A stark bare German man scaring vacationers on Pattaya Beach in Chon Buri province, jap Thailand, was detained and charged by police yesterday, stories DailyNews.
Officers from Pattaya City Police Station were informed that a tall international man was exhibiting himself on Pattaya Beach, horrifying beachgoers on the busy vacationer spot.
Police hurried down to the beach to search out sixty three yr previous Willhelm [surname unknown], of German nationality, “happily swimming within the sea.”
The nude foreigner was uncooperative and it took a great quarter-hour for officers to influence him to return out of the water, police mentioned.
Unusual , nonetheless naked, picked up his pile of clothes and tried to walk away from the police. Police mentioned they had no alternative however to detain and dress the foreigner as a end result of he ignored their requests to put on some trousers.
Police said they charged the naked man and took him to the station to face further legal proceedings.
Officers didn’t say what Willhelm was charged with. However, public nakedness violates Section 388 of Thailand’s Criminal Code on “Public Obscenity”…
“Any person who performs such a disgraceful act in public by undressing himself, exhibiting his undressed person or committing some other act of obscenity shall be liable to a fantastic not exceeding 5 hundred baht.”
Pattaya appears to be a magnet for indecent foreigners. In August final yr, a European man was caught on camera wandering around Pattaya’s Bang Lamung district sporting nothing but a bum bag and a camera slung round his shoulder.
South Pattaya Police mentioned the naked man spat on them each time they approached him, so that they needed to call in backup to get the scenario underneath control..