January 22nd, 2006, 19:55
According to Stickman, it wasn't just Tawan Bar that's in ITV's sights
It has been learned from some Patpong bar owners the reason for the early closing times - an investigative team of reporters from the local TV station ITV has been snooping around using hidden cameras and undercover reports along with obvious in the open camera teams. They started it all for an expose of the queer section on Silom Soi 4 and got some sneaky shots of the bad boys waving their weenies around. And this being Thailand someone in the crew let the word out to people on the Pong. The crew was on a roll liking the footage they got so they decided to head up the road to the more popular section of the Pong, where the girls are. Naturally the boys in brown nearly passed out into their bowl of rice and sent out the word that everybody has to toe the line and not cause anyone to be sent to Siberia, or at least one of the far flung corners of the Kingdom due to any wrong doing caught on tape while the cameras were around.
So according to the type of license they have, the closing hours for drinking and entertainment venues at Patpong is as follows. Disco license, which most of the music venues have, allows them to stay open until 2 AM. Gogo bars can only stay open until 1 AM, and beer bars only until midnight! So it will be the letter of the law enforced with an iron fist for the time being on the Pong at least until the TV camera crews disappear.
It has been learned from some Patpong bar owners the reason for the early closing times - an investigative team of reporters from the local TV station ITV has been snooping around using hidden cameras and undercover reports along with obvious in the open camera teams. They started it all for an expose of the queer section on Silom Soi 4 and got some sneaky shots of the bad boys waving their weenies around. And this being Thailand someone in the crew let the word out to people on the Pong. The crew was on a roll liking the footage they got so they decided to head up the road to the more popular section of the Pong, where the girls are. Naturally the boys in brown nearly passed out into their bowl of rice and sent out the word that everybody has to toe the line and not cause anyone to be sent to Siberia, or at least one of the far flung corners of the Kingdom due to any wrong doing caught on tape while the cameras were around.
So according to the type of license they have, the closing hours for drinking and entertainment venues at Patpong is as follows. Disco license, which most of the music venues have, allows them to stay open until 2 AM. Gogo bars can only stay open until 1 AM, and beer bars only until midnight! So it will be the letter of the law enforced with an iron fist for the time being on the Pong at least until the TV camera crews disappear.