VIDEO: Farang’s aren’t all good! Elderly foreigner caught brazenly stealing mobile phone in Pattaya

[nickmondo]

Who thought all farangs were good??

Scum bags come from everywhere.

[Beggar]

11 minutes ago, robblok said:

In a perfect world your right.. but just look at the forum Thavisa how people think about Thai woman.

Thai women or bar girls? 

[Traubert]

45 minutes ago, mattig1972 said:

 

All I see in the video is a guy picking up a phone. What's the evidence for the claim that it's not his?

The fact that he brought it back?

[robblok]

1 minute ago, Beggar said:

Thai women or bar girls? 

According to the general knowledge on this they are all the same. 

[sirineou]

9 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Reminds me of the foreigner who put his foot on some money dropped by a lady in front of him at the supermarket line.

 

or

 

The guy who saw a fellow traveler drop a bag at the airport and kicked it away and then picked it up.

 

Maybe not habitual criminals and only opportunist thieves  but still thieves, perfectly aware that what they are doing is wrong but cannot resist the temptation.

 

Why anyone should defend these people is beyond me, they deserve whatever sentence/fine they are given, no excuses.

Petty thieves , living compromised lives to be pitied . What they give up far outweighs what they take. 

[Beggar]

2 minutes ago, robblok said:

According to the general knowledge on this they are all the same. 

Perhaps you are right. All the tourists here are sex tourists. What other thinking one might expect from them. 

[kentrot]

Don't blur his face when it is clear that he is the culprit.

 

Let us all see his "mug" so he can be identified.

Is there some legal reason that Thaivisa blurs his image ?

[Jaxxper]

Nobody said they were.!!

instances like this give all Falang a bad name. Not acceptable from where he’s from I’m sure, so why he thinks it’s ok here, goodness only knows.

[balo]

1 hour ago, smudger1951 said:

Please please, don't tell me this thieving scumbag is british

Australian according to a certain FB group.

[Barry343]

4 hours ago, URMySunshine said:

There is another thread running on this. In the facebook comments it says the farang has brung it back at last. 

A bit late after the video went viral.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, lazeeboy said:

Deport him .....are you people for real he's an OAP maybe he ha dementia deport really 

Unless you're trying to say his possible "dementia" led to him stealing a phone by not realising right from wrong then I think you might have the wrong illness.

Opportunist thief he most certainly is... but dumb enough to do it on CCTV that is cause for concern!

[balo]

1 hour ago, mattig1972 said:

All I see in the video is a guy picking up a phone. What's the evidence for the claim that it's not his?

Are you for real ?   Do you think the female staff member would go through all this media attention if it wasn't her phone ???? 
 

[iLuvThai]

Thailand is to polite. Can anyone explaing to me why the news media blurrs out the crimial element?

It would make solving crimes so much quicker if we could see the crooks and perps.

 

[wwest5829]

4 hours ago, robblok said:

Scum, 

 

I hate thieves hope they deport him for this. He gives us all a bad name.

One of the things I recall my Father saying to me was that he hated liars and thieves.

[balo]

1 minute ago, iLuvThai said:

Thailand is to polite. Can anyone explaing to me why the news media blurrs out the crimial element?

It would make solving crimes so much quicker if we could see the crooks and perps.

 

There is a video who does not blur out his face if you search for it. 

[spoon1967]

Probably not his first time being a low life thief, you don't just wake up one day and have that in your blood, opportunity thief or not. 

 

Name and shame, get rid, blacklist.

[I am More Thai Than You]

Dare I guess which country this geezer is from? Dare I.....

[Sailboat]

4 hours ago, leeneeds said:

Find and deport no excuses.

I was buying beer at a neighborhood store after I had already been drinking and gave the store worker the wrong money, much less then the cost of my purchase, I then went home. The next day when I went to the store, the store keeper told me I owed them money and they had it on video. I watched the video and was shocked, it was obvious I short changed the store and of course gave them their money. My actions were not intentional. My thought was why didn't they say something at the time. 

 

[mike787]

The solution is simple:  Find, arrest, implement penalty, then remove permanently from Thailand.  No more issues related to this useless individual. Repeat with next expat until all bad guys removed, good guys in are left.  Not complicated.  

[Redoubt]

Identify the slime ball and put Tang in his juice and launch him!  There is no place for a criminal representing our minority presence to be permitted to remain in this Kingdom.

[Rimmer]

Off topic and troll removed

[denby45]

3 hours ago, prakhonchai nick said:

Pretty little lass. I need a haircut......Soi Buakhao, you say ????

Yes near the Pattaya Klang end. I was in the internet cafe next door when it happened. I got the video from the girl there and posted it on FB to all my friends and they shared it around. I hope it helped because she messaged me a little later that the phone had been returned. I walked along Soi Buhakao to see if I could find the guy an let him know that he was on film but he was nowhere to be found unfortunately. The girl said she did not want the police involved merely the return of her iphone. Glad it worked out for her.

 

Den

[ravip]

3 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

Absolutely not! Anyone can tell from his actions that he tried to hide the phone from the girl when she went to give him back his change and when he subsequently pocketed it. 
Please don’t try to defend the indefensible. 

 

2 hours ago, VYCM said:

Unfortunately and all too often some people will choose to differ.

 

You see it as black, they say it's white, its raining , they see the sun shining, the weather is cold they will say its hot. 

 

The headline even reads Foreigner caught stealing mobile phone.

 

The lady whose phone was stolen posted this video on Facebook.

It's hard to understand why people cant see the truth.

Most times, the truth is bitter. Whatever one says, human beings will be biased in one-way or another - it will be impossible to find someone 100% non-biased.

The above two posts (amongst many others) describes whats on the video simply and without bias, while others find a way to justify the stealing. Justifying a thief's actions are as good as thieving IMHO.

Imagine the distress of the poor owner, when she found that her phone was lost - maybe, she could hardly afford to buy another new one.

Scum is scum, from wherever they originate from.

[Cricky]

59 minutes ago, I am More Thai Than You said:

Dare I guess which country this geezer is from? Dare I.....

Up to you mate, but you'll probably get kicked out of TV as there has already been a warning from the moderators. 

[ravip]

2 hours ago, dotpoom said:

Surely that's a misprint.........everybody knows..there is no such thing as crime outside Thailand?

Thank you! Well said!

[DJ54]

Ask him and give the benefit of explanation... maybe he thought it

was his. Look at the video he didn’t rush to put in his pocket..

 

 

[Skallywag]

6 hours ago, leeneeds said:

Find and deport no excuses.

So if a Thai steals, expatriate them? I like the eye for an eye approach, "no excuses"

[amdy2206]

Of course they are not all good. Just like everywhere there are bad and good/respectful people. We can judge a nationality by one persons' action, or we can accept there are a few misfits everywhere. I could easily pick one bad person from every country I have visited, but generally people are honest.

[roo860]

1 hour ago, mike787 said:

The solution is simple:  Find, arrest, implement penalty, then remove permanently from Thailand.  No more issues related to this useless individual. Repeat with next expat until all bad guys removed, good guys in are left.  Not complicated.  

There ya go, you've found another topic to occupy yourself with.

Happy days.

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Edited January 18, 2020 by roo860

[tandor]

6 hours ago, URMySunshine said:

There is another thread running on this. In the facebook comments it says the farang has brung it back at last. 

...accepting a kind Wai from her and still making off with her phone...bet if it was a single use plastic bag with dog excrement in it, t'would still be there.

Edited January 18, 2020 by tandor