News Forum - Foreigner assaults Thai man after alleged hit-and-run in Pattaya

[Thaiger]

A viral video surfaced showing a foreigner physically assaulting a Thai man in the middle of a road, following an alleged hit-and-run incident in Pattaya. The Thai motorist who witnessed the incident shared the video on his Facebook account yesterday, March 16, with a caption that read, “The assault was caused by a motorcycle crash. … …

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[AussieBob]

Quality tourists - exactly what Thailand wanted and got. Until TAT is investigated and disbanded, the TAT lie that 1 million tourists equals X Billion baht to the economy, will continue to be believed. The number is an estimate, based upon very conflated figures made prior to Covid.  TAT claims that 1 tourist equals 52,000 Baht - and that includes all the border crosses (foreign arrivals) from Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. 

Until this country has Laws that allows journalists to expose and question fraud and corruption in Government Agencies, then this daily expose of tourists causing problems will continue. 

[Ramanathan.P]

What to do TAT is working with multiplier effect in their calculations

[ChrisS]

Yet more of TATs 'quality' tourists in action.

[ParaMagic]

  On 3/17/2025 at 7:22 AM, AussieBob said:

Quality tourists - exactly what Thailand wanted and got. Until TAT is investigated and disbanded, the TAT lie that 1 million tourists equals X Billion baht to the economy, will continue to be believed. The number is an estimate, based upon very conflated figures made prior to Covid.  TAT claims that 1 tourist equals 52,000 Baht - and that includes all the border crosses (foreign arrivals) from Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. 

Until this country has Laws that allows journalists to expose and question fraud and corruption in Government Agencies, then this daily expose of tourists causing problems will continue. 

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This kind of behavior is of course not a new thing... citizen journalism, posted to Facebook, is the world we live in. If you're going to come and do stupid stuff... expect to get caught and face the consequences. Laying blame elsewhere is an excuse. The danger is... the more westerners act this way will create an atmosphere of animosity towards those of us trying to live here long term. These "tourists" behaving badly need to be punished. And I don't want to hear any whinging from the apologist crowd regarding how the authorities handle these cases or laying blame elsewhere except where it belongs. The fact is, if you're going to be stupid enough to get yourself into this kind of situation, then expect to be treated accordingly... with an equal amount of stupidity. We should all expect everyone involved to behave like adults (including the authorities investigating this)... but that clearly doesn't always happen now does it. Personally, I think these tourists, if they are found to have been the instigating party in all of this... should spend time in jail and pay a fine. 

[AussieBob]

  18 hours ago, ParaMagic said:

This kind of behavior is of course not a new thing... citizen journalism, posted to Facebook, is the world we live in. If you're going to come and do stupid stuff... expect to get caught and face the consequences. Laying blame elsewhere is an excuse. The danger is... the more westerners act this way will create an atmosphere of animosity towards those of us trying to live here long term. These "tourists" behaving badly need to be punished. And I don't want to hear any whinging from the apologist crowd regarding how the authorities handle these cases or laying blame elsewhere except where it belongs. The fact is, if you're going to be stupid enough to get yourself into this kind of situation, then expect to be treated accordingly... with an equal amount of stupidity. We should all expect everyone involved to behave like adults (including the authorities investigating this)... but that clearly doesn't always happen now does it. Personally, I think these tourists, if they are found to have been the instigating party in all of this... should spend time in jail and pay a fine. 

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Cannot disagree - and there are very few people defending them. But there is a lot more of them these days, than say 12-15 years ago when I first visited Thailand.  It is a normal situation - a location becomes premium and is well known, and then over time the dreggs of the world come visit too. Thailand is in that part of the tourism cycle now - driven by the false God of 'economic savior' as espoused by the Priests of TAT.  I note that the Govt is going to cancel the 90 day tourist visas on arrival - down to 60 and now about to go down to 30 (and 15).  Perhaps the Priests of TAT will be hung up in a tree - blamed for doing exactly what the elite wanted them to do - bring in more tourists - more is better - more is more money - WRONG!!