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Pattaya Beach still has problems
Editor;
Yes, they have done a good construction job on the beach walk so far. The
main problem as I see it is not the prostitutes but the beach rat
infestation. You just need to walk there at night. Secondly, the food
rubbish as people who eat throw their waste on the floor and not use the
bins. Sadly this is mostly Thai people themselves who seem to have no
consideration for their own city. Remember - mosquitoes bite rats then bite
people. Lastly, if people don’t stop feeding the pigeons, this will be
another tourist problem in one yrs time.
Regards
Mark
If aliens landed today
Editor,
Sitting here in my hotel room on Beach Road, looking out at the party below,
I can’t help but wonder - if an alien species traveled a bazillion miles
across the universe to visit earth, and by some strange miracle of chance,
they landed here in Pattaya on April 19, they would probably turn around and
go straight back home. They might observe us for a while, noting our strange
custom of wasting the most precious of commodities, water, and report back
to their leaders that there is certainly no intelligent life on the blue
marble.
D. Saparkee
Harpswell, Maine
Where the baht should be pegged
Editor;
Six years ago, Reggie McFarland addressed an issue concerning the BoT and
their continuing ill-advised pre-conceived notions of where the Baht should
really have been pegged, and it applies in today’s market also. With all of
the clear signs of the rice scheme failure; loss of exports; government in
turmoil; ETAL, the Baht should be at around 34 to 35 or more to $1. Is the
BoT still trying to save face and refusing to accept economic reality? True
economic principles should rule the day, but they are not. I think people
who feed a large amount of cash into Thailand on a daily basis, should be
screaming at the top of their lungs about this artificially inflated value
of the Baht. Let’s hear some noise directed to the BoT.
Hyde Parke
Pattaya
How can I compete with such sound logic?
Editor;
Re: “Being stabbed is not as dangerous as being shot”, John Neilson, Apr.l8
Mailbag. Comparing being stabbed with catching a whiff of smoke. How can I
compete with such sound logic? We also had the man that told me that if I
believed that second hand smoke hasn’t killed anyone, why don’t I come to
his house and blow smoke all over his baby. The man who told me I wasn’t
citing any scientific evidence even though I started my missive citing the
World Health Organization’s report on air pollution was a gem. Mr Neilson
telling me that I hadn’t dealt with his position, when I had an entire
paragraph suggesting that neither he nor the government has the right to
dictate to private business who they should or should not allow in their
establishment was the straw that broke the camel’s back though.
I surrender. I bow to all of this sound logic and sense of fair play, but I
would like to leave you with one final thought. “It is not we smokers that
are trying to tell you how to live or where to go. We are not encouraging
government to tax the products you purchase, or demanding silly pictures on
it. We leave you alone and let you live your life the way you choose. It is
you dictating to us that is the reality and so far you have gotten away with
it with impunity.
At some point in time the complete truth will come out as it already has
begun to what with the W.H.O.’s report on air pollution. I just hope that I
am still here to see it. But then again, having to live among people such as
what I have encountered in this smoking debate, maybe I should reconsider
whether or not I care if I am still here. Living in the Twilight Zone can
become tiresome.
Meanwhile, I’m sorry, I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but after reading
my letter in last week’s Mailbag, I noticed the headlines that Chonburi was
planning a ban on the advertising of alcohol, beer and cigarettes.
Ostensibly to cut down the amount of road carnage. This is the perfect
example of how cigarettes and smokers have been subconsciously vilified.
I would appreciate it if all of my critics would apprise me of what study
they read that proves beyond a doubt that cigarette smoke causes road
carnage.
John Arnone
Yasothon
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(Don’t) Blame it on the buoys
Editor,
It’s very sad that people are falling off the new swimming area demarcation
buoys and getting hurt. And I feel very bad for the mother who lost her son
after he fell in and drowned. But I mean, come on. It’s not the buoys’
fault. It is difficult to regulate a severe lack of common sense. If you
don’t know how to swim, don’t walk out onto those buoys, lest you are forced
to deal with the consequences.
There are no regulations requiring signs be put up on balconies warning
people not to step over the edge. No warning signs saying don’t pet the
mangy rabid dogs. Why? Because most people have the common sense not to do
these things.
Evidently there are those who cannot swim who just don’t have sense enough
to make the connection that on a rough day, with wind and waves, walking out
onto these buoys over deep water just might not be the right thing to do.
Therefore, this puts in danger the fact that Pattaya and Jomtien beaches
finally have barriers that speed boats and jet skis can no longer ignore.
Which, in turn, go could go back to endangering the lives of swimmers. And
why is this? Because it seems the operators of watercraft don’t have enough
common sense to stay away from swimming areas.
Pierce Kyle Subban
Visitor from Quebec, Canada
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