Excellent name for a movie or a computer game I think.
But in this case it refers to the latest enterprise from our wonderful police force, intended to eradicate the hooker/pimp/drug dealing fraternity that inhabits the beach road in Pattaya. “Crackdowns” are common place here and have three recurring features. Firstly, they are announced with great fanfare. Secondly, they never last more than a day. And finally they always spectacularly fail to resolve the problem they are meant to be addressing.
This latest crackdown, like so many before it, was aimed at the hookers rather than the more nasty pimps and drug dealers who are likely to be armed with something pointy, or even a gun; and are therefore best left alone. Anyway, it is more fun to round up sixty hookers (two thirds women, one third men pretending to be women), take them all down to the police station, relieve them of some cash; and then deliver them back where they came from so they can continue plying their trade (with increased vigour to cover the fine they have just paid).
Other than boosting police funds, no doubt the boys in brown felt that a small fine and a telling-off would be enough to persuade these sad people that they should stop being a hooker and go and do something else, like chartered accountancy or, more realistically, begging.
But a quick check on beach road this morning confirmed that nothing had changed:
So far this year we have had a pirated software crackdown, a foreign criminal in Thailand crackdown, a hooker crackdown, a foreign-operated sex bar crackdown, and an illegal immigrant crackdown. It’s all rather hard to keep up with. I think it would be easier for all of us if the authorities could provide a web-based crackdown schedule so we can be aware of which problem is not being solved at any particular time.
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2010-02-26| Jock saysAh! so that’s what these girls that sit on beach road do … thanks for clearing that up …
2010-02-26| Pattaya Girls saysThere are some real stunners hanging out on the Beach just be careful never to get into an rgument with any of them as the boyfriends/pimps are never far away.
2010-02-26| Spike saysI would suggest not getting within 20 metres of any of them.