Police looking for prostitution along Beach Road-Don't get caught up!
[QUOTE]The 20-strong team detained 18 Thai women, five Lao women and two Ugandan women along Pattaya beach, Pattaya Sai 2 Road and other public areas on Saturday night and charged them with street prostitution.
Janjira Thaibundit, social development and human security chief in Chon Buri, said the arrested women were fined and later released. The action reflected enforcement of the law against street prostitution, which is illegal, and was also aimed at preventing minors being drawn into the street trade, she said.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3310754/pattaya-street-hookers-arrested-ahead-of-us-carrier-groups-visit[/URL]
ROTFLMAO!
Gents, follow lawful orders. But don't be misled by poorly phrased reporting.
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3081743][URL]https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3310754/pattaya-street-hookers-arrested-ahead-of-us-carrier-groups-visit[/URL]
ROTFLMAO![/QUOTE]From the above print report:
[QUOTE]PATTAYA - Police and human security officials arrested Thai, Lao and Ugandan women [b]for alleged street prostitution[/b] on Saturday night, only days ahead of the arrival of about 5,000 crew and marines aboard a US navy strike group.[/QUOTE]Does anyone honestly believe the sweep of prostitutes was for "street prostitution"? That they were caught actually fucking and sucking customers in exchange for money right there on the Beach Road sidewalk? Lolol.
This is obviously another example of lazy or poorly translated phrasing of what prostitutes in Thailand are almost always swept up for in public places. Not "for prostitution", of course, but for being seen openly and shamelessly soliciting for prostitution in a public place.
The video report of the sweep posted previously got it right. Twice. Once at around the 0:12 mark and again at around the 2:10 mark; "They (Pattaya City and Chonburi) have affirmed [B]solicitation in public areas is against Thai law"[/B] and "Pattaya City Police and the Chonburi Ministry of Social Development and Human Security recently conducted a sweep to crackdown on solicitation along Pattaya Beach, 2nd Road and other high risk public areas to clearly demonstrate that Thailand strictly enforces [B]laws against public solicitation."[/B].
Why aren't they concerned about demonstrating that Thailand strictly enforces laws against, you know, discreetly agreeing to and engaging in prostitution between consenting adults?
Because nobody has ever found a law forbidding that in Thailand. Nor has anyone been arrested for it in Thailand. Nor has anyone been jailed for it in Thailand. Nor has anyone been punished for it under the law in Thailand.
[URL]https://youtu.be/L_hBh-SFSd8?is=pIDbXfYN2OdGykMH[/URL]
It's the same old, same old laws against certain [I]prostitution-related behaviors[/I] for which there are several citations and sections written in Plain Language in the Thai Penal Code and Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act of 1996 subject to arrest and punishment and not for consenting adults age 18 or older merely discreetly agreeing to exchange money for sex and then discreetly engaging in that behavior in private, for which there are no laws or citation of a crime subject to arrest or punishment written in Plain Language, Complicated Language or any other language anywhere in any legally enforceable Code or Act in Thailand.