MORE RUMBLINGS IN THE UK The news that tourist deaths in Thailand have risen 54 per cent in a year is perhaps surprising. But more surprising is the fact that the statistics were released. With apologies to Don Wright of the Miami News – this cartoon was originally directed at Miami and south Florida after […]

MAN CONVICTED OF VICIOUS ASSAULT ON ENGLISH SCHOOL-TEACHER HAS JOINED PATTAYA’S CONTROVERSIAL GAME OF OPTIONS. Pick One! Does he (a) Do the time, pay out a 6.2 million fine, and then pay for his own deportation? (b) pay bail and go where he wants? Sean Tinsley, the dodgy visa agent convicted of assaulting the Head […]

BUT IT TOOK A YEAR TO RULE EVEN THE SUMMONS WAS ILLEGAL! Another case brought by Drew Walter Noyes, the former publisher of the Pattaya Times, who was convicted of extortion before fleeing on bail to the United States, was today thrown out by the Pattaya Court. . The judge ruled that the summons against […]

AND WHO WILL BE HIS NEXT CONQUEST IN THE THAI RESORT OF PATTAYA? This week a reader sent me in some notes from the private diaries of, he claims, a well-known fraudster and seemingly sexual abuser of women who has been highlighted several times on this site. As I am unable to confirm their veracity […]

‘NO!’ SAY US IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS The path of love for our famous American con man Drew Noyes, now in the United States having fled bail while appealing against a conviction and two year prison sentence for extortion, appears to have hit a brick wall. Ensconced back in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was first exposed […]

AND CALLS ON HIS FACEBOOK FRIENDS TO DO HIS BIDDING Harris Black, the famous Canadian con man who has been known to pose as a doctor, priest and even a nun to carry out his scams. is claiming on Facebook that he has been stiffed in Pattaya. The alleged guilty person is the boss of […]

SO YOU’RE CHARGING US WITH MALFEASANCE? Human Rights Lawyer Sirikan Charoensiri will tomorrow (Tuesday) report to police who say they are now bringing charges against her for her part in representing students of the New Democracy Movement. The 14 students were arrested last June making a peaceful protest to mark the military junta’s one year […]

DID THAI AUTHORITIES COMMITTED MORE CRIMES THAN THOSE THEY ARRESTED? There are now multiple versions of what will happen to the now celebrated members of the Pattaya Bridge Club after their alleged ‘gambling den’ was raided last week. Here are the two principal ones. The official version from the local Police chief Police Colonel Sunhat […]

‘ FOREIGN SENIOR CITIZENS PLAYING ‘BRIDGE’ ARRESTED IN VICE RAID Want to find a foreign criminal? Try the Rotary or Masons! Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary The  amusing raid yesterday by the local Department of Provincial Administration has possibly in ‘one foul’ swoop  reminded the world that all is not well in the Thai provincial city […]

TWO RUSSIANS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN INCIDENT OFF ‘THE BEACH’ Two Russian tourists were seriously injured when they were run over by a speedboat while scuba diving off Maya Beach in the Andaman Sea today. The Russians, whose lower leg was sliced off was rushed by boat to Phi Phi  Island hospital on the main island […]