HOLIDAYMAKERS IN THAILAND BEAT UP SERIOUSLY ILL GERMAN TOURIST AFTER BRAGGING ABOUT WINNING BOTH WORLD WARS

Daily Mail

 

British tourists beat up seriously ill German holidaymaker in Thailand 'after bragging about winning two world wars'

By PERKIN AMALARAJ, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Published: 06:37 EDT, 22 April 2026 | Updated: 07:27 EDT, 22 April 2026

 

This is the shocking moment a pair of British men fought with a seriously ill German tourist outside a bar in Thailand after mocking him about the UK winning both World Wars. 

 

The holidaymakers were drinking at The Godfather Bar in Pattaya - also known as 'Sin City' - before boasting about 'winning two World Wars' and then allegedly attacking Marcello, 44, in a drunken row.

 

They allegedly hurled verbal abuse before the violence erupted in the neon-lit nightlife strip of Soi Buakhao at around 2am local time on Wednesday morning.

 

Footage shows the intoxicated Brits kicking and pummelling the German, who was wearing a white shirt, into the pavement as his girlfriend, May Srinateetundorn, 31, seen in a black sports bra and black shorts, joined the melee.

 

Several more people stormed over before motorcycle taxi riders stepped in to break up the fight. Patrol officers later arrived to control the situation, but the Brits were said to have fled.

 

Officers at the Pattaya City Police Station said today no formal complaints had been filed.

 

Onlooker Laila, 32, said she was sitting nearby when she saw Marcello arguing with other customers inside the venue.

 

She said: 'The two British men were drunk and then the German man started talking to them. But an argument started and it escalated into a brawl outside, where he was attacked by the two foreign men.

 

'When bystanders tried to intervene, one of the men spat at his girlfriend's face.'

 

Thai girlfriend May claimed the Brits attacked them as they were leaving the bar.

 

She recalled: 'It happened just after midnight. I have a friend who works at the bar there, so my boyfriend and I went there for drinks.

 

'My boyfriend, Marcello, is 44 and not very physically strong. He has an enlarged left side of his heart and fibrosis in his right lung, which makes him look thin and quite fragile.

 

'He arrived in Pattaya on April 13. We have been together for three years, and he visits me twice a year. We have never experienced anything like this before.

 

'While we were sitting in the bar, there were two young foreign men drinking there who were acting strangely, walking back and forth across the street holding beer bottles, with unfocused, yellowish eyes.

 

'I suspected they might have been using drugs because I have seen similar behaviour before.

 

'I told my boyfriend not to get involved, as Pattaya can be like this, and sometimes if you approach people with good intentions, they might misunderstand.

 

'However, he still went to speak to them. They smiled in a way that made it clear they intended to confront him. I was worried about my boyfriend, so I stepped in to help.

 

'As I was pulling him out of the bar, one of them ran in and punched him in the face. I asked them what they wanted, as we were already leaving. I was angry and fought back.'

 

May claimed the pair allegedly shouted insults about the Second World War and then threw objects and spat at her face, sparking the street brawl.

 

She added: 'The police patrol arrived, but by then the men had already left. The officers told us to just let it go, but we could not accept that.

 

'I asked the bar for CCTV footage to show how it started and what happened afterwards, especially when they spat at us, but the staff said the cameras were not working.

 

'It would help if we could obtain CCTV footage from the bar so we can file a proper report.

 

'My boyfriend's belongings were also damaged. His phone is broken and no longer usable. His family became worried after seeing the news and contacted me.'

 

Officials said a probe into the incident has been launched.

 

Tourists are regularly attacked or caught up in crime, leading Pattaya to be dubbed 'Sin City'.

 

Embarrassed officials in the central government have launched tourism initiatives to attract families and rebrand Pattaya as a safe destination.

 

Authorities have also introduced safety measures, such as improved lighting and CCTV.

 

Despite some success in cleaning up the town's image, alcohol and sex remain its biggest draws, often leading to a high rate of crime and accidents.

TRIAL BEGINS FOR NEW YORK TRANS KILLER WHO WENT SHOPPING WITH VICTIM'S DISMEMBERED LEG IN WHEELCHAIR

New York Post

 

Trial begins for NYC trans killer, 87, who went shopping with victim’s dismembered leg in wheelchair

By Anthony Blair

Published April 22, 2026, 2:32 p.m. ET

 

An 87-year-old, transgendered New York City serial killer is trying to stay out of prison for a third time, as his trial for viciously butchering a woman and then riding around with her severed arm in his mobility scooter began this week in Brooklyn.

 

Harvey Marcelin stands accused of gruesomely slaying 68-year-old Susan Leyden and chopping up her body into pieces, which he stuffed in a bag and dumped on an East New York street before taking his disturbing scooter ride in March 2022.

 

Marcelin sat in a wheelchair, dressed in a black jacket, pants, and a white shirt, as a jury was told how he allegedly became so obsessed with his victim that he created multiple Facebook accounts using her photo as his profile picture, the NY Daily News reported.

 

“On Feb.27, 2022, Susan Leyden went over to the defendant’s apartment at 50 Pennsylvania Ave., carrying her grey and black rolling bag with her, there to see her friend,” Assistant D.A. Viviane Dussek told the jury during her opening argument Monday.

 

“Susan Leyden walked into that building not knowing she would never walk out again,” she added.

 

Marcelin, who asked to be referred to as “Mr. Harvey” in court even though he has previously identified as transgender, allegedly bludgeoned Leyden to death and used a reciprocal saw to dismember her body at his Cypress Hills apartment, according to prosecutors.

 

“Cutting through skin, cutting through flesh, through tissue, through bones. So many bones. So many cuts. He packages Susan’s body up in plastic bags,” Dussek said.

 

Leyden had been down on her luck at the time after losing her jewelry business, becoming estranged from her daughter, and ending up in a homeless shelter, but had “started getting back on track” just before the murder, Dussek said.

 

Prosecutors allege Marcelin disposed of Leyden’s torso in the same rolling bag she brought over, before heading to a 99-cent store with part of her left leg stuffed into his electric wheelchair.

 

After e-bike rider Ramon Lopez discovered Leyden’s torso near the corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and Atlantic Ave. and alerted the police, the NYPD reviewed video of the scene and determined that Marcelin had left the bag.

 

Inside his apartment, they found Leyden’s thighs, hand, arm and head, stuffed into black plastic garbage bags.

 

The victim’s right leg, left arm and left hand were never recovered, Dussek said.

 

Marcelin served time for fatally shooting his girlfriend, Jacquieline Bonds, in the hallway of a Harlem apartment building.

 

On Oct. 30, 1985, he stabbed another girlfriend, Anna Laura Serrera Miranda, to death in their apartment, a year after being released on lifetime parole for Bonds’s murder.

 

He brought her body down in a bloody garbage bag before shoving it into a shopping cart.

 

In 2019, Marcelin was released on parole after vowing to keep his nose clean.

 

“I give you my word, I will never reoffend,” he told the parole hearing on June 25, 2019, less than three years before he would kill again.

 

However, prosecutors will only be allowed to bring up Miranda’s murder if Marcelin takes the stand in his own defense, after a ruling from Judge Danny Chun last week.

 

The jury will not be able to hear any details from the Bonds murder, after Judge Chun ruled that it had happened so long ago that it would only serve to prejudice the jury against Marcelin.

 

Marcelin has maintained his innocence throughout the case.

 

His lawyer has suggested that another woman, homeless drug addict Lisa Lindahl, could be responsible for the killing.

 

Lindahl, who had visited Marcelin on the day of the murder to do drugs with him, reportedly walking in on the horrific crime scene.

 

“She lied, she was desperate, and now instead of being charged with murder, Lisa Lindahl is the prosecution’s star witness against Mr. Harvey,” defense lawyer Alison Stocking told the jury.

HOW YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION WENT TO THE KLAN, NEO-NAZIS AND THE SADISTIC SOULS

National Review

 

How Your Tax-Deductible Donation Went to the Klan, Neo-Nazis, and the ‘Sadistic Souls’

By Jim Geraghty

April 22, 2026 11:41 AM

 

The Southern Poverty Law Center is not a law enforcement agency. It is not an intelligence agency. It is not a traditional journalism institution either, although it’s worth noting that paying sources is an extremely controversial step in traditional journalism.

 

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, meaning that all contributions, grants, and bequests are tax-deductible.

 

So if you’ve donated to the SPLC since the 1980s, some of your money went to members of the very hate groups and extremist organizations that the SPLC supposedly exists to combat and defeat.

 

Why was the SPLC paying enormous sums of money to “informants”? From the Department of Justice’s indictment:

 

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Starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of informants who were either associated with violent extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. These informants were referred to by some individuals within the SPLC as the “field sources” or the “Fs.”

 

Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in SPLC funds to Fs who were associated with various violent extremist groups.

 

F-37 was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia and attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. F-37 made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-37 more than $270,000.00.

 

F-9 was affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance and C. served as an F for the SPLC for more than 20 years. F-9’s activities included fundraising for the National Alliance. Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-9 more than $1,000,000.00. In 2014, F-9 entered the headquarters of a violent extremist group and stole 25 boxes of their documents. F-9 coordinated payment for the copying of the materials with a high-level SPLC employee who had knowledge the documents had been stolen. The original stolen materials were returned to the violent extremist group in a second illegal entry by F-9. Thereafter, the high-level SPLC employee utilized the documents, in part, as the basis for a story published on the SPLC’s Hatewatch website and authored by the employee. Another F, F-39, was blamed for the theft and was paid approximately $6,000.00 by the SPLC to falsely take responsibility for the theft.

 

F-27 was reported as an officer in the National Socialist Movement and the Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club. Between 2014 and 2020, the SPLC secretly paid F-27 more than $300,000.00.

 

F-42 was the former chairman of the National Alliance. The SPLC website contained an “Extremist File” webpage about F-42 from which the SPLC solicited donations. Between 2016 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-42 more than $140,000.00. This overlapped the time period in which F-42 was featured on the SPLC’s “Extremist File” webpage.

 

F-30 led the National Socialist Party of America, was the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC website contained an “Extremist File” webpage for F-30 from which the SPLC solicited donations. Between 2014 and 2016, the SPLC secretly paid F30 more than $70,000.00. This overlapped the time period in which F-30 was featured on the SPLC’s “Extremist File” webpage.

 

In addition to directly paying leaders and others associated with the same violent extremist groups that the SPLC sought donations ostensibly to “dismantle,” the SPLC also used Fs to indirectly funnel money to other violent extremist group leaders. This included the SPLC 5 funneling more than $160,000.00 from a fictitious entity to F-11 who then sent funds to various violent extremist group leaders including the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Now, call me crazy, but I think that if you’re a member of the “Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club,” you’re not a good person. I mean, it’s right there in the name. By the way, guess what the logo of the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club is? If you guessed the same SS Totenkopf that was tattooed on the chest of Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, you are correct! (“Are we the baddies?”)

 

I don’t know about you, but I would be extremely wary about ever putting any of my money or my organization’s money into the hands of anyone who was an active member of these groups.

 

As you may have noticed, these are not small sums of money. Whoever F-9 is, he allegedly made more than a million dollars from the SPLC over nine years! While the program reportedly began in the 1980s, the indictment lists wire transfers going up to April 25, 2023.

 

The defense, put forth by the likes of MSNOW contributor and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, is that “the use of paid informants was essential to the intelligence the Center was gathering on the groups they were members of, including intelligence that was shared with the FBI.”

 

But how do we know that?  Yes, the bureau did say on its old website that “the FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems,” and it listed the SPLC as one of those organizations. But based on all available evidence, FBI didn’t ask, or hire, the SPLC to go around recruiting informants. The FBI has its own undercover agents and its own funds for recruiting informants. The SPLC decided, on its own, that paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to these members of hate groups was worth it.

 

In a video response, Brian Fair, the interim president and CEO of the SPLC, said, “We no longer work with paid informants.” Okay, wait, if this was on the up-and-up and such an effective tool, why did the organization stop paying informants? Or is ending the program a belated recognition that taking tax-deductible donations and putting large sums of money into the pockets of leaders and members of hate organizations wasn’t such a swell idea? Later, Fair says, “there is no question that what we learned from informants saved lives.” So if it’s a life-saving program, why did SPLC stop it?

DISNEYLAND MERCILESSLY MOCKED FOR SELLING INCESTUOUS MERCHANDISE

New York Post

 

Disneyland mercilessly mocked for selling ‘incestuous’ merch

By Zain Khan

Published April 22, 2026, 2:35 p.m. ET

 

Disney has pulled one of its jerseys from stores after facing backlash over what some fans called a “weird” pairing in its couples-themed collection.

 

The drop, released this week, included sports-style apparel inspired by classic Disney princesses and princes, including Cinderella and Prince Charming, Belle and the Beast, and Megara and Hercules —iconic romantic couples.

 

However, one pairing stood out to fans.

 

Ariel, the mermaid princess who falls in love with Prince Eric after gaining the ability to walk at the cost of losing her voice, was instead paired with her father King Triton.

 

“The way they went about it was weird. It was all couples and then this,” one user wrote on social media.

 

“No, no — when the majority of the comments are saying it’s weird, it’s weird. Plain and simple,” another added.

 

Some people defended the pairing, suggesting it may have been intended for fathers and daughters, but others argued that placing it within a couples-themed collection made it feel out of place.

 

“Okay, every other jersey couple is a romantic relationship. If the others were sidekicks or family members, I could agree with you—but they weren’t. It was weird from the get-go,” one user said.

 

Others expressed frustration that Disney removed the jersey without warning. “This is why we can’t have nice things!” one person wrote.

 

“I think it’s a huge mistake for Disney to pull the King Triton jerseys. Not everything has to be a couple! It can easily be for fathers and daughters,” another user wrote. “They could have made an Eric jersey in addition to Triton.”

 

“I would agree except that a) the Ariel jersey doesn’t come in kid sizes and b) every other jersey in the line was couples.

 

If they had mixed it up more so this one wasn’t so glaringly different, I think it wouldn’t be so much drama,” another responded.

 

The King Triton jersey featured a bold teal-and-white color-blocked design, resembling a classic hockey jersey.

 

Triton’s name appeared in large block letters beneath a bright yellow trident, along with a patch referencing the film’s 1989 release.

 

The matching Ariel jersey was primarily white, featuring a large graphic of the mermaid on the back over a purple “89,” with striped accents on the sleeves and collar.

 

The number 89 is a nod to 1989, the year The Little Mermaid premiered in theaters. Using film release years as jersey numbers has become a common trend in Disney sports apparel, celebrating each movie’s legacy and its place in the Disney Renaissance era.

 

All jerseys in the new collection were priced at $69.99. The California Post has reached out to The Walt Disney Company for comment.

WHY THIS MCDONALD'S, OPEN SINCE THE SEVENTIES, HAS NEVER SERVED A SINGLE CUSTOMER

Daily Mail

 

Why this McDonald's open since the 1970s has never served a single customer

By JACK TOLEDO

Updated: 11:04 EDT, 23 April 2026

 

A McDonald's in California has been somewhat open for more than 50 years without ever serving a customer.

 

Hungry folks who stumble upon what appears to be an ordinary outlet tucked away in the San Gabriel Valley's City of Industry would have to get past a ten-foot steel fence while being recorded by several security cameras, only to discover that no employees are there to take their order.

 

That is because the building is not exactly a restaurant but has instead been used as a filming location for countless McDonald's commercials.

 

In 1978, the McDonald's Production Center was built for $1 million, giving the fast-food chain a place to film without disrupting an actual restaurant's business, according to the Los Angeles Times.

 

Despite its appearance, the restaurant has notable differences that set it apart from your local McDonald's.

 

The outlet noted that the ceilings are slightly higher to easily accommodate lighting fixtures, and that the downstairs is equipped with a dressing room for talent.

 

Additionally, the trees outside are in movable planters, and the McDonald's sign itself can rotate in any direction.

 

Even the intimidating gates can be adjusted for filming, which the outlet said would, every now and then, result in customers rolling in and honking at the drive-thru for service.

 

Before the location was built, the company would have to pay a franchisee $5,000 per day in lost sales for using their restaurant to film, according to the outlet's 1988 report.

 

In addition to the classic McDonald's a customer would visit in the suburbs, there is another building which replicates one of the company's restaurants in a city setting, according to the SF Gate.

 

The filming site was chosen for its proximity to Hollywood and its talent and was available to movie productions for free.

 

However, while not serving customers, the mock McDonald's is still able to operate and serve its classic fast food.

 

There is a kitchen stocked with equipment, such as fryers and griddles, within the facility, according to Los Angeles Magazine.

 

Linda Magruder-Briggs, who was the advertising production manager for McDonald's, told the Times in 1988: 'We could be open for business tomorrow if we wanted.'

 

Roadside America noted that, over the years, the filming site has knocked down the model McDonald's to reflect the restaurants at the time.

 

The worldwide food chain opened in 1940, roughly in San Bernardino, 49 miles away from the production site.

 

According to McDonald's, it is the largest global foodservice retailer, with over 44,000 locations in more than 100 countries.