BANGKOK: No questions asked in Thailand can typically get a bit frustrating for expats when issues don’t quite work out as they would of their residence nations. This, coupled with the booze-heavy way of life loved by a fair percentage of Westerners living in the Kingdom, occasionally leads to “Angry Farang Syndrome”.A prime instance occurred one afternoon final month outside Thong Lor Police Station. Station Superintendent Col Suthin Sapphuang was sitting in his office around three pm, when he heard a commotion from outdoors the station. When he got downstairs, he discovered the noise emanated from a big middle-aged Westerner who was busy beating the within of a police van with such fury, that not certainly one of the watching officers dared to go close to.Col Suthin ordered his deputy and three inspectors to go and attempt to calm the 50-year-old man, identified by name in the authentic report, but referred to here solely as “the Aussie”.After the officers’ efforts to calm the Aussie down failed, they determined that a dose of pepper spray would possibly do the trick. After the Aussie was liberally doused with the noxious spray, police determined he was calm enough for them to dare open the door. However, as soon as police had the Aussie out of the truck, he exploded again, releasing himself from the clutches of the officers and going on a rampage, chasing and punching as many policemen as he could. The enraged Australian managed to injure a number of officers earlier than he was lastly overpowered, in the process of which he, disturbingly, lost his trousers. The photograph of the incident within the Thai press reveals the Aussie with his trousers round his ankles, his dignity considerably spared by a small superimposed red dot. The Aussie was bundled to the bottom by the officers, and the group then rolled into the gutter. In acknowledgement to the Aussie’s dedication, it took six officers to keep him subdued long sufficient to get the cuffs on.The Aussie was initially arrested following a grievance by a taxi driver that the Australian had stolen his cab. The taxi driver, Phanomphon Pranison, forty, advised police that earlier that day he had picked up the Aussie opposite Sukhumvit Soi sixteen. The Aussie didn’t say the place he needed to go, however once they received to reverse Soi 22, the Aussie asked to cease so he could go to 7-Eleven. A few moments later, the Aussie obtained again in the cab clutching two bottles of beer. In hot pursuit was a member of employees from the store shouting that the Aussie had not paid for the beer. When Mr Phanomphon received out of the car, the Aussie climbed into the driver’s seat and took off within the taxi, Mr Phanomphon said. Mr Phanomphon reported the crime and police soon caught up with the Aussie, placing him in the cells at Thong Lor Police station. The Aussie, nonetheless, did not take his confinement lightly. He caused such a commotion that police started to fear for the protection of different prisoners, or worryingly, that other prisoners would take it upon themselves stop to the Aussie’s antics. They decided to take him to the cells at nearby Phra Khanom Court, which is when he started attacking the police tru