By Tanakorn Panyadee

 

Bang Lamung —   handicapped lottery seller in a wheelchair was brutally assaulted and robbed in the Pattaya area on Monday this week in a crime that has shocked even veteran Pattaya law enforcement officers.

 

On April 25th, local reporters met with Surachet Sithong, a 39-year-old handicapped lottery seller, at his residence in Soi Mabayai Lea 24, Nongprue sub-district, Chonburi after being notified that a thief brutally beat and robbed him on the side of Highway Number 36, Pong sub-district, Bang Lamung, Chonburi. Surachet had already reported the crime to the Huay Yai Police Station. 

 

According to his statement, he had a stress-induced stroke in the past which left the right side of his body paralyzed, but he was still slightly able to move around and make a living selling lottery tickets in a wheelchair.

 

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Surachet told TPN reporters that at around 03.00 p.m. while he was rolling down the side of the motorway in his wheelchair a man on a motorcycle told him to stop to buy a lottery ticket, but instead Surachet was suddenly punched in the face, knocking him backward onto the ground.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/04/27/handicapped-lottery-seller-in-a-wheelchair-brutally-assaulted-and-robbed-in-pattaya/

 

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Hope Surachet Sithong get better soon and cop catches those <deleted>in cowards!!

That's a very nasty black eye. He really took one full force.

I hope they deal some back to the scumbags when they catch them.

Unfortunately those lottery sellers are easy prey for criminals, most of them carry their proceeds with them and being unable to defend themselves i'm surprised why we that are many more such attacks...

My oh my, how low we have fallen? I recall thinking the same when this happened to a disabled guy in my UK home town, wheelchair bound, selling the evening newspaper and bits and bobs on the town hall square for many years. This is what addictive drugs turn us into...... evil personified.

Just another coward.. What a pity looking at pic..????

Unfortunately this is probably only the first time the scumbag has robbed a cripple, he'll do it again more than likely. Hope they catch the perp straight away.

Said this before. Small booth in the 7/11 for the disabled for sell electronic choose your own number tickets, and it wont happen. But Thailand appears to want to be stuck in the middle ages, technology hub my lily white .....

6 hours ago, webfact said:

that at around 03.00 p.m. while he was rolling down the side of the motorway in his wheelchair

Time this country sorted its footpaths out once and for all. But I know this will never happen. This poor guy had a stroke through stress and now this happens to him.

Crime on the rise, especially violent crime. 

 

Going to continue while this government continues to steal and mismanage the economy. 

2 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Crime on the rise, especially violent crime. 

 

Going to continue while this government continues to steal and mismanage the economy. 

yep sinking to the lowest levels now..

catch the swine and introduce them to a few interludes of physical therapy ... perhaps with some good old phone books ... Bar stewards!

Another steeped in Thainess.  This place trumpets its care & respect for the elderly and the importance of family yet barely a week goes by without some new atrocity.

OMG!! I hope the stinking low life piece of human waste gets caught and spends years in prison and finds out he has cancer.!

 

Didn't pay his protection money.  Money Number One in Thailand. 

 

Edited April 30, 20224 yr by Leaver

1 hour ago, Leaver said:

 

Didn't pay his protection money.  Money Number One in Thailand. 

 

And you know this 100%. How?

On 4/26/2022 at 8:14 PM, Mr Meeseeks said:

Crime on the rise, especially violent crime. 

 

Going to continue while this government continues to steal and mismanage the economy. 

so, which government do not steal and/or mismanage economy--educate us.

Everytime I see a disabled lottery seller (or other vendor) in a wheelchair trying to provide for themselves I feel very fortunate not to be in the same situation. Then some coward scumbag comes along and does something like this to an innocent. Sad times in Pattaya.  A harsh punishment needed for the attacker.

 

On 4/27/2022 at 8:41 AM, RichardColeman said:

But Thailand appears to want to be stuck in the middle ages, technology hub my lily white .....

Thailand won't change until Thai people want to change.  That's not that they want other people to change.

9 hours ago, olfu said:

so, which government do not steal and/or mismanage economy--educate us.

Pointing elsewhere is no argument.....topic is about a lowly disabled guy getting beaten up and robbed.....in Thailand. Which is relatively rare.....

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Handicapped lottery seller in a wheelchair brutally assaulted and robbed in Pattaya