Robber who held up 7-Eleven was starving after eating plain rice for seven days

[webfact]

Robber who held up 7-Eleven was starving after eating plain rice for seven days

 

Picture: Daily News

 

An out of work man in Nakorn Sawan said he held up a 7-Eleven store earlier in the week because he was hungry.

 

Ritthiporn Pinthong, 22, had only eaten plain rice for the last seven days, he told the cops. 

 

On Tuesday he went into the store in Muang district with a shirt over his head armed with a cleaver and demanded cash from two terrorized staffers. He got 4,500 baht. 

 

Then he went and paid his rent, water and electric bills......and bought some food.

 

Using CCTV the police soon traced him to his rented room two kilometers away. He had only 300 baht left when the law arrived.

 

He said he had lost his job and his mum wouldn't bail him out and seeing as the rent was due and he'd had nothing with his rice for a full week he decided to rob the store. 

 

He has been charged with armed robbery at night and detained. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-03-21

 

 

[Thaiwrath]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

Ritthiporn Pinthong, 22, had only eaten plain rice for the last seven days, he told the cops. 

Another classic from the Thai book of excuses.

Hardly a reason to terrify 2 young workers with a meat cleaver though.

Edited March 21, 2019 by Thaiwrath

[Vacuum]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Ritthiporn Pinthong, 22, had only eaten plain rice for the last seven days, he told the cops. 

He'll face the same menu for a while...

[bluesofa]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Robber who held up 7-Eleven was starving after eating plain rice for seven days

Every cloud has a silver lining:

Once in prison I'm sure he will have a slightly different diet - brown rice.

[robblok]

4 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

Another classic from the Thai book of excuses.

Hardly a reason to terrify 2 young workers with a meat cleaver though.

True, but you know if you look at reality TV from the US, UK or Netherlands they always also have dumb funny excuses. Not a Thai thing. 

 

You are right its no reason to terrify workers with a meat cleaver and he should be send to jail.

[johng]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

had only eaten plain rice for the last seven days,

Could have/should have just went to the nearest temple  they have more food than they know what to do with every single morning.

[NE1]

44 minutes ago, webfact said:

He has been charged with armed robbery at night and detained. 

Is there a harsher sentence if you rob at night ?

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, NE1 said:

45 minutes ago, webfact said:

He has been charged with armed robbery at night and detained. 

Is there a harsher sentence if you rob at night ?

Must be, because if it happened during the daytime it would be a 'lighter' sentence.

[lemonjelly]

Poor lad, made a wrong choice under pressure to pay bills (which at least he did)..... being skint, jobless and hungry with the prospect of losing his roof, throwing him in the nick isn’t going to solve any of these issues that face society 

[CGW]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said he had lost his job and his mum wouldn't bail him out

Present day parenting has a lot to answer for ????

 

[worgeordie]

I think if he had not been caught,he would have returned

to the 7-11 next month to get his rent money etc.now he

will be getting board and 3 square meals a day,no worries.

regards worgeordie

[soalbundy]

3 hours ago, NE1 said:

Is there a harsher sentence if you rob at night ?

yes

[soalbundy]

3 hours ago, johng said:

Could have/should have just went to the nearest temple  they have more food than they know what to do with every single morning.

They wouldn't pay his bills though, being possibly made homeless must have just added to his worries. I think it is rather sad, he didn't hurt anybody and probably wouldn't have.

[NE1]

Not physically , but mentally , who knows.

 

[Xaos]

If he was eating rice for 7 days he wasn't starving really. Rice is good source of what u need isn't it. 

[Tayaout]

If he would wake up early there is free fresh food on the street in front of nearly all food shop.

[Jane Dough]

2 hours ago, soalbundy said:

They wouldn't pay his bills though, being possibly made homeless must have just added to his worries. I think it is rather sad, he didn't hurt anybody and probably wouldn't have.

Sad? He terrorized innocent people working hard in a shop. They may not have been physically hurt but they will have been traumatized. There are victims in this crime and it is a very serious crime. 

 

Rooster

[toofarnorth]

1 hour ago, Xaos said:

If he was eating rice for 7 days he wasn't starving really. Rice is good source of what u need isn't it. 

I hope he likes doing porridge .

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, lemonjelly said:

Poor lad, made a wrong choice under pressure to pay bills (which at least he did)..... being skint, jobless and hungry with the prospect of losing his roof, throwing him in the nick isn’t going to solve any of these issues that face society 

To a point true... no safety net for the out-of-work.

But no excuse for stealing... construction or even sweeping the streets is better than robbery!

[connda]

Well, in a first-world prison he'd get three hots and a cot.  In the Thai prison he'll be going to he may be back to that plain-rice diet for a few years.  Heaven help 7/11 when he gets out.  They better be well stocked up with Hungry Man Dinners. 

[Nyezhov]

Cant you just go pick some bannanas off the side of the road

[ttrd]

3 hours ago, Xaos said:

If he was eating rice for 7 days he wasn't starving really. Rice is good source of what u need isn't it. 

Yea - Eating rice and free insects - spare the luminescent insects for lightning up his room so no need for electricity - sub rent part of his room to 10 Indian and Pakistani over stayers as they hardly shower so no water bills - case solved ...

Edited March 21, 2019 by ttrd

[Moti24]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

An out of work man in Nakorn Sawan said he held up a 7-Eleven store earlier in the week because he was hungry.

 

Ritthiporn Pinthong, 22, had only eaten plain rice for the last seven days, he told the cops. 

A spoonfull of the fish-head soup on the menu-of-the-day board will give it a better taste.

[RJRS1301]

On 3/21/2019 at 2:02 PM, CGW said:

Present day parenting has a lot to answer for ????

 

Perhaps she was a skint as he is

[RJRS1301]

Terrible that he used a cleaver and terrorised two persons.

I trust some thought will be given to the fact he paid his accounts with the funds.

 

[madmen]

On 3/21/2019 at 10:12 AM, Thaiwrath said:

Another classic from the Thai book of excuses.

Hardly a reason to terrify 2 young workers with a meat cleaver though.

Westerners tend to go with ..I was sexually abused by my uncle excuses. One MUST have an excuse as its then categorized as mitigating circumstances. No excuse = Aggravated assault

[Vacuum]

On 3/21/2019 at 3:27 AM, johng said:

Could have/should have just went to the nearest temple  they have more food than they know what to do with every single morning.

You'd be surpriced if you knew the sell-by date of the "food" given to them.

[johng]

On 3/21/2019 at 6:48 PM, Nyezhov said:

Cant you just go pick some bannanas off the side of the road

Probably...Coconuts,mangoes,"malakor" ,mulberries all sorts of roadside vegetation and in the water are fish, but I know you have to be careful about mushrooms in more than one way.