Candy seller pickpockets tourist

[Rimmer]

Candy seller pickpockets tourist

 

PATTAYA:--A candy seller is wanted for pickpocketing a tourist in a Naklua bar.

 

The unidentified man, said to be in his early 20s with a shaved head, was seen sitting on the ground at the Leckerle beer bar on Naklua Soi 33 selling candy.

 

A foreign woman who left her purse hung over a chair discovered too late that the vendor – who quickly disappeared – had taken her wallet containing about 4,000 baht. Police are trying to track down the thief.

 

See more: https://www.pattayamail.com/news/candy-seller-pickpockets-tourist-282123

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-12-29--

[Vacuum]

20 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

A foreign woman who left her purse hung over a chair discovered too late that the vendor – who quickly disappeared – had taken her wallet containing about 4,000 baht.

What did her husband/bf (I'm assuming he's the guy with the beer) do to hinder the candy seller from stealing her wallet?

Edited December 29, 2019 by Vacuum

[champers]

2 hours ago, Vacuum said:

What did her husband/bf (I'm assuming he's the guy with the beer) do to hinder the candy seller from stealing her wallet?

Like any German with a beer in hand he was focussed on just that. Or maybe he was daydreaming about how much he would enjoy himself if he came alone to Pattaya next time.

[fruitman]

It's very annoying that streetvendors are allowed to come into restaurants, they should stop it. 

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, fruitman said:

It's very annoying that streetvendors are allowed to come into restaurants, they should stop it. 

Perhaps the owners should have some responsibility for what happens on their premises. Be they vendors, lottery ticket sellers or simply beggars, people dining should not be bothered by them.

[Ventenio]

9 minutes ago, fruitman said:

It's very annoying that streetvendors are allowed to come into restaurants, they should stop it. 

this would affect two million Thais, lowering their income to levels that might lead to being unable to feed their family.   How can you be soo heartless without thinking this through?  lol

 

OK, what's your internet solution??

 

go to a 3rd world country and then assume and assume and assume.  they are making 4000 a month and you want to ban them all!!!!   i will help them from my computer.   just embrace them like a good Buddhist

[tifino]

 

 In Front?line defence mode 

 

[RichardColeman]

21 hours ago, Rimmer said:

The unidentified man, said to be in his early 20s with a shaved head, was seen sitting on the ground at the Leckerle beer bar on Naklua Soi 33 selling candy.

Was he dressed in orange ? 

[AhFarangJa]

I thought it was a common thing to never hang your valuables over the back of a chair. Just asking for trouble. However, it is always possible they would feel more secure in an indoor cafe than an outside one....

[tifino]

Just now, AhFarangJa said:

I thought it was a common thing to never hang your valuables over the back of a chair. Just asking for trouble. However, it is always possible they would feel more secure in an indoor cafe than an outside one....

... as it adds a motorbike into the equation

 

 -  and a sword/gun.

 

[30la]

The occasion makes the thief!
It seems that many tourists have too much faith in others!
Trust is good, not trusting is better!

[mikebell]

15 minutes ago, 30la said:

The occasion makes the thief!
It seems that many tourists have too much faith in others!
Trust is good, not trusting is better!

Thailand should come with a trust warning broadcast on all incoming flights.

[neeray]

1 hour ago, AhFarangJa said:

I thought it was a common thing to never hang your valuables over the back of a chair. Just asking for trouble. However, it is always possible they would feel more secure in an indoor cafe than an outside one....

I'll go with your first sentence but I'd alter "common thing" to "common sense".

[Jimbo2014]

[DrTuner]

10 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Perhaps the owners should have some responsibility for what happens on their premises. Be they vendors, lottery ticket sellers or simply beggars, people dining should not be bothered by them.

Bit hard in this case. Leckerle is right at the curb, would need a vigilant bouncer 24/7. 

 

Just another reminder only to carry just enough money for the evening in a closed pocket. It's a jungle out there.

[jacko45k]

10 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Bit hard in this case. Leckerle is right at the curb, would need a vigilant bouncer 24/7. 

 

Just another reminder only to carry just enough money for the evening in a closed pocket. It's a jungle out there

It has been a bit of  bug bear for me for a while here. In the most rural places a lottery ticket seller can appear in front of you while you eat. In a Pattaya beer bar environment it is incessant. A quiet 'miaow krap' sometimes doesn't get through, ignoring them causes a pull on your elbow, and all the while you are having to keep an eye on your belongings. It's the Thai thing of never interfering with someone trying to earn. They should be charged 10 baht to enter like a Thai toilet!

Edited December 30, 2019 by jacko45k

[ChipButty]

23 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

I thought it was a common thing to never hang your valuables over the back of a chair. Just asking for trouble. However, it is always possible they would feel more secure in an indoor cafe than an outside one....

Not exclusive to Thailand I know 3 Thai's who went on holiday to the Czechoslovakia and did exactly that but had the bag on the next chair while they were all on their phones the bag went, with all 3 passports in it 

[ChipButty]

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

It has been a bit of  bug bear for me for a while here. In the most rural places a lottery ticket seller can appear in front of you while you eat. In a Pattaya beer bar environment it is incessant. A quiet 'miaow krap' sometimes doesn't get through, ignoring them causes a pull on your elbow, and all the while you are having to keep an eye on your belongings. It's the Thai thing of never interfering with someone trying to earn. They should be charged 10 baht to enter like a Thai toilet!

Some toilets are cleaner than the bars

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/30/2019 at 1:57 PM, fruitman said:

It's very annoying that streetvendors are allowed to come into restaurants, they should stop it. 

They can't stop it in the UK, so what hope does LOS have of doing so?

The onus is on the individual to not allow such to happen. I always assumed someone would try and steal from me so I didn't make it easy for them. I wore a money belt. Never had anything stolen from that.

Don't want to wear a money belt- then spend your time complaining that someone else should have done something to stop yourself being robbed.

[thaibeachlovers]

14 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

while they were all on their phones

Classic. Too busy on the device to notice what was happening around them. Perhaps they could try not being antisocial next time, and talk to each other.

Anyway, I always had the strap of my bag around my leg in case someone tried that exact same thing.

Edited December 31, 2019 by thaibeachlovers

[dddave]

It's amazing how easily a bold and skilled thief can get to your bag.

Several years ago, five friends and I were sitting at a small, round table at Swenson's in Siam Paragon. The table was outside the restaurant, adjacent to the very busy main aisle.  Two of my friends were sitting with their backs to the aisle and they had both put their bags; one a shoulder bag, one a small backpack on the floor, between their chairs.

At some point, one of them went to pick up his bag and it wasn't there nor was the other bag.  Of course, consternation prevailed.  The manager called Paragon security and my two friends were taken upstairs to the security video room.

It was all right on camera.  An innocuous looking fellow, ostensibly engaged in a mobile phone conversation paused next to our table for a moment, completely un-noticed by the six of us.  He hooked the bags with his foot and dragged them over to a table a short way away where a woman was sitting with a baby carriage. He bent down for a moment, then both walked off.

 

The good karma was, one bag contained a five year old, cheap tablet that the owner had just been told couldn't be repaired.  The other bag contained half a packet of cat food.

Edited December 31, 2019 by dddave

[from the home of CC]

16 hours ago, jacko45k said:

It has been a bit of  bug bear for me for a while here. In the most rural places a lottery ticket seller can appear in front of you while you eat. In a Pattaya beer bar environment it is incessant. A quiet 'miaow krap' sometimes doesn't get through, ignoring them causes a pull on your elbow, and all the while you are having to keep an eye on your belongings. It's the Thai thing of never interfering with someone trying to earn. They should be charged 10 baht to enter like a Thai toilet!

don't ever travel to Negril lol...

[ToYoungToRetire]

Easy come, easy go. Stupid tax. 

 

I have traveled a bit to a few countries. Tourist area's are full of thieves in any country,

[angy]

For theft, Thailand tourist places are safer then in most other world similar places. I found only safer Egypt and people there are poorer then here, but maybe the punishment can be very hard. But walking vendors here are involved in many theft and most of them are not thai, the police can easily send them to their country but they don't do this unpleasant job.

I lost some money and drive license when sitting in a bar in Naklua road and reported to police station where they only said to be more vigilant, so is only my fault.

[DrTuner]

On 12/31/2019 at 8:04 AM, ChipButty said:

Not exclusive to Thailand I know 3 Thai's who went on holiday to the Czechoslovakia and did exactly that but had the bag on the next chair while they were all on their phones the bag went, with all 3 passports in it 

Must've been in the 80's. Its two different countries, Czech and Slovakia since 92. I got my first gsm mobile phone in 93. Must've been a crafty thief to nab those house sized NMT 450 phones.

Edited January 1, 2020 by DrTuner

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, angy said:

I found only safer Egypt and people there are poorer then here

Egypt, they were thieving left right and centre there!

Saudi was good!

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, angy said:

For theft, Thailand tourist places are safer then in most other world similar places. I found only safer Egypt and people there are poorer then here, but maybe the punishment can be very hard. But walking vendors here are involved in many theft and most of them are not thai, the police can easily send them to their country but they don't do this unpleasant job.

I lost some money and drive license when sitting in a bar in Naklua road and reported to police station where they only said to be more vigilant, so is only my fault.

In the military if one leaves valuables where they can be stolen, one is punished for leaving something to temp others.

Don't understand why people leave passport in a bag and then don't keep bag strap around a wrist, or leg. Just asking for it to be stolen.

[Leaver]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

In the military if one leaves valuables where they can be stolen, one is punished for leaving something to temp others.

Don't understand why people leave passport in a bag and then don't keep bag strap around a wrist, or leg. Just asking for it to be stolen.

Are you blaming the victims?

 

Should they have expected dodgy street vendors coming into the restaurant? 

[StayinThailand2much]

15 hours ago, ToYoungToRetire said:

Easy come, easy go. Stupid tax. 

 

I have traveled a bit to a few countries. Tourist area's are full of thieves in any country,

Not just tourist areas. You think Thailand is bad? Go to WalMart in China (or anywhere in that country), and see how quickly you get robbed! I'm a careful person, but at the same WalMart outlet in China, within a short time, I had things stolen twice. Fortunately, both times things of little value. First time shopping bags with nothing in it, unattended on the trolley for 20 seconds or so, and the second time my ATM card, right out of my trousers' pocket while standing at the checkout!

Edited January 1, 2020 by StayinThailand2much

[Chazar]

On 12/29/2019 at 11:20 AM, Rimmer said:

A foreign woman who left her purse hung over a chair

Did she leave a  "help yourself "  sign on it for him? perhaps he  was  just getting the money back for the shoplifting tourist incident