Several Beach Road loiterers
await their turn to pay their 100 baht fines at Pattaya police station.
Boonlua Chatree
About 60 Beach Road loiterers were rounded up, fined and
released in the Pattaya police’s latest sweep of Pattaya Beach.
A near monthly occurrence, the raid saw police saw police
take 40 women and 20 women-of-the-second-category accused of being
prostitutes and petty thieves into Pattaya Police Station where they were
fined a mere 100 baht and released, presumably to go back to their Beach
Road perches.
Lt. Col. Kritsanat Thonsuppanat claimed all five dozen
confessed to being prostitutes out of financial need, but are considered a
nuisance to tourists.
