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Home » Background » Western homeless people in Pattaya (video)
Western homeless people in Pattaya (video)
Thailand has more and more to do with homeless western foreigners. In this video you can see a short impression of Kotto, a homeless American living in Pattaya.
The man is well known in the streets, on Beachroad and on the beach he clears up rubbish to prevent it from ending up in the sea. Kotto has no money to return to California and his visa expired years ago. Steve also speaks, a British alcoholic who roams the streets of Pattaya.
At Jomtien Beach alone, 50 homeless people roam around this number has doubled compared to a year earlier.
Video Western homeless people in Pattaya
Watch the video below:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/e3mLtzcxObo[/youtube]
Moderator: please respond substantively. A response is not intended to be your own diary.
It looks like quite a hard existence, if you don't even have the money to get home. On the other hand, what would their life look like in that “home” e.g. in America, USSR, or UK? Probably even worse, because the Thais often still feel sorry for this kind of human wreckage, far from home, but we quickly think “there's another parasite who only drinks and holds out his hand”.
This phenomenon of the penniless out of the way is likely to only increase, and fear that many will follow, potty-loose, drunk, mentally confused, and finally washed up on the beach of Pattaya. (where else would you think :)
Hope never to end up in that situation, but if it ever came to that, then I would, strangely enough, sign for that straw existence in Thailand. Simply because many Thais are still warm, caring people, who will not let you easily starve or report it to the local cop.
Although I really hope it will be spared me, yes.
Now also enjoy Thailand, but that is better with some money in your pocket, that's for sure.
I live in Pattaya so this is not an unknown phenomenon to me, see them every day on the Beachroad.
While watching the video I came across an acquaintance of mine, I know he has been living on the street for 2 years, but I haven't seen him for a while, in the video he is standing at the beach of Jom Tien.
He first strolled around on the beach road near Pattaya Klang, so he has now moved.
I have known him for years, usually came on holiday with his brother, he was a self-employed person and earned a reasonable living, he came to Pattaya on holiday about 3 times a year, and always stayed at the same address, where I came daily to read the newspaper.
I then met him there again, and he told me he was staying in Pattaya, for his living he would mess around with stocks in the short term market, buy and sell quickly, he would settle for a small profit, enough to can live.
This soon went wrong, labtop at the pawnshop, and no more money.
We then lost track of him for a while, but had heard that he was rummaging past the garbage cans for food.
The owner of the establishment where he used to stay approached his brother in the Netherlands and told him how his brother was doing in Pattaya.
This one has transferred money for a Ticket, and this has also been arranged for him by the owner of the beer bar.
I spoke to him the morning of the day he was to travel to the Netherlands, he was completely happy and understood that this had no future, I gave him another 3000 bath to buy clothes and shoes, and that he would be good for once. would eat.
A taxi was even arranged for him to take him to the airport, the taxi was there in the evening, only he did not show up.
I saw him again after that, but I didn't talk to him about this, I don't think it makes much sense.
His brother still comes on holiday regularly, and I still talk to him sometimes, he has broken all ties with his wandering brother, he has made a few more attempts to get him back to the Netherlands, but he doesn't want that.
So not everyone wants to be helped,
And then if he can go back to NL?
He has an existence there to freeze to death, has nothing there either.
With a passport from an African he has a chance of a good life there .
We do not know the backgrounds of this man why he went to Thailand.
This one will probably have been destroyed by his credulity .
We often see those cases where a person seeking love becomes stripped naked after a hard working existence.
This disappointment in his fellow man will have taken away his strength to recover .
Without money, someone in Thailand can also eat, I learned from my family here, you just have to know what you can eat from nature.
Know who you mean from the video. I will not mention his surname here out of respect for his family, but his official Dutch name is Teun, but for the sake of convenience he can be called Tony. If anyone encounters him, he is easily recognizable because he has 5 tattooed stars (faintly visible in the video) under his left eye.
Exactly that is him, he is briefly in the picture in the video with an orange shirt on.
Those stars in his face he put during his wandering existence,
His nickname was and is Tony Macaroni, at least I'm done with him, not so much because of the 3000 bath I gave him, but the people he cheated who would have done their best to help him.
That Gerry Koto is not homeless and has a pension of 30.000 baht. And 50 homeless people on Jomtien Beach? There are some, but isn't 50 an exaggeration? I don't see many…
Homeless, no money, no visa. What do the police do with illegal immigrants? Apparently nothing. I would almost be tempted to just fly to Thailand, stay there legally for 30 days with the visa provided on the plane, and stay there with my girlfriend who has enough income to support us both.
Adje I am surprised , I Jantje .
That your short response to this article was posted.
I also did my story last week.
About the control of the Thai government and emigration, there is simply no such thing.
I gave a few examples , but they were considered personal experiences , so they were not approved by the moderator .
Sadly .
That's how I see it, I personally don't participate in it.
I can meet the legal requirements of Thai emigration , so I do not want to stay criminally or illegally in our beautiful Thailand .
But there are those who don't participate anymore.
And who also live here for a longer period of time without any problems.
I think the video movie is just a simple example.
I have lived in Thailand for more than 8 years and have never had an audit from any government agency or anything.
I know that the 800000 bath is being tampered with for 3 months in a THAI BANK.
Even the Thai emigration where I visit every year sees and knows that .
It emerged from a conversation my wife had with an officer last year during my annual retirement application.
But unfortunately they can't do anything about it either.
Not by the Thai banks, but sometimes they borrow from so-called friends and acquaintances.
In my opinion it is better that the Emigration instead of the 90 days stamping system.
Switches to a control system, including home visits and interim checks on bank books, etc.
If ever for whatever reason , hope this will never be necessary for me .
But you never know, then I also see a chance to survive here, and not just in Pattaya.
But let's be honest, many foreigners also live in our beloved Holland who no longer have a residence permit or who have exhausted all legal proceedings.
You read this in the news almost every day.
So in the end the situation in Holland is the same as in Thailand.
Greetings Jantje.
Ps: Hopefully I didn't spend a few minutes typing for nothing again.