Thai man arrested for refusing to return tourist’s lost smartphone

By The Nation

 

 

A Thai man was arrested on Wednesday for refusing to return a smartphone to a Russian tourist who dropped it on a South Pattaya road three days ago.

 

Pattaya police chief Pol Colonel Apichai Krobphet said Niyom Sukcharoen, 64, faced a theft charge for refusing to report finding the Xiaomi Mi8 smartphone.

 

Apichai said police tracked down and arrested Niyom after Mikhail Sizov, 29, filed a complaint with police late on Sunday night that he dropped his phone in front of a restaurant at the entrance to Soi Sinsoi 7 in South Pattaya and someone took it.

 

Witnesses told police that they saw a taxi motorcyclist pick up the phone and drive off.

 

Niyom said someone made a call to the phone after he picked it up but chose not to answer it and took it home before being arrested.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30360733

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-12-19

He must be guilty, he is doing a double finger point 

What happened to finders keepers? Looks like moto taxi not good heart like taxi drivers who always return all lost items

Oh, one of those nice taxi driver stories in reverse!

If he wasn't Russian so much he might not have dropped it.

I'm surprised they managed to catch him , good job by the police this time. 

 

Try to drop your phone in London or Paris and report it to the police. Your chances of getting it back is 0.0001 % . 

 

 

 

Edited December 19, 20187 yr by balo

Just rewind the tape and he actually returns the phone..

Edited December 19, 20187 yr by mok199

1 hour ago, balo said:

I'm surprised they managed to catch him , good job by the police this time. 

 

Try to drop your phone in London or Paris and report it to the police. Your chances of getting it back is 0.0001 % . 

 

 

 

For London and Paris it all depends on your luck really. I wouldn't say it's 0.0001 percent.

I had a wrong number call on my HP in London and we had a chat then we decided to meet for coffee. That was exciting however she was overweight so I had to let go. We did had a good chat though but I didn't do any follow up. A wrong number in London can be good for you, I don't know about dropping your phone.

Niyom's Orville the duck impersonation needs a bit more work .. and a glove to be really convincing .. 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattaya police chief Pol Colonel Apichai Krobphet said Niyom Sukcharoen, 64, faced a theft charge for refusing to report finding the Xiaomi Mi8 smartphone.

I'm guessing this smartphone had the Find A Dumbass app pre-installed.

I seriously adore this nation.

6 hours ago, madmen said:

What happened to finders keepers?

I think that law was only applicable at school ???? 

11 hours ago, balo said:

I'm surprised they managed to catch him , good job by the police this time. 

 

Try to drop your phone in London or Paris and report it to the police. Your chances of getting it back is 0.0001 % . 

 

 

 

Na, the .0001% is the quality of life living in either one of those cities.

 

Loosing your phone there is more like a casualty of war, not vacation.

14 hours ago, madmen said:

What happened to finders keepers? Looks like moto taxi not good heart like taxi drivers who always return all lost items

Just wait a few days... a taxi driver will return a lost wallet, etc, left behind by a tourist.

12 hours ago, balo said:

I'm surprised they managed to catch him , good job by the police this time. 

 

Try to drop your phone in London or Paris and report it to the police. Your chances of getting it back is 0.0001 % . 

 

 

 

You obviously do not understand the technology, if turned on, they can be track by the imei number, also there are tracking apps available, that you can install, eg, for android phone, wheresmydroid.

Edited December 19, 20187 yr by Aussie999

15 hours ago, webfact said:

he dropped his phone in front of a restaurant

If he would have left it in a taxi for sure he would have had it returned!   5555

What kind of handcuffs does he have on?

 

Diaper rash edition?

15 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

If he wasn't Russian so much he might not have dropped it.

Or to use a favourite Thai maxim: "if he had not been in Thailand the problem would never have happened."

15 hours ago, balo said:

I'm surprised they managed to catch him , good job by the police this time. 

 

Try to drop your phone in London or Paris and report it to the police. Your chances of getting it back is 0.0001 % . 

 

 

 

In London or Paris, police is not waiting for extra money.

Was the phone really lost if the Russian could find it pretty much at will ? Perhaps the taxi driver should be commended for safe keeping of the phone until the rightful owner came for it.

21 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

He must be guilty, he is doing a double finger point 

sorry to disagree (lol)....

it's always foreigners who are responsible!

I love the thought that went into this photo.

Do the reconstruction to show him picking up the phone. Oh hang on, we can't show a photo of someone with his hands tied. Cover the handcuffs and we are good to go. Publish and ( don't ) be damned !! Smiles and pointing all round.

The RTP will use the reward money to buy handcuffs so that the current hand towels can be used in the washrooms.....

On 12/19/2018 at 7:45 PM, madmen said:

What happened to finders keepers? Looks like moto taxi not good heart like taxi drivers who always return all lost items

In australia the offence is theft by finding.  If you don't take all reasonable steps to find the owner you will be charged with theft.

23 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

You obviously do not understand the technology, if turned on, they can be track by the imei number, also there are tracking apps available, that you can install, eg, for android phone, wheresmydroid.

I am aware of the technology but there is nothing in the news story that suggest that was what happened. Not all phones have tracking apps installed. 

 

2 hours ago, balo said:

I am aware of the technology but there is nothing in the news story that suggest that was what happened. Not all phones have tracking apps installed. 

 

Well actually one can simply use Android device manager which simply requires a Google Account on the phone and the location services turned on too. No specific App. 

Not sure about Russian phones but I believe many US ones location services are always running.

On 12/20/2018 at 7:00 AM, Aussie999 said:

You obviously do not understand the technology, if turned on, they can be track by the imei number, also there are tracking apps available, that you can install, eg, for android phone, wheresmydroid.

Of course not.he  still clings to his Motorola brick phone

On 12/19/2018 at 11:02 AM, balo said:

I'm surprised they managed to catch him , good job by the police this time. 

 

Try to drop your phone in London or Paris and report it to the police. Your chances of getting it back is 0.0001 % . 

 

 

 

drop it anywhere in Japan,

chances of getting it back is HIGH

 

once dropped a phone in CH - got it back, same same in NOR

 

once dropped a phone at Don Muang - bye bye, bought new one in SIN a few hours later

 

 

10 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

drop it anywhere in Japan,

chances of getting it back is HIGH

 

once dropped a phone in CH - got it back, same same in NOR

 

once dropped a phone at Don Muang - bye bye, bought new one in SIN a few hours later

 

 

Are you missing a few fingers?

Sometimes one can really wonder if these stories are not staged...to make some look real good (and obviously, a few to look bad) !!! ????????