Pattaya’s paradise stinks as tourists take toilet troubles seaside
Pattaya’s picturesque seaside spot, typically teeming with tourists seeking seaside breezes and a tipple, now smells more like a toilet after tourists resorted to pooping and peeing in public.
Reports have surfaced of visitors, both Thai and foreign, resorting to relieving themselves, quite literally, in places more suited to parking than plumbing.
Pattaya News reported today, February 10, on an unsavoury situation brewing at Pattaya Police Station. With public loos locked up tighter than a prison cell due to a water outage, desperate tourists have been caught short, turning the area into an impromptu toilet.
A notice slapped across the station’s entrance announced the water woes that have rendered the lavatories useless for the better part of a week.
While some visitors grudgingly forked out 5 to 10 baht to access private restrooms, others took a stealthier approach, sidestepping the sign to sneak behind the police station and discreetly answer nature’s call.
In more scandalous tones, it seems some tourists saw fit to shower the deputy police chief’s car with their own brand of OS-terity measures, and one particularly bold individual allegedly left a pungent deposit near the vehicle.
Predictably, the aroma has wafted disastrously through the area, sparking outraged cries for help from locals. Thai visitors have lamented that the whiff of urine hits like a heavyweight punch as soon as they’ve parked their cars.
Residents are now begging Pattaya police to flush out a swift solution. Though there are public facilities in a nearby shopping mall, limited hours mean services run dry at peak times.
There’s been talk of introducing free public toilets along Pattaya Beach, and even whispers of underground lavatories, but as of yet, plans haven’t progressed past the rumour mill.
For now, as tourists recalibrate their sightseeing priorities, Pattaya scrambles to clean up its act and mop up this literal mess.
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