First off, a terrible story of a man who got really drunk, and tried to rape his neighbor friend in front of his 5-year-old daughter. It is a sad fact of boozing that you may wake up one day to discover that the drunk whom you let walk around in your skin the night prior has ruined your life. It's something I remind myself often when I'm out at the bars: Moderation.
Next, we have the story that the police were visiting soi 6, Pattaya's seediest sidestreet, where the $5 girls (and ladyboys) downstairs are as flea-bitten as the $5 mattresses upstairs. The police had a 20% success rate: 20% of the bars they checked were closed for licensing violations, and 20% of the girls (and laydboys) they urine tested were positive for amphetamines.
Finally, in the "no good deed goes unpunished" category, we have more Thai people pretending to be police, and for the first time, a tourist was involved: A Turkish man, trying to break up a fistfight between his date and a bartendress, was set upon by several Thai men claiming to be police officers, who then handcuffed him, and then proceeded to beat him. In the past 2 months, there have been close to a dozen news stories of Thai people impersonating police in order to commit crimes here in Pattaya. I think we are now at the point here in the city that if a Thai man comes up to you and claims to be a police officer trying to enforce the law... or trying to assist you... or just trying to get in your business... but he is not wearing a uniform, then do not believe his claim that he is a police officer. Instead call the police immediately and ask for a uniformed officer to come and help. If the person confronting you is a real police officer, he'll be patient enough to wait a few minutes for his friends to show up... assuming you are not being belligerent, and are not an immediate danger to yourself or others. Be respectful, but as always: be prudent.
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