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The safe had been forcibly opened with a sledgehammer and crowbar. https://thepattayanews.com/2025/01/17/thieves-ransack-chinese-businessmans-luxury-home-allegedly-steal-over-100-million-baht-in-watches/

It's a good video and well worth watching, especially if you are thinking of going there. Some of the comments from others below the video are also interesting.

I remember a time when Farang were automatically considered worthy of respect in Thailand...........

Incredible what "entitled" foreigners think they can get away with in Thailand. Sadly I suspect that money will solve their problems in these cases.

I think that there was a significant word missing in this sentence. "It was obvious, said Mr Carden, that the Thai Revenue Department was making up some rulings as the policy moved along."

Five men who used dating app Grindr to target and attack men in a series of robberies have been jailed. Demalji Hadza, 21, Abubaker Alezawy, 21, Ali Hassan, 20, Wasim Omar, 24, and Mohammed Sharif, 22, lured each man into a meeting before assaulting them and stealing their belongings. The gang were convicted last year of stealing £100,000 from men in Birmingham and Derby over a 10-month period. The group were given sentences ranging from 12 to 17 years at Birmingham Crown Court. Police said some victims were encouraged to come to a location under the pretence of meeting with a legitimate user on dating apps including Grindr, a dating app for the LGBT+ community. When they arrived they were set upon by the gang, who sought to steal money, vehicles, house keys and identification documents. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq9vey1ndxo

This increase in abductions of Chinese citizens may be a consequence of China's increasing support for the Burmese government, and consequent deteriorating relationships with the rebel forces. It's really complicated politically but there must be an underlying reason for the increase of abductions to Myanmar. https://warontherocks.com/2024/11/china-is-off-the-fence-in-myanmar/

So many inexplicable deaths of young people on that island. Something deeply suspect.

A few illogicalities in this report, or perhaps just sloppy reporting. He not only wore handcuffs but his hands were also tied behind his back............ He was "locked in his room" by the suspects(doesn't that just mean that they closed the door?!) but escaped and made his way to the lobby despite his feet being tied together and his hands both handcuffed and tied behind his back.......

Has anyone downloaded or used the "Thailand Tourist Police" application?

While doing some computer housekeeping I came across(not literally) an old review of the Thai gay scene from 2002 that may be of historical interest. I think I posted it as a trip report in one of the gay forums: A recent tourist trip around Thailand gave me the opportunity to update information on some of the gay venues. PATONG IN PHUKET In the middle of the low season, so generally very quiet. Working down the right hand side of the Way In to Paradise Complex, as you go in!(EDIT the one way system was subsequently reversed) Passport still has gogo, and some pleasant boys, Nin is well worth taking off. Thipaluck Bar Beer is closed for conversion to a gogo bar. Connect is ticking over, with friendly service and good food in the restaurant, at fair prices. James Dean Bar Beer is as friendly as ever, with a good mix of locals and tourists, Thai and Farang, commercial and non commercial, and excellent music. CU and Time Bar Beers, are ticking over, the boys at CU always look smart in their matching shirts, which change daily. My Way Gogo, has, as ever, the largest and best selection of off boys and a reasonable show, at midnight. Tiger Boy Gogo has only a small selection of boys, and I was the only customer when I was there. Boat Bar continues to have the best shows, at midnight, followed by dance music. It also has a busy bar beer outside. Lots of freelancers, and some non commercial guys. Following down the opposite side of the street, on the Way In. F1 is a bar beer which plays older music, sixties, seventies, and is under the same management as James Dean. Spartacus is a gogo bar with only a small choice of men with larger physiques. Patong Gogo, is now part owned by Tangmo Bar, so they have the curious arrangement of the boys from Tangmo joining the boys from Patong Gogo during the evening, and the Tangmo show taking place in Patong Gogo at 2330, after which both the show and the Tangmo boys return to Tangmo, where the show is repeated. I can recommend Noom, from Patong Gogo, and from Phitsanalouk, as a thoroughly nice and passionate guy. Young Shark Boy seems to be on one of it’s declines, limited boys and poor show. Uncle Charlie’s, having moved to Way In from Aroonsom Plaza, has had to tone down it’s shows. Anaconda, on the second floor, has both gogo boys and karaoke together, and looked like it could be quite fun, but I didn’t visit it. Tangmo has a smaller selection of boys than it used to, perhaps because of the low season??,and gogo doesn’t start until after midnight. Prior to that are “special tourist shows”, which actually probably involve the most male, and katoey, nudity currently on show in Patong. Unless of course one counts Super Boys, where the boys apparently dance naked, when it is decided that it is safe to do so. Other than the above two, there is currently no nudity in the gay shows in Patong. BANGKOK I only covered the bars in Patpong/Suriwong/Silom area. The best and raunchiest all male show was at Future Boys. They also had the best selection of guys. They must share ownership with Spur, as some of the boys and parts of the show are shared between the two clubs. The clubs are in Duangthawee Plaza, and while, like most of the other bars in that area, they charge you 200 Baht for a drink, at least with these two you get a large strong drink! In the same street X-treme, is far from it, with a selection of rather camp boys, and a show that while quite athletic, is neither sexual nor particularly entertaining. Dream Boy on Surawong had only a small selection of boys, and a short show with a big cock selection. They do at least tell you the name and number attached to the passing appendage! Many of those who take part in the big cock shows can be a disappointment later. The perversion of misleading advertising, means that they use pumps to overinflate their members, and when they reach maximum size, slip on a tight rubber band to ensure that no blood can escape. Without the pump and rubber bands they may not reach the same dimensions or retain erections for the same duration. Screwboy in Patpong Two is as raunchy, in a seedy way, as ever. Informal would be one way to describe it, pushy would be another, but certainly different. Super Lex was a disappointment, we were the only customers, and the selection of boys was not great, although if you like short well built guys, I can recommend Cake, who usually does the shower show. Still the show was ok, quite sexual, and, as ever at Super Lex, lots of chiffon! Jupiter, by the Surawong Hotel, is worth a visit. It was completely packed out for their show, which, while not as raunchy as many of the others, is imaginative, and they have a good selection of boys there. Freeman in Silom certainly has the best mime show, but DJ Station has the best music and keenest dancers, with a selection of guys from commercial to semi commercial to “no chance”! Lots of fun and packed out every night. Saunas: Visited Chakran and Babylon. My Thai boyfriend was hit upon regularly at Chakran, and I not at all, while the scores were more even at Babylon. But both were comfortable and uninhibited. And of course if you want to pose, you can sit out on the terrace at The Balcony and look at the customers opposite at the Telephone Bar, and vice versa. CHIANG MAI There is really only one gogo bar, and that is Adam’s Apple. It has a good and raunchy show, a good selection of boys, and I can certainly recommend A. The gay life in the night bazaar, as far as I could find, is reduced to two seedy bars, in an alley, which looks like the sort of place you would go for a pee, if you were desperate and thought that no one was looking! Buddy’s which was described in one guide as “going to become very popular” has closed. The other bars, Doi Boy, Fan, Hot Boy, Circle are really host bars, and the hosts didn’t seem very interested in what they were doing. The best of these was Circle, as the guys put on their own miming show, from which you could get some idea of what they were like, unlike the others where the boys seemed more interested in the television than the customers. I didn’t get to Coffee Boy, but I can recommend Nice Illusions, as somewhere to go after about 11pm. They have a live band, and the customers are a mix of katoeys, girls and straight guys and not so straight guys. A great and friendly atmosphere. Finally Bubbles, which has a ten per cent gay clientele. It was OK, but too many straight farangs for me. Hope that this is useful.

I hope you feel better soon, thanks for report.

Bloody hell, people(especially Chinese) being dragged off the streets seems to be coming a regular event now.

Thanks for trying, but I'm not sure that I am any the wiser! A currency based on no discernible underlying value is all I see.

Judging from the exterior photo where there are windows they are the size of postage stamps!

If anyone has an idiot’s guide to crypto currencies and what was being “mined” by the machines in the top photo it would be appreciated! I am steering well clear of it, but it would be good to have a little understanding of it……… Again in the second story people carrying ludicrous amounts of cash and suffering it’s loss. I suspect that they had been made an offer that they were too greedy or stupid to refuse!

If you are interested I suggest you actually read the article where you can see the details and the byline(no it isn't Barry) and then you also wouldn't make the assumptions above. I'm no particular advocate for the journalism of the Pattaya Mail, but, credit where it is due, they do sometimes bring us news stories that we wouldn't have otherwise come across. And thanks to reader for sharing them.

My initial assumption when people in the digital age are carrying large amounts in cash is that they were dodgy and when they are robbed of it, especially by their own nationality, I assume that it's a fallout amongst thieves.

It seems like an awful lot of effort to recruit one extra scammer!

Blimey!

Although the hotel because of it's small size was not required to have sprinklers it surely should have had smoke detectors. We are now learning that causes of death were due to smoke inhalation.

It was actually westernguy that suggested using proton!

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What a disgusting age we live in.

The future sounds arduous, wishing you the best with that.