“Smile, you’re on camera.”
The plague of CCTV cameras is spreading across Pattaya. My local, Janet’s Bar, on Soi Excite has installed a CCTV over the bar. Any activities within the bar is recorded and saved for 24 hours, to help solve crimes. Last night Nick and I paid Nookie, the bartender, to air our drinking bout from the previous evening.
Neither of us looked very handsome after 15 beers and three gin-tonics.
At least we groped none of the staff.
The local police chief has warned bars around the city that he expects 100% compliance with this new regulation, citing the success of the CCTV in solving the murder of the two Russian women on Jomtien Beach.
“I thought the killer was captured after his girlfriend grassed him for the reward.” Nick was right. But coppers like gimmicks and like spending public money too.
At least they don’t eat donuts like American cops.
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