While some tourists jet in from across the globe particularly to benefit from the androgynous charms of Patong’s legion of ladyboy prostitutes, there are nonetheless circumstances situations the place off-guard male vacationers end up with a ladyboy underneath the misunderstanding that he is an actual woman. Such misunderstandings can – and sometimes do – lead to catastrophe, as two current reports within the native press have shown. Green season: The first case occurred on September 9, at about three:30 am, when Pol Col Prasit Yodthong received a report from staff on the Thara Patong Hotel that exterior the lodge a gaggle of enraged ladyboys were beating senseless two Saudi tourists. Col Prasit and eight motorcycle patrol policemen have been quickly on the scene, pulling the livid ladyboys off the Saudi men and taking them into custody. Off to Kathu Police Station went the ladyboys, while their victims, with gashes on their heads and wrists from being slashed with knives, were rushed to Patong Hospital, conveniently positioned proper across the street from the scene of the fight. From their investigation, police learned that the group of five ladyboys had been prowling for customers in front of Tiger Entertainment Complex, on Soi Bangla, when they occurred upon two drunken young Saudis, both named Mohamad, aged 24 and 25. As is the common apply alongside the strolling avenue around bar-closing time, the boys-turned-girls used a series of somewhat-less-than-coy gestures to draw the attention of the two Arab vacationers. Steal heaving breasts having led them into thinking their accosters were truly attractive younger females, the Saudis negotiated a price of 2,000 baht every for the 2 ladyboys, named Nong Suzee and Nong Som-O, from Nong Khai and Chiang Rai Provinces, respectively. Taking the ladyboys again to their room at the Thara Patong Hotel, nonetheless, they soon discovered the reality: down below they were nonetheless wholly male. Thinking that they had been tricked, the two males refused to pay and contacted the resort employees for assist to get rid of Suzee and Som-O. But as they have been doing so, the two “girls” called their pals by cell phone for back-up and a melée ensued outside the hotel. Police arrested the five ladyboys to charge them with assault, but the two Saudis decided not to press expenses, flying again to the relative sanity and tranquility of their house country the next day. Faux pas: In the second case, at about 5 am on September 12, a 23-year-old Frenchman named Simon freaked out within the rented room of 24-year-old Nong Ple, a ladyboy who had not but undergone the final step in gender-reassignment surgical procedure. When he discovered that the bargirl he had gone house with was really a barboy, Monsieur Simon frantically tried to seize his garments and bid the ladyboy adieu. But the crafty Nong Ple locked the door to his room, blocking the Frenchman’s most logical route of escape. In his desperate bid for freedom, Simon went to the third-floor balcony – and jumped. He was final reported to be in a grave situation at Patong Hospital, the place he was being treated for a head wound requiring 50 stitches and a