By Adam Judd

 

Pattaya, Thailand - A young Indian man made a police report late last night in Pattaya stating pickpockets took 44,000 baht in cash from his pocket after he finished shopping at a convenience store.

 

The alleged incident happened at 11:00 P.M. on February 10th, 2023, when Mr. Mayur Manish Surve, an Indian student, went to the Pattaya Police station with an unidentified friend to make a police report.

 

According to Mr. Surve, earlier in the evening he had gone to a convenience store on Pattaya Beach to purchase some groceries. The name of the store was withheld by Pattaya police pending review of CCTV and a full investigation. Mr. Surve told The Pattaya News that upon leaving the store a group of Thai individuals approached him and began asking him about his purchase and his visit.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/02/11/indian-man-says-he-was-robbed-of-44000-baht-in-cash-in-pattaya-by-pickpockets/

 

-- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2023-02-11

 

- Cigna 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.

 

The most versatile and flexible rental investment and holiday home solution in Thailand - click for more information.

 

 

 

Why would anyone be packing that much baht or any currency on them?

 

Hmmm…. Isnt it usually a gold chain necklace you sometimes see them festooned with, or more often the lady boy who steals their wallet from the room safe….. ad nauseum?

44k in cash? Indian "student"? Tourist or selling marijuana now?

1 hour ago, webfact said:

A young Indian man made a police report late last night in Pattaya stating pickpockets took 44,000 baht in cash from his pocket after he finished shopping at a convenience store.

 

that pocket must be huge adn deep

Was his travel insurance current ?LOL

 

47 minutes ago, Stargeezr said:

Why would anyone be packing that much baht or any currency on them?

 

To buy a gold chain.

Roaming with 44,000 baht in pockets. Not secured not careful. Quality tourists.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattaya, Thailand - A young Indian man made a police report late last night in Pattaya stating pickpockets took 44,000 baht in cash from his pocket after he finished shopping at a convenience store.

 

At first….in all the excitement he didn’t notice….but it now seems his 3 kilo gold chain is also missing…..oh….and his Patek Philippe Titanium wristwatch…..oh….and his Christian Dior sunglasses…. oh…..and his Air Jordan 10 OVO athletic shoes…. and…. well….oh yeah.....he almost forgot...there was also that bottle of Macallan 1926 whiskey.

 

 

 

Edited February 10, 20233 yr by Hayduke

29 minutes ago, Xanthe said:

Roaming with 44,000 baht in pockets. Not secured not careful. Quality tourists.

Not just anyone: I would expect someone from India to be more street smart.

Mr. Surve said that the group distracted him wth conversation and then one of them must have pickpocketed 44,000 baht in cash that Mr. Surve stated was in his pants

 

Smiling face with police report in hand he can now make an insurance claim back home.

Be back to Thailand soon, will bring some more mates..

5 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Smiling face with police report in hand he can now make an insurance claim back home.

If all these "alleged" insurance claims are genuine, then Indian insurance companies will go bankrupt soon. 

He won't get a satang back if he was actually pickpocketed as he claims, gold necklaces are far easier to reclaim.

The baht will already have been spent.

The bare minimum survival instincts should discourage anyone from carrying more than a few thousand baht in cash, and no valuable jewelry, when out and about in a place as notoriously crime ridden as Pattaya. These are very simple laws for well being and self protection. Hard to feel too much sympathy. 

 

The exception might be if one is on their way to purchase a car, rent an apartment, do a major ganga deal, etc. 

thats a lot of cokes for him and his boyz.

2 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Why would anyone be packing that much baht or any currency on them?

 

Prices have soared at family-mart.

 

Looks like he's happy enough, now that he has the police report for his insurance company,

2 hours ago, bbbbooboo said:

Hmmm…. Isnt it usually a gold chain necklace you sometimes see them festooned with, or more often the lady boy who steals their wallet from the room safe….. ad nauseum?

If you look at the photo. He has his hand on his chest, checking to see if his chain is still there.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Mr. Surve told The Pattaya News that upon leaving the store a group of Thai individuals approached him and began asking him about his purchase and his visit.

In all of my years here, I have never heard of Thai pick pockets, that and you think, if you were crazy enough to carry 44,000 baht in cash as I have done in the past, i.e. from ATM to car, to house, to safe, you would put 10k baht in each pocket and avoid people.

 

I call his story BS and that it looks like Indians in particular are looking for some kind of fame or creating new scams each time they come here, e.g. how long before we here of the next Indian victim.

 

His insurance policy, I would think wouldn't cover such an amount, or that is the maximum.

 

Also I couldn't help notice his unidentified friend carrying a bum bag with hand on it, as most do.

Police should caution tourists about pulling out a roll of 44k baht in a Beach Road 7-11 late at night. Some insurance companies I've dealt with won't cover loss of cash.

Expect a feel good story soon about honest taxi driver handing back something. One usually follows the other. 

3 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Why would anyone be packing that much baht or any currency on them?

 

Maybe he was buying a wife here , as you do 

I sense some dodginess in this guy’s claim. Pants on fire for sure. 

I'm calling BS on this story

3 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Why would anyone be packing that much baht or any currency on them?

 

Perhaps his total spend for the trip here..... brought as cash and changed in one go. Leaving it in the room safe has its risks too. Not saying I believe it 100%, but see it as possible. Miss the old travelers cheques, which is how I used to fund my trips a long time ago. 

Someone must have told him that ladyboys charge 44,000

The insurance companies must be wise to this by now with the Indians, surely.

2 hours ago, Hayduke said:

 

At first….in all the excitement he didn’t notice….but it now seems his 3 kilo gold chain is also missing…..oh….and his Patek Philippe Titanium wristwatch…..oh….and his Christian Dior sunglasses…. oh…..and his Air Jordan 10 OVO athletic shoes…. and…. well….oh yeah.....he almost forgot...there was also that bottle of Macallan 1926 whiskey.

 

 

 

I’m just sipping on that same brand of whisky I bought yesterday for a bargain price,but now my new Patek Phillipe saying time for bed,so just slip off my air Jordan’s and up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire… Anyone seen my sunglasses….? ???? 

6 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Someone must have told him that ladyboys charge 44,000

You are also informing us? 

4 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Why would anyone be packing that much baht or any currency on them?

 

He takes it with him, he gets pick-pocketed. He leaves it in hotel room safe, it gets broken into. He leaves it at hotel reception safe, he gets robbed. So maybe best he could do is just leave all money home in India and get you kind people pay for all his expenses in Thailand, I guess?