Video: Gold shop owners fight back despite armed robbers - gun jams and they flee with 500,000 baht in jewelry

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Picture: Daily News

 

Dramatic footage from the Yaowarat Wiang Haeng gold shop in Muang Haeng sub-district of Chiang Mai showed an armed robbery.

 

Two men had arrived on a motorcycle wearing helmets and one had gone into the shop and inquired about gold jewelry.

 

Suddenly he pulls a gun on the male owner of the shop who fights back. 

 

In the melee a chair is thrown and the wife of the man appears. 

 

A gun is aimed but does not go off. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The robber shouted "Wanna die do you?" before he vaults the counter and helps himself to 20 one baht weight gold necklaces worth half a million baht. 

 

The men then escaped on the motorcycle. 

 

Wiang Haeng police are investigating, reported Daily News. 

 

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[johng]

Why can they never work out how to get original footage out of the CCTV recorders

always a bad recording of the screen with a wobbly phone.

[tracker1]

His very lucky the store owner never had a gun or he might be pushing up daisy's !

[BangkokReady]

34 minutes ago, johng said:

Why can they never work out how to get original footage out of the CCTV recorders

always a bad recording of the screen with a wobbly phone.

 

It's almost certainly that they can't be bothered.

[Liverpool Lou]

24 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

59 minutes ago, johng said:

Why can they never work out how to get original footage out of the CCTV recorders

always a bad recording of the screen with a wobbly phone.

 

It's almost certainly that they can't be bothered.

It's almost certain that it doesn't matter.

[BangkokReady]

4 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

It's almost certain that it doesn't matter.

 

Nothing really matters...  anyone can see....

[johng]

29 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

Nothing really matters...  anyone can see....

Nothing really matters to meeeeee ????

[RichardColeman]

If I owned a gold shop..................

[mr_lob]

Get the ''smart car'' rolling around the mean streets of CNX...its good at catching bandits...

[trainman34014]

3 hours ago, mr_lob said:

Get the ''smart car'' rolling around the mean streets of CNX...its good at catching bandits...

Nope; only Farang overstayers that have been fingered already.  Anything else would require a brain !

[rcuthbert]

Is the robber wearing gloves?