I don't know if anyone else has seen this video or posted it here. I don't think much of it can be taken too seriously (starting with the narrator saying foo-ket) but it is entertaining. I've heard that the Jetski guy and the Production company are both being prosecuted for their involvement in this. Have a lovely weekend.

I've seen this.. It's pretty shitty eh?

Not as **** as this..........

******* Thai TAT/Police.....

Jet ski video maker faces prosecution

Police admit extortion of tourists hard to stop

PHUKET: -- A Thai video production company involved in the filming of alleged extortion of foreigners by a Phuket jet ski operator is to be prosecuted for sending the recordings abroad for broadcasting without permission.

Wanasiri Morakul, director of the Thailand Film Office which comes under the Tourism and Sports Ministry, yesterday said police had traced the tapes to a company called Black Sheep Productions.

She said the managers of the company, which had produced the Big Trouble In Thailand series for Bravo All News station in England, admitted to holding the copyright for the recordings.

More here http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2404...ces-prosecution

The production company was allowed into the police station/cells and a prison in phuket to interview a prisoner. Surely they were given permission at that point. I don't see how it could be illegal to broadcast footage of the jet ski operator in his confrontation with English tourists.

It is a shame that the authorities still try to control the media. I'm surprised this video hasn't been blocked from being viewed from thailand.

^ I guess there is permission (on the spot) and then there is permission (from the relevent dept.) to film and export. It is probably an old provision from a military govt time (ie. decades ago) which prohibits export without a licence of any film recordings made in Thailand with the intention to publically air at a later date.

Clearly, the production company is in the **** with TAT, Phuket province and the govt for being involved in producing something which shows Thailand in a bad light even if it is there truth. Coming not long after the Airport Duty Free scams were publicised in the UK press Thai officials would be quite upset.

I suspect that it has not been blocked here as they are more concerned with the international audience than the domestic audience?

bj....Not as **** as this..........and the rest of it.......

What if the stroies were true? If it wasn't scam but those tourists actually looked for trouble themselves?

I used to work in a TV station, you can make a whole story up out of nothing. You can select the footage that you want to make the story that you want. You can connect 3 different sentences from a 15 min interview and make a whole new story out of it.

I am not saying that Thailand is so decent and there's no scam nor corruption, there is. But you can make a TV program look extremely fantastic or turn out like the one you posted here from the same 1 hr footage and how the story is narrated.

The story of a 17 yr old girl, who was arrested becoz of the marijuana, is she really a victim? Was the Thai police wrong to press the charge on her? The Jet Ski story, why did the chief told the poor guy to pay, if he really didn't do anything wrong?

I agree that this series looks like one that would twist things to make it more exciting, after all that is what all reality TV does these days.

I think the 17 year old got off very lightly and it wasn't that ethical to try to paint her as a victim.

I would have thought that the the show speaks for itself and that Thailand has nothing to worry about as most people won't be scared away by a less than credible tv special such as this. Most countries are more than happy to export footage of crime ie cops, motorway patrol, americas most wanted etc