Throw thieving foreigners in jail, says fed up Phi Phi shopkeeper: "That'll teach 'em!"

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Throw thieving foreigners in jail, says fed up Phi Phi shopkeeper: "That'll teach 'em!"

 

Thai caption: She just walked off with a hat in Phi Phi

 

A fed up shopkeeper on the holiday island of Koh Phi Phi is fed up with foreigners stealing clothes and fashion items from his shop. 

 

Phisit Prapdin, 45, told the Thai media that he had been the victim of theft almost ten times this year. 

 

Now he wants to see the local police actually do something rather than giving thieving tourists a slap on the wrist - he thinks the only way is to teach them a real lesson by giving them a taste of Thai jail. 

 

In a latest incident CCTV cameras caught a foreign woman putting on a cap at the front of the shop. She goes inside and looks in a mirror then appears to browse further before she just leaves with the stolen hat. 

 

Phisit said that his wife was alone in the shop and she ran after her but was too late. 

 

Twice this year he has caught foreign thieves red handed and called the police. Both times the foreigners just were told to compensate him and let go. 

 

He said that was no lesson at all and just meant they stole again. He admitted to 77kaoded that there were good and bad foreigners but added: There are a lot of bad. 

 

He said that CCTV was important for him. A friend of his who has a shop on Ao Nang on the mainland didn't - he was left with just clothes hangers after a large theft. 

 

He warned shopkeepers to be especially careful around the New Year period when theft is more likely, he said. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[nev]

I agree spot on, The clothes they are stealing are not expensive and most Farang can afford to buy not steal of poor Thais just trying to make a living. 

Edited December 31, 2019 by nev

[RotMahKid]

Let's do the same with Thai People! Thailand is not going to discriminate foreigners right? Oops they already do!

[ezzra]

Every merchant and shop owner know how or should know how to factor losses and damages into the item or product price, there are shoplifters all over the world and no one end up in jail, cost of doing business...

[Momofarang]

Yeah, fine with me, as long as the jail the people behind the health insurance scam.

[Nyezhov]

1 minute ago, ezzra said:

cost of doing business...

Naw dude. In the West, the "poor" steal from the rich, so hey, factor it in. its all good. 

 

But being able to afford to fly all the way to Thailand to steal cheap <deleted> from folks who make less money than a homeless drunk in the West is, shall we say, scumbaggy? I mean, the airfare is more than some dudes monthly income.

 

 

 

[unamazedloso]

Discrimination! It aint against the law to be a racist but discrimination based on it is against the law. Lock this guy up for at the very least tarnishing what little is left of the tourism industry.

A Crim is a crim. Doesnt matter who they are or where they are from. If you dont want to deal with Foreign Crims than go work in a factory or something. 

[Dmaxdan]

If caught then these thieves should face instant deportation. None of us law abiding Farangs want their kind here ruining our reputation. 

[robblok]

Some Thais get locked up for stealing too some have to pay compensation. I can get that this guy is frustrated. I hate it when my clients don't pay (does not happen often). Its just all really bad manners and punishment should be handed out for people like this.

 

Throwing in jail is a bit much but a high compensation would be much better, like 10x the value of the item or something like that. 

 

Thieves are scum. 

[Mango Bob]

It maybe because the are here on a Non 0/A visa and have no money to buy clothes because he had to pay his health insurance bill.  Would you want to see him bare azz or with a cheap pair of your shorts.

[thaibeachlovers]

I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, theft is bad, but on the other the shopkeeper is part of the people that ruined Phi Phi, so I'd be happy if he and all his compatriots went broke and had to leave the island.

First time I went to Phi Phi there wasn't much there in the way of a town, shops etc, and it was FANTASTIC. Such a wonderful place. Now, because of all the building it's ruined. Such a shame to ruin paradise for greed.

 

Big Yellow Taxi song could have been written for what happened to Phi Phi.

 

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

[thaichina]

21 minutes ago, robblok said:

Throwing in jail is a bit much but a high compensation would be much better, like 10x the value of the item or something like that. 

If you make a rule like this, you will create all sorts of scams similar to the jetski scam. Foreigners will be accused of stealing in some areas by store owners with the cops maybe implicated in the scams, and asked to pay compensation on the spot or send to jail / deported.

[Bibo007]

I have never seen such news get to the media in my country and my country is not politically correct.

[Aussiepeter]

It is nine months since I was in LOS and that is obviously too long, as the first thing I did when I saw this story was to blow up the page to view the "female" foreign shoplifter - has anyone else done this ? She looks like an 18 gallon beer keg sitting on two tree stumps ! Thank goodness for Thai ladies, including the missus who at 48 is still a thousand times more attractive than this petty thief. Even with alcohol being included, I doubt her chances of scoring a date in LOS any time soon. Reminds me of the time a girl in a pub in London, when I rejected her advances said "you are drunk"  - to which I replied, "yes and you are ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober." Happy New Year all on TV.

[robblok]

5 minutes ago, thaichina said:

If you make a rule like this, you will create all sorts of scams similar to the jetski scam. Foreigners will be accused of stealing in some areas by store owners with the cops maybe implicated in the scams, and asked to pay compensation on the spot or send to jail / deported.

Maybe yes maybe no but thieves should be punished not let off with a slap on the wrist. I guess you never been a business owner.

 

To those who say you have to factor it in as cost of doing business is right, but that still does not make it ok to steal. 

 

Same like people on Thaivisa seem to think its ok te defraud banks and insurance companies. In the end we all pay for it.

[mauGR1]

4 hours ago, robblok said:

Throwing in jail is a bit much but a high compensation would be much better, like 10x the value of the item or something like that. 

Agree, jail is over the top, compensation and a fine will do.

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, Aussiepeter said:

It is nine months since I was in LOS and that is obviously too long, as the first thing I did when I saw this story was to blow up the page to view the "female" foreign shoplifter - has anyone else done this ? She looks like an 18 gallon beer keg sitting on two tree stumps ! Thank goodness for Thai ladies, including the missus who at 48 is still a thousand times more attractive than this petty thief. Even with alcohol being included, I doubt her chances of scoring a date in LOS any time soon. Reminds me of the time a girl in a pub in London, when I rejected her advances said "you are drunk"  - to which I replied, "yes and you are ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober." Happy New Year all on TV.

That was attributed to Winston Churchill long before you quoted him. 
 

Though there are some who debate he actually said this...remarkably similar to the lines used in a film of the period featuring WC Fields. 

Edited December 31, 2019 by Bluespunk

[MeePeeMai]

3 hours ago, Aussiepeter said:

She looks like an 18 gallon beer keg sitting on two tree stumps ! Thank goodness for Thai ladies, including the missus who at 48 is still a thousand times more attractive than this petty thief. Even with alcohol being included, I doubt her chances of scoring a date in LOS any time soon.

 

This is the most politically (and literally) correct post I have seen in a long time.  5555  Well Done!

[tifino]

the tourist can always have him done for defamation too! 

He did not have her permission to display her on social networks...

[Isaanbiker]

Twice this year he has caught foreign thieves red handed and called the police. Both times the foreigners just were told to compensate him and let go. 

 

  He needs the right warning sign. 

[MeePeeMai]

Just now, Isaanbiker said:

Twice this year he has caught foreign thieves red handed and called the police. Both times the foreigners just were told to compensate him and let go. 

 

  He needs the right warning sign. 

She wouldn't be worth 1 Satang.

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been reported and removed. 

[AlexRich]

3 hours ago, Aussiepeter said:

It is nine months since I was in LOS and that is obviously too long, as the first thing I did when I saw this story was to blow up the page to view the "female" foreign shoplifter - has anyone else done this ? She looks like an 18 gallon beer keg sitting on two tree stumps ! Thank goodness for Thai ladies, including the missus who at 48 is still a thousand times more attractive than this petty thief. Even with alcohol being included, I doubt her chances of scoring a date in LOS any time soon. Reminds me of the time a girl in a pub in London, when I rejected her advances said "you are drunk"  - to which I replied, "yes and you are ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober." Happy New Year all on TV.

Expect requests to post a pic of the no doubt lovely Mrs Aussiepeter!

 

Tip: don’t!

[fruitman]

I bet it hurts him more if the thieve is a farang....that's how thai think,.

 

I think they should get same punisment as a thai thief..and maybe the farang do it because they got scammed by thai already on the boat/bus/taxi or market...

[marko kok prong]

Lorks a lordy,imagine the furore if they had also stolen his wife's som tam.

[Destiny1990]

Omg a tourist  forgot to pay for a 100 bht baseball cap..

Hopefully this significant loss doesn’t make his shop going bankrupt!

 

[RJRS1301]

22 hours ago, ezzra said:

Every merchant and shop owner know how or should know how to factor losses and damages into the item or product price, there are shoplifters all over the world and no one end up in jail, cost of doing business...

Theft should not be the price of doing business though. Some people seem to think theft hurts no one as retailers are ripping people off anyway, sad reflection on humanity.

[RJRS1301]

17 hours ago, fruitman said:

I bet it hurts him more if the thieve is a farang....that's how thai think,.

 

I think they should get same punisment as a thai thief..and maybe the farang do it because they got scammed by thai already on the boat/bus/taxi or market...

Theft still remains theft, there are no degrees of theft, it is plain and simple dishonesty. Just because you feel scammed does not justify ripping someone else off

[Beggar]

12 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Omg a tourist  forgot to pay for a 100 bht baseball cap..

Hopefully this significant loss doesn’t make his shop going bankrupt!

 

Such people are criminals and need to be punished. I doubt that this was the first time this woman did this.

[RJRS1301]

21 hours ago, Aussiepeter said:

Reminds me of the time a girl in a pub in London, when I rejected her advances said "you are drunk"  - to which I replied, "yes and you are ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober." Happy New Year all on TV.

 

 

That quote was actually Winston Churchill to Lady Astor at a dinner party