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| Hoss won't be happy either* |
Poor old Londoner Damon Wait has been caught again.
And its happened on the day The Sun in London posed the question:
‘Will Thailand be the next country to bore of boozy Brits?’
Damon, who was caught last year with a bag of ‘China white’ heroin and a massive stash of Kamagra and Viagra, or as the Pattaya Mail put it ‘20 boxes of sexual-performance medication’, allegedly awaiting a booze and drugs fueled ‘sex party’, has now been nicked again.
Seems like a special (Santiban-Transnational Crime) posse of police was on the trail of Wait, tracking him north to Chiang Mai and then south a bit to Nakhon Sawan.
Wait, who in the British press was described as a ‘horse breeder’ but in the Thai press as the manager of the Sports Bar at the ‘Ponderosa’, a resort situated on ‘The Dark Side’, was nicked last night in Nakhon Sawn's ‘Bonito Chinos’ hotel – Spanish for beautiful Chinese. Such irony.
Seems like Damon is not the ‘tourist businessman' he was described by the ‘Sun’ and ‘Mirror’, who were, of course, just regurgitating local reports and adding a bit of topspin. (We Brits are worried about misfortunes happening to our tourists).
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| 'I'm not going to the police station' said Damon |
The ‘Ponderosa’ is a well-known ‘Hell’s Angels’ hang-out. I doubt an ordinary tourist would last long in charge there. The ‘Dark Side’ is an area to the east of Pattaya occupied by many Brits of a colourful background.
Funnily enough Damon Wait,42, yesterday checked into the Bonito Chinos Hotel in Nakhon Sawan with a guy called Simon Hornby and booked three rooms for one night.
Hornby from NSW, say police, is a fully jacketed member of the Aussie ‘Hell’s Angels’, who seem to be giving Thailand such a head-ache now.
However, Simon was ' clean'.
The nine thousand and fifty-four-pound question is how on earth did Damon Wait get bail in the first place?
Well, the raid last year was conducted by Pattaya (Banglamuang) Police, District Officials, and the Army.
And 9504 is 400,000 Thai baht which is the answer - what it cost Damon Wait in ‘bail’.
It's rare that a Brit caught with Class 1 gets bail. One who did, Aussie-Brit Lisa Smith was put on Interpol's Most Wanted list. But then her bail was AUS$74,000.
Cheap? I don’t suppose that Wait, having coughed up, expected another posse of the Thai police to be on his tail.
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The Army was there on the original Ponderosa raid, of course, to see everything was done according to the laws, which the junta leader/Prime Minister adds to on a seemingly daily basis.
I’m guessing Hoss Cartwright will be turning in his grave.
* References to Hoss Cartwright and Bonanza will be lost on younger readers