Land of Smiles? A YouTube clip showing an argument between a pushy beach chair operator and a female foreign tourist on Koh Larn has drawn increased calls for a cleanup of Thailand's beaches.
The clip was uploaded to YouTube on Friday only and has already been viewed more than 100,000 times. The video shows a foreign woman of unknown nationality being approached by a deckchair vendor at Koh Larn's Nang Nual beach as she sits on a towel in the sand. The Bangkok Post: "The man tells the woman she has to leave the spot and rent a chair and umbrella from him instead. The tourist initially refuses but later starts to pack up her things. The man walks around her, kicking sand into her beach towel. The angry tourist gets up and flings her sand-filled towel at the man, who responds by pushing her away. The pair argue briefly and the woman walks away."..................................
Mrs BB has Thai News on TV, and it's being shown on there. IMHO definitely building support for a clean up.
[Edit] The Burmese worker is being paraded on TV like a murderer with a dozen satisfied police officers stood behind him. It may sound crazy, but they're now showing a reconstruction of his crime (as if You Tube wasn't enough). TIT
Phuket did it well when I first went there 10+ years ago. There was a designated sleaze area, around soi bangla and no gogo, street pros allowed anywhere else. Pattaya talked about, no new sleaze areas a few years ago, but being determined and consistent is not a Thai characteristic. I'm amazed that HHhas held the line.
STEVE G wrote:There is something a bit fishy about that film clip, why would someone be filming a stranger on a beach being approached by a dechchair vendor?
This is exactly what was running through my mind. Pretty close by, too.
If you watch the way that the camera pans and zooms, it's pretty professional filming as well, that wasn't made by someone with a handheld tourist camera or smartphone.
^ I noticed that too after a second view and guess the set up was such that that is why the sunbathers shown don't seem to be at all concerned. They probably thought is was a movie take for 'The Beach 2'
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The wife just saw on Channel 3 that the above sand kicking YouTube was taken during October 2013. No idea why just now coming out. She didn't hear anything about who filmed it....foreigner or Thai. Pete
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The wife just saw on Channel 3 that the above sand kicking YouTube was taken during October 2013.
10 months to catch and deport him????
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
No idea why just now coming out. She didn't hear anything about who filmed it....foreigner or Thai. Pete 
