A rampaging Italian tourist hurled a fridge from a balcony in Thailand's notorious 'Sin City' Pattaya.

Antonio Damiano Malagrino, 43, had taken a woman to his hotel and then binged on the powerful drug - now legal in the country -  at the Charlie Place apartment in the city's Bang Lamung district on Wednesday evening.

Police believe the cannabis sent the tourist into a 'state of paranoia' and he began throwing home appliances off his balcony onto motorcycles parked below on the Soi Buakhao red light strip.

Footage shows how he began with the fridge and then threw a dressing table, a TV, and other furniture before police finally arrived to apprehend him. They took him to the Pattaya police station to calm down.

Officers said that inside Antonio's room they found multiple bags of cannabis and a frightened woman trembling in shock on their bed.

The woman, who did not want to be named, said her lover did not hurt her but 'had gone into a state of paranoia' after smoking cannabis. She claimed the Italian was 'afraid of being attacked'.

Antonio's frenzy caused damage to the apartment and a two-wheeler parked below his balcony.

Police said that the tourist would be made to pay for the damage.

Police Captain Puttarag Sonkamharn said: 'The tourist was arrested and booked in for damaging another person's property. We are waiting for the owner of the building to arrive to discuss the case and the cost of the damage.

'There is a lot of evidence that shows the man throwing the items out of the room so we will keep him in custody until the case is resolved.

'The cannabis in his room is not illegal.'

Thailand's current military government has made efforts to clean up Pattaya after it was dubbed the 'sex capital' of the world and a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.

However, the entrenched sex industry and endemic corruption have proved difficult to tame in the once-sleepy coastal city.

A large number of British ex-pats have also set up bars in the sun-drenched resort, which has become an attractive place for pensioners to retire.