I have a real close call in Bangkok years age. Out on a bender in Pat pong/ red light district. Long story but got in a HUGE fight with 10,12,14 Thais coming out of the UP STAIR BAR and tried to shake me and my buddy down. Buddy got jumped coming out the Thigh BAR and all hell broke loose. Buddy knocked out a cop that came then was chased for HOURS . The next day MANY people recognize us because on the front page of the Thai Rath, The NYT of Thailand, was a picture of us in the police station being interrogated. After 2 days of many people giving us the thumbs up someone told us and got 5 copies of the news paper. still have one.They did not care about the brawl, only wanted to know why we fought the cops. All is good and it was actually fun, believe it or not.Guess that explains my nievete when I visited
Fooled me for a while. Nothing did our could have happened, but it took me a bit to but the pieces together and figure it out. Buy hey, no harm, no foul, got a good story out of it and more importantly, got out alive.