Misbehaving Russian Timafey Borishev (right)
uses his alleged status as an important policeman sent here from Russia as
his defense against grabbing a tiny waitress by the neck.
Theerarak Suthathiwong
Police set free a Russian man who allegedly attempted
to strangle a Walking Street waitress then claimed he was a high-ranking
government official.
Timafey Borishev, 45, told police called to the Food
Fair restaurant around 4 a.m. Nov. 22 that he was a police officer sent
to Pattaya by the Russian government and that his arrest would spark an
international incident. Police let him go without verifying his story.
Witnesses reported that Borishev had grabbed the neck
of an unidentified waitress during an argument he and his wife had with
the service girl after she cleared their table. The Russians had already
paid the bill for their watermelon juice and tea and has walked away
from the table, but screamed that the waitress shouldn’t have seated
anyone else there yet, as they might have returned.
