Swift arrest of gold shop robber in NE: A student in gambling debt who wanted the latest iPhone

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: Robber addicted to luxuries

 

Police in Udon Thani, NE Thailand, made a swift arrest after a gold shop snatch and grab robbery on Friday.

 

It happened at the Yaowarat 2 store in Phan Don, Kumphawapi district, where Sittisak, 21, a student at a private college, had entered pretending to buy two, two baht weight gold necklaces.

 

Instead he fled with the jewelry on a Honda Wave and shacked up in a hotel in Udon Thani.

 

Police were quickly on his case and an arrest warrant was issued on Saturday leading to his capture.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

He sold the gold to another shop for 100,000 baht and bought himself an iPhone 14 Pro Max for 45,000 baht.

 

With the rest he paid off online gambling debts after he had borrowed from friends, reported Daily News.

 

He said he had been looked after by his gran since he was born and his parents split up.

 

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He admitted to liking life's luxuries like brand name goods so made a decision to rob the store.

[BananaStrong]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

iPhone 14 Pro Max for 45,000 baht.

I feel bad the West are selling this magical devices for like 10 years salary!!!!!   All this kid wanted was to feel rich, successful, envied by his friends as he has the holy grail of phones!!!!!   Why is the world making such expensive things when so many are poor????  why??? why?????  hahhahahhaha

 

21-year old kid and he's doing this mug stuff?????   absolutely horrible.   

 

at 21 I was buying rare earth metals from China and selling them in America for bank!!!!!  

[Shop mak]

He's a result of gambling and the 'must have - must show of to friends' attitude.

[SiSePuede419]

Some students renting out a house near mine asked me one day when I was walking by, what kind of phone do I have?

 

I just held up my Samsung and smiled and walked away in shame. ????

[klauskunkel]

Years ago the reasons for robbery were to buy milk for the baby, or medicine for Mom...

that has been replaced with an unquenchable thirst for gadgets.

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, Shop mak said:

He's a result of gambling and the 'must have - must show of to friends' attitude.

I want I want I want I must have.... idiot.

[Confuscious]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I want I want I want I must have.... idiot.

In Thailand, students don't learn to put the "WANT" at the same level as "CAN AFFORD".
And at these times of "rich Tik Tok influencers", everything looks possible.

 

[bangon04]

"He said he had been looked after by his gran since he was born and his parents split up."

 

oh well, that is ok then.........

[radiochaser]

Is the Udon Thani Thai prison still at the same place it was 30 years ago?

[Thomas KH]

That unbreakable and inescapable vicious cycle of envy, greed and poverty.

[Damrongsak]

All I have is a lowly iPhone 6s+.  And it's a free hand-me-down from my wife's niece who had to have something newer and fancier.  Oh, the shame.  I'm the third owner of my iPad Air 2 which is  an upgrade from an even older one ... I was the 4th owner of that one. 

[Damrongsak]

22 hours ago, Thomas KH said:

That unbreakable and inescapable vicious cycle of envy, greed and poverty.

My wife's siblings have done well for the most part, but they work at it.  A couple are/were self-employed.  My younger bro-in-law had a little motorcycle repair shop.  We got him into the U.S. where for years he was a cook at a Thai restaurant. Last year he wandered into a Honda motorcycle dealership and walked out with a job.  He's now their most experienced mechanic except for the computer diagnostics.

 

(Disclaimer: I don't get paid for this endorsement.  But he does fix our cars, mows the lawn, cleans the gutters, rakes leaves and trims trees for free. Nice "kid" - I've known him since he was about 12 years old. )