Police riding jet skis captured an apparently drunk woman who took a German man’s speedboat for a joyride.
Franz Josef Baumann, 70, called police after his 50-horsepower skiff named the “White Pearl” that he left on the beach in front of Central Festival Pattaya Beach came up missing Jan. 28. They had pulled ashore to go into a convenience store and left the keys in the engine.
This unidentified, allegedly inebriated woman was found sleeping in a German tourist’s stolen boat.
Witnesses told the German and a friend that a woman had taken the boat, but were unsure of which way she went. Police coordinated with Sawang Boriboon Foundation rescuers to send out officers on jet skis with the victims to search for the boat.
Well after sunset they found it about 500 meters offshore with a drunk woman in her early 30s sleeping it off. The woman told police she hadn’t intended to steal the boat and that the current had taken it so far offshore.
The Germans did not press charges and the woman was released after being brought back to the mainland.
