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Drunken man smashes up hotel with a hammer
Boonlua Chatree
Four police officers were needed to restrain and handcuff a drunken British man who took a hammer to the counter of the Honey Inn Hotel on New Year’s Eve.
Police received an emergency call from an employee of the hotel at 6:30 a.m. on December 31, saying that a foreign man had smashed the hotel counter with a hammer for no apparent reason. He had also destroyed hotel fans and was presently attacking passers-by with the hammer.
It took four officers to bring Mark Holland under control.
On arrival at the scene officers found the man holding the hammer and screaming and shouting in the middle of the road. The officers blocked access to the public and managed to distract the man so they could rush him and restrain him. He struggled and it took four officers to handcuff him. He was then taken off to Pattaya police station for questioning.
The man was identified as Mark Holland, age 33, of Wigan, England. Due to his drunken state he was unable to answer officers’ questions so they locked him up until he recovered.
Hotel employees told police that the man walked in carrying the hammer in his right hand. He then broke the counter and the mirror, scattering the employees in the process. He then proceeded to smash up two of the hotel’s stand-up fans.
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