What's the statistics on house break & enters in the isaan areas ?

What about those of you who live on farmlands,do you ever get strange vehicles driving down your drive way at night?

What about if your in a village ,do you have neighbourhood watch ?

Can you leave your doors open ?

Where is the most break & enters in the isaan region ?

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

What's the statistics on house break & enters in the isaan areas ?

What about those of you who live on farmlands,do you ever get strange vehicles driving down your drive way at night?

What about if your in a village ,do you have neighbourhood watch ?

Can you leave your doors open ?

Where is the most break & enters in the isaan region ?

How many ways do you ask same query, and how do you not understand the answers. Surely you're not that bored or stupid. Thought this explained it well enough ...

https://aseannow.com/topic/1390627-airconditioning-in-bars/page/2/#findComment-20436392

For future silly queries, TH and most countries are pretty much the same, not a whole lot different in all ways of living. Along with, every region of TH is the same.

We lock outer wall gate & door, most times. Can't say we lock all the doors & windows of the house itself. If they hop the wall, then they are going to enter the house (having obvious CCTV), so let them, as one less window or door to replace.

Car, if dog in it, it gets locked, if I can't see the car. Other times, probably locked, as pushing the button or fod, tilts in the mirrors. That the reason, not for security. If mirrors are in, people will assume it's locked anyway.

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

What's the statistics on house break & enters in the isaan areas ?

Send a pm to forum member GeorgieBoi.

He is the wannabe forum statistician and will have the numbers for you.

Crime wave has just hit one area.

https://aseannow.com/topic/1391619-2026-toyota-commuter-slide-side-small-panel-stolen

Thais are afraid of ghosts, so nighttime is probably safer for that reason alone, and then you have all the roaming soi dogs as well.

Around us, it is more about fruit, vegetables, and fish theft than anything else. We once had a car pull up next to my mother-in-law while she was at the farm. The people inside did not get out, probably because my American Bully was standing right beside her. They said they were police and wanted to know about our security system and what we did for protection at night. My mother-in-law just played dumb and told them we release the other dogs. 😂

I have been in a remote Isaan village for 12 years now. Crimes up to date: drunken brawls. Two cases of Yaba dealing, quickly extinguished. Shoplifting (yaba addict) found and banned from the village. Cattle rustling. I'm afraid so, yes, and I'm sorry to say that this was done by Cambodian speaking villagers. I believe a tractor disappeared some years ago. Son-in-law's mango tree got stripped overnight! That's it, no burglaries as such.

In other parts of Isaan it will be different.

Do we lock the doors? Sure do....

Anyone who leaves their doors unlocked anywhere is asking for trouble, as it only takes one time to lose everything or worse, especially if you have small children.

Besides that, locals , farmers in the country, aren't going about intending to burglarize houses, although once a few years ago my window was "played with", meaning someone tried to get in. Likely a couple of teens from the village who know what I have, and after I passed around the word that they would be very sorry if caught, it never happened again.

I have fruit trees and the only ones that get ripped off are the Rose Apples the neighbor kids take because the tree is on the dirt road in front of my home but I have little problem with that as it's a temptation small children find hard to avoid. Most of the problems here involve certain weirdos, including one in my extended family because of my daughter, who poison dogs all the time. He's a pretty disturbed individual that the village head did nothing about, as they really don't care about dogs after they're puppies here anyway. Scooters are the most targeted items in Isaan.

I have almost nothing worth stealing, so have always adopted the policy of leaving everything unlocked and insecure, creating the impression that indeed, there is nothing worth stealing.

When living in a small village near Luang Prabang, Laos (so totally irrelevant for these Isaan statistics), one person decided after dark to try to steal my copper amateur radio antenna wire from my garden. Unfortunately, he attempted this while I was actually transmitting into that wire with quite a lot of radio frequency (RF) energy lol! RF burns hurt like hell (I know), and he made a quick exit. After that, I stopped using copper and changed to plastic... (!?)

Opportunity is theft, it's people like the comments above who are most likely to encounter thiefs in their life. This is why a simple gate or camera is so effective, not because it prevents it itself but because it makes it a less easy opportunity.

This is the same on the streets for harrasment and pickpockets; slow walkers and insecure people are targeted.

6 minutes ago, BuffaloRider said:

Opportunity is theft, it's people like the comments above who are most likely to encounter thiefs in their life. This is why a simple gate or camera is so effective.

Well, my 'psychological' approach seems to have worked pretty well all my life :) In a similar manner, I have never been harassed or mugged or pickpocked - ever! I don't wear (or have!) any rings or watches - I simply don't look worth mugging :)

On 4/11/2026 at 5:20 PM, cooked said:

Cattle rustling

This conjures up images of 'Bonanza!' with the Cartwrights chasing down some no good dirty varmints with bandanas covering their faces.