Mike's offices were broken into last week, and although the burglars made off with only a few things, it was still an unsettling event.
Also last week, a burgler entered Stan's house, and literally walked right past him while he was sitting at his computer working at 3:00 a.m. He went into Stan's bedroom where his wife was sleeping and stole her mobile phone.
In any town back home, whatever country you may be from, if two of your friends are burgled in the course of a year, that's considered quite bad... but two friends in one week?
Remember also, my house was broken into last March, but I didn't lose anything.
Burglaries, purse/camera/necklace snatchings, street-side armed holdups, assault, stabbings, murders. Pattaya is out of control.
I simply don't know how much longer I can stay here.
UPDATE:
Based on Mike's comment below, I did the math: Britain has 200 robberies per year per 100,000 people. America has 136.7 robberies per year per 100,000 people.
By my estimate, Pattaya has 3,500 robberies per year per 100,000 people.
(That is about 10 robberies, muggings, break-ins, and thefts per day, and Pattaya has a population of about 100,000 people — including tourists — at any given time.)
2 comments:
read this..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/20/nreid20.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_20072006
This is so called safe, secure and select Britain, as so called Advanced country, now you know why I left. It is safer in Pattaya because you expect it to happen and if you are wise you take percautions.
oops, leave off the dot after nreid20 or the link may not work. My punctuation habit.
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