webfact Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. Long Stay Visa Health Insurance Plans -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2022-02-02 - Aetna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stocky Posted February 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. 5 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandiRona Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JoePai Posted February 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2022 Maybe the farmer buried it hoping it would grow into a real car ? 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Phuketshrew Posted February 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2022 Maybe it was one of the smart BMW's working under cover? 4 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BostonRob2 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Thai Tv reported at lunch time today that the BMW owner is an American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAFETY FIRST Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketDog Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phetphet Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted February 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2022 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? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andycoops Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Was it an IB smart one? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger70 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Phuketshrew said: Maybe it was one of the smart BMW's working under cover? It Was Under Cover ,Namely Dirt. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soi3eddie Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soi3eddie Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Won't be long before they get that BMW fixed up and racing around the streets again! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 7 hours ago, Stocky said: No flies on the RTP.... No, but you can see where they've been..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherHun Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 A BMW smart car with a not so smart driver? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrogaz Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
it is what it is Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Frank Bullitt Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artben Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Why the confusion? The poor BMW died and was given a proper burial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven100 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 drugs or money owed.... so they stole the BMW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiFelix Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Pie 47 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted February 4, 2022 Author Share Posted February 4, 2022 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big dendrobenaes Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 wow fancy the police suspecting CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big dendrobenaes Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 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......!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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