Mystery BMW found buried in southern Thai palm plantation - police suspect criminal activity!

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Chalerm Prakiat police were called by locals in Suan Luang sub-district of Nakhon Sri Thammarat in southern Thailand after a car was found buried in a palm oil plantation. 

 

The locals feared it would contain a corpse. 

 

Police got a small backhoe and dug it out finding that it was a cut up BMW with no plates. However, there was no dead body.

 

It was transported to the police station.

 

Thai Rath reported that the plantation belongs to a community leader.

 

The police are trying to find out the provenance of the car and suspect it may have been involved in criminal activity. 

 

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[Stocky]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

The police are trying to find out the provenance of the car and suspect it may have been involved in criminal activity. 

No flies on the RTP - sharp as a tack each and everyone of them. 

[RandiRona]

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

finding that it was a cut up BMW with no plates. However, there was no dead body

I am not sure you if you are thinking the culprit is lazy and stupid at the same time, burying body with BMW??

[JoePai]

Maybe the farmer buried it hoping it would grow into a real car ?

[Phuketshrew]

Maybe it was one of the smart BMW's working under cover?

[Lacessit]

A disgruntled BMW owner?

Think it was the early sixties, when the first Ford Falcon came out in Australia. One owner was so ticked off by the problems he had he invited the media onto his property, and asked them to film him burning the car.

It made the front page on a couple of newspapers.  Would never happen nowadays, too much advertising revenue at risk.

[BostonRob2]

Thai Tv reported at lunch time today that the BMW owner is an American. 

[SAFETY FIRST]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Nakhon Sri Thammarat in southern Thailand

I worked Songkla with a few guys from Sri Thammarat. 

 

You've got some bad eggs over there. 

 

[RocketDog]

2 hours ago, JoePai said:

Maybe the farmer buried it hoping it would grow into a real car ?

Actually it's a subterranean model that just ran out of gas at an unfortunate time. I'm sure the driver just dug himself out and left the car to save face.

 

It happens to be best of us.

[phetphet]

49 minutes ago, BostonRob2 said:

Thai Tv reported at lunch time today that the BMW owner is an American. 

is? Or was?

Could be any number of reasons. Missing owner, insurance scam. Or maybe someone bought it for wife and decide she wasn't having it any longer. ????

 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The police are trying to find out the provenance of the car and suspect it may have been involved in criminal activity.

Leally?

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, RandiRona said:

I am not sure you if you are thinking the culprit is lazy and stupid at the same time, burying body with BMW??

I wonder of the checked the boot yet?

[Andycoops]

Was it an IB smart one?

[digger70]

4 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Maybe it was one of the smart BMW's working under cover?

It Was Under Cover ,Namely Dirt.  ????

[soi3eddie]

2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I worked Songkla with a few guys from Sri Thammarat. 

 

You've got some bad eggs over there. 

Met my wife (now ex) in Songkhla and she was from Nakhon Si Thammarat. That was 22 years ago. Wish I had known then.

 

[soi3eddie]

Won't be long before they get that BMW fixed up and racing around the streets again!

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

7 hours ago, Stocky said:

No flies on the RTP....

No, but you can see where they've been.....

[JustAnotherHun]

A BMW smart car with a not so smart driver?

[Pedrogaz]

Sounds like it was a SMART BMW stolen and cut up by an immigrant. You don't see the SMART BMWs any more unless you go to an immigration office where they are parked, seemingly permanently.

[it is what it is]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I wonder of the checked the boot yet?

 

you may laugh, a friend works in forensics in NZ, the fire brigade was called to a car fire which they put out but didn't look in the boot. when the garage came to pick it up they did, and found a body...

[Lt Frank Bullitt]

6 hours ago, Lacessit said:

A disgruntled BMW owner?

Think it was the early sixties, when the first Ford Falcon came out in Australia. One owner was so ticked off by the problems he had he invited the media onto his property, and asked them to film him burning the car.

It made the front page on a couple of newspapers.  Would never happen nowadays, too much advertising revenue at risk.

Still happens, here's a pee'd off jeep owner in Oz 3 yr ago.

 

[Artben]

Why the confusion?  The poor BMW died and was given a proper burial.  

[steven100]

drugs or money owed.... so they stole the BMW 

[ThaiFelix]

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

A disgruntled BMW owner?

Think it was the early sixties, when the first Ford Falcon came out in Australia. One owner was so ticked off by the problems he had he invited the media onto his property, and asked them to film him burning the car.

It made the front page on a couple of newspapers.  Would never happen nowadays, too much advertising revenue at risk.

I recall hearing that story but thought it was in the states and that the owner invited the boss of the local Ford Company around to witness the funeral but under some other pretext.  However I am damn sure it was a Ford and not a Holden and it certainly wasnt "the Kingswood" hahaha!

[Meat Pie 47]

9 hours ago, BostonRob2 said:

Thai Tv reported at lunch time today that the BMW owner is an American. 

former owner who left Thailand 10 years ago

[webfact]

UPDATE:

 

Police rule out murder or serious crime after US owner of buried BMW is located safe and well 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

On Wednesday, 3rd February, Deputy National Police Commissioner General Suchart Teerasawat, also known as ‘Big Mai’, flew, by helicopter, to Nakhon Si Thammarat. He was there to meet with senior police officers in the Chaloem Phra Kiat district investigating the appearance of a buried BMW car, in a rainstorm, once owned by an American teacher in Phuket, 52-year-old Michael Dylan Gregory.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1249106-police-rule-out-murder-or-serious-crime-after-us-owner-of-buried-bmw-is-located-safe-and-well/

 

[big dendrobenaes]

wow fancy the police suspecting CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[big dendrobenaes]

On 2/2/2022 at 10:11 AM, RandiRona said:

I am not sure you if you are thinking the culprit is lazy and stupid at the same time, burying body with BMW??

Job FOR COLOMBO.......or SHERLOCK......!!!