An argument over a football match resulted in one drunken supporter being charged with grievous bodily harm and two others with damage to property. At 4:10 a.m. on January 16, Pol Maj Chachai Srisuwan, duty inspector at Pattaya police station, received a report of a fight at Andy’s Place Bar in Soi Honey Inn. On arrival at the scene officers apprehended a man identified as Christopher Rogers, an 18-year-old British national. He had struck and injured David John Tarrant, 63, who had suffered a cut eyebrow, and who was sent to Pattaya Memorial Hospital for treatment that required seven stitches. Rogers was locked up and charged with grievous bodily harm.
Later two drunken foreign nationals came to visit Rogers and when they found their friend had been locked up they proceeded to beat upon a black Nissan saloon car belonging to Pol Maj Chachai, putting a dent in the door.
(Not that I can think of any country on the planet where it is a good idea to go out into the police station parking lot and beat the snot out of the duty officer's ride.)
"Boss! There are two guys outside kicking and beating on your car!"
"Oh very funny Pete. You can't think I'm stupid enough to fall for that one."
It seems that 90% of all the tourist arrests in Pattaya are (1) Brits fighting about football, (2) Germans fighting about their bar tab, or (3) Frenchmen fighting with their girlfriends. The other 10% involves Swedes walking around Beach Road naked at 4:00 a.m. for some reason.Oh: I've never heard of a tourist getting arrested for drunk driving though.
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