A Thai man suspected of serial dine-and-dashing targeted two local Pattaya restaurants this month, leaving unsuspecting individuals to foot the bill. Posing as a soldier from Naresuan Camp, the fraudster would arrange a fake business meeting at the restaurant, consume a meal, and then quietly disappear.

 

Yum Workshop, a well-known eatery located in Soi Khao Talo, Nongprue sub-district, Banglamung district, Chon Buri province was the first to fall prey. On Tuesday evening, September 26, the man entered the restaurant and claimed to be meeting friends for a business-related discussion.

 

He ordered various dishes and three bottles of beer. Two hours later, three unsuspecting men joined him. However, the man vanished from the table within 30 minutes of their arrival, leaving the trio to deal with the restaurant staff.

 

Upon realising the man’s absence, the 41 year old restaurant manager, Wasna Kosaengrak, questioned the three men about their missing companion. To her surprise, they revealed that they were not friends with the man but were his supposed customers who were there to discuss a curtain purchase for his boss’s house.

 

After a suspicious phone call, he had excused himself from the table and never returned. The CCTV footage showed the man making his exit on a motorbike, leaving the restaurant with a loss of 1,065 baht.

 

While it is not clear if Wasna intends to press charges, she urged fellow business owners to be wary of such deceitful patrons.

 

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Full story: The Thaiger 2023-09-29

 

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and I thought Buddhists were an honest and caring bunch  ... 

Happen to me once. I was sitting at the counter in a busy restaurant drinking coffee. The guy eating breakfast, next to me started up a conversation. When he finished he took my tab and said he would buy my coffee. You see where this is going. I saw him go up to the cashier, talk to her, she looked over to where I was sitting. I ended up paying for his breakfast????

4 hours ago, steven100 said:

and I thought Buddhists were an honest and caring bunch  ... 

Yes, the same as Christians.

5 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The CCTV footage showed the man making his exit on a motorbike, leaving the restaurant with a loss of 1,065 baht.

 

he'll be caught soon because,  as many crooks,  he thinks he's the smartest dude in the world

I rarely allow strangers to sit and chat at my table. You wanna chat ? Sure but keep your distance, your table and your tab.

 

Especially when it's a farang who are often the biggest cheats in Thailand.

10 hours ago, steven100 said:

and I thought Buddhists were an honest and caring bunch  ... 

Charity starts at home.

Maybe its just my imagination, but it looks like the TAT stole the thread here and decided to post a nice picture of chinese diners and not a thai soldier impersonator ? 

 

 

11 hours ago, steven100 said:

and I thought Buddhists were an honest and caring bunch  ... 

They don't hurt animals but humans are fair game! 

I bet the fake soldier turns out to be a real one; like the number of Thai police impersonating real ones.

His friends call him BD Big Dinner ????

I had that happen to me many years ago on a train to Butterworth, en route to Singapore. I had just finished a meal in the restaurant carriage, and a man with an American accent sat down opposite me and started a conversation. He drank three large beers in quick succession and as we drew into Had Yai station excused himself to urinate. As the train pulled out again I saw him on the platform waving to me.

20 hours ago, Maybole said:

I had that happen to me many years ago on a train to Butterworth, en route to Singapore. I had just finished a meal in the restaurant carriage, and a man with an American accent sat down opposite me and started a conversation. He drank three large beers in quick succession and as we drew into Had Yai station excused himself to urinate. As the train pulled out again I saw him on the platform waving to me.

so are you saying he didn't pay for them ?  did you buy him the beer  ?