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Andrew Hopkins, 55, had been staying in an Airbnb in sunny Pattaya on November 2 when he decided to take a late-night stroll through the neighbourhood to clear his head. But what was set out to be an uneventful walk, turned into the beginning of a harrowing ordeal that would follow him back home to the UK and haunt him for months.
As Andrew made his way out of his apartment he mistakenly knocked in to the entrance sign of the neighbours residence.
At kg, the tourist admitted to damaging the sign after walking into it, but nothing could have prepared him for the consequences he would face as a result of his innocent accident. Before Andrew could process what had happened, two furious security guards arrived and began shouting at him in Thai. Unable to understand, he made the universal gesture of submission, apologised, and even offered to pay for the damage.
But that wasn't enough. Moments later, the local police arrived at the scene - and things took a violent turn. Edinburgh's already an expensive city It was, by any measure, a remarkable coup - a politician pulling off the seemingly impossible by announcing a new tax which the public actually supported. That's a lot of no-strings sex we are talking about. Tori evacuated her home with her five kids amid the deadly and destructive LA fires. We have all been there.
