Insiders take on Thailand
Anyone catch this video on Pattaya Daily News?
Insane. The dude with the huge machete is a treat. I am sure this will just fan the flames calling for the no-drinking ban during holidays. Of course tourists will feel the brunt of this but it appears the locals are the ones who need to control their drinking in this instance.
Note: We love your comments. But please try to help us by following a few rules:
1. No spam. Relevant links are welcome. Gratuitous links to your website are not.
2. No personal attacks. If you disagree with a post, argue against the post - not the poster.
3. Try to stay on-topic.
4. DON'T POST YOUR ENTIRE COMMENT IN CAPITAL LETTERS!
5. Be nice!
Comments that break these rules will not only make the admins cry, but will also be deleted at will.
“…both Thai and foreigner revelers joining in the fun…”
With its standard nod to the local version of political rectitude, the press here invariably refers to the marauding drunks and hooligans to whom the streets are surrendered on Songkran as ‘revelers,’ which is a little like referring to Hamas as ‘the opposition party.’ To do that with a straight face, you’ve got to be related to Jimmy Carter.
Just look at the ‘revelers’ in this video. They put you in mind of a lost tribe of New Guinea bushmen entirely disconnected from the twenty-first century (or, for that matter, the twentieth century). Good Lord. What an ugly bunch of vile, repellent savages.
View all comments by Old Asia Hand
Does anybody know how i can download this video, bcs it has massive lags.
View all comments by Politicsx
This reminds me of the redneck hillbillies that fight int he infield at the Kentucky Derby. One in the same. God I hate them.
View all comments by bkk22
@Politicsx:
Right-click, save as:
http://www.pattayadailynews.com/movies/5727.wmv
View all comments by TAFKABBB
Pussies, id of taken him
View all comments by Young Penfold
Thanks TAFKABBB
View all comments by Politicsx
More wonderfull publicity for the Thai Tourism effort.
View all comments by Khun J
“no-drinking ban”… so you have to drink then?
View all comments by Young Royal
Last year by Nana Plaza there was an even more savage fight that broke out between the Thai Motorci guys on the corner of Suk and Soi 4 and some other Thai guys that pissed them off. We had a birds-eye view to the whole thing but it was unfortunately too dark for video. It was nasty as bottles flew and there was a pretty nasty group beating much like the one in this video. The motorci guys then got a hold of one of the enemy motorbikes and pounded it to the ground right on soi 4. Lovely stuff.
View all comments by pmmp
Songkran : It’s a fu*king nightmare!!
I am surprised that there are not more violent incidents during the time of Songkran particularly around the farang populated areas of Bangkok.
Admittedly,the Pattaya story suggests more of a local ‘turf’ dispute but I will never again want to visit Bangkok during Songkran.
Whilst other festivals retain some sort of link to the principles behind them (i.e. Loy Kratong),the childish free-for-all conducted by
idiotic farang’s with little or no idea about Songkran is beyond me.
The next time some cu*t comes towards me with a pressurised water gun and associated powder which completely fu*ks the clothes you are wearing will get my size 12 rammed down thier throat!!
Has anyone else had the unfortunate experience of hypothermia whilst sitting in a go-go soaked from the road-side drenching under the air-con in these places??
Happy fuc*king Songkran to you all!!
View all comments by ChelseaBlue
CB…. so what are you saying?
View all comments by Day Walker
Don’t you just love it, when you are sitting at a bar at night, and they throw a bucket of icewater over your back.
View all comments by hanuman
I’m glad I have a protective cover over my iPhone.
View all comments by Day Walker
Protective cover on most things is recommended!
View all comments by auk
Daywalker : Thanks for putting me straight bruv.
Gonna have to work on my ambiguity
View all comments by ChelseaBlue