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

Next thing there will be Granny gangs being busted.This is serious!

because the playing cards did not possess an official government seal on the card boxes

So therefore not purchased from the Thai Playing Card Monopoly or whatever it is called.

Al Jazeera have got it now....

Has it been in the Thai press or tv news?

Originally Posted by Little Chuchok

Thai police raid nets 32 foreign bridge players | Daily Mail Online

Originally Posted by Rarius, Treve, United Kingdom, 34 minutes ago

If you really want to live in a dictatorship with crazy rules enforced by an insane police force who ognore real crime why not just move back to the UK?

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

Has it been in the Thai press or tv news?

Bangkok Post but I don't think they'll print my comment, I called the police Idiots.

I wonder how much she'll get from the Mail for her "My Thailand Jail Holiday Hell" Story.

Here is the arrest on youtube.They should have used batons!

it has made the Australian news

http://www.xxx.xxx.xx/news/2016-02-0...ckdown/7141920

Police and military volunteers raided a bridge club in Pattaya, a resort town renowned for its go-go bars and links with organised crime, arresting 32 foreigners, most of them British.
"There were 32 people, all of them foreigners arrested for gambling on Wednesday night," Pattaya police superintendent Colonel Suthat Pumphanmuang said.
He said the raid was sparked by a member of the public complaining to the junta's anti-corruption centre.
Police said those arrested included 12 British nationals, three Norwegians, three Swedes, two Australians, a German, a Dane, a Canadian, a New Zealander and a Dutch and Irish national. The other nationalities were not made public.
Almost all forms of gambling, apart from the lottery and bets on some animal fighting, is outlawed in Thailand, though underground betting is rampant.
"The chairman of the bridge club is arguing that they were not gambling [for money]," Colonel Suthat said.
He added that all but one of those arrested were freed on a 5,000 baht ($195) bail after 12 hours in custody.
The final person was unable to pay bail and remains in jail.
A British Embassy spokesman said officials were in contact with local authorities "following the arrest of several British nationals".
Jomtien and Pattaya Bridge Club, the target of the raid, is a venue popular with elderly foreign players that advertises publicly and meets three times a week above a restaurant.
Pattaya One, a local English language newspaper, ran photographs of the raid showing groups of largely elderly foreigners gathered around tables holding playing cards as police looked on.
The paper said the club had been operating bridge nights since 1994.

It's about time the Pattaya Police just man up,realize they have made a big mistake and say sorry to all the members of the Bridge Club, before they make themselves an even bigger laughing stock than they are already !!

But we know that isn't going to happen

I have dissuaded two members of my family from visiting. They would have been first timers and are comfortably off in the autumn of their lives but I have convinced them their well-earned pennies are much better spent in any country other than this disgraceful place where, literally, anything might happen to them.

Mugged by ladyboys, falsely imprisoned and held to ransom, poisoned by ill-prepared food, ripped off by taxis, killed or maimed crossing a road, killed or maimed travelling down a road, infected by dengue, forced to pay ten times more than a local when entering any sight of interest or national park, be treated like a cow to be milked for all its worth and, perhaps worst of all, being bombarded by stupidity from almost every quarter. The scarcely bearable climate, broken down infrastructure, scuttling rats and cockroaches and omnipresent, abominable stench from a useless sewage system are of course simply a way of life which they could tolerate.

Awful place, and an awful society. Every country in the tourist world has its demerits but only this one has the full suit, all the time and everywhere.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Every country in the tourist world has its demerits but only this one has the full suit, all the time and everywhere.

If you have the full suit then you should bid the maximum - Seven spades, diamonds, etc. depending on the suit you have.

I offer advice on chess as well for a small fee.

So, now that they have criminal records, what's next for them?...Will they be seeking asylum, thegent?...

Originally Posted by boloa

It's about time the Pattaya Police just man up,realize they have made a big mistake and say sorry to all the members of the Bridge Club, before they make themselves an even bigger laughing stock than they are already !!

Those guys on camera had DOPA on their jackets

Im sure that's the Thai version of the FBI

Thick as fcuk wankers. The smug fcukers in the vid all looked out of their depth.

DOPA = Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA กรมการปกครอง)

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

I have dissuaded two members of my family from visiting.

Thank fuck for that !

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Those guys on camera had DOPA on their jackets

Yes ... but I think they should have jackets with DOPE on them though

Pattaya police chief Sukthat Pumpunmuang told AFP Thursday the raid was sparked by a member of the public complaining to the government's anti-corruption centre. It was initiated by district officials, local media said, not by Pattaya police.

But the Police and Army were more than happy to get involved

But then, perhaps we are being a bit harsh. Most there in uniform are scarcely two swings out of the jungle and in Pattaya that is the norm albeit they all seem to sport fat guts complementing those inane grins of studied incomprehension.

One wonders just how they grappled with the term "Bridge" as they paraded the "crime scene".

I rather think the jingjok settled on my balcony has probably moe understanding.

They really do know how to entertain us though. In my experience stupidity used to a rather dull, tedious phenomenon but here it is truly a source of endless entertainment.

It looks like they were playing with illegal cards.

Local media reported that a representative of the Contract Bridge League of Thailand was travelling to Pattaya on Thursday to educate police on the rules of bridge.
While they found no financial evidence of gambling, police charged the group with possessing more than 120 playing cards that were not produced by the Excise Department, in violation of Section 8 of the Playing Cards Act of 1943.

Pattaya cops bust 32 foreigners for playing bridge | Bangkok Post: news

SKIN THEM ALIVE

The card players' plight was eased after the president of the Contract Bridge League of Thailand, Chodchoy Sophonpanich — a civic activist who is a member of Thailand's most prominent banking family — went to Pattaya on Thursday morning to advise police that bridge was treated under the law as a sport rather than gambling.
"Police know that bridge is a sport because a similar case happened before, but this time it was military and district officials who initiated the raid and they probably didn't know," said Chaiyut Assanaiyarat, the bridge league's manager.

Western retirees at Thai resort busted for playing bridge | Daily Mail Online

...playing cards that were not produced by the Excise Department, in violation of Section 8 of the Playing Cards Act of 1943...

Invoke the full wrath of Section 44 on this heinous crime.