A Russian passenger onboard British Airways flight BA9 on January 21 from London Heathrow to Bangkok became “very aggressive” after drinking his own duty free whiskey and additional drinks served by flight attendants. Video shows passengers taking him down. The plane didn’t divert despite a couple of hours to go on the flight. One man […]
At 6am, on the morning of November 18, Pattaya police received reports that a drunk foreigner was on the rampage in Soi Buakhao attacking people and damaging property. Attending officers found the man outside Siam Sawasdee Hotel who appeared to be in a manic state. He was bleeding heavily from a wound to his left […]
At 4.30am, on the morning of November 1, Pol Capt Wuthikorn Ploadprong was leading a check-point unit in front of Makro, on Pattaya North, Pattaya. As part of a routine inspection a white Toyota Camry, driven by twenty-four-year old Mr Surasak Damrong. Forty-year old Mr Techpat was in the passenger seat. Both men appeared to […]
LOPBURI — A long-tailed macaque got an early start on the bad stuff yesterday morning went on a drunken bender that ended 24 hours later in death by alcohol poisoning. The unnamed monkey was already three sheets to the wind on lao khao (rice whiskey) when it was spotted by som tam vendor Lamoon Panpetch, […]
A woman who crashed her car into a group of cyclists killing three of them while under the influence of alcohol was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Chiang Mai provincial court on Tuesday. The court found Ms Patchuda Jairuen guilty of drunk driving causing deaths to three bicyclists. The incident took place on […]
At 1:00 AM on Wednesday 20th April a 1 minute clip of a foreign tourist beaten by drunken Thai men surfaced on Social Media. The clip filmed in front of a convenience store on Soi Kao Talo showed a Western man being viciously beaten up by two drunken Thai men. Read more: Pattaya One
DEPUTY Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan is preparing to pursue tough measures against drunk drivers – making the seizure of their vehicles a permanent law. “I will have discussions with the Transport minister on the issue and will ask the National Legislative Assembly to expedite the case,” Prawit said yesterday. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, 19 April 2016 (NNT) – New measures requiring drunk drivers to observe the mortuary has been introduced by the Department of Probation, while the bill’s enactment will depend on the court’s discretion. The Department of Probation’s Director-General Pol Col Naras Savestanan has introduced the measures requiring drunk drivers to work in the social service […]
