PATTAYA: A group of 5 ladyboys took home security into their own hands in the early hours of August 25, beating senseless a drunken teenage punk who broke into their apartment and stole 2,000 baht from their communal piggy financial institution. The story, reported by Banglamung Police Inspector Pol Lt Col Sutham Chaosrithong, made nationwide news the subsequent morning. The five triumphant “ladies of the second kind” got their quarter-hour of fame, whereas 27-year-old cat burglar Konchai Junwirote of Udon Thani was paraded overwhelmed and disgraced earlier than the national information media. According to the report, 21-year-old Thai ladyboy Wirote “Nong Rose” Jitkhode (whose names means “light of the ancestral spirit”) rented a room for herself and four ladyboy friends on the third ground of Palai Apartments on Soi PK, off Third Rd in South Pattaya. After Piece of cake closed down at 2 am on the night of August 24, four of the ladyboys, all employed as dancers at an unnamed a-go-go bar, went out on the lookout for somewhat enjoyable; the fifth, 22-year-old Samraan “Nong Tum” (surname not reported), went house to get some magnificence sleep. When she reached the flat, however, she found the door open and a small candle burning close to the group’s collection of stuffed dolls. The quick-witted Nong Tum instantly referred to as her 4 flatmates. Aware that another flatful of ladyboys dwelling on the fourth ground had been victims of an analogous, unsolved break-in two months earlier than, the four raced home. Upon arrival, they noticed that the room had been searched and their communal piggy smashed. Its contents were lacking. As luck would have it, one other group of ladyboys dwelling in the constructing called to them. They had spotted the doubtless thief: a younger man, apparently excessive on medication, who had sneaked into a storage room within the condo block to count up some cash – and he was still there! Springing into motion, all five beautiful boxers raced to the store-room, the place they grabbed the person, put him in a headlock and gave him a savage beating that left him unconscious, blood streaming from his mouth. Poli