Burglaries, police inactivity force Canadian/Thai couple out of Thailand - they had 1M baht at home "waiting for exchange rate to improve"

[sahibji]

Just now, Inepto Cracy said:

Mmmmm a fool and his money are soon parted.

I knew a chap who told me many moons ago, putting in cctv in or around your house is not worth the 30 - 40 000Baht.

A year later his house was broken into and more than 10 Million Bahts worth of money, jewlery etc was stolen.

Now when I see him, I always mention that 40 thousand Baht instalation.

Fools.

 

this is called penny wise pound foolish.

[overherebc]

3 minutes ago, wombat said:

more holes in that story than swiss cheese

Swiss cheese is easy to steal. Fingers in the holes you get 10 slices each time.

[sahibji]

52 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Sounds like inside jobbie to me, knowing they were out

would not be too surprised unless some outsider got wind of the stash they were keeping in the house.

[sanemax]

1 minute ago, Inepto Cracy said:

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Now when I see him, I always mention that 40 thousand Baht instalation.

Fools.

 

I expect that you dont see him too often and you are the one to see him, rather than him seeing you ?

[sahibji]

46 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

Cannot understand people who own or even rent a property and don’t have insurance to cover damage or theft it costs me less than 16,000 baht a year for 10 million cover and that includes all types of flooding as I live more or less on the beach

cash coverage is limited by insurance companies. use the bank, unless the money is not clean.

[samsensam]

 

being a little judgmental here it wouldn't be outside the bounds of possibility that the wife had been talking (boasting) to friends about money... i'd say it was an inside job.

 

i cracked the case of a thai friend whose bank account had been emptied by correctly working out that a colleague at work (both university lecturers) has noted her pin number and taken and returned her bank card from her bag while she was teaching. the police were useless, i worked out who and how almost immediately.

 

PS the colleague said sorry, returned most of the money and , bizarrely, kept her job.

[sahibji]

2 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

Someone other than the gf/wife knew that that money was there.

A small safe can be bought for 5,000-8,000 Baht, I've had a few.

even the small safe can be carted away without the need to open it at the site. better to keep cash in the ceiling or some odd place in the house, if you have to keep cash at home, which is foolish to begin with.

[Pravda]

Next thing he will be audited by CRA for bringing 40 grand in cash outside Canada.

 

The next level of stupidity, 

[sahibji]

5 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Swiss cheese is easy to steal. Fingers in the holes you get 10 slices each time.

my arm chair sherlock holmes brothers, why speculate when we do not the actual occurrence. 

[Kerryd]

Lol at the Burglary rates. According to that site (World Data Atlas), Thailand's burglary rate is a mere 4.5 per 100,000 people while Canada's is 437 ?!?!
Yeah, I call BULL**** on that as well. 

Note that the "World Data Atlas" lifts it's "data" from places like the UN. In this case the "United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS)".  The UN even notes on it's site: "That means that this data is subject to the problems of accuracy of all official crime data."
 

Also note, these apparently are only "police reported" crimes (as in, ones that were officially recorded somewhere).

Amazingly, Myanmar's rate (of burglaries) is a mere 0.05 ! Lol - looking at those stats, there are (supposedly) more burglaries (per 100,000 population) in Canada than there are in all the countries in Africa (that responded to the UN survey) COMBINED !

According the UN Survey, the burglary rate for England and Wales is 694 !
For Scotland it's a mere 301.5 and for (Northern) Ireland it's 397 !

As for this case, I'd say inside job as well. It'd be pretty ballsy for the village security guy to break into someone's house even if he just saw them drive out of the village. Unless he knew they weren't going to be back for hours. And knew what to look for (and where).

Love how they publish the exact address of the victims house as well. You know, in case anyone else wants to give it a go in the hopes they've replaced the money.

Kind of like that house in Pattaya (soi Khao Talo I think it was) that was burgled something like 3 times in 1 year and each time they got away with a crapload of cash and jewellery (and the address was also published each time as well). If I recall, similar situation. The occupants left for a few hours and came home to find they'd been burgled (again).

Lol - I had to break into my own house one time after losing my keys while travelling "up country".

Had to get someone with a grinder to cut the lock on the gate. Literally everyone on the soi turned out to watch and have a chuckle. Once inside the gate I was able to pop a screen off and through a lot of effort was able to finally snag my spare set of keys so I could open the metal inner door.

There was no way that could have happened without half the neighbourhood hearing and coming around to see what was happening and not likely something Somchai at the front gate would attempt unless he knew he had time (and a quieter way to gain access).

As for the cash - he should have put it into a Foreign Currency Deposit (FCD) account. It could sit there indefinitely until the exchange rate improves and also could be used as the "money in bank" method for Immigration (and it would have been more than enough even if he was on a Retirement extension instead of a Married extension).

Have to lol at the thought of moving back to Canada because it's "safer" though. One winter of paying high heating costs and all the other taxes and increased costs that come with living in Canada will make them regret leaving Thailand in a hurry !

[sahibji]

5 hours ago, giddyup said:

"My husband thought that buying an expensive house would mean we would also get good security," she said.

 

Hard to really tell, but that house looks far from expensive to me.

good house also means a good beehive which is likely to have honey.

[overherebc]

2 minutes ago, sahibji said:

my arm chair sherlock holmes brothers, why speculate when we do not the actual occurrence. 

What's that got to do with swiss cheese?????

[kensisaket]

It's ironic how people will trust/try to lay the blame at the feet of a company who employs a 300 baht a day security guard. $40,000 Canadian dollars; and, too cheap to spend 10000 baht on a home security system.  Not to mention who would keep that kind of money laying around when you already knew there were other houses being broken into in the same neighborhood.  Finally, in the land of "you'll regret not having all your i's dotted and t's crossed if you try to make the police look bad" you had better rehearse your pitch to Thai customs about how you got all that money into the country.  

[Happy Grumpy]

 

As she holds her new iPhone X in her hand.

 

 

 

Is the guy on the right the Thai husband? 

[Happy Grumpy]

9 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

Thailand's burglary rate is a mere 4.5 per 100,000 people while Canada's is 437 ?!?!
Yeah, I call BULL**** on that as well. 

That's the number that the police solve. 

[tominbkk]

Hope the Wife's 32 year old Thai boyfriend spends it wisely!

[toolpush]

1 hour ago, lexilis said:

"Whether Canada would be safer than Thailand regarding burglary is a moot point, notes Thaivisa. Online statistics from the World Data Atlas suggest that in 2010 Canada had 578 burglaries per 100,000 people. In the same year knoema.com suggested the Thai rate was just 9.6 per 100,000.

 

And the Thai burglary rate had almost halved by 2016."

 

I am not Canadian but I don't believe these numbers at all.

I am Canadian and I do believe the numbers....

[blazes]

5 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i was referring to his physical appearance.

 

i am very judgemental that way.

Do you mean his plaid pants clashing with his polo shirt?  His flip-flops? His dentures?

 

As for the lady's looks, well, I guess the best that can be said there is: "you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire"...or so they say.

[JGV]

REALLY STUPID KEEPING 40K IN THE HOUSE - Clearly a tip off led to burglery Only themslves to blame

[Shadychris]

3 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

Someone other than the gf/wife knew that that money was there.

A small safe can be bought for 5,000-8,000 Baht, I've had a few.

Small safes can be fairly easily removed by a determined thief, and easily carried away.

???? Maybe that's why you've had a few....

[Shadychris]

18 minutes ago, toolpush said:

I am Canadian and I do believe the numbers....

I suspect in Canada (and other Western countries) that the reporting rate for burglaries is much higher than in Thailand, as a crime reference number is usually required to make an insurance claim.

In Thailand likely a much lower % of the population would have house contents insurance, so there's little point in reporting a burglary to the police - unless you had concrete proof of who was responsible....

[InTransit]

He looks rather jovial for someone that's just lost a million baht ????

[blazes]

47 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Swiss cheese is easy to steal. Fingers in the holes you get 10 slices each time.

 

As Basil might say, these people have minds like Swiss cheese....

[ToddinChonburi]

Ban Chang is well known for homes getting robbed when people travel. Funny how security knows when your out.

[Jimbo53]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Now they are off back to Canada - though online stats suggest that burglaries may be worse there than Thailand.

Why state that? Its nothing to do with the fact that it happened in Thailand! T.I.T.

[lovethai123]

1 hour ago, Emdog said:

Keep money under a pile of books. Thief has probably never picked one up in his/her life.

Just like many thais.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

My thoughts also.. long hours at the office?

[ubon farang]

Story dont add here I think they are the con artists trying to get money out of the real estate people. Go back to canada see how you go there

[RICO86]

Never keep local bird and money in the same place.. Job done..

[lovethai123]

2 minutes ago, Dickincider said:

Never keep local bird and money in the same place.. Job done..

Are you implying that a man cannot even trust his thai wife/gf regarding money?