Hi sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this but this room has the most traffic and I need to discuss this urgently with some friendly foreigners in Thailand.
Last night I was walking home to my apartment in silom at 2am and wanted to pop into the hotel two buildings away to use the atm in there. I used a side door, which is a double glass door. Anyway, I pulled the door and it opened about 4-5 inches then stopped with a bang. The handles of the 2 doors were chained together, in the middle. Anyway the door stopped but the glass didnt and it fell out onto me. I wasn't injured. There was a security guard about 10 metres away. He woke up from the sound of glass. I walked off to my apartment not really sure of what had happened and the guard ran after me. He didn't catch up. I went to bed.
At 9am this morning my door was banged non stop til I opened it. Outside were 4 security guards. Yes 4. They told me to go to the lobby. I said ok and closed the door to put some clothes on. One guard stopped me from closing the door. They all waited for me. At the lobby the head guard showed me a thai language police report and a photocopy of my work permit that they got from my apartment reception. I'm not sure if it was an actual police report but he said it was. He showed me where 50,000 Baht was written and said I was on cctv kicking the door open. I said no way. They all went to call the police, so they said. I walked to the hotel door and saw no cctv camera. The door looked a bit buckled i.e. the bottom of the frame was sticking outwards (towards where I had been stood when I pulled) about 2 inches. I left to go for a long walk. Now im at a net cafe
I have lots of questions
What should I do? Deny everything or explain that the glass fell on me when I tried to open the door. It must have been very weak glass to shatter from that shock by the chain stopping the door opening
Why no safety glass used?
What is the 50,000 Baht? I can't believe a 6 foot by 3 foot pane of glass costs that. Are they trying to get me to pay for a new door too?
What should I do about this?