tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13959244188098841032011-11-28T07:16:32.867+07:00This website chronicles the antics of the expats living in Thailand (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly). From expat petty criminals in PHUKET to sex crazy tourists in PATTAYA to drug dealers in BANGKOK- find all the news thats fit to print here!Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-46383205782290436352007-12-30T18:52:00.000+07:002007-12-30T18:56:08.806+07:00Something for everyone <a href="http://smh.com.au/news/national/a-child-abducted-a-family-accused/2007/12/28/1198778703376.html">in this story</a> about a millionaire Australian family and their antics. The culprit was finally arrested in Phuket.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-4638320578229043635?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-37184876764931712062007-12-30T18:45:00.000+07:002007-12-30T18:48:11.528+07:00More information <a href="http://www.pattayacitynews.net/news_24_12_50_2.htm">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-3718487676493171206?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-44873478315097590602007-12-30T18:41:00.000+07:002007-12-30T18:44:09.181+07:00A 26 year old Norwegian man <a href="http://nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30060705">beaten into a coma</a> by four Thai men in Pattaya. I wonder what he did to deserve that...Does anyone have any information?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-4487347831509759060?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-82336481484295081472007-12-30T18:37:00.000+07:002007-12-30T18:41:07.111+07:00Here is <a href="http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2007/12/30/4745755-sun.html">an update</a> on a story of a Canadian man shot dead in Bangkok last Christmas.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-8233648148429508147?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-54629194510233674112007-12-30T18:30:00.000+07:002007-12-30T18:36:44.351+07:00A Finish man was <a href="http://www.pattayamail.com/current/news.shtml#hd7">arrested in Pattaya </a>this week for 'groping' a woman on Walking Street in Pattaya. Pretty unlucky considering you normally cant throw a Durian on walking street without hitting a bar girl (who presumably would have just taken it as foreplay).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-5462919451023367411?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-11174382476153183432007-12-30T18:25:00.000+07:002007-12-30T18:27:10.794+07:00Your intrepid reporter was on safari and business in Kenya (and very nice it was too! This website will now be updated again regularly!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-1117438247615318343?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-69883343430164559062007-09-23T10:27:00.000+07:002007-09-23T10:30:48.967+07:00A 37 year old Thai woman was given the kiss of life by a British man in Phuket and <a href="http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline&category=News&tBrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=IPED21%20Sep%202007%2016%3A48%3A49%3A440">survived.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-6988334343016455906?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-4044710232198460602007-09-21T14:52:00.000+07:002007-09-21T14:55:53.752+07:00A Russian tourist was <a href="http://www.pattayamail.com/current/news.shtml#hd9">mugged in Pattaya</a> around 2 am along the beach road. There are increasing reports of incidents like this late at night along or on the beach.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-404471023219846060?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-24374153763063016462007-09-20T17:07:00.000+07:002007-09-20T17:11:41.126+07:00A bizarre story from Pattaya...was a 45 year old German man killed by a "baked potato filled with Cream cheese"? For the full story and pictures (including a close up of the suspected potato itself) <a href="http://www.pattayacitynews.net/news_19_09_50_3.htm">go here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-2437415376306301646?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-84575515307678367802007-09-20T16:47:00.001+07:002007-09-20T16:50:59.178+07:00A 31 year old Australian woman, Melissa Walts, was killed in a <a href="http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/20/national/national_30049663.php">car accident</a> today in Bangkok's Yai district. She was in a taxi; the taxi driver and 3 other Thai's were injured.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-8457551530767836780?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-13308667786753629922007-09-20T11:12:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:16:11.847+07:00We now have <a href="http://www.pattayacitynews.net/news_19_09_50_2.htm">some pictures and more information</a> about the German man accused of raping a 16 year old girl in Pattaya. The accused is a registered sex offender in Germany. I can't say that Pattaya is the best place for a sex offender to change his ways.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-1330866778675362992?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-70896730931145386732007-09-19T12:17:00.000+07:002007-09-19T12:22:27.794+07:00Italian 'Postal' police (thats right, their postmen have guns) arrested an Italian for making and distributing underage porn in Thailand and Cambodia. Not much information is available, this <a href="http://www.agi.it/italy/news/200709181115-cro-ren0021-art.html">article </a>from an Italian newspaper (but is in English).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-7089673093114538673?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-71179378345812121022007-09-19T10:42:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:16:37.834+07:00German DJ lures girl into a temple and rapes her. So wrong on many, many levels.<a href="http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30049493"> More here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-7117937834581212102?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-60055708443934613672007-09-19T10:31:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:16:59.450+07:00You can't make up some of the things that befall farangs in Thailand. <a href="http://www.mangozeen.com/sad-tale.htm">This poor chap </a>from Wales was living in Pattaya when his Thai wife left him (with her ladyboy son) and then her relatives evicted him from his house and left him naked in a sack in the forest here he was promptly bitten by a scorpion. He is now in hospital in Wales, penniless.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-6005570844393461367?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-26945439330447133652007-09-19T00:02:00.000+07:002007-09-19T00:07:59.717+07:00What are these?<br /><br /> * Closed for "monks praying"<br /> * Parking Problems<br /> * Tailor Scam<br /> * Khao San Road Travel Agents<br /> * Undercover at the Airport<br /> * Drugged twice<br /> * Tourist Surveys<br /><br />No, not the latest cocktails in Q Bar; they are all scams used to separate the farang from his hard earned cash. Check out <a href="http://www.bangkokscams.com/">this useful site </a>to make sure you don't fall prey!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-2694543933044713365?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-69036361658352997532007-09-18T19:20:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:17:21.643+07:00As a fellow Brit, I'm pleased to see this story from the Phuket air disaster <a href="http://www.indianpad.com/story/106386">story.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-6903636165835299753?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-90495648107640082332007-09-18T19:14:00.000+07:002007-09-18T19:18:58.701+07:00A 57 year old American man who had sex with underaged boys in Bangkok is jailed for 10 years more <a href="http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/27531.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=121773">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-9049564810764008233?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-47951355407263383272007-09-17T18:25:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:17:40.310+07:00Apparently he found the 5 times daily call to prayer annoying; foolish farang....<a href="http://www.pattayacitynews.net/news_15_09_50_3.htm">the story is here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-4795135540726338327?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-72030391694594431972007-09-17T11:01:00.000+07:002007-09-17T11:07:23.709+07:00Jody Aggett, a young British man gets his life sentence for a drugs charge quashed and is released after 4 years in a Thai prison. More on this <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=481169&in_page_id=1770">lucky farang here</a> and <a href="http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyGGdsI_5iND421jYD8ML91c4ePA">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-7203039169459443197?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-78488321408421177262007-09-17T10:24:00.000+07:002007-09-17T10:27:50.965+07:00Every year a number of foreign tourists go missing in Thailand; a list of missing people including their photos <a href="http://www.khaosanroad.com/missingpersons.htm">can be found here</a>. Check them out and see if you know any of them and can help out.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-7848832140842117726?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-19207215262998987842007-09-17T08:52:00.000+07:002007-09-17T08:55:52.281+07:00Sad news; a 47 year old American volunteer killed by what looks like an obsessed colleague jealous. <a href="http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2007/09/15/news/local/doc46eb2e71cf39d753686802.txt">More here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-1920721526299898784?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-22815935951511366752007-09-16T21:33:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:18:05.232+07:00According to the Nation newspaper the top three places where tourists are most likely to be robbed in Bangkok are:<br /><br />1) Chatuchak market<br />2) MBK <br />3) Bus terminals<br />4) China town<br />5) Sukhumvit road<br />6) Suan Lum night bazzar<br /><br />I'm surprised Sukhumvit is not higher. Anyway, <a href="http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/01/national/national_30047359.php">you have been warned!</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-2281593595151136675?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-653689950774848182007-09-16T21:06:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:18:28.976+07:00A German accused of killing a fellow country man is arrested in Pattaya. It seems the accused ran his own mini-mafia extorting money off other Germans. He sounds like a nasty piece of work. More <a href="http://www.pattayamail.com/current/news.shtml#hd10">here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-65368995077484818?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-39805488341424393332007-09-16T20:33:00.000+07:002007-09-16T20:35:39.580+07:00Bad, breaking news. A 'One-Two-Go' budget carrier flight from Bangkok to Phuket with 120 people on <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BKK696.htm">board crashed in Phuket</a> At least 60 people feared dead.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-3980548834142439333?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-14993268109558436622007-09-16T19:06:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:18:53.237+07:00A Russian tourist gets his gold necklace snatched off him and then proceeds to beat up the wrong Thai guy. More <a href="http://www.pattayacitynews.net/news_14_09_50_4.htm">here</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-1499326810955843662?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1395924418809884103.post-55878753083007938882007-09-16T17:38:00.000+07:002007-09-20T11:19:12.844+07:00Crazy AND dangerous; the worst kind of crazy farang...read more <a href="http://www.thaisnews.com/news_detail.php?newsid=214743">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1395924418809884103-5587875308300793888?l=crazyfarangs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591674378578648320noreply@blogger.com0