggg said:

 

 

Grabbed in the Klangs....that must have hurt

[perazoli]

hi to all :) , i just want to ask u  who is the best top lb (well equiped ofcource) in Pattaya ? - thx

 

P.S. if u can posted photo and contacts witll be great :D

 

[Pdoggg]

On 7/24/2016 at 7:31 AM, perazoli said:

hi to all :) , i just want to ask u  who is the best top lb (well equiped ofcource) in Pattaya ? - thx

P.S. if u can posted photo and contacts witll be great :D

Welcome to the Forum Perazoli.  

If you want a very nice ladyboy with extremely impressive length and girth who likes to top then Nancy is the obvious choice.  Unless you have a virgin or almost virgin ass in which case she would not be my recommendation.  She's standing up in the pic below.

She can be found at LaBamba Bar on Soi 13/1 between Beach Raod and 2nd Road in Pattaya.

[Pdoggg]

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At 1.30am, on the morning of July 23, Mr Teo Poh Yong, Malaysian tourist, made a statement at Pattaya’s Police Station to report he had met with a group of ladyboys, who befriended him on the WeChat App. He complained that whilst they were at the Baron Beach Hotel, Beach Road, Soi 9, Pattaya they had shot him with a Taser Gun and then robbed him of 18,000 baht. This crime was not reported to the media.

However, at 10.30am on the morning of July 25 Commander of Chonburi Provincial Police announced the arrest of Mr Napatcha (aka Bee) Chonthanathisa, 32 yrs, Mr Napat (aka Tae) Pakdeekam, 28 yrs, Mr Woranissa (aka Jane) Pansuree, 20 yrs, Ms Suksakorn Kowpanya (Laos), 22 yrs, Mr Singdala (aka Beau) Wonsuwan (Laos), 28 yrs and Mr Boonthanom (Aka Nong) Lintakan (Laos), 28 yrs.

They have all denied the allegations. Instead they claim that Mr Boonthanom (Nong) had met the victim on the WeChat App and made arrangements to meet at the hotel for two-hours and have drinks in exchange for an agreed 18,000 baht.

They said the victim then had a problem paying his hotel bill and they had ‘no idea why he did not tell Mr Boonthanom at the time,’ but they all decided to go the police station and report it.

They said they felt they had to as they wanted to show they are innocent and that being charged with tasering and theft might give them a bad reputation. They said they wanted to lay charges with the victim for ‘telling lies on a statement.’

Pol Col Amphol said the police department would treat both parties fairly and the accused needed to provide the proof that the allegation is false. Which is odd as usually it is up to the police to prove the guilt of any accused suspects and not for them to have to prove their innocence.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/228376/malaysian-man-mobbed-robbed-six-ladyboys/

 

[perazoli]

Thx Pdogg she look very nice but i think that i will take all 3 from the pic :))))

[Pdoggg]

 

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At 3am in the small hours of July 30, officers at Pattaya Police Station were informed that a citizen’s arrest had been made at Beach Road, Pattaya, opposite Soi 13/1, and that a ladyboy was being held by members of the public.

Earlier in the evening twenty-four-year-old Indian national, Mr Kapish Kuma Ragawal, had been assaulted by a gang of ladyboys who ripped a 40,000 baht gold necklace from him. He had been confronted by three, two of whom held his arms whilst the third stole his gold.

But he realised what had happened and ran after them. They split up and so Mr Ragawal chased after one, twenty-four-year-old Mr Konkham Janjorn, and apprehended him.

With assistance from six Thais and a couple of western tourists they held on to Janjorn until the police arrived.

Pol Cap Sakchai, who later interrogated the thief, said he had admitted the crime. However, he insists he is not part of a gang and that the other two had only been hired to create a distraction and would be paid later.

Despite that Janjorn insisted he doesn’t know the names of the others or how they can be contacted.

It has been suggested that an investigation of the gold shops around Pattaya is long overdue as many suspect some have been ‘fencing’ stolen, cheaply bought gold for a very long time and providing an outlet for these late night street thieves.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/228975/tourist-robbed-three-ladyboys-catches-one-turns-police/

Citizens Arrest

 

[duke007]

Even though its supposed to be an Alcohol free weekend in the bars , some will probably start selling again at 6pm on the Sunday, Josh for example has stated that Baby Boom with be open again at 7pm 

 

[duke007]

Spike has posted this.....

On Sunday the 7th August 69 Bar will be open 
Alcohol with be sold at Midnight

[duke007]

Scott posted this earlier as to why Sensations Bar will not open up again until midnight tomorrow (Sunday)

"We have been told by our police that any bars caught selling alcohol before 12 will be closed down for a minimum period of 6 months. 
Paeng questioned the fact that voting finishes long before 12 o'clock but the police said they are taking the closures very seriously due to the army etc." 

[duke007]

 

Aussie Plunges To His Death From Pattaya Condo

 

A 59-year-old Australian tourist was found dead in the early hours of Wednesday morning after allegedly taking his own life by jumping off a 15-storey Pattaya condo, just hours before he was set to depart Thailand.

The deceased, identified as Mr John Russell, was found by emergency services laid in a pool of blood beside the swimming pool at the Kao Karat condo located on Soi Arunothai.

Thai media report the man suffered a fractured skull and several broken bones.

A fellow countryman told police he had shared farewell drinks with Mr Russell earlier in the evening as the deceased was returning to Australia the next day, Wednesday.

The reasons behind what caused the Aussie to jump are irrelevant speculation on the part of police and not worth mentioning.

The body was sent for autopsy and the Australian Embassy in Bangkok notified.

 

[Pdoggg]

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At 6am, on the morning of August 19, a police patrol in central Pattaya noticed a group of three men carrying an unconscious (or drunk) woman along Soi 6.

Suspecting a crime had taken place, or was about to, officers stopped the group and searched them.

One of the men, twenty-three-year-old Mr Pholchet Tonpipat, was found to be armed with a .38 Smith & Wesson handgun with five bullets.

Tonpipat claimed the gun belonged to a friend who is a police volunteer at Nongprue police station and had ‘asked him to look after it for him.’

Not wishing to leave it at home, unattended, Tonpipat thought it would be a good idea to take it out with him, to a party.

The men also told officers that the unconscious woman was a relative and that they were looking after her.

Officers were not convinced by this account and the group were all taken to the Pattaya Police Station for further questioning.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/230442/smith-wesson-gun-found-drunk-party/

 

[Billy69]

Well..what u thinks guys...??

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/229173/special-report-days-numbered-thai-tourist-industry/

The Thai Tourist industry has started a campaign to lure back Chinese tourists.

Chiang Mai has started a campaign to try and lure back Chinese tourists, whose visits have fallen significantly lately. The drop in visitor numbers is thought to be related to the Thais’ constant criticism of the Chinese on social media, causing the them to boycott Thailand.

And this is something like the reason the Americans stopped coming here in numbers a few years ago. And the British, Australians & Europeans. The attitude of the Thai authorities and, in some cases the population, towards their guests is driving people away.

The fifteen-year prosperity, thanks to the wealth Westerners brought in by the billion that looked, only a few years ago, as if it would never end, may well be ending.

Take a look at tourism over the last forty-years and a pattern emerges.

In the 1970’s the early package tours took wealth and prosperity to Spain’s, previously undeveloped, Costa del Sol region. The Coast of the Sun was cheap, easy to reach, beautiful, unspoiled and safe. The Spanish welcomed new customers to their bars, taverns, hotels & beaches by the million.

And, of course, the crooks moved in too. The pickpockets, the muggers, the taxi driver scams, the water-ski scammers (you damaged my ski, that’s $50, gracias). Waiters watered down wine, shops short-changed. Every non Spaniard was an opportunity and the Spanish police were bought and paid for. In on it – up to the nail-bag.

So were the authorities. Ugly hotels went up, the beautiful shoreline was ruined, the seawater polluted, condos were bought and never built. Now-famous time share scams were established. Golf club memberships were sold, to courses that would never be played. Nightmares were had and tears flowed. Greed flourished and wealth changed hands.

Then the foreign crooks all moved in and gun-fights were common. Taxi drivers cheated, robbed and raped. And the tourists were all chased out of town. People just stopped going there.

First the Americans left. Then the British and other Europeans. The Japanese, so affluent during the 1970’s & 80’s, stopped going. The Russians had a brief look around, after their borders opened in the 1990’s, but it was too late for Spain by then.

There was no way to change the attitudes of the people by that time. A whole generation had grown up thinking tourists in numbers had always been there, and always would be. But the Russians also found somewhere else to go before long. Spain then spent the next twenty-years with its collective arms out saying, ‘where you go, please come back handsome man.’

But no-one goes back there now. Not in any numbers anyway. Spain is broke. The money is gone. Buildings lay derelict and a decent condo can now be picked up from a bank for the price of a medium sized car.

And it serves them right.

Spain was onto a good thing in the 1980’s. And they thought it would last forever. But people who are abused, everywhere they go in a country, just stop going there.

The tourist dollar went to Greece instead during the 1990’s and exactly the same thing happen there too. Now their elderly scavenge for food in street bins and you can buy a decent apartment in Athens for pocket change. But, who would?

The gravy train pulled into Turkey next, for a brief while, until the same thing happened there and tourists were chased away by robbing, thieving locals who thought they knew a good thing when it walked past them at night.

Who, in their right minds, would go on holiday to Turkey now?

Fifteen years ago (or something) the same gravy train left western stations and pulled into Thailand. Is any of this sounding familiar yet?

It doesn’t take long for the so called quality tourist to be driven out of town. Parts of Thailand today mirror the Costa Del Sol during the 1980’s. And I don’t just mean the once beautiful coastline through Naklua and Wongamat that is so badly scarred by high-rise chicken boxes. And nor do I just mean the polluted seawater, thanks to cheap drainage.

It is every baht bus driver who pulled away without giving change. It is every chicken vendor who charged the white man more than he saw the person before him pay. It is every gold stealing ladyboy in the dead of night and every traffic ticket that is issued unfairly.

It is every motorbike taxi driver who beat up a drunk tourist instead of helping him home and every bar worker who added tabs to a bin. It is every tour guide who refused to help a stranded tourist because ‘he didn’t pay for a tour guide, why should we help him? Next time he come he pay for tour guide. He learn his lesson and more money for us.’

I will tell you why, my lovely. Because he isn’t coming back. There is no next time. The next time his (or anybody he knows) cruise ship docks in Laem Chabang Port him and his wife will stay on board, in the casino, and not come to Pattaya or Bangkok. The next stop for them is Saigon.

Because you think he ‘learn his lesson’ sitting, sweating like a farmer, outside Mike’s Mall having missed his bus. And you won’t take him back to the ship on your half-empty, air-conditioned, tour bus because ‘he no pay for guide.’

He learned his lesson alright. ‘He no come back’ – ever. That is why you should have given him a lift, and been nice.

And multiply that example by tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands. Maybe millions of times over the few short years the gravy train has been coming to Thailand.

It is every single thing, big or small. Because every time anything like this happens someone goes home and tells all of their friends, on Facebook, ‘don’t go there, go somewhere else instead.’

Now, obviously I don’t mean everybody in Thailand is mistreating their guests. I don’t even imply it is anybody outside the tourist centres. It is not that many inside towns like Pattaya & Phuket either. But it is enough. The small minority that are causing people to go home with a bad experience. Just as it was in Spain, Greece and Turkey.

And imagine those bad experiences being shared many hundreds of thousands of times by modern social media users in all corners of the world over the last five years. As it is in China, right now.

The people seem unaware of any of this. Chiang Mai deputy governor Mongkol Suksai tried to calm feelings down in the province when he said yesterday ‘it is just a significant difference between cultures which, on many occasions, we Thais are not accustomed to. That is why it is vital that we make them understand how Thai people are. It is our job to show them what is acceptable, and more importantly, what is inappropriate in Thai culture.’

I am afraid not, Mr Governor. You couldn’t be more wrong than that. It is an Olympic gold medal effort in being wrong.

The Chinese tourists are the level you are at right now, in terms of visitor. They are the customer. They bring the money. This is what you are left to work with.

Europe, America, Australia and Russia have all been chased out of town, to Vietnam perhaps. Hurried over the border. You are where you are now. It is you who must adapt your service to suit the Chinese. If you want them to keep coming.

Because if you don’t then your tour guides, who have all been learning Manderin over the last twelve months, had better start learning Arabic, Hindi and Urdu instead.

And it will serve them right too. Because that is what is coming next.

Just ask the Spanish, the Greeks or the Turks.

[ciobha]

Nice find Billy - but I think it will amount to nothing. All well and good the Tourist Board basically "pleading" with tourists to start coming back, but until the locals start treating their guests with a little respect, people will continue to look elsewhere. Of course the locals wont change until the authorities start clamping down hard on the "wild dog" pack attitude when confronting a tourist, and I don't see that happening soon. Bottom line is they really don't like us all that much, irrespective of where we come from!!

 

Now I know some tourists just can't behave themselves on holiday, and ask trouble, but that is still no reason for the attacks on foreigners we see now almost daily from the Thai locals. Every country that has a tourist industry sees the same thing, boozed up holiday makers misbehaving, but everywhere else seems more capable of resolving the situation in a civilized manner!!!

[Pdoggg]

 

 

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In a scene mirroring that at Wongamat Beach, Naklua, last year, beach deck chairs and umbrellas have been banned at Pattaya Beach.

In similar circumstances tourists had arrived to place their beach mats and enjoy the sea and sand for free.

However, angry beach chair vendors became abusive, threatening and chased them away for not paying for their services.

The tourists complained to the legal representative at Pattaya City Hall, Mr Setthapol Boonsawad, who immediately took a team to Beach Road, at Soi 8, and served banning orders on the vendors in question.

They have been ordered to remove their chairs and umbrellas until September 11.

The vendor insisted that she always follows the rules, but on that occasion had to take her husband to the hospital and so was not present at the time.

She thinks there has been a ‘small misunderstanding’ and that her staff simply suggested the tourists move as they may get ‘dust and sand in their food.’

The vendors have been warned that if tourists are discouraged from using Pattaya’s free beaches they face a two month ban next time, followed by cancellation of their licenses altogether.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/231021/deckchairs-banned-pattaya-beach-tourists-chased-away-not-paying-money/

 

[duke007]

Just read about this 

Restaurant Collapses on Koh Larn Island

This afternoon, at 1.30pm (August 24) Pattaya police and rescue services received reports that a restaurant on Koh Larn Island had collapsed.

There are few details as yet but we do know that the roof of the ‘Fulong Seafood Restaurant’ has caved in and a street vendor, Mrs Deang Cheun-Arom, has been impaled by a sharp iron strutt.

There is no information as to how serious this injury is.

A Chinese tourist received a head injury but, again, there are no further details.

This restaurant has been open for over ten-years and recently there has been major construction works nearby.

Witnesses suggest that there was a great deal of concrete filling on the site at the time and the restaurant had been ‘violently shaking.’

The damage and costs are, as yet, unknown but the Pattaya City Engineers visited the scene this afternoon and ordered an immediate demolition of the remains of the restaurant.

Report by Pattaya One News Team.

[Pdoggg]

 

 

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At 9.30pm Pattaya Police received a report that an Omani tourist had been robbed by two ladyboys.

The incident occurred close to the Baywalk Residence Beach Road in South Pattaya.

Mr Mohammed Uncinity, a forty-five-year-old Oman national, was there waiting with a friend to make a police report.

He said that they were strolling along the beach, in front of Royal Garden Plaza, when they were approached by two ladyboys who began touching and harassing them.

It was only when they left that he realized he had been robbed of the equivalent of 10,000 baht.

Investigating officers are studying CCTV footage of the area in an attempt to identify the suspects.

However, as the cash was in Omani currency it should not be too hard to alert the exchange booth network of an upcoming transaction in OMR.

http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/231155/omani-robbed-by-two-ladyboys/

 

[TEXASMAC]

I remember going to a beautiful beach in Hua Hin. Not a person in sight for 200 yards in either direction.

[duke007]

12 hours ago, TEXASMAC said:

I remember going to a beautiful beach in Hua Hin. Not a person in sight for 200 yards in either direction.

 

They must have known you were coming 

[Pdoggg]

 

 

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n an effort to keep the image of Pattaya as a world class tourist destination, Pattaya City is now taking serious on growing rat population.

Action from the City came after complaints that a lot rats are seen on the beaches and thus affecting the image of the city’s clean beaches.

But there are several alternatives to exterminate the rats – in a humane way or brutal choice.

After taking into consideration of the brutal alternative..the use of poisons, local authorities feared their carcasses could pose disgusting smells as they could go everywhere before dying and thus scare away tourists.

They decide to use non-lethal wire cages instead.

Now they have placed over 50 wire cages at various places of business operators on the beaches from Central Pattaya to South Pattaya.

But to avoid unpleasant sighting by tourists visiting the beaches, local authorities said they placed the cages at night instead.

All these cages will be collected at dawn or before traders will open their services or before the tourists will arrive.

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pattaya-begins-campaign-wipe-rats-beaches/

 

[SiamSam]

Good luck with that...