Thanks for nothing Thailand! Tourist given nasty send-off as wallet stolen at Super Rich

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

A tourist was given an unpleasant send off from Thailand on Friday. 

 

CCTV showed a man in black jacket and jeans milling about at the Super Rich exchange booth next to the Airport Link train station at Suvarnabhumi airport. 

 

At 1.40 on the tape a man with wife and baby come along and a wallet falls from an opened bag on some travel luggage. 

 

The man in the black jacket is quick to react and kicks the wallet a little before stooping to pocket it and hurry off. 

 

The tourist sees this happen but does not put two and two together until later when he made a report to airport police. 

 

He went on social media to criticise the response of the police who said they would just file a report and see what they could do. The man supplied them with good footage. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

He said that there were important documents in the wallet along with a piece of gold that had sentimental value in relation to his ten month old child. 

 

The family had to leave Thailand on a scheduled flight shortly after the theft on Friday lunchtime.

 

77kaoded contacted deputy airport director Kittipong Kittikhajorn by phone who said that this area was the responsibility of the Airport Link though he had instructed the airport police to investigate. 

 

Airport Link told the media that it would have to wait till Monday when relevant staff were back on duty.

 

But they said that the man was clearly looking for victims in the area and as soon as he stole the wallet he boarded a train. He did not go into the airport. 

 

77kaoded said that netizens were avidly sharing the story in an effort to track down the thief. 

 

No nationalities were mentioned in this story. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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opportunist thief....scum

19 minutes ago, petermik said:

opportunist thief....scum

Yeah of course.

The weird thing about this to me is that there is always a very low chance that person would drop a wallet in a line like that so I wonder if he's a skilled pickpocket as well. Because I don't think any thief could rely on that happening very often. 

agree airport pickpocket preying on the unwary,

To be fair, the tourist seems to be more than a bit dim.

He watches his own wallet being picked up and carried off.

That's how it looks to me anyway.

Cue some "good taxi driver hands in the crown jewels" story. 

3 minutes ago, CelticBhoy said:

To be fair, the tourist seems to be more than a bit dim.

Guarantee his Mrs will be/is chewing his ears off after she watches the video!

 

4 minutes ago, CelticBhoy said:

Cue some "good taxi driver hands in the crown jewels" story. 

Close ...

 

How stupid was the victim, wallet on top of an open bag balanced on top of a wheelie suitcase.

Just what the pickpocket was waiting for, even if it hadn't fallen out.

14 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

How stupid was the victim, wallet on top of an open bag balanced on top of a wheelie suitcase.

Just what the pickpocket was waiting for, even if it hadn't fallen out.

In fact the whole thing looks staged, as though it was some kind of exchange

The victim is a victim of his own stupidity and slow reactions... he watches the guy kick, then pick up a wallet from the floor and doesn't bother to check if it was his?

As for the thief he looked to milling about casing people, not in a hurry to get in a queue.

Even Rodney would have " put 2&2"

LOL@ DEL BOY DOING A RUNNER WIZ Z WALLET????????????

5 hours ago, CelticBhoy said:

To be fair, the tourist seems to be more than a bit dim.

He watches his own wallet being picked up and carried off.

That's how it looks to me anyway.

Cue some "good taxi driver hands in the crown jewels" story. 

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Because in your country this would never happen.

 

You people must be high

I mean just look at the chap's cool and well drilled criminal pattern acted so smoothly.....despicable !

 

And those exchange booths are ideal targets for tired tourists after a long flight. Always, always, always double, triple check bags to be closed and when possible,  travel light.

As you can see from the video - there is no sleight of hand or pick-pocketing involved here. The tourist drops his wallet on the ground, but doesn't realise, then watches as someone else picks it up. The thief is almost certainly an opportunist, probably not a career criminal. Is he a scumbag? I don't know, everyone has their own personal issues going on, but you know in Bangkok if you drop your wallet in plain view and then expect someone to hand it to you then you are asking for trouble. A bit like expecting someone to hold a door open for you, sure it can happen but it's not something I would put my money on.

 

A professional thief would not even be noticed - this guy just looked like your average Joe picking up a well stocked wallet that someone else dropped.

Edited January 13, 20206 yr by SteveK

10 hours ago, CelticBhoy said:

To be fair, the tourist seems to be more than a bit dim.

He watches his own wallet being picked up and carried off.

That's how it looks to me anyway.

Cue some "good taxi driver hands in the crown jewels" story. 

To be fair the thief seems to be more than a bit dim. He does not seem to realize that he is on video and easily identifiable. That's how it looks to me anyway. 

on a conciliatory note; I was sick as a dog with high fever, almost delirious and left my bike key in the ignition at a major hospital bike parking area a week or so ago and came back to find that someone had taken the key out of the ignition and popped it into the utility pocket on the bike for me. Thank you nice Thai citizen ????

12 hours ago, petermik said:

opportunist thief....scum

Same MO as the German man at Friendship supermarket in Pattaya a few months back. He was caught PDQ.

I hope they catch him but in a city with 15 million people that can be a tough one. 

Honest man probably on his way to deposit it at the lost and found.

6 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

Honest man probably on his way to deposit it at the lost and found.

Oh ! Yeah,I'm Sure.......

Fear not. The next news article: 'Taxi driver and/or Airport Link employee returned lost regular-size wallet, containing 300,000 baht to tourist' is already being written while we speak...

It was reported in the Thai media today (14/01/20) that police caught the wallet snatcher, 34 year-old Thai national Nathphon Phanhiran, who has confessed to the crime.
Under Thai criminal law section 335, theft of valuables at an airport is subject to a penalty of 1-5 years imprisonment or a fine of 20k-100k Baht.

i got to say that here in the USA I have seen Chinese tourists while I was standing in line at the San Diego Zoo ticket purchase line, their backpacks were wide open and unzipped and I could plainly see their passport and other things in there that a person could easily grab.  I tapped the girl on her back and pointed to her back pack.  She was with a young man and I think they figured things out then.  Maybe they are just not tourist smart and leave things open all over the place

All over the world tourist are their own worst enemies, I know 3 thai girls had their bag lifted while sat in a coffee shop, too busy on the phones to notice all 3 passports in that bag 

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But they said that the man was clearly looking for victims in the area and as soon as he stole the wallet he boarded a train. He did not go into the airport. 

 

Given the petty opportunist thief had a rather large backpack with him, I highly doubt he was there, with all the cameras, simply waiting for some careless person to drop their wallet.  More likely he just arrived from another city at the airport.

 

 

Edited January 15, 20206 yr by JohnThailandJohn

I blame it on the tourist, I have seen them walking about with  there bags hanging open with out a clue or a care in the world

On 1/13/2020 at 8:03 PM, SteveK said:

As you can see from the video - there is no sleight of hand or pick-pocketing involved here. The tourist drops his wallet on the ground, but doesn't realise, then watches as someone else picks it up. The thief is almost certainly an opportunist, probably not a career criminal. Is he a scumbag? I don't know, everyone has their own personal issues going on, but you know in Bangkok if you drop your wallet in plain view and then expect someone to hand it to you then you are asking for trouble. A bit like expecting someone to hold a door open for you, sure it can happen but it's not something I would put my money on.

 

A professional thief would not even be noticed - this guy just looked like your average Joe picking up a well stocked wallet that someone else dropped.

As you can easily see in the cctv footage, he also gets his phone pickpocketed by a baby. 

 

Now talk about taking candy candy from a baby. 

 

maybe the women and baby baby are working as a team with the guy who picked up his wallet

No matter what you think or whose side you're on I'm happy this video made it to YouTube. The rest of the world will see what a rip-off Thailand is and the amount of scheming thieves there are here. 400%-600% tax on imports when they receive free trade from other countries. Passing laws to make it legal to charge foreigners four times the amount for health care as they do Thai nationals. Absolutely no respect for tourists or expats from immigration or police to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law on crimes committed against foreigners by Thai nationals. The rest of the world doesn't need you Thailand, Thailand you needs us!!!

Dumbass tourists and scum of the earth thief . Some things never change. I wish they had caught him and given him the Ghana thief treatment. They know ehat to do with thieving scum in Africa. 

1 hour ago, BobinBKK said:

No matter what you think or whose side you're on I'm happy this video made it to YouTube. The rest of the world will see what a rip-off Thailand is and the amount of scheming thieves there are here. 400%-600% tax on imports when they receive free trade from other countries. Passing laws to make it legal to charge foreigners four times the amount for health care as they do Thai nationals. Absolutely no respect for tourists or expats from immigration or police to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law on crimes committed against foreigners by Thai nationals. The rest of the world doesn't need you Thailand, Thailand you needs us!!!

Probably happens at every airport in the World on a daily basis. People have attempted to pick my pocket twice when on holiday in foreign countries. Never in Thailand.