Sad day for Tonychat: Rihanna's sex show tweet leads to third Thai arrest

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Thai authorities said Monday they had arrested the owner of a sex show visited by pop icon Rihanna - the latest crackdown inadvertently triggered by the singer's tweets.
Warunyu Jornmuang, owner of the Season bar on Soi Bangla, Phuket, has been charged in connection with the lewd performance, according to Phuket Gazette.
Kathu District Chief Veera Kerdsirimongkol told the gazette said Jornmulang 'was arrested for operating an entertainment venue without a permit and for providing a lewd show.'

Thai tourist officials were left red-faced after Rihanna's tweets underscored the kingdom's seedier side of the sex entertainment industry. She left little to the imagination with her highly descriptive tweets detailing a live sex show.
The 25-year-old Umbrella singer visited the club in the town of Patong and revealed in one tweet that during a performance, live animals including a bird and two turtles were used.

She was in Thailand enjoying a brief break from her Diamonds World Tour when she ran in to trouble two nights running.
On Sept 20 she posted a link on Twitter to an Instagram photo that showed her in sunglasses snuggling up to a furry primate called the slow loris, and wrote: 'Look who was talkin dirty to me!'
The slow loris, a squirrel-like animal with big eyes, is native to Southeast Asia and is listed as a protected species. Use of the slow loris and other protected species for tourist snaps - while common in Thai tourist resorts - is officially illegal.
Thai police must have been keeping tabs on Rihanna, because after she posted the picture, police in Phuket raided Bangla Road the following day to hunt out touts peddling the lorises for pictures with tourists.
'I had an order from the Phuket Governor to do a raid today after Rihanna posted a photo of her with the loris,' Awat Nithikil, leader of the patrol officers and senior forest academic at Khao Phra Taew Forest Preserve, told the Phuket News.
'It is very difficult to do the raids because the touts have spies. If someone hears that the police are coming their way, there will be a person who calls the touts and tells them to move,' he said.





But this time police were successful and apprehended two touts who were selling pictures with lorises.
The next night she posted the Tweet saying she was 'traumatized' by the live sex show had witnessed involving animals.
She then travelled to Singapore for her next concert on her Diamond Tour. She is now in South Africa.

Foreign diplomats have urged Thailand to crack down on scams and crimes against tourists in Phuket.
Local tourist police volunteers warn against venturing into strip clubs offering 'ping-pong shows' due to the risk of overpriced drinks and threats of violence against people who refuse to pay.

Phuket district chief Kerdsirimongkon said authorities have tried for years to crack down on the problem of vendors exploiting wildlife, particularly in popular tourist areas where people pay to pose for pictures with elephants, orangutans and other animals.
'It's like a cat-and-mouse game. But this time it's bigger because a celebrity like Rihanna posted the picture, and there were more than 200,000 "likes" from around the world,' he said.
Rihanna also posted pictures of herself playing with a herd of elephants in the street after which she tweeted: 'They all hail Empress when She walk by.'
The two lorises will be taken to a national park in Phang Nga.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...g-animals.html


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