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French duo’s extortion plan fails to baguette away with it in Phuket


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13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The victim believed that the two foreigners were French nationals due to their accents while speaking English, although he was not entirely certain of this assumption.

Sacre bleu, if they issue arrest warrants I hope they catch them before the 20 years is up.

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4 hours ago, ukrules said:

I have one real rule, anyone who approaches me is up to no good and I tend to treat them as such.

For example, I was at an ATM in Cambodia a few months ago and someone came over to me asking 'where my money is' - this is the woman who was just at the machine before I withdrew about $2000 in cash. She had waited until I used the machine 4 separate times to withdraw $500 and then approached.

I looked at her and told her to fqck off and she promptly made her exit. No time for these morons.
 

 

 

I had it in the UK last year at an ATM, when two Eastern Europeans approached me asking the whereabouts for a street that didn't exist as long as I have lived there.

 

I shouted at them to wait until I had finished at the ATM and they briskly walked away, it was a simple attempt at diversion tactics to steal either the cash or my card.

 

They got neither. Nobody with any sense approaches a person using an ATM to strike up a conversation without an ulterior motive.

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21 minutes ago, James9999 said:

Might have been Belgian or French Canadian. Either way remarkable a Thai can recognise English with a French accent.

 

He may not but he probably realized through experience that they were not native English speakers.

 

I can tell immediately when a Khmer speaks Thai that they are not native speakers.

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46 minutes ago, Ironmike said:

14 inches of steal pipe is easy to hid on a motor bike and it will split open some scumbags head very easily,,, that's what these scumbags can look forward to if they try that crap on me

 

Wow,

 

They don't call you Ironmike for nothing then!

 

Obviously, you meant STEEL pipe.

 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

 

He may not but he probably realized through experience that they were not native English speakers.

 

I can tell immediately when a Khmer speaks Thai that they are not native speakers.

You know I sometimes feel half the people in England speaking English aren't native English speakers.

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8 minutes ago, James9999 said:

You know I sometimes feel half the people in England speaking English aren't native English speakers.

 

I think you might be right.

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'Reportedly attempted'.. Now whilst I know the police still have to at least make records of reports, that seems very wishy-washy for making an article about. Then it goes further, to the person claiming to be a victim saying he thought the people attempting to extort him were speaking in a  French accent and therefore reported as French nationals. Even if he got that correct that it was a French accent, French is spoken by more people outside of France than in France itself by quite a large ratio.

 

 

 

 

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48 minutes ago, James9999 said:

Might have been Belgian or French Canadian. Either way remarkable a Thai can recognise English with a French accent.

Inspector Clouseau movies are very popular here, I mean isn't that how all French people speak?

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Hmmm... why the specific amount of 2,000 baht? Sounds like the foreign men were trying to sell the Thai something and demanded 2000 baht, which he rightfully turned down. All the same it's veiled extortion under the pretence of selling products/services which is illegal. If so, the foreign duo need to be fined, jailed and then deported with a life time ban.

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They can be Swiss, the western part of Switzerland is French-speaking, three cantons are bilingual: in Bern, Fribourg and Valais, French and German are spoken.

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So this is a news article? Here's my non AI summary of the story:

Someone posted a story on social media, other people commented on the story. No police report, no CCTV footage.

Great journalism!

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There is not many Thai's who can pick up on accents, My wife speaks almost perfect English and can pick up on certain accents when different foreigners speak English, It has taken years of dealing with many different nationalities everyday, 

 

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