Englishman Stabbed and Robbed In Apartment

I really hate to label something as unfortunate and ghastly as this under "Stupid Tourists", but the truth is, if you take freelancers (i.e. prostitutes who are not employed by a bar, and instead work in the street or night clubs) back to your hotel or apartment (and — as always — don't at least have them drop off their ID cards at the front desk), you may not have a knockout pill slipped in your drink, but instead a knife slipped between your ribs.

Unconscious, seriously wounded, or dead... it is all caused by the same thing: Tourists (and local expatriate residents, as this man apparently is) not using common sense and not being nearly suspicious enough when going alone to their room to have sex with Thai people they just met... especially when those Thai people are two Thai men that the person met walking in Sunee Plaza.

In this particular instance, the old gentleman at least got the satisfaction of seeing his attackers arrested, as they were highly stupid, and went to Big C with the victim's credit cards and tried to purchase goods there, which got them caught.

By the way: I cannot stress enough how important it is for tourists to stay away from Sunee Plaza, one of Pattaya's gay areas. I myself rented an apartment in Yensabai Condo for a few months when I first moved to Pattaya, and it overlooked Sunee Plaza. Late at night, there were always ambulances picking up stabbed and beaten Thai people, and lately there have been shootings there, and now this story of men picked up in the area attacking a foreigner. Seriously: Catch a baht bus to Soi Pattayaland or head down into Jomtien for your gay jollies... and always avoid freelancers. Always.