Thread: British-led Card Room raided by officials in South Pattaya

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by taxexile

Prepare thy ears to be assaulted by howls of righteous indignation!

it is not righteous indignation you buffoon.

it is the schadenfreude of one who knows his views are 100% correct.

it is stories like this that vindicate posters who criticise the thai authorities for their ignorance and stupidity, the posters that you consider the old whiners.

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Manna from heaven, eh tax.

better to keep your goadings and personal beefs to the doghouse, where they are accepted rather than these news threads, where they are not.

if you have some relevant comment about the story, we would be pleased to read it.
if you can only comment about other posters, then save it for the dofhouse.

I don't have a personal beef with you tax. I think you're hilarious!

I don't have a personal beef with you tax.

i'm weeping tears of joy.

I hope they were all urine tested for drugs?

Originally Posted by taxexile

I don't have a personal beef with you tax.

i'm weeping tears of joy.

now then tax, dont give the prick credibility.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Thais only play cards to gamble.

All of them? Never for fun? Er OK.

Well there is more chance of gambling with a snooker or pool table than there is without.

Thais only play cards to gamble. So if a Thai discovers 32 foreigners playing cards they must be gambling, which of course is illegal. Ergo they report this illegal gambling to the police.

dont embarrass yourself by posting such nonsense.

there are chinese card games in chinatown, ive been to them with my father in law, money changes hands, there are dozens of people there. they never get raided.

there are all night card games at just about every funeral whilst they sit overnight with the coffin, people pay entrance money to take part, they never get raided either.

this was a shakedown by the police to get money. that they had to scour the rule book to find some obscure infraction of the law once they found no evidence of gambling proves it.

50 policemen !!! what a joke. they expected to find some kind of casino operation and sacks of cash, and all they found was a bunch of elderly expats and 5 packs of cards.

pathetic, a joke, hopeless amateurs.

Building bridges to attract more high end tourists. Way to go TAT.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

What a bunch of stupid cunts, raiding a bridge club!...

Welcome to the Buffalo Bureau!...

555555555555...

Idiots.

Next it will the old folk being arrested for line dancing without an entertainment permit and music license.

What next??????????????

Mrs has relatives that have an illegal, but highly profitable gambling set up going on upcountry have had it for years with the usual payoff. For some reason they do actually launder the money, it's all washed and hung up and not small amounts either. Probably some daft belief about washing away sin?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Next it will the old folk being arrested for line dancing without an entertainment permit and music license.

To be fair anyone line dancing needs to be arrested.

And summarily executed.

Originally Posted by taxexile

the story merely highlights the pathetic ineptness of the people that run this country.

This story and several others a week, one of the joys of living here is that there is always something like this to laugh at. As I found out recently they cannot even run a housing committee without bullies taking over after others being elected, and threats of gunning people down. The whole thing at our village will be taken over by the 'big Policeman' who currently runs an adjoining residents committee and who of course is stealing funds. Like a microcosm of the country in a few hundred houses on a moo baan. They cannot even get the grass cut or deal with soi dogs, too busy fighting over who gets access to the cash, truly pathetic, and sad.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Next it will the old folk being arrested for line dancing without an entertainment permit and music license.

To be fair anyone line dancing needs to be arrested.

And summarily executed.

What about Square dancing ?

Expecting a fine missive from thegent...

Originally Posted by kingwilly

What about Square dancing ?

No arrest. Extrajudicial execution.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

To be fair anyone line dancing needs to be arrested.

I was thinking arranging a Teakdoor line dancing team with DJ Pat providing the music, Dillinger doing the choreography, Todd Daniels providing the security and The Gent providing snacks.

Ant you could have a Kiwi night doing your national line dance.

I presume Thailand offers retirement visas to the type of people at this gathering. There isn't exactly a lot to do for elderly falangs in this country other than enjoy the warmth, low prices, massage, that type of thing. What kind of signal of ignorance does it send out to potential retirees here to mass storm a social gathering of one of the elderly's few pleasures without a bit of due care attention and prior research?

due care attention and prior research?

concepts too advanced for the monocell cerebellum of the thai.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Ant you could have a Kiwi night doing your national line dance.

Such awesomeness is excluded from the crime against humanity that is line dancing!

Originally Posted by Henrie

and The Gent providing snacks

Stating the obvious... But it'll be sausages won't it.

The cherry on the shitcake is the 1935 law bit. It's like "We've pulled in half of Pattaya police force for this raid. Shall we admit our mistake and wish our foreign guests a pleasant evening? Nope, let's save face by finding something, anything, to justify our actions."

I opened this thread thinking they'd busted another phony credit card ring, not a game of Bridge . Good police work by the cops finding this was going on, the local Bridge club have only had an add running in the weekly Pattaya Mail letting players know they exist for the last +/- 20 years

Surely the fuck someone in authority will give the cops a cease and desist order so the people who enjoy a friendly game of Bridge can carry on with their victim-less hobby/crime

They broke the fooking law and have been doing so for years...Revoke their visas and send them home...Kneecap the leaders...Severe attitude adjustment needed here...

Of course, the rigid enforcement of the law is of paramount importance here in Pattaya where there is no prostitution, in any of its forms, and the thousands of folk staffing the hundreds of bars and strip joints are all simply there in order to protect the customer from feelings of loneliness. We all know that prostitution is illegal and as such it simply does not exist.

The raid was clearly provoked by reports that the evil and decrepit farang were engaged in gambling and, what may well be worse, they apparently had the effrontery to engage in this illegal activity without the slightest qualm and quite openly. How dare these foreigners flout the law in such a flagrant fashion!

No wonder a task force group combining military and police elements swooped down upon this nest of viperous foreigners.

Still, anyone can make a mistake and I suppose it is a big ask to expect the Thai to comprehend the weird notion that playing cards simply to gain satisfaction from beating your opponent, and not for money, is quite normal in more intellectual circles possibly not described elsewhere in Thai society.

The thing is, sending a crack team of 56 paramilitary officers to bust a bridge club is fairly embarrassing at the best of times and, even for this country, the operation marks a new low in idiocy.

But, all is not lost! These desperadoes can still be punished for a minor infringement!
Our face is saved! We were right all along and now they will pay!

Daftest place on the planet.