As if the pain of hearing a bunch of thugs sing karaoke wasn’t enough, a security guard at an entertainment venue in Poipet also had to endure the pain of them cracking a wine bottle across his skull on Tuesday.

Nine men, drunk and angry that a hostess was refusing to drink with them, began raising their voices and stomping their feet. When the guard intervened, they beat him up and threw the bottle at his head.

For four of them, it proved a swansong, with police soon arriving to arrest them. DEUM AMPIL