Originally Posted by
Headworx
It was genuine wild West with no laws whatsoever to keep things in check, well their were laws of course but nobody took any notice of them. Under-age workers in the bars were rampant, you could have someone knocked for cheap with no fear whatsoever of ever facing repercussions if you knew the right people, if you wanted to carry or keep a gun in your car/home you did (bought from the cops obviously), everything was 24hrs as there was another shift finishing on the Bases several times a day (you could wake up at 06:30am and head for the Gogo bars if you wanted to), the gauntlet of local Sparrow gangs randomly shooting someone through the head was very real (more so if you had a crew-cut and American accent), and while I've seen more than my fair share of debauchery in Pattaya I've never seen it on anything like the scale of what went on there back then.
Two words sum it up, Nipa Hut. If you know you know.