Farang vlogger faces defamation charge following video about Pattaya massage shop

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Farang vlogger faces defamation charge following video about Pattaya massage shop

 

 

Thai police are hunting a foreign vlogger after he posted that tourists could get sex at a traditional Thai massage shop in Central Pattaya.

 

The owner of the shop has reported the matter to both the local police and the tech police.

 

She says she has been defamed and wants him arrested. 

 

The video was posted on YouTube where he has 18,000 subscribers. Since it was posted in July the clip and accompanying words have been viewed 6,547 times. 

 

The YouTuber says in the video that he is "on tour". 

 

Samang Jermpaen, 47, said she had been in business for 12 years. 

 

She said that claims about sex for sale on the premises were entirely false. She said that her staff are old and don't offer sex at her shop. 

 

The vlogger's claims are damaging to both her and other businesses in Pattaya and Bangkok. 

 

On Saturday she went to the Pattaya police first then was directed to the computer crime police. 

 

Pol Col Siriwat Deephor of the computer crime division said that his department are working with Pattaya police to track down the vlogger.

 

It is not known if he is still in Thailand at this time. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[darksidedog 49,416]

Oh Yes! The amazing Thai defamation laws, with excessively stupid sentencing, where what you said doesn't even need to be untrue to drop you in it.

Given Pattayas reputation, suggesting that someone saying massage shops in town offered happy endings, makes it tough to support her claim that the post was damaging to the town as well as her business.

And as for her business, she has probably damaged it more by her complaint than the Vlogger has, with many likely to now cross her off their list of "interesting" places to visit.

[ThreeEyedRaven 8,241]

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

The YouTuber says in the video that he is "on tour". 

Well I hope he has had the good sense to continue on that tour well away from here. If he wasn't screwed in the massage shop, he most certainly will be if the cops get their hands on him.

[Beggar 2,399]

A story without happy ending... 

[SammyT 5,480]

Shame they cant get rid of the rest of these bell-end vloggers making videos about inane <deleted> that we get spammed with daily. 

[emptypockets 4,245]

And about time some of these dorks with a phone got busted. They have no right to intrude into other peoples affairs or business even if it is in a public space.

I occasionally look at some of the linked vlogs from this forum. One thing I see in common is that they are invariably boring and usually state the bleeding obvious in a manner which alludes that the vlogger has made a discovery akin to curing cancer.

[Beggar 2,399]

She could make a big sign at her shop 

 

"Here you only can get massage without happy ending" 

 

and everything would be clear for customers and others. 

[pegman 7,367]

Looks like old Brit, with bad teeth, now hanging around Jomtien. Likes to creep around videoing folks making business transactions. Not surprised at all someone finally objected to his nonsense commentary. Hopefully this leds to deportation.

[NCC1701A 51,205]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

She says she has been defamed and wants him arrested. 

and drag him around town behind a pickup truck.

[Denim 13,314]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

She said that claims about sex for sale on the premises were entirely false.

Thanks for the heads up 

[steelepulse 5,792]

Image is quite small, but I wonder what FULL SERVICE 1000 is all about?

[Vacuum 14,703]

1 hour ago, Kenchamp said:

I would say the bloggers claims would do wonders for her business. Now where is this shop?

Did you miss this part?

 

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She said that her staff are old

 

[OneMoreFarang 23,158]

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

Oh Yes! The amazing Thai defamation laws, with excessively stupid sentencing, where what you said doesn't even need to be untrue to drop you in it.

Given Pattayas reputation, suggesting that someone saying massage shops in town offered happy endings, makes it tough to support her claim that the post was damaging to the town as well as her business.

And as for her business, she has probably damaged it more by her complaint than the Vlogger has, with many likely to now cross her off their list of "interesting" places to visit.

Imagine you would run a real traditional massage place.

And then some vlogger writes lies about you and your business. Would you like that? Or do you think the liar should be punished for that?

And if there is evidence that the massage place was not so traditional then there is anyhow no case.

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ring ring.

"Hello, TM30 tracking and command center."

"Must find national security threat "Ric On Tour" where is he?"

"Not sure, but maybe go Cambodia." 

 

[OneMoreFarang 23,158]

I think it's amazing when some farangs like to damage the wonderful image of Thailand and then they are surprised when Thais don't like that.

Bye bye, we won't miss you.