http://phuketwan.com...w-police-21876/
Having swept the beaches clear of "private vendors" (except the jetski and parasail mafia, of course!) the local "authorities" are now preventing even private individuals from taking their own chairs to the beach!
The argument being that it would be impossible to tell whose chairs were private and whose were rented. So we have the ludicrous situation of armed policemen on the beach attempting to prevent people from sitting on chairs!
You couldn't make this stuff up!
Some of us put considerable effort into trying to make Phuket sound attractive to tourists. Then the local authorities undo all our hard work in a few days by coming up with absurd policies, made with the best intentions perhaps, but without thinking things through properly. Read: without thinking things through at all!
Their attempt at appeasement (after all poor old Somchai must be allowed to make a living, mustn't he?) is pure farce.
Now now it's not the Thai way to criticize one's uncle.
hahahha
