{"id":71470,"date":"2025-02-02T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T21:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71470"},"modified":"2025-02-02T21:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T21:56:47","slug":"my-thailand-holiday-hell-i-was-robbed-beaten-up-by-police-handcuffed-to-the-bars-of-a-cell-and-left-to-lie-in-a-puddle-of-my-own-urine-all-because-i-walked-into-a-road-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/my-thailand-holiday-hell-i-was-robbed-beaten-up-by-police-handcuffed-to-the-bars-of-a-cell-and-left-to-lie-in-a-puddle-of-my-own-urine-all-because-i-walked-into-a-road-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"My Thailand holiday hell: I was robbed, beaten up by police, handcuffed to the bars of a cell and left to lie in a puddle of my own urine\u2026 all because I walked into a road sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/31\/13\/94287367-14346445-People_were_left_in_miserable_conditions_flailing_on_the_floor_T-a-21_1738331009884.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Hopkins, 55, was seen in footage handcuffed to the bars of Pattaya's central police station as he was forced to lay in his own urine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A British tourist&#8217;s dream getaway to\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-80c8ead0-dfcf-11ef-93fe-37c1549dd33c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/thailand\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Thailand<\/a><\/span> spiraled into a living nightmare after a bizarre chain of events saw him assaulted, jailed twice, and stripped of his belongings \u2013 all for accidentally damaging an entrance sign.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14346445\/thailand-holiday-hell-road-sign-leaned.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A British tourist&#8217;s dream getaway to\u00a0Thailand spiraled into a living nightmare after a bizarre chain of events saw him assaulted, jailed twice,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Prison-cartoon.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71471,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71470\/revisions\/71471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}