By Tanakorn Panyadee

 

Bang Lamung — Two Indian tourists claimed that their gold necklace was stolen, allegedly by two transgender individuals who approached and hugged them. This, in fact, was the 3rd time the hugging-and-stealing incidents happened in Pattaya recently.

 

On May 6th, around 02.30 a.m. this morning, Puttharak Sonkhamhan, Deputy Inspector from the Pattaya Police Station, responded to a thievery report at second Pattaya road, Nong Prue sub-district, Bang Lamung, Chonburi.

 

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At the incident scene, Mr. Pravin Suresh Sutrave, a 43-year-old Indian businessman, was reportedly in shock and told the police that he was roaming around when two transgender individuals approached him and his friend, trying to seduce him and hugging him.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/05/06/indian-tourist-in-pattaya-says-a-transgender-thief-took-his-expensive-necklace-on-second-road-overnight/

 

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No free hugs in Pattaya!

I'm sorry, I don't have sympathy for people that wear gold chains on the streets ... ANYWHERE.

Were they born yesterday?

What were they doing wandering about 230am.  Not like nightlife was going strong then.  And stupid enough to show off wearing gold?  Idiots.

Welcome to Thailand, LoS. Just be glad that you are not the first one, nor the last one. Next time remember not to get anything free from a stranger!

2:30 in morning most places are closed and they were roaming with expensive gold chain? There must be some type scam going on in India and they need a police report for that. Definitely not an insurance claim because insurance companies are not stupid to pay off people roaming 2AM in the morning with the gold chain. My guess is they can write it off of their tax returns as business loss with a police report. 

Same type who rent jets-skis, go gem shopping, fill out street surveys via clipboard toting girls, or get on "20 baht" tuk-tuks. All scams well publicized for decades. 

 

Or maybe they are insurance scammers who fake losses?

Sure it was bad judgement to be flashing gold . But this is strongarm robbery by criminal lowlife locals against two tourists. So I would rather blame the city and so called police for their inaction in patroling and preventive action rather than the victims.  Unlike the US where someone's  civil rights are more important than your safety, here there is nothing stopping the authorities from rounding them up. And taking them away. Fascism is not all bad.

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, ChC1 said:

Welcome to Thailand, LoS. Just be glad that you are not the first one, nor the last one. Next time remember not to get anything free from a stranger!

Well at this rate, and due to the relatively small numbers of them, there won't be any gold necklaces left soon. 

Is this a 'report' or a 'fact' ?  I'm betting there isn't any CCTV that shows any two LBs on a motorbike at 2:30 AM near where they 'report' the incident to have happened.  There is many CCTV on 2nd road.

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

This, in fact, was the 3rd time the hugging-and-stealing incidents happened in Pattaya recently.

Sorry, but sounds like some dodgy Indian insurance copying scam to me going by past reports. 

Why do (some) grown and otherwise masculine men follow the feminine trait of wearing necklaces anyway? Do they somehow think it makes them look more sexy or attractive? I see quite a few guys getting around with the heavy gold necklaces, gold rings on the finger, covered in tatts and wearing a blue wife beater. Talk about stereotyping yourself as a redneck/bogan! And making yourself an easy target.

2’30 am walking with gold in Pattaya.

 

42 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well at this rate, and due to the relatively small numbers of them, there won't be any gold necklaces left soon. 

Indians got to cover the cost of coming here somehow.

4 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Indians got to cover the cost of coming here somehow.

I have not been to India for many many years... but don't they get necklace grabbing there? 

Beware Indian huggers!

I think that Pattaya municipality should hang big signs everywhere in English and Hindi, "Beware of strangers hugging transvestites"...

Might as well wear a sign "Please rob me".

Well I never???

In Pattaya???

Beggars Belief!!!

 

 

Another case of necklace stealing and another set of indians lost they gold and conned.It will happen again

I wouldn’t allow any stranger to just walk up in my space to begin with.  

Maybe, just maybe it wasn't just an encounter on the street but encounter in a room. If the guy has a wife there he has to explain what happened to chain. The Indian dudes like their ladyboys.

4 hours ago, Jerno said:

What were they doing wandering about 230am.  Not like nightlife was going strong then.  And stupid enough to show off wearing gold?  Idiots.

The BS gold chains are available every where and very cheap, so they could hug all night long.

Seems like just the past 2 weeks groups of Indian males walking everywhere. 

Expect more of these type of reports they seem to be reported victims from these type of thefts over the years, then any one else.

 

PS:  Maybe they approached the ladyboys first and said: You are a very lucky man..

 

15 minutes ago, swm59nj said:

I wouldn’t allow any stranger to just walk up in my space to begin with.  

Ya-punch em in the boobs and kick em in the balls

 

I was walking around at 3 am.    40000 in my right pocket, Rolex Sub, and a flash drive in my back pocket with nuke codes.

 

no sweat.   

1 hour ago, Inala said:

Why do (some) grown and otherwise masculine men follow the feminine trait of wearing necklaces anyway? Do they somehow think it makes them look more sexy or attractive? I see quite a few guys getting around with the heavy gold necklaces, gold rings on the finger, covered in tatts and wearing a blue wife beater. Talk about stereotyping yourself as a redneck/bogan! And making yourself an easy target.

1 hour ago, Inala said:

 

Why do (some) grown and otherwise masculine men follow the "feminine trait" of wearing necklaces anyway?

"Feminine trait".....Where the hell do you get that information from. Unbelievable.

'Transgender' is the word ladyboy forbidden now under the new woke world ????s

It seems that when you’re one of “those” people you have to make concerted efforts to compensate for uh for um the uh the “things” that make you less desirable so that explains why someone would wear a gold chain as a desperate peacocking attempt 

They were looking for a 2 in 1 deal ????