Phuket Fight Puts Two Italians into Hospital
By Phuketwan Reporters Monday, October 17, 2011
PHUKET: Two Italian men were taken to a Phuket hospital for treatment after being involved in a fight with locals in Patong last night, say police.
The photograph above was taken about 4am this morning, Patong police have told Phuketwan, after conflicting reports about how the men came to be assaulted.
A senior police officer said today that he had been told by officers who were on the overnight shift that the two Italian men had broken an empty bottle on a chair about 4am, near the point where Soi Seadragon intersects with Soi Bangla, Patong's main walking street.
The loud noise brought people to investigate, the officer said. Angry locals attacked the two men, the senior officer said the officers on the overnight shift had reported.
The injured men were taken to Patong Hospital for treatment then on to Phuket International Hospital in Phuket City, police sources said today.
There was no immediate confirmation as to whether either of the men needed to be admitted.
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@The photograph above was taken about 4am this morning...
So the closing time at 02ht00 was not respected by the bar's owners.
Posted by
Whistle-Blower
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October 17, 2011 14:58
I really don't know what rag to believe nowadays. Same stories, different information.
Although I think your attendance figures for yesterday's football were a bit nearer the mark than the well over exaggerated figures from the other rag.
Posted by
phuket madness
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October 17, 2011 15:36
nothing says it was inside a bar and as far i knows it's no curfew in patong!?
Posted by
frog
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October 17, 2011 16:39
I don't know Whistle Blower- maybe you should go for a wander down town at some point and report back to us, 5555. There is no mention of a bar being involved in the story- although there is a different version of events being bandied about. You appear to want to be the armchair social conscience of Phuket, as reflected by the majority of your posts!
Posted by
Mister Ree
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October 17, 2011 19:29
@Mister Ree
Do not worry I do not want to be the Lucky Luck of Phuket but at 04hr00 morning people would not be in the street wandering if bars or self-serviced shops would stop to sell alcohol to drunkards.
Law is broken day fter day and few people make the shame on Phuket.
Posted by
Whistle-Blower
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October 17, 2011 21:29
@ Whistle-Blower: If you don't like Patong, just don't go there or, maybe even better, get back where are you coming from... I am happy living in Patong and enjoy almost every day. Though I life and work here, I don't forget that I am still a foreigner and guest.
Posted by
Resident
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October 18, 2011 06:47
Hi Resident, please don't say guest, we are working and PAYING TAXES, we give our contribution to the Thai society much more than many locals, so sorry but we have our say. Have a good day.
Posted by
Jean-Paul Patrick
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October 18, 2011 09:36
Drunkards deserve what they deserve especially if they drink only and just beer.
But my point is; why other falangs attack each others, on forums, for a country that is not their own ?
one says that he's happy here and if you don't like GO HOME ! The other says I work here, I am a guest etc.. Aren't you confused and therefore behave as you behave, meaningless, and therefore you are not free people but rather "slaves", in my respectfull opinion for workers and beer drinkers alike. If such things happen in Patong it is because aggressivity erupts stronger as the place offer "so much" and some people are frustrted because they can't afford it and so become violent. A "pure" tourist is a free man until degrades himself with too much alcohol, or/and too much rip offs, or too much soccer on tv, or lawlessity, ignorance, unrespect the basics of the society in any part of this planet. Gangs are the result in such unrespecting each other spots.
Posted by
carle
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October 18, 2011 13:51
Marc BKK
I will try to answer your question, lets see now...Can it have anything to do with being the party capital of Phuket, with a famously hedonistic night life attracting people from all over the world looking for party and alcohol with bars and discos on every corner? No, probably not that, sorry can't help you. I'm also stunned as to why the place with several hundred bars and discos serving cheap booze almost around the clock have a fight breaking out now and then. In my view, it should be much more common in for example a Spa inside a 5-star hotel, makes much more sense to me..
If you think about your own hometown, where would a fight most likely break out on saturday night? The local disco MIGHT be a good bet. In Patong every night is "saturday night" and the whole city is an entertainment zone. Is the fog clearing?
Posted by
christian
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October 18, 2011 15:08
there are more bars and more guys drinking. Some guys can't hold their drink and get violent, different personalities come out after to much is taken. for sure patong going to have more bar brawls than some places in phuket but sure less than many places in Australia.
Posted by
Anonymous
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October 18, 2011 15:18
Seriously.. some people making comments here seems to be only a bitter end of life.. anyhow. I deeply curse and reject all kind of violence but since mantime alhohol is used to be more agressive agressive and always is the quickest key to making a fight. the other side of it is to be more relaxed and havin a great time with friends and without picking a number of percent i think most of us drink for having a good time not for prepere a fight, BUT if u (WB) or who ever u are leave Kathu sometime and spend everynight for a week in patong and its nightlife u should be surprised its not more violence and fights everywere. its many many diffrent nationalitys everywhere and more or less they are all drunk, considering whats going on around this world with all the things u already knows we might should salute Patong after all cos it so NOTvoilent at the end. or? am i F**ked?
Posted by
frog
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October 18, 2011 17:02
to frog.
you are correct in the part where you say 'considering whats going on around the world and all these different nationalities, its quite surprising there is not more violence with so many drunks about..so patong isnt doing so bad on that front,patong is patong love it or hate it, however there is so much more to phuket so it is very avoidable and all the dramas that go along with it!! i.e tuk tuks and jet skis.
COME ON YOU FC PHUKET
Posted by
Hulkster
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October 18, 2011 22:01
Patong is a disgusting cesspit of the lowest end of humanity. As a long-term expat resident of Thailand, currently living in Phuket, I would not set foot in Patong if you paid me.
Posted by
Horatio
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October 19, 2011 01:23
Horatio, why on earth would anyone pay you to go to Patong? You don't like the place, fine, just don't go. Why don't you share with us where you like to go instead? Why being negative all the time? Personally I would rather list all the great places I love in Thailand than the few ones I don't. Stay positive and enjoy!
Cheers Mate.
Posted by
Wordless
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October 19, 2011 09:43
Horatio, I agree with you, it's just disgusting on the whole. But smaller places packed with tourist i.e. Ao Nang Krabi province are the same but, more subtle, so even worst, in my opinion.
Posted by
carle
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October 21, 2011 23:13
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Posted by
chenrezig
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October 23, 2011 05:25
Editor Comment:
One comment, and you've proved you're a racist. Don't bother coming back.
ok....understand...so the only reason living in Patong is the fun and bcs is Saturday night everyday....thx not my life, from now on only Krabi, livng in BKK, and maybe soetimes in Rawai..... Patong for me do not exist
Posted by
marc Bkk
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October 28, 2011 21:58
You deleted some guys comment and banned him for what you consider to be racism? Unless it is because you are worried about Thai law coming down on your blog then that is the kind of pathetic political correct attitude that has nearly doomed Europe. People should be polite, yes. But somehow I reckon if the guy made a comment about fat people or drunks you'd not mind... which is hypocritical as it is still discrimination. Like it or not... races are different and race certainly does play a part in the problems ex pats face in Thailand. Needless censorship is negative. People need to put on their big boy pants and remember that sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you.
Posted by
Joe Reality
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October 2, 2015 19:16
Editor Comment:
''Racism'' is not about being fat or drunks, Joe. You seem to be looking for an argument without knowing what's been said. Speaking up without having a clue what you're on about is, fortunately, your problem, not ours.
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@The photograph above was taken about 4am this morning...
So the closing time at 02ht00 was not respected by the bar's owners.
Posted by Whistle-Blower on October 17, 2011 14:58