Expats call for Pattaya clean-up

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Expats call for Pattaya clean-up

A group of foreigners is working with officers to improve life in the resort

Published: 17 Sep 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

A group of expatriates in Pattaya have joined a network aimed at making the infamous city a better place to live and do business.

Crime Suppression Police talk to a group of foreign expatriates about crime in Pattaya. The expatriates agreed that jet ski scams run by mafia-like operators on Pattaya beach is the most critical issue for tourists.

Twelve of the network's 15 members, mostly business figures, met Crime Suppression Division (CSD) officers recently to discuss what one of them called the "cancerous" crime levels in the resort town.

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saparod
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Discussion 21 : 17 Sep 2012 at 08.5321
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Just google "niels colov" denmark!
and he is the tourist police chief i hear..... unbelievable.--- and our police listen to him?
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Discussion 20 : 17 Sep 2012 at 08.2720
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Isn't it funny to see that one of the biggest criminals, convicted of pimping in Denmark, is the one talking to the police?
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Discussion 19 : 17 Sep 2012 at 08.2319
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I went once in pataya for a week but after 2 days i decide to leave this place when i saw what was hapening around me. a man with 2 young( 16-17 y o ) womans dress like prostitute go in the room beside mine...then i see russian men sooooo drunk they where unable to stay on their feet and arguing with thai woman for ???? plus the noise from jetski on the beach...so i said to myself ok thats enought for one day.. i will never go there again.....so many bad comments i ear about that place + now i read this about the jetski scam .heheheh...No thanks. never again
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Discussion 18 : 17 Sep 2012 at 08.1518
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Arrived on a package tour in 1987 that included Pattaya, the hotel room had warnings in the room about jet ski ripoffs, so in the last 25 years nothing has been done, they are obviously protected and nothing ever will happen. Pattaya was OK for a short holiday which is what it is designed for, but how could anyone actually live there? I wonder if Sodom and Gomorrah had a clean up the town movement, didn't help there either.
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Discussion 17 : 17 Sep 2012 at 08.0117
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@discussion 8 - Pattaya was not built on vice. I remember a time when it was a pleasant beach resort where I visited with my wife. However it has turned into a cess pool, and I have no desire ever to go there again. Cleaning the city of gangs both local and foreign will take some doing. Good luck to them.
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Discussion 16 : 17 Sep 2012 at 07.5816
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No beers during the meeting? A good sign indeed!
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Discussion 15 : 17 Sep 2012 at 07.3415
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How are jetskis the most pressing issue an an area with illegal prostitution, gang violence and murder?
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Discussion 14 : 17 Sep 2012 at 07.2414
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Don't know why wone would want to live in Patthaya anyhow, but you can either do nothing, or you can at least try to do someting to change it. So... at least they try.

The Thai's chronic "what can we do" and "we can't change it anyhow" is the reason Thailand is where it is.
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Discussion 13 : 17 Sep 2012 at 07.0813
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Good luck guys/
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Discussion 12 : 17 Sep 2012 at 07.0112
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Prostitution is number one problem? Get real without the open sex trade, Pattaya would die slowly and surely, Most of the trade is open and honest, and part of whatfun nature of the city. of course the scum then attach themselves to drag it down. The beach and the sea are dirty, the Beach isn't excessible thanks to the vendors, The traffic going the wrong way round, and making crossing to the beach area an effort, and the unfinished Beach walkway soon has people thinking?, How many more motorcycles can they put along beach road , and why do most streets look dirty during the day time, including walking street.
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