Murray, I don't know what the answer is, other than the authorities becoming proactive; and rather than completely banning alcohol in some communities, and the subsequent birth of new sly grogs or a new and even worse drug problem, (a heroin drought created the birth of far more problematic ice) and huge profits for an impossible to police black market?

Is to seriously increase alcohol excise, if only to create a source of new specific purpose, reward revenue, to police the problem, when it degenerates into domestic abuse issues, financial and physical.

And if in order to collect their "official reward" the officers would need to fill a quota and back claims of obnoxious drunken behaviour with irrefutable video evidence of the drunk and their actions or the results of it, battered spouse, wrecked premises etc.

And something to show the drunk when forced to sobriety inside a cell where he or she has no other choice but to dry out cold turkey!

Before informing them they are mandatorily homeward bound courtesy of the new three strikes and you're automatically out, ( and signed off on by no less than three routinely rotated senior officers) program they have helped fund!?

And far be it for me to tell others how to run their countries, but if a (officially validated) three strikes and you're are automatically out or permanently exiled was official and mandatory policy?

That could see the most problematic (and costly) expatriates deported to their homelands, and consequently much of this (locally expensive) problem could be exported to its origins!?

And possibly enough motivating incentive to seriously moderate obnoxious drunken loutish behaviour? Hopefully, occasionally?
Rhrosty.

An excellent article.

The scenarios are confirmed by Channel Nine's current series The Embassy http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2016/01/returning-the-embassy.html

which frequently features a heavy drinking, old jeans, torn T-shirt, rogue male, over-staying his visa and/or lost his passport. Thats the pattern.

Seems female consular staff have to pickup the pieces.

There are no Male Paradises for hard drinkers who want to "lay" many compliant "brown girls".

Local authorities resent it.

There is usually comeback, like a bug brought back home.

My family goes for holidays in Thailand almost every year, in different parts including Phuket, Chaing Mai, Hua Hin, Koh Samui and Pattaya.

We love the gentle Thai people, the Thai food and the warm climate. I have met many old foreign guys living in Thailand, who went there expecting young Thai women to 'desire' them even when their money runs out.
It is truly awful to see old wheezy, sweaty, overweight foreigners sleezing along the Thai roads with tiny young Thai girls slouching along beside them with bored looks on their faces. Once the money runs out, those guys are on their own...

What many of these pensioner foreigners don't realize is that the medical system in Thailand is not the same as in developed countries where most foreigners come from. They can and do have serious accidents or illnesses that will cost them way too much to be treated at the expensive clinics who deal with wealthy foreigners.
So family back home often have to fork out a fortune to have them flown home for care, or else they end up in poor Thai hospitals in a terrible state....or worse.