"the seedy beach town of Pattaya."

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

An outraged Colonel draws my attention to this report concerning the "swirly face" suspect:

"Neil was no stranger to Thailand, having once taught in a Bangkok language school, but his hiding place was revealed by a trace on the mobile phone of his 25-year-old Thai boyfriend, identified by transvestites in the seedy beach town of Pattaya.

"They went together to different provinces, probably on the run, and the last call made was from Nakhon Ratchasima. So I sent my men there," tourist police chief Chuchart Suwannakom told Reuters."

By Nopporn Wong-Anan

the seedy beach town ?? whatever your personal view of Pattaya , this is an outrageous statement for a journalist to write on a major website. It personalises the report and breaks all the rules of journalism, apart from the shocking slur on the owners of legitmate businesses ( the majority) and the thousands of ex-pats who live in Pattaya.

I wonder if tourist police chief Chuchart Suwannakom will castigate Nopporn Wong-Anan ?



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I don't find this to be a shocking slur at all. Quite the contrary, I think he was being rather kind.

[Wesley]

I found his comments unremarkable! They say the same thing about crazy guys who pass the personality and psychological test but shows nothing wrong even though there is. Case in point. When the Church was trying to prove I was gay. The Psychologist they sent me to simply replied his test was unremarkable. I was neither crazy nor gay, at least the tests did not indicate it. However, any one who knows me, like we most know Pattaya, know I am clearly crazy and gay.


Wesley

It has been my experience that crazy people are called crazy and not seedy so your analogy is pointless. As to your own mental health I shan't comment but one does wonder why, as a gay man, you would ever want to belong to a religious organization that is anti-gay.

[Wesley]

After it was all over they really didn't care if I was crazy or gay it was merely a power play. I won and now I am out of the closet thanks to an Internet picture of me in Bangkok at a gay cafe there posted on a web site about gay life in Thailand. I was outed. Later the leadership decided it made no matter if I was gay or not clearly my work spoke for itself. It was a bit sticky working in a Muslim country and openly gay however. But, the church did not send me nor were they involved in my work directly. I of course take help any where It comes from and as far as I can tell monetarily it neither hurt nor helped my situation to be openly gay.

So, now I do as I please and they do as they please. I am sure there are some who do not like it but there are some people WHO don't like anything unless you are doing nothing. Then someone will complain about that. There obviously is no way to make Everyone happy. So, I really don't give a damn.

Wesley

[Wesley]

It has been my experience that crazy people are called crazy and not seedy so your analogy is pointless. As to your own mental health I shan't comment but one does wonder why, as a gay man, you would ever want to belong to a religious organization that is anti-gay.

As for my analogy, I don't give a damn if you liked that or not either. I was speaking about my comment that I had nothing remarkable to say and that led to my short experience with the word "unremarkable"not the event.

Wesley

the seedy beach town ??

A friend of mine in Sydney reports that the Australian television news reported the item as "... Pattaya, which is known as a haven for paedophiles ..."

[krobbie]

As I have never been to Pattaya (remedied soon) I really don't have the knowledge to discount or refute what is said. HOWEVER, I am sure a lot of the folk who write these sort of comments have never been either but that doesn't seem to stop them making many and varied sweeping statements.

Reading through some of the comments from posters, some of whom live in the area or surrounds, perhaps there are some things that need addressing. I am sure you know to what I am referring since the thread was the to do with the slanging off by journalists crawling over themselves to best describe paedophilia and its domains.

Am I right or completely off track?

[Hmmm]

After an alert from Interpol, Police Lieutenant Colonel Phanthana Nutchanart sent his men to trawl transvestite hangouts in Bangkok's Patpong red-light district and the seaside town of Pattaya, infamous as a haven for misfits and perverts.

After seeing a picture of Neil taken by security cameras on his arrival at Bangkok airport a week ago, transvestites in Pattaya said they had seen him with a 25-year-old cross-dresser called Ohm.

Amazing how the boys in brown can do some real police work when they want to.

Amazing how the boys in brown can do some real police work when they want to.

Especially when there was no tea money involved ... and the guy was in neither place