Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that a woman called Natwipha, 24, had discovered that her two year old child's gold necklace was missing after she got home from a trip to the store.

 

Yes, a two year old was wearing a gold necklace worth nearly 15,000 baht!

 

But that's only part of the story.

 

She went back to the convenience store - a Lotus mini-mart in Udon Thani -  where CCTV showed a tomboy and an elderly woman picking up the necklace. 

 

Natwipha went to the police then posted on social media.

 

The necklace was found by Yamonporn, 35, and her mother Wasana, 62, who said they were buying skin cream and shampoo at the time. 

 

They explained that they thought the dropped gold belonged to a "farang" and his Thai wife who'd been in the store before them but they were unable to catch up with them.

 

They apparently held the gold up to the CCTV cameras then kept it saying that they feared if they handed it into the store staff it might not get back to the real owners.

 

Instead they kept it - for safe keeping.

 

Besides, they explained to police later, a boy in the family had just contacted them saying he had a stomach ache and this necessitated a rush home. 

 

Had they reported the gold missing at the time this would have meant wasting time while the boy was suffering from the stomach ache.

 

In the end they saw the social media post in the morning and contacted the owner of the gold and all was settled amicably at the police station. 

 

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Got to love a good story, even if the CCTV shows different.

22 minutes ago, asiaexpat said:

Got to love a good story, even if the CCTV shows different.

Yep they can be amusingly very inventive when saving face after being caught out !

A 2 yo with a 15k baht gold necklace? Why didn't the mother just tie a roll of money around her neck.

 

One sure fire way of having your child lured away from a mother.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Yes, a two year old was wearing a gold necklace worth nearly 15,000 baht!

Don't they all?