PHUKET HOLIDAYS are a time to unwind and Russian visitor Anton Pokhabov managed to be fully relaxed before 12.30pm yesterday.
The 29-year-old visitor to Phuket was so drunk by lunchtime that he reversed his white Toyota out of a petrol station in Rawai across a roadway and and into the entrance garden of a neighboring restaurant.
Chalong police, called to the scene, had difficulty getting a coherent account from Mr Pokhabov. The owner of the Areu Corner restaurant figured damage to the garden at about 5000 baht. However, police thought this figure was a little on the high side and eventually 3000 baht changed hands.
Everyone agreed, though, that Mr Pokhabov should relax in police custody until he was sober enough to get behind the wheel of the car again.
The 29-year-old visitor to Phuket was so drunk by lunchtime that he reversed his white Toyota out of a petrol station in Rawai across a roadway and and into the entrance garden of a neighboring restaurant.
Chalong police, called to the scene, had difficulty getting a coherent account from Mr Pokhabov. The owner of the Areu Corner restaurant figured damage to the garden at about 5000 baht. However, police thought this figure was a little on the high side and eventually 3000 baht changed hands.
Everyone agreed, though, that Mr Pokhabov should relax in police custody until he was sober enough to get behind the wheel of the car again.
so besides the usual death defying thai bike riders on the wrong side of the road, the virgin farang bike riders and the extreme lunatic `i must get in front of you at all cost' limousine drivers... we can now add the `drunk by lunch' driver to the russian roulette of survival on Phuket roads.....and what, he had to pay all of 3000 baht?
Posted by Anonymous on April 7, 2010 14:25