Indian Tourist Reports Loss of Valuables in a Bolt Car

[webfact]

 

At 1:00 am on October 7, 2023, Mr. Bang (a pseudonym), a 28-year-old Indian national, along with his Thai female friends, reported a loss to Assistant Investigator Chananant Kesenbua at Pattaya City Police Station. Mr. Bang forgot his wallet, containing $2,200 and several important documents, in a Bolt car.

 

The group had hailed the Bolt service via its app from Soi Bua Khao to Walking Street in South Pattaya. Upon realizing the loss, they tried to contact the driver immediately but to no avail. Their efforts to reach out were fruitless, prompting them to seek help from the police to trace their belongings.

 

A friend of the tourist recounted their immediate action of reaching out to the driver but the contact was unsuccessfulm reported 77kaoded.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

The investigative police have since been involved, attempting to trace the car registration number, phone number, and the driver's name without success.

 

The tourist expressed great displeasure and disappointment at the incident, having not anticipated such an occurrence.

 

Nevertheless, there is a plea for the driver of the mentioned car to come forward and return the tourist's belongings if they come to know of the incident.

 

The lost items not only have monetary value but also significant importance attached to the essential documents. Police are continuing efforts to resolve the matter.

 

Top Picture: 77kaoded

 

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[smedly]

25 minutes ago, webfact said:

Mr. Bang forgot his wallet, containing $2,200 and several important documents, in a Bolt car.

how does he know they were lost in the car

 

assuming  it was his passport lost (which wouldn't fit in a wallet) were they in a bag of some kind ?

 

did he pay for the bolt taxi ?

 

unconvinced

 

 

[mikebell]

Mr. Bang in a taxi with Thai girls and a bag goes missing?  I have my suspicions.  He needn't worry Thai taxi drivers are always returning lost property worth millions.

[Reginald Prewster]

Soi Bukhao and well, the indians have an eye for stealing ladyboys from beach road.

The stars in the daily news, when it comes to getting mugged big amount of valuables by a shemale.. 

[ezzra]

Well, they can't blame the transvestites this time...

[norfolkandchance]

Mr Bang. The irony

[Mavideol]

unfortunately it's a Bolt car, therefore the "nice/honest" taxi drivers that always return bags full of cash and/or valuable goods,  can not intervene to return all the valuables

[Phuketshrew]

1 hour ago, norfolkandchance said:

Mr Bang. The irony

Not going to get much bang for his buck now ......

[scorecard]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

 

At 1:00 am on October 7, 2023, Mr. Bang (a pseudonym), a 28-year-old Indian national, along with his Thai female friends, reported a loss to Assistant Investigator Chananant Kesenbua at Pattaya City Police Station. Mr. Bang forgot his wallet, containing $2,200 and several important documents, in a Bolt car.

 

The group had hailed the Bolt service via its app from Soi Bua Khao to Walking Street in South Pattaya. Upon realizing the loss, they tried to contact the driver immediately but to no avail. Their efforts to reach out were fruitless, prompting them to seek help from the police to trace their belongings.

 

A friend of the tourist recounted their immediate action of reaching out to the driver but the contact was unsuccessfulm reported 77kaoded.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

The investigative police have since been involved, attempting to trace the car registration number, phone number, and the driver's name without success.

 

The tourist expressed great displeasure and disappointment at the incident, having not anticipated such an occurrence.

 

Nevertheless, there is a plea for the driver of the mentioned car to come forward and return the tourist's belongings if they come to know of the incident.

 

The lost items not only have monetary value but also significant importance attached to the essential documents. Police are continuing efforts to resolve the matter.

 

Top Picture: 77kaoded

 

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"...The investigative police have since been involved, attempting to trace the car registration number, phone number, and the driver's name without success...."

 

BOLT is a well organized international operation giving quite good and very popular service. Used it many times, also son and several times used their services to take mid teens kids to school an return from school. Never once and problem whatever.

 

I rather doubt BOLT would:

 

- Not know the drivers name and details.

- Be uncooperative with the police. 

[ignore it]

Yep.

Whenever I pop out for a beer down walking street I always take a minimum of $2000. with me

 

 

 

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, Mavideol said:

unfortunately it's a Bolt car, therefore the "nice/honest" taxi drivers that always return bags full of cash and/or valuable goods,  can not intervene to return all the valuables

So are you assuming that all BOLT drivers are dishonest?

[JayBird]

Who goes to walking street with ~75,000 THB on them?

 

Have bar fines really gone up that much? ????

[scorecard]

5 minutes ago, JayBird said:

Who goes to walking street with ~75,000 THB on them?

 

Have bar fines really gone up that much? ????

Depends how many...

[roo860]

6 minutes ago, ignore it said:

Yep.

Whenever I pop out for a beer down walking street I always take a minimum of $2000. with me

 

 

 

Cheapskate!????????

[Jiggo]

So Bolt car regestered licence plate and driver, pick up and drop of recorded.

Out on the town with over £2000, forgets his man bag.

Another scam I guess.

[Photoguy21]

Who carries $2200 with them when they take a walk out? Seems somewhat dubious.

[Cardinalblue1958]

Baffles me that people would take ANY valuables in nightlife spots…

 

And probably know very little about companions…

 

People are just not smart period 

[SiSePuede419]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Mr. Bang forgot his wallet, containing $2,200

That's a lot of boom boom. ????

[newnative]

Maybe he and the former billionaire can get together and do lunch.

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The investigative police have since been involved, attempting to trace the car registration number, phone number, and the driver's name without success.

Like the other movie...."Gone in 60-seconds"

[RJRS1301]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

 

At 1:00 am on October 7, 2023, Mr. Bang (a pseudonym), a 28-year-old Indian national, along with his Thai female friends, reported a loss to Assistant Investigator Chananant Kesenbua at Pattaya City Police Station. Mr. Bang forgot his wallet, containing $2,200 and several important documents, in a Bolt car.

 

The group had hailed the Bolt service via its app from Soi Bua Khao to Walking Street in South Pattaya. Upon realizing the loss, they tried to contact the driver immediately but to no avail. Their efforts to reach out were fruitless, prompting them to seek help from the police to trace their belongings.

 

A friend of the tourist recounted their immediate action of reaching out to the driver but the contact was unsuccessfulm reported 77kaoded.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

The investigative police have since been involved, attempting to trace the car registration number, phone number, and the driver's name without success.

 

The tourist expressed great displeasure and disappointment at the incident, having not anticipated such an occurrence.

 

Nevertheless, there is a plea for the driver of the mentioned car to come forward and return the tourist's belongings if they come to know of the incident.

 

The lost items not only have monetary value but also significant importance attached to the essential documents. Police are continuing efforts to resolve the matter.

 

Top Picture: 77kaoded

 

-- ASEAN NOW 2023-10-07

 

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Had they been in a taxi, it would have been back with them by now, left with police for photo op

[FarangJon]

I would like to report 10k loss in a gogo bar in pattaya. Money was just gone after one hour but there were many happy girls as I can remember. Royal thai police please undertake an imvestigation. 

[sambum]

"The tourist expressed great displeasure and disappointment at the incident,......."

Well, that just about covers how anyone would feel!

 

" having not anticipated such an occurrence."

I suppose he didn't really plan for it to happen? ????

[Gandtee]

3 hours ago, ignore it said:

Yep.

Whenever I pop out for a beer down walking street I always take a minimum of $2000. with me

 

 

 

Don't we all? Yeah. Right.????

[Lopburikid]

8 hours ago, smedly said:

how does he know they were lost in the car

 

assuming  it was his passport lost (which wouldn't fit in a wallet) were they in a bag of some kind ?

 

did he pay for the bolt taxi ?

 

unconvinced

 

 

Could be an insurance scam or a fund me account upcoming?????? Ha!

[RichardColeman]

I'm actually waiting for the Bolt driver to launch a defamation suit

[sherwood]

Like I could give a flying, this is Thailand, get used to it.

Top to bottom.

Come and we will tax you, one way or an other.

[Gknrd]

Haha, reminds me of my trip to Vietnam many many years ago. Nice hotel in Hanoi..  I returned after breakfast to fine about 5 hotel employees going threw my things. They quickly left after telling me they thought the room was empty... Valuable lesson, I lost 10,000 baht in cash I had in my bag..  

[spidermike007]

So what is the moral to this story? One idea that comes to mind is to always keep some loose money in your front pocket so that you can easily pay for things like a taxi ride without having to reach into your wallet. The second one is to always hang on to your wallet when you're in a taxi. 

[AustinRacing]

Maybe it was 2200 rupees which is less than 1000฿ which in turn fits well with an Indian tourist budget for a month (sharing everything with 10 other friends).