Unconditional in the Sattahip district of Chon Buri province has come beneath public scrutiny after photographs of its workers dressed as Girl Scouts surfaced on-line. The incident, which was initially justified as a birthday theme, sparked widespread criticism, prompting the people concerned to apologise to the public and vow that such an occasion would not occur once more.
The controversy erupted when pictures of female karaoke employees donning Girl Scout uniforms, traditionally worn by younger girls, started circulating on social media. The images had been reportedly taken at a karaoke bar positioned within the Thanon Thong Thip group, Sattahip. An individual who claimed to have close ties with a senior police officer was discovered to be behind the incident. Further investigations revealed that the person was an worker of the karaoke bar.
The online uproar led to native law enforcement officers uncovering the identities of the women concerned. At 11pm yesterday, Police Lieutenant Colonel Panya Damlek, station chief of Sattahip Police, ordered his officers to locate and detain all the women involved.
Once found, they were introduced in for questioning on the Sattahip Police Station, where they were charged underneath the Scout Act of 2008, part 64. The act stipulates that anyone who attire in a scout uniform or shows scout symbols without permission, main others to consider they are authorised to take action, is topic to a maximum penalty of 1 month in jail, a fine of as much as 1,000 baht (US$28), or both, reported KhaoSod.
The karaoke ladies who dressed as Girl Scouts confronted public criticism. Subsequently, Police Lieutenant Colonel Sinsamut Buntatsana, the investigating officer, fined each woman a hundred baht (US$3), contemplating it their first offence and as a result of their lack of expertise about the law. The girls, who worked as drinks servers at a karaoke bar in Sattahip, had been informed that if discovered guilty of such offences sooner or later, they might be prosecuted with no exceptions.
One of the girls who dressed as a Girl Scout, recognized as A (pseudonym), stated that the day they wore the Girl Scout uniforms was her birthday on August 18. She had deliberate a Girl Scout-themed party along with her associates and coworkers on the bar. They had dressed up and enjoyed themselves at the bar earlier than taking photographs and movies, which were later posted on social media. Unaware that sporting Girl Scout uniforms constituted an offence, she apologised to society and promised that such an incident wouldn’t happen once more..