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Hanging spoons on the barmaid’s nipples also cost one of her co-workers $500 (15,750 baht), while their bar manager was fined $1000 for failing to stop the pair [of ladies, not the breasts], police said in a statement.

Luana De Faveri, 31, was fined $1000 in the Mandurah Magistrates Court (outside Perth) after pleading guilty to two breaches of Licence Conditions under the Liquor Control Act.

Police said in June 2007, De Faveri twice exposed her breasts to

patrons in the Premier Hotel in Pinjarra, 87 kilometres south of Perth.

“She was alleged to have also crushed beer cans between her breasts during one of the offences,” police said.

Another bar worker, Tracey Amanda Leslie, 43, was fined $500 after pleading guilty to assisting the commission of a breach of the act by helping hang spoons from De Faveri’s nipples.

The pub manager, Roy Williams, 43, was fined $1000 after pleading guilty to a breach of the act by failing to stop the women’s behaviour.

Superintendent David Parkinson of the Peel Police District said: “It sends a clear message to all licensees in Peel that we will not tolerate this type of behaviour in our licensed premises.”

Far better to have a good punch-up and busted heads instead.

Giving Free Range to Float Above the Clouds

Amsterdam’s famed coffee shops are turning to free-range eggs for their hashish ‘spacecakes’ to reduce the suffering of chickens.

“Coffee shop owners were completely unaware and shocked that their spacecakes are not animal friendly,” said a spokeswoman for Dutch animal rights group Wakker Dier, campaigning against the use of eggs from chickens kept caged on battery farms.

Four large shops have switched to free-range eggs and 20 more plan to follow, she said. The shops get through hundreds of eggs a week for their spacecakes, which are baked with marijuana or hashish and can give an intense high.

The coffee shops, where marijuana can be smoked openly in a relaxed atmosphere, are one of Amsterdam’s big tourist draws.

Soft drugs are officially banned in the Netherlands but under a policy of tolerance, buyers are allowed to have less than five grams of cannabis in their possession.

Did They Learn from Pattaya, or Was it the Other Way Around?

Male tourists to Hong Kong are being targeted by sex workers who rob them after lacing their drinks with drugs, police say.

Forty-four foreign men have reported being robbed this way since 2004, usually in Hong Kong’s red-light Wan Chai district, police said. However, they said the number may be higher as many incidents go unreported due to embarrassment or because the victims have left Hong Kong before the crime is noticed. A police spokesman told the Sunday Morning Post that they believed the culprits use “some kind of date-rape drug”.

In most cases the victims are approached by sex workers in bars. Some claim to remember very little and only notice unexplained cash withdrawals from ATMs later when they receive bank statements. Others awake disorientated in short-stay hotel rooms with valuables and cash missing. In 2003, a senior Finnish policeman died of a heart attack in Hong Kong’s Island Shangri-la hotel after being drugged. The Chinese prostitute suspected of giving him the drug was never traced. In 2006, British Airways banned staff from visiting a popular Wan Chai bar after several crew members were suspected of being given date-rape drugs in drinks, claimed the report in the Sunday Morning Post.

Police also investigated the possible poisoning deaths of two Americans at the Grand Hyatt hotel in the Wan Chai district in late October 2007. Reports said the two men, identified only as Paul, 45, and Richard, 51, had been to a nightclub before returning to their room with two women. The men’s slumped bodies were discovered the next day by cleaning staff. Police have yet to say what caused the men’s deaths, although they have not ruled out that they were drugged. The Standard newspaper reported that a mixture of cocaine and heroin was found in their blood, but police refused to comment, saying toxicology tests were continuing. A Filipino woman arrested shortly after the bodies were found was released but appeared in court on charges of violating her visa by moonlighting as a prostitute.

Too Much Sprouting in Brussels

Police patrolling the red-light district of the Belgian capital have been ordered to stop visiting brothels and drinking in bars when on duty. A letter sent to officers in Brussels’ northern police district, and published in a Belgian daily, urged them to set a good example and earn the public’s respect. “These officers think their duty hours are to be used to drink alcohol in bars, practice sports ... visit brothels or massage parlours, and entertain (intimate) relationships with residents of the neighbourhood during their patrol,” said the letter from a local police chief.

“It is only by setting a good example that the police can make itself respected,” the letter said, urging officers to adopt more conservative behaviour. A police spokesman confirmed the letter was authentic but said the police chief had only reacted to rumours of officers behaving badly while on duty. “There was no concrete evidence to substantiate any wrongdoing by police officers.... If there had been, they would have been prosecuted,” said spokesman Roland Thiebauld.

I doubt we’d ever see a similar letter, in French or otherwise, ever sent around the various police precincts of Thailand.

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