Anybody help? To cut a long story short - my ex (bar) girlfriend believed I had recieved a huge amount of cash from WU. That same night virtually every person I had ever met after 7 months living in Pattaya contacted me suggesting we meet up. The same night a girl I had in my hotel with me told me to not go out - particularly on my motorbike - as someone was going to "do the necessary". After throwing the girl who had likely saved my life out of the hotel I began to piece together who had wanted to meet me, where they wanted to meet & the times they wanted to meet & concluded that every one of them knew each other. The worrying thing is that there were as many farang trying to lure me to my unknown fate as well as Thai. I hadn't done any research on mysterious deaths in Pattaya before & simply took the pages of the papers such as Pattaya People as you would the Sun back home & so wasn't aware of what actually went on there. Now I believe a number of farang who own bars in the area, as well as their shady-looking farang friends who drink in them are mixed-up in many of these "motorbike accidents" or "balcony falls" & as every bar owner pays protection to the police I presume this includes protection from proper investigation of their activities. Especialy when the spoils of these dubious goings on are being divided. My question to anybody who may know more of these things than I do is there anything I can do to protect myself from these murdering scumbags, besides tooling myself up & becoming something of a gunfight waiting to happen. Is there anybody I can pay to protect me? A bodyguard? The police? The Russians? Particularly as I'm not 100% sure of who will actually be coming for me. I'm not entirely stupid but I am returning to Pattaya soon & would really like to come back to England alive, preferably without any bullet wounds. Any advice however small would be much appreciated. I know who does know who was targeting me (ex girl, girl who warned me, people who tried to lure me, etc) but the chances of them telling me what's what are zero. It could be a simple Issan girl & her backward boyfriend in which case I assume that would be easy to sort out, or it could be a 20-year plus resident established gangster with half the police on his payroll in which case I might give Pattaya a miss this time around. Thanks everyone.