Just after midnight on Wednesday a small army of plain clothes police officers arrested a 53-year-old Thai female and a 21-year-old Thai male and charged them with selling counterfeit copyrighted clothing items near Soi 13 on Beach Road.
The pair were brought back to the Soi 9 police station where they told the plain clothes officers who had arrested them they were mere employees tasked with attempting to sell these counterfeit, but very classy, items to sartorially challenged tourists at knockdown prices. Some of the brands confiscated included Billabong t-shirts and jackets, Dolce and Gabbana jeans and Polo shirts.
The pair were able to pay a small fine imposed by the police before being released with just the shirts on their backs.