THIS WEEK IN PATTAYA — Oh Pattaya, how we adore your beautiful sunsets, colorful characters, wanton displays of depravity and boundless supply of bizarre. Few things are as reliably entertaining and dismaying as the various crime blotters steadfastly maintained on Twitter by that city’s finest journalistic institutions. Here’s some picks from the past week:

Contractor Has Throat Slit And Was Robbed Of Gold And Cash http://t.co/A8TWlDb57J — Pattaya Daily News (@PDNNEWS) February 3, 2014

A Mindless Individual Leaves Grenade At School Polling Station http://t.co/A05augOylK — Pattaya Daily News (@PDNNEWS) February 3, 2014

Pattaya Lady Boy pick Pockets Hong Kong Tourist On Baht Bus http://t.co/U9tRKbVU02 — Pattaya Daily News (@PDNNEWS) February 2, 2014

Latest News: Danish Man stabbed during attack by two Russians in South Pattayahttp://t.co/Q5KCDag9kK Updated 24hrs — Pattaya One (@PattayaOne) January 30, 2014

Man Hangs Himself After Mistress Goes Off With Foreign Customer http://t.co/AGUVXHPNEw — Pattaya Daily News (@PDNNEWS) February 2, 2014

Ghost Possessed Fish Vendor http://t.co/DTiPp9PjJr — Pattaya Daily News (@PDNNEWS) January 31, 2014

Russians caught-up in Pattaya Jet Ski Scam – Pattaya One: http://t.co/8oejInYUvs via @YouTube — Pattaya One (@PattayaOne) January 27, 2014

Teenagers Shoot Volunteer Policeman http://t.co/sRTNsEEblp — Pattaya Daily News (@PDNNEWS) January 29, 2014

3 Drunk Teenagers Crash Into Motorbike Taxi Rider http://t.co/SYwlh6Hhqv — Pattaya Daily News (@PDNNEWS) January 28, 2014

Cambodian Monks Arrested In Chonburi Graveyard http://t.co/oR7ph4dBEd — Pattaya Daily News (@PDNNEWS) January 28, 2014

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