Fights between foreign tourists on Bangla Street in Phuket's Patong district are now an almost daily occurrence.
Videos filmed by passers-by or witnesses regularly circulate on social media, illustrating the rise in violence on this busy street at night.
The latest incidents took place early Friday morning, with two separate clashes occurring hours apart and close to each other.
Two fights filmed on the same night
Fights between tourists on Bangla Street on Patong Beach in Phuket have become an almost daily occurrence.
The first incident occurred around 2:50 a.m. near the entrance to Patong Whisky Soi alley.
A video shows a foreign tourist violently punching another man, who immediately collapses.
The victim's friends attempted to confront the attacker, but passersby and staff from a nearby establishment intervened to calm the situation.
A second clash took place around 5:25 a.m., captured in a 17-second video.
It shows several foreign tourists, visibly drunk, fighting.
Their friends try to separate them, before one of the protagonists flees.
Police intervention and arrest of an Australian national
Alerted shortly before 3 a.m., police intervened opposite Soi Sea Dragon alley, where a foreign victim was found.
However, she refused to file a complaint.
Officers then located the alleged assailant, an Australian national named Liam, visibly intoxicated, wandering outside Bangkok Bank on Rat Uthit 200 Pi Street.
The man, who was incoherent and agitated, was taken to Patong Police Station as a safety precaution to prevent him from harming himself or others.
An official arrest report has been made.
Bangla Street has a sulphurous reputation
Tourists in the red-light district of Bangla Street in Patong, Phuket Island.
According to the author of the video, these scenes are repeated almost every night, often after excessive alcohol consumption.
Most fights result in only minor injuries, and the participants usually return to their hotels without legal action.
Residents have even ironically renamed the area "Bangla Stadium," in reference to the frequency of altercations.
Although only 350 meters long, Bangla Road has become one of Phuket's most iconic streets for its lively nightlife.
Formerly a simple market, it now attracts crowds of tourists who come to party.
See also:
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Thailand: Fight between ladyboys, prostitutes and tourists in Phuket
Thailand: Drunken tourist brawl shocks Phuket residents
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Source: Khaosod
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4 comments
As I have already pointed out in previous comments on the behavior of certain foreign tourists, fortunately limited to less than 0.1% of all tourists in Thailand, but unfortunately over-publicized in the local press and social networks, which gives a generally negative image of the reception, the level of security of the country in general, and in particular, the competence of its police forces to prevent and manage this kind of delinquency without mixing in the whiffs of manipulation of the facts and corruption towards the people involved, these facts always occur in the same circumstances and have the same sources of cause and effect, namely the immoderate consumption of alcoholic beverages, sometimes mixed with the consumption of drugs and other aphrodisiacs, and this, in the particularly festive environment of bars in which the waitresses, financially interested, encourage customers to consume until they empty the entire contents of their wallets...
Add to this the temperamental and potentially violent nature of certain individuals who, under the influence of alcohol, have a repetitive tendency to look for lice on the heads of other tourists of ethnic, political or religious beliefs different from their own, and you get a powder keg whose fuse is lit by a single spark!!!
Obviously, the media, hungry for audiences in the midst of ruthless competition, make this one of their favorite terrain by putting on the front page of their daily publication the ten tourists who sow discord for a few minutes in a hot spot of lively nightlife, compared to the hundreds of thousands of others who do not pose any problem during the 2 to 3 weeks of their vacation stay in Thailand...
This is how the world turns and, in this global context, the forces at play that influence humanity decide in which direction it should think...
Hello Hansson, everything is said in your complete comment, and as is often the case, there is no need to add anything, have a good day.
CDT.
Good morning to you too and let's continue to live far from all this frenzy and savagery worthy of the hungry hordes of hyenas searching for rotting food in a global desert in a state of survival caused by the self-destructive "superior race"!!!
“Fortunately limited to less than 0.1% of all tourists in Thailand, but unfortunately over-publicized”...
Clearly false... Mass tourism brings a lot of problems... including behaviors never seen before... and the new name of Bangla Road to "Bangla Stadium" confirms that the atmosphere is no longer there... because of these tourists who are not capable of controlling themselves...