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Thank you Pattaya Mail

Editor;
It gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the sailors, staff and sponsors, to thank you, the Pattaya Mail and your related media outlets, for the great show you managed during the recently held Singha OK Dingy World Championship.
As you have seen from some of the correspondence, the whole occasion of the “16th Pattaya Mail PC Classic” was, indeed, a highlight of the Championship and it gives me immense personal satisfaction to see the “rebirth” of one of the Royal Varuna Yacht Club’s treasured events.
Your dedication - and the positive effect on our Club, the Eastern Seaboard and the benefactors of the sponsorship of this event - is far reaching.
I take this opportunity also, to congratulate the Pattaya Mail group on its forthcoming 20th anniversary, having been awarded, for the 15th consecutive year, the “Best in the East” for your ongoing dedication through the media, to promoting “our city-by-the-sea”.
Royal Varuna has been a constant recipient of much positive publicity for our sailing and junior training programmes, through your editorial pages.
We look forward to many more years of continuous co-operation, to promote the image of Pattaya/Jomtien as a sailing and family haven and to contributing to the welfare of our less-favoured denizens.
Please visit our club as often as your busy schedule will permit.
Your sincerely,
David Littlejohn
Flag Commodore,
Royal Varuna Yacht Club


Bags make easy targets

Editor;
Re: Waterproof phone pouches popular during Songkran (PM Friday, 26 April 2013) - These bags did a great job at keeping items dry during the water fights, but if like me and I guess many more, these bags where a very easy target for the thieves. I myself had the rope use on these bags cut and the thief took my digital camera and my HD video camera. I know many others had the same problem, as I was told this by Pattaya Police - around 400 reports of stolen property was reported during the day.
For myself I was angry that this scum had stolen my camera. I was more angry as it was near the end of my family’s holiday (we visit Thailand every year) and was so angry that I had lost all my photos and video of my daughter, who is only 8 and it was her first taste of Songkran. I just hope the scum who did this enjoys the drugs they will buy when the sell my items on. For me, Thailand is out of the question when it’s Songkran. It’s a shame as it is such a fun time to be in Pattaya.
Simon Meredith


Get a Thai drivers license

Editor;
Re: Double pricing or 50 percent discount? (PM Hillary Friday, 19 April 2013) - Take the time out of 1 day to get a Thai drivers license if you intend to continue to spend time or live here. With your ducks in a row it can be done in a few hrs, if you start early. It’s also great form of I.D. & tells Thais you are committed to adapting to Thai culture & ways of life here, whether or not you drive, & offers discounts on many other things. Then you pay the same as Thai at all attractions.
Dill Pickles


There are many good people in Thailand

Dear Editor.
I am continually reading letters that give the Thai population bad press. Wherever you decide to live in the world you will find good and bad. My own experiences since a car accident left me handicapped two years ago continually show me the “good”. The latest example of this was a recent phone call followed by a surprise visit to my home in Banchang from members of the “Chonburi Independent Living Center”. Ongart Kaenthong and Olieng Choaguoy, who are both wheelchair bound and were transported to Banchang in a specially converted van belonging to the center. When I enquired how they came to find out about me, they advised me that they had seen me on the internet and had contacted me to enquire and see if they could be of any help to me.
Apparently the center offers all manner of assistance to the disabled and wheelchair bound, helping with home conversions, ramps and purchase of electric wheelchairs, etc. They were the first handicapped that I have come into contact with since my accident. Their visit was so very inspirational to me, spurring me on to gain strength and to try and get out more in the future.
I would publically like to thank the center for their enquiry into my wellbeing. This shows yet another example of the “good” that can be found here in Thailand.
Barry Hooper


Beach Road traffic woes

Editor;
RE: Making it harder to cross Beach Road (PM Mailbag Friday, 19 April 2013) - I so much would like to believe in this. Any undergraduate urban traffic planning student would tell you that the only solution to the Beach Road traffic woes and the future of Pattaya as a beach resort is to close Beach Road to all traffic except delivery vehicles in the morning. Beach Road would become a pedestrian walkway. It will never happen.
Dana


Only harsh penalties will prevent future crashes

Editor;
Re: 20 injured in speedboat collision (PM Friday, 26 April 2013) - How can you crash in open seas in Pattaya? Jail for the people responsible and what is 8000 euros going to do for someone who was seriously injured? An offense to the value of life. Nothing can be fixed with compensation or jail but to prevent future happenings only harsh penalties can hope to have an effect.
Giorgio Ciotti


Green efforts need more monitoring

Editor;
Re: Green Pattaya Community cleans up Pratamnak Hill (PM Friday, 26 April 2013) - First, hats off to Green Pattaya Community for trying to solve one of Pattaya’s biggest problems - trash! However, as far as the recent Pratamnak clean-up efforts, I must, at least partially, dispute the details outlined. I was on Kasetsin Soi 1 that day and when I saw about 20 people walking down the street I stopped to see what was going on. There are three trash collection areas on the street, and the group basically walked down the center of the street without picking up any of the litter piled around the trash bins... and there is a lot of it due to the city trash collectors sloppy job!
In the organization’s defense, I guess, we have contacted the City Services hotline 6 times to have the rubbish around the bins picked up, and they have done nothing about it. So, despite the vacant promises of City Hall and the administration to clean up the city, nothing changes.
Again, thanks to Green Pattaya Community for bringing more effort to clean up the city. It is an admirable venture. I just wish someone had monitored the work done in this one instance.
John in Pattaya


Jet ski scandal surfaces again

Editor;
Re: Yet another jet ski scam leaves 2 Chinese students robbed, beaten (PM Friday, 27 April 2012) - I am in Pattaya at the moment. This just happened to me yesterday (April 24, 2013). They claimed 65000 baht saying because of me the water went inside the jet ski engine. I am staying in Hilton and I called my hotel’s staff, who talked to them but still they weren’t letting me and my wife go. We went to the police station where the police completely refused to cooperate in this matter. Then the hotel staff called more people from the hotel and told them that they know it’s a scam and wouldn’t let them do this to us and after 4 hours of arguments they went away. I would simply request people not to use the jet ski and not spoil your own mood and trip. I live in London and have been to so many countries in this world but haven’t seen such a rude nation; these Thai people have not etiquettes and are money greedy to the extreme level.
Jamal


HEADLINES [click on headline to view story]

Thank you Pattaya Mail

Bags make easy targets

Get a Thai drivers license

There are many good people in Thailand

Beach Road traffic woes

Only harsh penalties will prevent future crashes

Green efforts need more monitoring

Jet ski scandal surfaces again

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