SEX on the beach brought a cocktail of trouble for a 28-year-old Spanish tourist in Thailand after he was filmed in fraganti by the police.
A.C.A., who had only just met the woman involved – another foreign holidaymaker, but not believed to be Spanish – after a night's drinking on Sunday on the island of Koh Samui.
They were filmed after someone complained about their activities on a beach after they had been partying all night.
The Spaniard presented himself at the police station, according to officer Paitoon Krajajang, and admitted he was the man in the video.
He got off very lightly, in fact – his fine for 'exhibitionism' was just 500 Thai bhat, as it was considered a 'minor offence', translating to just €13.
'Serious' offences of 'exhibitionism' in Thailand can attract a fine of up to 5,000 bhat, or €130.
“I'm very sorry for everyone in Thailand. I think it was not good, but I drank too much,” A.C.A. said in English on a police video which was distributed on local media.
His lady friend has so far escaped having to part with €13, since police have been unable to trace her and she has not come forward.
The red-faced Spaniard was not alone: on the same day, police on the island of Phuket fined two Russian tourists, a man of 31 and a woman aged 22, the sum of 500 bhat each for having sexual relations on a tuk-tuk whilst en route to their hotel, described by officers as an 'offence of conducting an indecent act in public'.
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