THIS WEEK IN PATTAYA — Oh Pattaya, how we adore your beautiful sunsets, colorful characters, wanton displays of depravity and boundless supply of bizarre. Few things are as reliably entertaining and dismaying as the various crime blotters steadfastly maintained by that city’s finest journalistic institutions. Here’s some picks from the past week:
Man falls off roof while seeking Wi-Fi to play Cookie Run
So consumed was Sanit Puengsangchan by his run for the cookies he fell off a rooftop last night while trying to steal free Wi-Fi to play his favorite smartphone game.
Turkish Ice Cream Parlor Battle in South Pattaya
The co-owners of a Turkish Ice Cream Parlour on Pattaya Second Road and only meters away from a Police Box were involved in a fight with knives outside of their business on Tuesday night.
Transgender Woman Tricked By Fake Photographer
A transgender woman who met a man in walking street who pretended to be a photographer and offered her 15,000THB for her photos was tricked by him. He stole her phone and money.
Pattaya Bar Owner Shot Dead
The female owner of D-One bar in Pattaya was shot 4 times in her head. The incident happened whilst she was driving back home to Sattahip. The 2 passengers in her car were slightly injured.
Male University Student Kills 2 In Road Accident
A male university student of one well-known university in Chonburi province was driving his car when he collided with 2 motorbikes killing both riders instantly.
Drunken Uncle-In-Law Assaults And Rapes His Niece
Police have arrested a savage uncle-in-law who punched his niece unconscious and raped her in front of his wife. He told police he was angry with her because she hadn’t played him back the money he lent her.
Taxi Driver with “incurable” disease hangs himself at his North Pattaya apartment
Body of Naked Foreign Vagrant found at abandoned construction site in Jomtien
Gunmen Shot 31 Times At House Injuring A Sick Elderly Lady
A group of 4 gunmen shot 31 times at a house in a revenge attack on a pub guard. The pub guard was at work when the incident happened but his 67 year old sick elderly mother suffer a gun shot wound.
Progress in The Case of The Woman’s Body Found On Roof Above French Restaurant
Police have followed up on this case, and have managed to find a friend of the 19-year-old girl who went missing. She recognised the foot bangle on the corpse, and has been helping police with their investigation. Her friend, the deceased, had been quarrelling with an American boyfriend the last time she had seen her alive.
Guard Shot Twice in the Knees
A guard who was asked to dismantle an illegal guard house outside a house was shot twice in the knees. The shooter fled the scene but finally handed himself in to police.
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