Homeless Foreigner In Pattaya Gets Help

I've heard stories before about homeless farangs wandering the streets of Bangkok and begging. I've seen a couple of stories before about foreigners running out of money in Pattaya and either going off the deep end, going off the top floor balcony, or some other sad solution.

I'm still surprised to see this though. This Swedish guy must be one grade-A unlikeable fellow, because the Pattaya expatriate communities (with the Scandanavian guys topping the list) are a very tight-knit group of folks who help each other out... especially in a situation such as this. To be homeless and peniless and hopeless in Pattaya means that you've already burned through an entire community of people who would otherwise find you a place, find you a meal, and find you a way out of your predicament somehow.

Well anyway, the Swedish embassy has been contacted and they're looking into this. I'm sure this guy will find his way back to Sweden, where he can — as so many of us do after Pattaya — start from scratch.