TODAY IN PATTAYA — A tourist brazen enough to not buy drugs from a dealer received his customary “Welcome to Pattaya” beating this morning.
The 37-year-old Russian was taken for treatment at Pattaya Memorial Hospital after he was punched in the face by a drug dealer, who thoughtfully slipped on brass knuckles first, police said.
Khaosod English reported the tourist told police he was near the Siam Bay Shore hotel in the early hours of this morning when a local tried to sell him some weed, which he turned down.
“The tourist said he refused to buy the weed, because he doesn’t do drugs,” police Lt. Jakkrit Chantakham said. “But the man still insisted on selling him the weed. [The tourist] tried to walk away, which angered the man, so he hit the victim in the mouth with a brass knuckles and ran away.”
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