Walking Street's Insomnia Club raided.

Police blocked entrances to Club Insomnia late on Saturday night ( around 2am early Sunday morning ) and checked both Falang and Thai customers for weapons and drugs. Those who Pattaya Police deemed suspicous looking were given urine tests in the club's bathrooms whilst watched by eithermale or female Police officers. There were at least 40 positive test reports but we're not sure how many were those of Falangs and how many were Pattaya girls. 12 of those tests it's claimed were for methamphetmine / yaba or ICE. No weapons or actual drugs were found at the scene.

Eastern european pornographer busted in Pattaya.

Yet another unlucky porn producer has been arrested in Pattaya. This time the poor guy is either Bulgarian or Russian, the news and police don't seem to be sure. The story is that his Pattaya bar girl noticed a suspicous looking bag during their horizontal activities and after a short time went to examine it discovering a hidden video camera. The falang then gave her 300 baht and forced her to leave his room, the two began arguing in the hotel corridor and eventually the police turned up. On listening to the girls claims the police searched the guys room finding the camera, an 8gb memory card and several porn dvds hidden in the room's false ceiling. The video camera had been modified so that the red light was not visible while recording and the bag had a very tiny whole cut into it's side to allow covert filming. The poor guy is still in jail and his father is supposed to be flying into thailand to assist him.

Having looked at his covert camera set up I'm very surprised the Pattaya bar girl managed to spot it. Pretty obvious this was a non professional for personal use thing, the camera he used would have produced a very poor picture quality using hotel room lighting.

Another worrying feature of the case is the Police's appeal on tv for other 'victims' of the guy to come forward. Looks like they have learnt this trick from the CreamPieThais case of a few weeks back. Home made movie fans beware now is not a good time to be making porn in Pattaya.

Pattaya pornographer's attorney leaking case details to the press ?

It appears the legal firm he has hired to defend him ( PAPPA Co Ltd ) are also the owners of the Pattaya-Times website which has run a story about his arrest. Not only have they mentioned the amount of bail he paid ( 200,000 baht ) but they have also admitted that a further five girls have come forward to press charges against him since the story ran on local television. If I was in his shoes the last thing I would want is my own lawyer publicising details of the case. Seems to me like something weird is going on. They also mention that a second man from some of the movies is being hunted, having watched many of this guys movies I don't recall ever seeing anyone but him ( we nicknamed him the mushroom due to his rather distinctive knob ). Perhaps this imaginery second guy will be made the scapegoat for all the evidence against him.

Big Baby Kenny blog removed by owner :-(

I must admit I liked the Big Baby Kenny blog because it covered areas of the Thai nightlife scene that I didn't know much about such as Bangkok and the G-Club coyote girl scene ( all I really know about is the Pattaya bar and Pattaya girl scene ). Sadly the owner Kenny got into a little war with another blog and bar operation based in Bangkok that I had never even heard of until finding his site. It ended up with Kenny's enemies contacting his employer and possibly the US press about  Kenny's blog. Kenny was a University economics lecturer in California and being very politically correct they and the press were obviously not keen on his P4P blog. Kenny took the blog down when his picture and other details from the blog were in several US newspapers. Turns out Kenny was Asian which explained his success in many of the Bangkok venues where most foreigners don't fair well action wise.

The one thing I found funny about the Big Baby Kenny blog was his photos, most of which were very blurry and taken in low light without use of the flash, while at the same time he would describe them as "wedding photo quality" ( whateer that was supposed to mean ). He did post the odd good shot I presume taken at his condo with a set of strobes but his work in the field really wasn't that good despite having a very good set of equipment to use.