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I'm not sure I get what "out in the open" means to you. Leaving stuff out in your private, locked room qualifies as "out in the open" to you? If that's the case, when one goes to take a shower, they should lock up their laptop, wallet, jewelry, artwork, mobile phone, etc....? Personally, my laptop is on my desk and one may find my mobile there or on the kitchen counter at any given time.... I don't worry at all about leaving money or jewelry out on my desk either (I might think twice about leaving it there if anything had a high value and I were to leave my home, not just in the shower, but in the context of this story, we're talking very small amounts of money.). And I don't take any artwork off the walls or from other display areas they may be sitting when I leave my place, they are VERY MUCH "out in the open". I think I would behave similarly in the context of a hotel room as well. Perhaps you misread the story and you thought the guy was in a public place rather than in his private, locked hotel room, which he hadn't even left, but was just in the shower?

It's almost comical reading all of the assumptions people make in their comments here. The door was quite apparently locked. The article says, "Pol. Capt. Sontaya inspected Mr. Christian’s room and found traces of tampering." I'm doing a bit of assuming myself here, but at least there is some evidence from this that the door was locked and the thieves made their way in anyway. Anyone who has stayed in cheap hotels in Thailand can tell you that with many of them, it isn't particularly difficult to be able to tell, from outside a room, when someone is in their shower. No need to conjure up ridiculous scenarios about Ae conspiring with her friends to let them know when he's in the shower and that they can go for it or any other variation of nonsense I read in comments here. And especially when it doesn't even appear that there is any connection whatsoever between Ae and the Dutch guy! They are two completely separate incidents of her purse being snatched outside the hotel and the theft from the guy's room inside. I haven't read many comments for a while on this site... and now I remember why... maybe about 1 in 20, at best, have any value in reading, while the vast majority are utter nonsense or just plain stupid.