It took more than seven hours for the owner of a pickup truck to have his vehicle removed from Phuket’s Bang Tao Beach yesterday after it got stuck in the sand due to the rising tide.
The man, Supot Mothina, 32, told police he parked the pickup truck on the beach so he and his friends could listen to loud music while they got drunk.
At 8am on Sunday, Lt. Naraupon Kaewlay of the Cherng Talay Police was informed by Supot that his pickup truck was stuck in the sand in front of the Laguna Resort on Bang Tao Beach.
Police arrived at the scene with Kusoldham rescue workers to find a black Isuzu pickup with both rear wheels dug into the sand.
Rescue workers tried to remove the vehicle but were unsuccessful.
Lt. Naraupon said that, after rescue workers failed in their attempt to remove the vehicle, Supot called a friend with a four-wheel-drive pickup and asked him for help.
With the help of foreign beachgoers, and after seven hours of trying, the vehicle was removed from the sand.
Supot told police that at 3am, he and three friends were drinking on the beach and thought it was too quiet, so they moved the pickup onto the beach so they could blast some killer tunes.
“We didn’t notice the rising tide until it was too late,” he said.
Sounds like our kind of party.
Story: The Phuket News
