Everything gone except for my passport that is at home.  Lucky I don't carry it around with me.  That would have taken ages to replace plus my work permit is running out.  My phone was in the bag as well but they are not answering it. 

 

I don't blame them.  If I saw a lost bag, I would take it.  Drive far enough and pull the battery out of the phone.  Then go home and reformat the device.  It's only right.

 

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If I saw a lost bag, I would take it.  Drive far enough and pull the battery out of the phone.  Then go home and reformat the device.  It's only right.

So the thief stole from a potential thief. He got the right one.

Did you leave your bag unattended and someone stole it or was it a grab and run sort of thief?

 

2 hours ago, markclover said:

I don't blame them

You sir!! kind of people we need , Forget and forgive , though you did mention plans of grabbing some unattended bags and format the device.... you are a great planner as well!! Kudos!!

Ahhh !! Nightmare. Sorry about that. You never know someone might hand it in or try and contact you. 
 

I left my bag on the floor while fishing with a couple of thousand baht in it and my iPhone 12. I went back looking for it but it was gone. Where I’d been standing was a dirt road between two reservoirs and people were riding back and fourth between village at that time yen yen.  I searched for it i the FindmyIphone website but as pure bad luck is changed my sim and hour earlier coz the signal was no good on True. I couldn’t see my phone on the map. Ah ! I need to put money on the new AIS Sim ! I did that and nothing come up on the Map. Damn must be in a no signal area or someone has took the Sim out.

 

Next day about 1600 someone come to our house and asks if we had lost a bag. Works out that they had sat on it all day while I went out of my mind with no access to banking and losing a £1000 phone. They had seen my driving license in the money back with Thai Address called someone in our village and asked if they had a particularly handsome Falang there and they knew it must be me. 
 

The girlfriend and I and little Dang went over to the village on the otherside of the Reservoir and met the family who had it while I moaned Why it took them over 24hours to get in touch when my address on the drivers licence was in the bag and it has about 2000 missed calls. The phone had signal but with AIS you must load the money and choose a plan to get internet connectivity while Dtac and true will use the money on the phone and internet connection is available. If I’d not taken the True SiM out that day and put the AIS I’d have been able to follow that fone on the Map or with my girlfriends phone in FindMyFriends App. 
 

I gave them the contents of the money bag about 3000baht and got off , still moaning. 
 

I know iPhones aren’t for everyone but when you lose it life is a lot easier to recover things than say an Android. 
 

I’ve had an IPhone 12 here get damaged and be dead and I was able to recover everything onto the new phone just by signing back into my Apple ICloud account. Contacts photos notes hundreds of work PDFs Messages passwords for everything Zummmm! Back on the new phone. 
 

 And while you’re here if it’s possible to get an Esim , available on Dtac for an IPhone 12 they can’t remove it. 
 

Hope all that helps. 

I don't know if they still do, but it was common for people here, usually girls/women, to leave their bag on a table in a food court to 'reserve' it while they got their food. And then there were sad tales of them returning to the table and their bag and/or phone had gone. Now, if they had realised that by the time they got their food there were likely to be seats available anyway after others had finished their meal and left.....

13 hours ago, JustAnotherHun said:

So the thief stole from a potential thief. He got the right one.

Karma,  

9 hours ago, Stevey said:

The girlfriend and I and little Dang went over to the village on the otherside of the Reservoir and met the family who had it while I moaned Why it took them over 24hours to get in touch when my address on the drivers licence was in the bag and it has about 2000 missed calls. The phone had signal but with AIS you must load the money and choose a plan to get internet connectivity while Dtac and true will use the money on the phone and internet connection is available. If I’d not taken the True SiM out that day and put the AIS I’d have been able to follow that fone on the Map or with my girlfriends phone in FindMyFriends App. 
 

I gave them the contents of the money bag about 3000baht and got off , still moaning. 

So someone looked after your bag for you, took it home, then made the effort to track you down and return it and you are moaning because it took them too long?? You don't deserve to get it back.

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I know iPhones aren’t for everyone but when you lose it life is a lot easier to recover things than say an Android. 
 

I’ve had an IPhone 12 here get damaged and be dead and I was able to recover everything onto the new phone just by signing back into my Apple ICloud account. Contacts photos notes hundreds of work PDFs Messages passwords for everything Zummmm! Back on the new phone. 

You can do all of that on an Android phone too.

11 hours ago, RandiRona said:

You sir!! kind of people we need , Forget and forgive , though you did mention plans of grabbing some unattended bags and format the device.... you are a great planner as well!! Kudos!!

Next time he goes to the atm I'm  there with water gun

 

14 hours ago, markclover said:

If I saw a lost bag, I would take it.

So YOU lost your bag somewhere
and you just assume everyone else is like yourself....????‍♂️
just so you can play the victim...????‍♂️

14 hours ago, markclover said:

I don't blame them.  If I saw a lost bag, I would take it.  Drive far enough and pull the battery out of the phone.  Then go home and reformat the device.  It's only right.

So you are not better than those that took your bag – in a way your deserve it...

Please let us know where you live, so i can avoid having my bag nicked by you. 

10 hours ago, Stevey said:

Ahhh !! Nightmare. Sorry about that. You never know someone might hand it in or try and contact you. 
 

I left my bag on the floor while fishing with a couple of thousand baht in it and my iPhone 12. I went back looking for it but it was gone. Where I’d been standing was a dirt road between two reservoirs and people were riding back and fourth between village at that time yen yen.  I searched for it i the FindmyIphone website but as pure bad luck is changed my sim and hour earlier coz the signal was no good on True. I couldn’t see my phone on the map. Ah ! I need to put money on the new AIS Sim ! I did that and nothing come up on the Map. Damn must be in a no signal area or someone has took the Sim out.

 

Next day about 1600 someone come to our house and asks if we had lost a bag. Works out that they had sat on it all day while I went out of my mind with no access to banking and losing a £1000 phone. They had seen my driving license in the money back with Thai Address called someone in our village and asked if they had a particularly handsome Falang there and they knew it must be me. 
 

The girlfriend and I and little Dang went over to the village on the otherside of the Reservoir and met the family who had it while I moaned Why it took them over 24hours to get in touch when my address on the drivers licence was in the bag and it has about 2000 missed calls. The phone had signal but with AIS you must load the money and choose a plan to get internet connectivity while Dtac and true will use the money on the phone and internet connection is available. If I’d not taken the True SiM out that day and put the AIS I’d have been able to follow that fone on the Map or with my girlfriends phone in FindMyFriends App. 
 

I gave them the contents of the money bag about 3000baht and got off , still moaning. 
 

I know iPhones aren’t for everyone but when you lose it life is a lot easier to recover things than say an Android. 
 

I’ve had an IPhone 12 here get damaged and be dead and I was able to recover everything onto the new phone just by signing back into my Apple ICloud account. Contacts photos notes hundreds of work PDFs Messages passwords for everything Zummmm! Back on the new phone. 
 

 And while you’re here if it’s possible to get an Esim , available on Dtac for an IPhone 12 they can’t remove it. 
 

Hope all that helps. 

Not long ago I was riding my motorbike along a busy highway and found a case right in the middle of the lane, I tied the case onto my bike expecting to find someone parked on the hard shoulder, I did and returned the bag to them.

If I could not find anyone, my intention was to take the case home, open it to see if I could find any ID, then return it to them. 

I wouldn't steal a bag or phone. $1m would think about it 555

31 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

Not long ago I was riding my motorbike along a busy highway and found a case right in the middle of the lane, I tied the case onto my bike expecting to find someone parked on the hard shoulder, I did and returned the bag to them.

If I could not find anyone, my intention was to take the case home, open it to see if I could find any ID, then return it to them. 

Acting like you did is what I would call decency.

 

A few returned bags or wallets more and you should be entitled to become an honest Thai taxi driver in your next life ????

 

I do my nut regularly at my son for being so forgetful. He’s lost a fair, few telephones, among other things, in the past. We recently returned from the UK where the very first thing I did was to forget my main suitcase. I left it on the terminal train at Heathrow.

My son loved that. Very fortunately, somebody had handed the bag in to lost property, but a lesson was learnt.

I do understand that sinking feeling as you realise that you’ve gone and lost something necessary.

I don't blame them.  If I saw a lost bag, I would take it. 

 

I read this a couple of times... Felt confused even without a single beer.

So... Congratulations!

15 hours ago, markclover said:

If I saw a lost bag, I would take it.  Drive far enough and pull the battery out of the phone.  Then go home and reformat the device.  It's only right.

I read in another of your posts you are English right?

15 hours ago, markclover said:

If I saw a lost bag, I would take it. 

So what if it had been purposely left there by those stupid Southern insurgents, and boooooooom!

1 minute ago, Goat said:

I read in another of your posts you are English right?

What's that got to do with it?

1 minute ago, KannikaP said:

What's that got to do with it?

More than southern Thais.

2 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

You can do all of that on an Android phone too.

You can buy an android and open settings add a user name and password , verify the account is yours via a text from Apple to the registered SIM cards or pre-registered friends numbers and everything gets sucked into the phone ? 
 

Are you sure ? My general rule is to blank anyone I see with a non IOS phone on the basis that they either have no sense of right or wrong Sometimes I just feel sorry for them and try to educate the poor devil.

52 minutes ago, Goat said:

I read in another of your posts you are English right?

The English will nick anything that’s not nailed down Eg. India   
 

Which they can have back. 

4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

I don't know if they still do, but it was common for people here, usually girls/women, to leave their bag on a table in a food court to 'reserve' it while they got their food. And then there were sad tales of them returning to the table and their bag and/or phone had gone. Now, if they had realised that by the time they got their food there were likely to be seats available anyway after others had finished their meal and left.....

This is the exact reason why when I go out to a restaurant, I always take a massive suitcase with no wheels filled with rocks to reserve my table if I ever need to go to the toilet to do a line of Charlie

18 hours ago, Stevey said:

You can buy an android and open settings add a user name and password , verify the account is yours via a text from Apple to the registered SIM cards or pre-registered friends numbers and everything gets sucked into the phone ? 
 

Are you sure ? My general rule is to blank anyone I see with a non IOS phone on the basis that they either have no sense of right or wrong Sometimes I just feel sorry for them and try to educate the poor devil.

Something like that.    All my contacts, pictures, documents, etc were downloaded from someplace onto my new Samsung android phone in the U.S. of A., after the old one crapped out in Thailand last year. 

14 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

Something like that.    All my contacts, pictures, documents, etc were downloaded from someplace onto my new Samsung android phone in the U.S. of A., after the old one crapped out in Thailand last year. 

https://www.samsung.com/ae/support/mobile-devices/changes-to-gallery-sync-samsung-cloud-drive-and-premium-storage/#:~:text='Gallery Sync'%2C 'My,and files that you want.
 

Is all that going to google ?  
 

And life is so much easier on an Apple device with face recognition. If my iPhone12’s face recognition system says it’s me that good enough for my bank so it must be secure 

31 minutes ago, Stevey said:

https://www.samsung.com/ae/support/mobile-devices/changes-to-gallery-sync-samsung-cloud-drive-and-premium-storage/#:~:text='Gallery Sync'%2C 'My,and files that you want.
 

Is all that going to google ?  
 

And life is so much easier on an Apple device with face recognition. If my iPhone12’s face recognition system says it’s me that good enough for my bank so it must be secure 

Who knows where it's going?  Not I.   
Does it matter?   Google, Microsoft, apple, opm.gov?
They all have my life history someplace!
It's that black web that worries me.   They have it all too!

On 4/20/2023 at 10:36 PM, markclover said:

Drive far enough and pull the battery out of the phone.

Not so easy to just "pull out" the battery of most modern phones.

21 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Not so easy to just "pull out" the battery of most modern phones.

Last year at the mall across the street from the condo, the battery in my Samsung popped out all by itself!   I had just bought a screen protector and watched it put on.  When the cell phone was given back to me it felt warm then got warmer.   The phone split apart as I walked out the nearest exit thinking the damn thing was going to explode, catch fire, or both!  With me hoping it didn't like those youtube video's I saw!

My cell phone died a hot death by expanding battery! 

Yes.   In the U.S. of A.  
Don't be mean.   My Samsung might cry!  
P.S. Life is going forward well.  Needing  an iphone to have a good life ...  what does that say about you?