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Phuket CCTV shows foreigner taking spirit house offerings

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I am atheist and I think it's stupid to leave food in a spirit house. It seems more useful to me to give food to poor people who are hungry.

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  • jacko45k
    jacko45k

    Is that so bad? it would seem a better result than protecting it until it rots or the birds and rodents get to it!

  • HolmesEquivelant
    HolmesEquivelant

    Most likely a “I can live in Thailand on 30k Thai baht” type. Disgusting behavior for a foreigner.

  • Olmate
    Olmate

    Did you palm the occasional fiver from the plate at sunday church too!! 🤣

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I know that guy! Seen him selling small items of food and red fanta in the local market... :)

3 hours ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

Most likely a “I can live in Thailand on 30k Thai baht” type.

Disgusting behavior for a foreigner.

Well, I live happily on about 25k baht/month and I don't have to resort to stealing food (I can afford to eat out every day...)

3 hours ago, JJ-Thailand said:

Jail time and deportation is waiting for this scumbag.

why jail? little harm was done. Jail is for serious offenders not for mentally ill people. He must be in bad shape to steal rotten old food that will make him ill if he consumes it. It costs money to keep people in jail. Send him home.

3 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Well, I live happily on about 25k baht/month and I don't have to resort to stealing food (I can afford to eat out every day...)

So, no Only Fans page?

1 hour ago, rumeaug said:

well, you actually can perfectly (and quite easily) live with 30k month in Thailand, no problem. Just don't expect foreign standard luxury.

A matter of time before the 30k a month crowd tries to justify their decision.

Good for you but not me.

Who doesn't like red fanta?

Personally, I saw 'locals' doing exactly the same thing during the COVID era. Instead of looking down my nose at them, simply turned around and gave them some of the food and money that I had with me.

If it were a foreigner, I would have done the same.

In fact, it reminds me of someone I know. During the same period, I thought that I caught a glance of him rummaging through a bin, but didn't want to embarrass him and myself by asking about it. A bit stupid when I think of it.

Worse because I didn't ever see him again after that...and I'd been seeing him around in various places since 1998. sad

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5 hours ago, b17 said:

I wish morons like him wouldn't come to Thailand and ruin it for the rest of us

Ruin what?

This kind of thing has had zero effect on my life here. As the article said, many Thais laughed about it. The pilferer looked like he needed a few extra calories.

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

??

I would not begrudge any nationality in need, but a Thai would have more appreciation of what the spirit house is about. A foreigner likely not.

The foreigner may well have fallen on bad times or have mental issues.

I totally agree. The man may not have any understanding about Buddism and its culture and saw the food as a free gift!

Like the Honesty Boxes alongside footpaths, mountain tracks and nature trails in the UK.

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3 hours ago, rumeaug said:

well, you actually can perfectly (and quite easily) live with 30k month in Thailand, no problem. Just don't expect foreign standard luxury.

That is not a living standard, that is survival mode.

2 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

So, no Only Fans page?

You definitely wouldn't want to see that....... with or without gimp suit!

6 hours ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

Then it’s time for the foreigner to go back home.

If he has to steal food I think booking a flight home might be an issue.

Does anyone have any idea what nationality he is?

In my country, it's the most desperate thieves who empty the collection boxes. The question is, what is such a destitute person doing in Thailand? A related question: how could he have financed his trip if he finds himself in this situation?

Hey, my father said a man is nothing but a collection of anecdotes. So here goes:

We stayed in a basic hotel in the provinces with relatives. They had nothing vegetarian. So I was siting in the lobby while the others ate. And I noticed that the maids had put out four plastic trays waiting to be delivered to the spirits.

It was pretty spare fare...but I wasn't busted!

5 hours ago, flaming dragon said:

Ruin what?

This kind of thing has had zero effect on my life here. As the article said, many Thais laughed about it. The pilferer looked like he needed a few extra calories.

And many Thais were deeply offended. I was referring to the reputation of farangs, but you knew that but decided to comment anyways. Hmmm.

13 hours ago, b17 said:

What a total plonker. I wish morons like him wouldn't come to Thailand and ruin it for the rest of us. How could anyone in their right mind (??) do something so obviously wrong? One has to assume he was not in his right mind, and may be in great need of psychiatric therapy. As Olmate rightly says, it seems that some on this forum might like to palm the occasional five from the offering plate - most people know that is senseless after their fifth birthday.

Definitely Asian so us farangs can’t get the blame this time. 🤷🏼

Something wrong with this guy, not stealing out of need or greed, but just to do it. Some kind of compulsive behavior, the way some people shoplift - which he probably does.

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15 hours ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

Most likely a “I can live in Thailand on 30k Thai baht” type.

Disgusting behavior for a foreigner.

More like 10-15k. Given how thin he is, he probably survives on a 100 baht/day budget… and his demeanor suggests mental instability IMO.

What a low life POS!

According to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the Hungry Ghost Month is the 7th month, which runs from Aug 13 to Sep 10. Looks like someone got released from hell slightly earlier.

13 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Hey, my father said a man is nothing but a collection of anecdotes. So here goes:

We stayed in a basic hotel in the provinces with relatives. They had nothing vegetarian. So I was siting in the lobby while the others ate. And I noticed that the maids had put out four plastic trays waiting to be delivered to the spirits.

It was pretty spare fare...but I wasn't busted!

How absolutely awful, terrible behaviour. You are expected to respect the spirit house and starve! As for me, I am thirsty, I think I will reach through my neighbour's fence, and snatch the half bottle of bright green Fanta, enriched with a dozen drowned wasps to get a sugar hit!

20 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

That wasn't done out of need or poverty. That was a farang who had no respect for another people's culture or religion.

He knew it was wrong.

I didn't think he looked 'farang', and seemed well organized, reasonably dressed and efficient, almost like he does this regularly and is like a paper round for him.

In Russia, giving offerings is different. The offerings give to you and not need to be ghost. 👻

20 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

I'm not Christian, but... what would Jesus do?
If a man needs to steal old, perhaps rotten food to survive, who really has the problem? Is it society that lets things get this bad for the guy?
Is it us, because we don't offer a hand to these people?

Or do we just say, 'Screw him. It's his problem. Let's lock him up!'

To show respect for the locals, he should refrain from stealing.

6 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:

In Russia, giving offerings is different. The offerings give to you and not need to be ghost. 👻

Thailand is not your home country of Russia. It's always best to respect local customs.

2 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

Thailand is not your home country of Russia. It's always best to respect local customs.

It's a classic joke that Russians make about how great life in the USSR is because it's the opposite of everywhere else.

Off topic troll post removed @Mr Awesome

Rule 10. You will not post troll messages. Trolling is the act of purposefully antagonizing forum members by posting controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages with the primary intent of provoking other members into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.

2 hours ago, Mr Awesome said:

To show respect for the locals, he should refrain from stealing.

Are the locals respecting him?
Or are they ignoring a serious mental health problem, hoping someone else will care for him?
Should he have been let into the Kingdom in the first place? Who knows? Should we remove another layer of privacy when entering a country by declaring our mental health?
Obviously, the man has a problem. And it's just as obvious that the problem is not being handled correctly.

On 8/7/2026 at 8:45 AM, jacko45k said:

??

I would not begrudge any nationality in need, but a Thai would have more appreciation of what the spirit house is about. A foreigner likely not.

The foreigner may well have fallen on bad times or have mental issues.

Not a good idea to be travelling anywhere If he is a foreigner with mental issues.

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