Pattaya Transgender Person Pickpockets Russian Couple and Gets Arrested

[webfact]

 

Pattaya —A transgender person in Pattaya was arrested by police last night for allegedly pickpocketing cash and two gold necklaces from a Russian couple several days ago.

The suspect was taken to the Pattaya Police Station on suspicions of pickpocketing 2,500 baht in cash and two gold necklaces from a Russian couple, Mr. Nikolay Smirnova, 51, and Mrs. Elena Smirnova, also 51.

 

The couple told police they were approached by the suspect who gave them a welcome hug and took selfies with them at 10:30 PM on May 23rd, on Jomtien Beach, Pattaya. The couple only realized that their jewelry and money had been stolen after the suspect walked away.

 

At the police station, Pol. Col. Thanapong Phothi, Superintendent of Pattaya Police Station, identified the alleged thief as Watcharapong Ponpun, a 27-year-old transgender person from Buriram province, northeastern Thailand.

 

The superintendent said to The Pattaya News that he had immediately embarked on a search for the culprit’s whereabouts, relying on CCTV footage and eyewitness accounts after receiving the theft report on May 23rd. Eventually, he discovered that the suspect had hired a taxi to escape to Bangkok after selling one of the stolen gold necklaces for a profit at an unnamed Pattaya gold shop.

 

By Tanakorn Panyadee

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/05/26/pattaya-transgender-person-pickpockets-russian-couple-and-gets-arrested/

 

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[ezzra]

Apparently, those transgenders are not being punished harshly enough to make them think twice before their next light fingers work, is it because the police feel sorry for them? they shouldn't, those guys are nothing but law lever criminals' scums.

[proton]

Is ladyboy a non word now then?

[sammieuk1]

Which one is the transgender ????

[mancub]

41 minutes ago, webfact said:

selling one of the stolen gold necklaces for a profit

Be a major Fail if he managed to make a loss on it !

[Kaopad999]

Why have to mention that the person was transgender? 

[Rimmer]

A flame has been removed

[Kaopad999]

23 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

Which one is the transgender ????

My guess would be the bald one. You can cleary see him/her trying to remove the gold neklace in the photo. 

Edited May 26, 2023 by Kaopad999

[mogandave]

6 minutes ago, Kaopad999 said:

Why have to mention that the person was transgender? 

Because they like attention? 

 

And if they did not say, everyone would assume it was a heterosexual.

 

 

Edited May 26, 2023 by mogandave

[Kaopad999]

25 minutes ago, proton said:

Is ladyboy a non word now then?

certainly not in Thai society. 

[brianthainess]

30 minutes ago, Kaopad999 said:

Why have to mention that the person was transgender? 

Er, cos He was. 

[HK MacPhooey]

28 minutes ago, Kaopad999 said:

Why have to mention that the person was transgender? 

Because almost 100% of this type of robbery is carried out by so called 'transgender' i.e. men dressed as women

[StayinThailand2much]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

A transgender person (...)

So, not a male person, or female person... Not a child person either. But a pickpocket person a.k.a. thief person...

[spidermike007]

Is the term ladyboy now discouraged? Are we seeing PC creeping into Thai culture too? 

[MrJ2U]

58 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

Which one is the transgender ????

I think they meant the gold snatcher. 

[bradiston]

How do you remove 2 necklaces with a hug AND pick a pocket (or two). Sounds like the Russians are learning from their Indian buddies.

[LALes]

Your Pattaya experience is not complete until you've been pickpocketed by a ladyboy.  Preferably on a baht bus.

[Kaopad999]

7 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Is the term ladyboy now discouraged? Are we seeing PC creeping into Thai culture too? 

No. Ladyboys themslves are proud of the term.

So a friend told me anyway... 

[BritScot]

6 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Is the term ladyboy now discouraged? Are we seeing PC creeping into Thai culture too? 

I hope not! I have to put up with being called farang as it's a term that's been used for over a hundred years so I think lady boys can also be used. Keep your woke pc out of Thailand please!..

[spidermike007]

41 minutes ago, Kaopad999 said:

No. Ladyboys themslves are proud of the term.

So a friend told me anyway... 

It may not be up to them. It may be in possession of the extremist woke "progressives". In the US they control the way people are supposed to speak, the curriculum in schools, etc. And it is likely they are 2% of the population, if that. 

[spidermike007]

45 minutes ago, BritScot said:

I hope not! I have to put up with being called farang as it's a term that's been used for over a hundred years so I think lady boys can also be used. Keep your woke pc out of Thailand please!..

I cannot understand it either. But, I am the least PC guy you will encounter. It is not a lack of respect. I have plenty of that. It is all about the cancel culture, and the extreme weakness that PC creates within a culture. I just will not have anything to do with any of that.

As I get older, I am developing a new skill set. I am becoming very good at ignoring nonsense, ignorance, naivety, and overly judgmental people. They barely register on my horizon. Social media seems to have amplified things and the media itself is "overly woke", which essentially means unconscious. I just don't care. Water off a ducks back. Don't have time for the foolishness.

As Bill Maher said recently, the things that seem important in Los Angeles, likely mean nothing in Des Moines. And how many dinner conversations do you think you will encounter in rural Ohio, about my trans child? Or my transitioning child. Or any such nonsense?
 
It is the tendency of the progressive wing of the Dems, to ask the world to acknowledge their preferences. Not me. I do not do PC. I hate PC. Do not even consider forcing your PC junk on me.
 
My family emigrated from Russia over a century ago, to the US. Do I call myself Russian American? No. Why? There is nothing Russian about me, other than some relatively hidden DNA. 
 
I love what Clint Eastwood has to say on this topic. When asked about Dirty Harry he said: “It was far-out at that time, so I brought it to [director] Don [Siegel], and he liked it,” Eastwood recalled Sunday during a visit to the Cannes Film Festival. “A lot of people thought it was politically incorrect. That was at the beginning of the era that we’re in now with political correctness. We are killing ourselves, we’ve lost our sense of humor. But I thought it was interesting and it was daring.”
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/clint-eastwood-decries-pc-culture-cannes-weve-lost-sense-humor-1005933
 
In another interview, he elaborates further: “I’m never cautious about what I say because, you know, I’ve been around a long time, what can they do? The political correctness era that we’re in is really not doing anyone any good. It’s taking everyone and weakening society. It doesn’t seem that people have to take themselves so serious,” Eastwood said. “It seems like, I’m just lucky that I grew up in an era where we all lived in an area where everybody joked about everything. Nothing was politically incorrect because everything was always a joke with a sense of humour. People sometimes are losing that and taking themselves and everyone else seriously. I think they’re missing a lot and not enjoying the differences that we all have.”
 
https://theplaylist.net/clint-eastwood-political-correctness-20180208/
 
Few could have said it better. And I am in total agreement with all of it.

 

 

 

Edited May 26, 2023 by spidermike007

[ignore it]

So the 'non crack' crack down on Pattaya beach hug thieves has them moving on to Jomtien Beach. And now they are doing twofers.

Edited May 26, 2023 by ignore it

[damo1967]

1 hour ago, Kaopad999 said:

Why have to mention that the person was transgender? 

Because they happen to be transgender?  People get reported as 'male' or 'female', so why not transgender?  Nothing discriminatory about that... What do you call your current partner?  ladyboy or transgender?  

[phil2407]

So want happens to the necklaces - do the actual owners the people get them back is it an insurance thing as shop owner bought in good faith does the shop owner get done for "fencing"

 

 

[Kaopad999]

3 minutes ago, damo1967 said:

Because they happen to be transgender?  People get reported as 'male' or 'female', so why not transgender?  Nothing discriminatory about that... What do you call your current partner?  ladyboy or transgender?  

I don't have a peoblem with that, but they prefer to be called Ladyboy in Thailand. 

[arick]

Snatching is a 5 years minimum behind bars same as snatching a buffalo or anything dealing with a buffalo

[Kaopad999]

1 hour ago, BritScot said:

I hope not! I have to put up with being called farang as it's a term that's been used for over a hundred years so I think lady boys can also be used. Keep your woke pc out of Thailand please!..

Agree. 

[Phuket Pete]

Bloody hell the Russians are at it as well now !

[parafareno]

the problem with ladyfruitcakes is that thai society shuns them and they cant get a proper job, so they either steal, or sell their bodies....same as blacks in USA...so they have to steal, but stealing from 2 russkies....that does not bother me a lot

Edited May 26, 2023 by parafareno

[Gandtee]

2 hours ago, proton said:

Is ladyboy a non word now then?

Some of them are just a*******s. Forgive the pun.

Edited May 26, 2023 by Gandtee
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