Pattaya police, army bust 32 foreigners for playing bridge

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Pattaya police, army bust 32 foreigners for playing bridge Feb 5, 2016 8:51:02 GMT 7

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It's good to know that among all the crime, murder, sleaze and corruption,.... you're safe from pensioners playing bridge

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Pattaya police, army bust 32 foreigners for playing bridge

CHON BURI – Nearly three dozen foreigners, many of them pensioners, were arrested and fined 5,000 baht each for playing bridge in Pattaya.

Local police, soldiers and Bang Lamung district officials raided a Jomtien & Pattaya Bridge Club meeting above Alto's restaurant off Thappraya Road in the resort city on Wednesday, taking into custody 32 people, mostly European nationals, and holding them until 3am.

Finding score books, but no money, police initially speculated that the foreigners were gambling, but transferring cash later between bank accounts. Bridge club officials tried in vain to explain bridge is played only for points.

While they found no financial evidence of gambling, police charged the group with possessing more than 120 playing cards that were not produced by the Excise Department, in violation of Section 8 of the Playing Cards Act of 1943.

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Pattaya police, army bust 32 foreigners for playing bridge Feb 5, 2016 10:58:06 GMT 7

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Feb 5, 2016 10:46:53 GMT 7 @hippity said:

I never understood the card thing. What's so different about those special cards from ordinary playing cards?

www.wopc.co.uk/thailand/playing-cards-factory

Thailand has one of the largest factories manafacturing of playing cards in the world. It was a Royal Monopoly and now I believe part of the Crown Property Bureau.
Interestingly on the page referenced there are pictures of special cards produced for the 32nd Asean Bridge Club Championships (Bangkok, 2010).

In this case the need for tax on the cards is valid. It is however like an australian cop pulling you up for drunk driving, testing you and then when you blow ) looking for car faults until he finds that your winscreen washers only have half a litre of water in them and not the one and a half required by law.
It was not the reason for the raid.

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Pattaya police, army bust 32 foreigners for playing bridge Feb 8, 2016 16:19:31 GMT 7 rgs2001uk likes this

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... an 84-year-old German woman with a walking stick was the only player who refused to sign the declaration, saying "no way would she declare she had been gambling when she had not, and to hell with it, she would take whatever was coming, good or bad and (there was) no paying bail for her".

Good for her

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Pattaya police, army bust 32 foreigners for playing bridge Feb 8, 2016 16:32:08 GMT 7 Mango Fletchsmile likes this

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Feb 8, 2016 16:19:31 GMT 7 Mango Fletchsmile said:

... an 84-year-old German woman with a walking stick was the only player who refused to sign the declaration, saying "no way would she declare she had been gambling when she had not, and to hell with it, she would take whatever was coming, good or bad and (there was) no paying bail for her".

Good for her

A few more like that and we would all be speaking German.

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Pattaya police, army bust 32 foreigners for playing bridge Feb 9, 2016 4:31:35 GMT 7 Mango Fletchsmile likes this

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Feb 8, 2016 16:32:08 GMT 7 me said:

Feb 8, 2016 16:19:31 GMT 7 Mango Fletchsmile said:

Good for her

A few more like that and we would all be speaking German.

If Hitler was running the game the Russians would have beaten them in the final anyway....................

But seriously, I would much rather foreigners were playing bridge rather than jumping or being thrown from bridges.