Russian tourist gets her precious earrings back: "I didn't make a mistake coming to Thailand"

[webfact]

Daily News reported that a Russian lady had been reunited with her precious earrings that she left in Phuket.

She had the tourist police and an honest maid to thank for the return of her 70,000 baht jewelry.

Earlier Lt-Col Phuttapong Wongwattanadech of the Koh Samui tourist police had received notification from his men that a lady called Yelena T., 42, had left her earrings at the Khao Oat Airport hotel in Thalang, Phuket.

The tourist police in Phuket were contacted and they went to the hotel where the pair of earrings had been left with customer services by a maid who had found them in a room after the tourist checked out.

 

The hotel had been unable to contact the tourist after she left on January 23rd.

It was all smiles as Yelena praised the tourist police in Samui and Phuket as well as the honesty of the maid.

She said that she didn't make a mistake choosing Thailand as her holiday destination.

 

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[sammieuk1]

No honest taxi drivers were currently available due to incarceration so a maid had to do ????  

[MRToMRT]

Police propoganda machine is in full force I see.

[webfact]

Russian tourist in Phuket re-united with 70,000 baht earrings

By Peter Roche

 

 

The Daily News reports on the reunion of a Russian woman and her beloved earrings, valued at 70,000 Baht, which she left in Phuket.

 

The woman, referred to in the Daily News article as Yelena T. is 42 years old. She says she is grateful to both the tourist police and an honest maid who played a role in the return of her jewelry.

 

The story began when Lt-Col Phuttapong Wongwattanadech of the Koh Samui Tourist Police was informed that Yelena had left her earrings at the Khao Oat Airport Hotel in Thalang, Phuket.

 

The tourist police in Phuket were promptly contacted, and they went to the hotel where the earrings were being held by customer services, after a maid had found them in the room following the tourist’s checkout.

 

The hotel had been unable to contact Yelena since her departure on January 23rd. However, the reunion between the woman and her earrings was a joyous occasion, with Yelena praising both the tourist police in Samui and Phuket, as well as the honesty of the maid.

 

Yelena expressed her contentment with her choice of Thailand as her holiday destination and stated that she “did not regret it after all”.

 

Source: https://phuket-go.com/phuket-news/phuket-news/russian-tourist-in-phuket-re-united-with-70000-baht-earrings/

 

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[Henryford]

But Thailand made a mistake choosing a Russian as a tourist.

[Mavideol]

and the re-start of the "brownies" nose TAT stories on it's way... next week bag full of cash returned to "presumed" owner and follow by the ""Indians  were handover their "lost" gold bracelets""

[ChrisY1]

Ahhhh....a good police story every day will do wonders for their reputation....or so they think!

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, MRToMRT said:

Police propoganda machine is in full force I see.

Thai-bashing machine is in full force also...yet again, for no rational reason.

[Liverpool Lou]

36 minutes ago, Henryford said:

But Thailand made a mistake choosing a Russian as a tourist.

How?

[Liverpool Lou]

25 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

and the re-start of the "brownies" nose TAT stories on it's way... next week bag full of cash returned to "presumed" owner and follow by the ""Indians  were handover their "lost" gold bracelets""

...and the restart of the lame, unwarranted Thai-bashing posts is well on it's way.

[herfiehandbag]

What an extraordinary coincidence, coming so soon after the misunderstanding outside the Chinese Embassy!

[MRToMRT]

14 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Thai-bashing machine is in full force also...yet again, for no rational reason.

Bashing Thais OR bashing the Thai police? If its the second then I agree, they are going to get bashed in every thread about them.

 

I would have thought anyone could see through this, its not a news item BUT it will be on of many to try and "restore confidence" without tackling the real issue of systemic corruption throughout the force with payments made up and down to circumvent the law.

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

14 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:

33 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Thai-bashing machine is in full force also...yet again, for no rational reason.

Bashing Thais OR bashing the Thai police? If its the second then I agree, they are going to get bashed in every thread about them.

"Bashing Thais OR bashing the Thai police?"

There's no difference.  Thai police are Thais.

 

"... they are going to get bashed in every thread about them".

That doesn't mean that it's anything but an irrational, bad trait.  "Bashing" anything is nothing to be proud or smug about.

 

[MRToMRT]

9 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Bashing Thais OR bashing the Thai police?"

There's no difference.  Thai police are Thais.

So you inferring that because ....... nah I give up, leave you to your world. Enjoy it.

[Liverpool Lou]

25 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:

35 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Bashing Thais OR bashing the Thai police?"

There's no difference.  Thai police are Thais.

So you inferring that because ....... nah I give up,

No, I wasn't inferring anything, my comment was factual.

[heybuz]

I'm suspicious of the taxi stories but I recently lost my wallet containing about 30,000 bht at Chang Rai airport and it was handed in to admin  , very thankful not a satang missing, maybe lucky maybe because of security cameras but all good. 

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

5 hours ago, MRToMRT said:

Police propoganda machine is in full force I see.

Thai-bashing machine is in full force also...yet again, for no rational reason.

Following such a spell of negative publicity for the Thai Police even the most uncynical of us predicted a series of ‘positive stories’ and this is exactly what we got. 

 

It was less than 24 hours ago on another thread that people (myself included) were predicting the onset of ‘positive police’ stories... 

 

 

 

 

 

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

...and the restart of the lame, unwarranted Thai-bashing posts is well on it's way.

It's not Thai bashing... its ‘Thai Police Bashing’....   theres a difference and from personal experiences to those we read in the news the ‘bashing’ is quite warranted...  

 

 

 

 

 

[shackleton]

Well must be a positive taxi story due soon they have been getting bad press lately ???? 

[dallen52]

They are having a laugh. 

Next it will be 

Motorist actually stopped for a Pedestrian crossing...

 

Bring back the corruption stories...

[klauskunkel]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

She had the tourist police and an honest maid to thank for the return of her 70,000 baht jewelry.

I noticed only the maid is described as being honest.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, MRToMRT said:

Police propoganda machine is in full force I see.

Trying to paper over the cracks.

[soalbundy]

3 hours ago, Mavideol said:

and the re-start of the "brownies" nose TAT stories on it's way... next week bag full of cash returned to "presumed" owner and follow by the ""Indians  were handover their "lost" gold bracelets""

Yes, their PR department is embarrassingly obvious.

[ChrisKC]

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Thai-bashing machine is in full force also...yet again, for no rational reason.

I agree. It is a nice little story that for the rare occasions that "Thais can be praised", there is need felt by some to create ill out of it!

[ThaiFelix]

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Thai-bashing machine is in full force also...yet again, for no rational reason.

You can fool some of the people some of the time but Liverpool Lou all of the time (it seems) ????

[Myran]

Well done by everyone involved. But the Negative Nancy's are of course out in full force, as usual on AN.

[jeffriesbkk]

Basically the same as sick buffalo stories.

You either believe them or not.

[Naroge]

And how much "finder's fee" did the tourist pay the maid? Some token of appreciation would have been nice.

[goldenbrwn1]

7 hours ago, MRToMRT said:

Police propoganda machine is in full force I see.

Yep. The cringe is here. And why has the laughing emoticon gone now? The sad went ages ago because of hurty feelings and now the laughing emoticon in case it’s laughing at and not with….boo hoo ????.  No matter how many propaganda pieces on the police they shove out, all you have to do is ask a Thai person about their own police….same same mafia.

[BritScot]

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Thai-bashing machine is in full force also...yet again, for no rational reason.

I think there is every reason and its not bashing Thailand, at worst its pointing out the mysterious events that always seem to magically appear after a Thai Bad Press Day or week. Regular as clock work tick tock!