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Pattaya, the 20th of November 2009 [PDN]: In the early hours of Friday morning police Lieutenant General Phatsa Detphakkul (inspector with the Pattaya police) received a report that 3 Omani nationals were in need of assistance at the Maine Yensabai condominium complex, South Pattaya. A team of police officers and members from the Sawang Boriboon Foundation attended the scene.

When officers arrived at the scene they found the 3 foreign men asleep in their room. Upon further investigation one of the men, now known to be a Mr Zahran Saud Salim age 28 awoke in a somewhat dazed state. Mr Zahran explained to police that the other two men were his brothers, a Mr Bader Saud Salim age 40, and Mr Hamed Saud Salim age 32. He further informed police that he believed that they had been drugged by 2 men from Monaco with which they shared a minibus from Bangkok the previous night.

After a brief interview with the still dazed man, police were able to assertain that the trio had caught a minibus from the Nana Inn Hotel in Bangkok sharing the fair with a pair of men from Monaco who were unknown to the brothers. During the journey the bus made a stop at a food center on the motorway in order for the men to get something to eat. At this time the 2 men from Monaco allegedly went to purchase some burgers for them all to enjoy, which the Omani brothers assumed was just a kind gesture. After the meal was consumed the trip continued, at which time the 3 brothers fell asleep in the bus, only awakening when the bus stoped out the front of the Marine Yensabai Condo, which they had pre-booked from Bangkok. At the time the 3 men thought that nothing untoward had occurred and put their dazed states down to suffering from a dose of travel sickness.

Mr Zahran explained that when he and his brothers arrived in their room they decided to get some more sleep as they all were still feeling very tired. Mr Zahran was the first to awake at which time he started to unpack his bags, discovering that almost all their money, an amount nearing 63,000 baht and their 3 mobile phones had gone missing. Suspecting the 2 men that had accompanied them on the journey Mr Zahran went to talk with the driver of the minibus who explained that the 2 other men had been dropped off at the Central Pattaya intersection on Sukhumvit Road. The police were then called to the scene to investigate the situation further.

Police asked the officers from the Sawang Boriboon foundation that were at the scene to take the three men to the Banglamung Hospital were they could undergo a blood test and recover from their ordeal. Mr Zahran’s 2 brothers had still not awoken yet, which was also a cause for concern. It was later discovered that the 3 brothers had been drugged with sleeping pills possibly inserted into the burgers that they had consumed the night before.

Police will now wait for the three men to fully recover before further questioning them. They will also be asked to describe the appearance of the 2 men from Monaco so that police may get a sketch drawn up of their faces. In light of this recent criminal activity police are urging all tourists to be careful who they befriend and to watch over their possessions with extreme vigilance. Officers believe that this was not the first time that these men had performed such a trick and that they will most probably do it again.

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Pattaya, November 19 [PATTAYA ONE NEWS] : On Wednesday Evening, Police Colonel Somnook, the Chief of Banglamung Police along with other senior officers made their way to a lake in Takiendier sub-district to investigate the aftermath of a fatal shooting which resulted in the death of a 25 year old man, who appears to have been fishing at the time of his death. Khun Wirapon, who had just finished working in Bangkok as a noodle vendor, had been shot three times in his head, shoulder and neck. A cousin of the victim soon arrived and explained that he had finished working in Bangkok due to problems with fellow vendors and decided to come to Pattaya to stay with family. Police are now exploring the possibility that he was killed because of the dispute with other vendors in Bangkok or over relationship issues. A witness came forward and told Police that he did not see the shooting take place but did see a single Thai Man leave the area at speed on a motorbike moments after the shooting took place. A description of that man is now with Police who are attempting to find the shooter at this time.

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Thursday 19th November 2009



]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:06:36 +0700 http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Man-Shot-Dead-Catches-Fish-Local-t315669.html http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Big-Hearted-Victim-Forgives-Bike-Th-t315659.html A few hours later, at around 1.00pm, the police received a further call from the victim to inform them that he had discovered his stolen bike parked beside the Tuk Com Building in South Pattaya, not too far from where it had been stolen from.

He informed the officers that there did not seem to be anybody with the bike, however, arriving on the scene, officers decided to give it a couple of hours, with the bike under observation, to see if anyone approached it. At around 2.30pm the officers observed a young man with a little girl dressed in a kindergarten school uniform, approach the bike and attempt to ride it away, officers quickly pounced on the young man. The terrified little girl, seeing who turned out to be her father manhandled in this way, was quite understandable distraught with the events and was crying and begging the officers not to hurt her daddy and to let him go. The police officers finally managed to calm her down and stop the crying.

The young man, Mr. Surachart Nuansantia, aged 20, confessed that he had stolen the motorbike. Earlier in the day, when he had been dropping his daughter off at school, he had passed the bike with the keys in the ignition and it had turned out to be too big a temptation. He believed that his daughter would be really excited when he picked her up after school on a motorbike.

However, after taking the bike, and fearing he would be caught, he parked the bike at the side of Tuk Com and made his way home by bus, planning to pick the bike up later in the afternoon with his daughter. He had never done anything like this in the past, it was just too big a temptation to walk past and he had wanted to please his daughter.

Hearing the confession, and the heartbreaking sobs of the young girl, the owner of the bike, after ascertaining from the police that the arrested man had no previous convictions, agreed not to press charges as he thought the young man had learned his lesson.

Never the less, officers took him back to the station and gave him a good talking too and official warning.

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explained at a press conference recently that the wind turbine project on Koh Larn Island, the first such project in Thailand, had been very successful, in fact they have unexpectedly become a tourist attraction.
The 45 wind turbines have now been in operation for three years and are to supply environmentally friendly electricity to power the Koh Larn Government Office and for the Island's street lighting.
The Deputy Mayor stated that many residents had been under the illusion that the turbines would supply electricity for the whole island, however, this is an impossibility, and other measures to combat the problems of the islands electricity supply are already underway, ie through the use of underwater cabling.

Let's hope that the wind turbines carry on bringing in the tourists.

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