Woman Badly Hurt On Pattaya Third Road Following

[libya 115]

SOURCE: Pattaya One News: July 29th 2008

Woman badly hurt in Third Road attempted Necklace Snatch.

Drive-by necklace snatches are becoming all-too-common here in Pattaya and local Police appear powerless to prevent them at this time. We now report on another snatch which this time, caused serious injury to the victim.

On Monday afternoon, Police Major Wittaya from Pattaya Police Station made his way to the North-end of Pattaya Third Road in front of the Khun Ying Caf? to investigate an attempted theft of a gold necklace belonging to Khun Sopar aged 33 who was driving her motorbike back home following a shopping trip to Tesco-Lotus in North Pattaya.

Witnesses told Police that as she drove along the road, two men, both wearing helmets to conceal their faces, pulled up beside her on their motorbike and the passenger attempted to steal Khun Sopar’s gold necklace. She resisted and out of apparent frustration, the thief then kicked Khun Sopars motorbike to the ground. She hit the ground head-first and was rendered unconscious.

Although she prevented the theft, she sustained a serious head injury which required her to be transferred to a specialist Neurological Unit at Chonburi District Hospital. Police have received descriptions of the two assailants who are thought to have committed at least two other similar robberies on Monday Afternoon in the same area.

Photograph courtesy of Pattaya One News

[Boo]

No helmet then? Poor girl, I hope she recovers

[TheWalkingMan]

There should be a poster in every restaurant, hotel, guesthouse, shopping mall, bar, club etc, advising everyone about the dangers of wearing gold chains in Pattaya. Additionally, there should be television spots warning folks. I hope the victim recovers fully.

TheWalkingMan

[goonerthegooner]

I am sorry too say,as the saying goes,don't wear it and the bastards won't nick it.

Hope she recovers from this ordeal.

[Shotime]

"..... the thief then kicked Khun Sopars motorbike to the ground. She hit the ground head-first and was rendered unconscious."

If she'd been wearing a helmet, like she's supposed to, the thief probably wouldn't have seen her necklace. If she hadn't hit the ground head-first, she'd probably not have hurt her head. When are people going to learn. Stay out of Pattaya if you don't wear a helmet.

[moo9]

The problem was not primarily the non existing helmet but these f***** B******!

[Briggsy]

Another life destroyed in an instant. The Pattaya thieves strike again. It will be forgotten quickly (by all but the victim). There will be many more incidents like this in the following week. Life is cheap. It's dog eat dog out there. Travel in packs.

[Shotime]

The problem was not primarily the non existing helmet but these f***** B******!

Which f***** B******! are you referring to? She was the one not wearing a helmet.

[NanLaew]

Shotime, you really in Bangkok?

[tropo]

There should be a poster in every restaurant, hotel, guesthouse, shopping mall, bar, club etc, advising everyone about the dangers of wearing gold chains in Pattaya. Additionally, there should be television spots warning folks. I hope the victim recovers fully.

TheWalkingMan

Is it safe to be wearing thick gold chains anywhere in Asia?

[Maigo6]

There should be a poster in every restaurant, hotel, guesthouse, shopping mall, bar, club etc, advising everyone about the dangers of wearing gold chains in Pattaya. Additionally, there should be television spots warning folks. I hope the victim recovers fully.

TheWalkingMan

Is it safe to be wearing thick gold chains anywhere in Asia?

Singapore, Japan, and most of Thailand, but Pattaya isn't advisable.

[Richie1971]

There should be a poster in every restaurant, hotel, guesthouse, shopping mall, bar, club etc, advising everyone about the dangers of wearing gold chains in Pattaya. Additionally, there should be television spots warning folks. I hope the victim recovers fully.

TheWalkingMan

Is it safe to be wearing thick gold chains anywhere in Asia?

Waiting for someone to say, 'This is only a small example of what happens in the tourist areas, where we live on the darkside in purpose built farang houses it is like heaven on earth, papers who report crimes in Pattaya are nothing but Pattaya bashers, could happen anywhere'. - My arse, could happen anywhere but surely not once a day, littered with the dregs of society and yes I lived in Jomtien for 6 months before I came to my senses. 'But there's a foodland here and everything we need, it really is God's country'. Ball locks

[NanLaew]

There should be a poster in every restaurant, hotel, guesthouse, shopping mall, bar, club etc, advising everyone about the dangers of wearing gold chains in Pattaya. Additionally, there should be television spots warning folks. I hope the victim recovers fully.

TheWalkingMan

Is it safe to be wearing thick gold chains anywhere in Asia?

Singapore, Japan, and most of Thailand, but Pattaya isn't advisable.

Sorry Maigo, my sis-in-law had her 3-baht chain snatched around 10 am in the market in Udon. Broad daylight, crowded, all-Thai market. There's desperate and bad folks just about anywhere.

[JSixpack]

OK, she was rather foolish; but it's very sad for this to have happened to her, poor lady. Hope she's OK and the perps get caught and boiled alive.

[TheWalkingMan]

There should be a poster in every restaurant, hotel, guesthouse, shopping mall, bar, club etc, advising everyone about the dangers of wearing gold chains in Pattaya. Additionally, there should be television spots warning folks. I hope the victim recovers fully.

TheWalkingMan

Is it safe to be wearing thick gold chains anywhere in Asia?

Singapore, Japan, and most of Thailand, but Pattaya isn't advisable.

I was going to reply that Japan is very safe for things like this. Just watch out for the random stabbings

TheWalkingMan

[Scott]

I hope she recovers.

[whatsoever]

It is safe to wear gold if you rare near to the Lek hotel as many of the night duty plod spend their time absorbing the aircon and watching TV in the lobby

[thaiman]

lesson: if you wear gold, you're a target

[NotNew2You]

There should be a poster in every restaurant, hotel, guesthouse, shopping mall, bar, club etc, advising everyone about the dangers of wearing gold chains in Pattaya.

Are you for real man! Have you ever been to Thailand...do you know anything about Thai culture? There is to much "face" to be gained from wearing silly gold trinkets around one's neck to ever even consider the danger of it while tooling around town on a moto-bike. I mean, these girls will never be able to gain the face from owning and driving a car, so to show-off to all their fellow poor bike riders, they have to sport what little extra wealth (gold) they have while on their bikes

Sorry, but I don't really have much sympathy for people who get robbed and/or injured from these types of gold snatchings anymore. It's long past the time they should have learned.

Edited July 31, 2008 by NotNew2You

[draggons]

hope the lass recovers from the head injury.

Shotime, you sound like an asshol_e

NN2Y Can't agree with your thinking regarding wearing of gold. My missus will not wear any of her gold while out & about on her own, regardless of where we are. Only time she's happy wearing any of it is when we're out of the country.

[davethailand]

Are you for real man! Have you ever been to Thailand...do you know anything about Thai culture? There is to much "face" to be gained from wearing silly gold trinkets around one's neck to ever even consider the danger of it while tooling around town on a moto-bike. I mean, these girls will never be able to gain the face from owning and driving a car, so to show-off to all their fellow poor bike riders, they have to sport what little extra wealth (gold) they have while on their bikes

Sorry, but I don't really have much sympathy for people who get robbed and/or injured from these types of gold snatchings anymore. It's long past the time they should have learned.

A bit heartless isn't it? whether they are stupid or not is irrelevant IMO! What if she doesn't recover?

Edited July 31, 2008 by davethailand

[TheWalkingMan]

There should be a poster in every restaurant, hotel, guesthouse, shopping mall, bar, club etc, advising everyone about the dangers of wearing gold chains in Pattaya.

Are you for real man! Have you ever been to Thailand...do you know anything about Thai culture? There is to much "face" to be gained from wearing silly gold trinkets around one's neck to ever even consider the danger of it while tooling around town on a moto-bike. I mean, these girls will never be able to gain the face from owning and driving a car, so to show-off to all their fellow poor bike riders, they have to sport what little extra wealth (gold) they have while on their bikes

Sorry, but I don't really have much sympathy for people who get robbed and/or injured from these types of gold snatchings anymore. It's long past the time they should have learned.

Use the bean lad, having posters about can do nothing but help. Think about all the tourists who only know Thailand as "the land of smiles," a place where everyone is happy and peaceful, where crime very low . Do you not think that posters would help? Do you not think that it could save a tourist from getting mugged? And I still am an advocate for the posters as lots of people do not know what's going on. That is unless they talk to someone such as your self who obviously knows all about Thailand from A to Z.

Enjoy!

TheWalkingMan

[NotNew2You]

Sorry, but I don't really have much sympathy for people who get robbed and/or injured from these types of gold snatchings anymore. It's long past the time they should have learned.

A bit heartless isn't it? What if she doesn't recover?

It is certainly a bad piece of luck for the girl...but was completely preventable. Sorta like crossing a street on a red-light and getting hit by a car...bad luck but preventable.

If she doesn't recover...she will die. People are born...and people die...it is part of the Wheel of Existence. It's likely she and her family are Buddhists so will expect her to be re-incarnated on a higher plane of existance (if she had sufficient good karma). Heck...for her next existance, she may really luck-out and come back as a man!

[BugJackBaron]

Sorry, but I don't really have much sympathy for people who get robbed and/or injured from these types of gold snatchings anymore. It's long past the time they should have learned.

A bit heartless isn't it? What if she doesn't recover?

It is certainly a bad piece of luck for the girl...but was completely preventable. Sorta like crossing a street on a red-light and getting hit by a car...bad luck but preventable.

If she doesn't recover...she will die. People are born...and people die...it is part of the Wheel of Existence. It's likely she and her family are Buddhists so will expect her to be re-incarnated on a higher plane of existance (if she had sufficient good karma). Heck...for her next existance, she may really luck-out and come back as a man!

Petty crime is pretty rampant here; my girl had her cell phone pickpocketed in that nice sunday jomtien market..her friend had her purse snatched

while riding on her motorbike....yes she asks me why she is so unlucky..(my reply that she was lucky to meet me doesn't comfort her) and prays

to Buddha and reads the tarot. Dont forget that many of these girls are from more quiet areas like Isaan so such crime may come as a shock

to them..

[Tony Clifton]

The problem was not primarily the non existing helmet but these f***** B******!

Right, the ones with the brown uniforms who do f*&6 all for crime prevention, only showing up afterwards, most of them criminal themselves.

[bobbin]

Jeez!!

What a bunch of heartless a**holes!! Most of the above posters are too busy showing how clued-in they are to show common human sympathy for the victim.

What I would like to know is this.... If Thai police are are supposedly "typical" of police in developing countries, why are they not hauling in the usual suspects and tuning them up in the back room of the police station?

The crime of necklace snatching is not simple robbery! The robbers are commiting robbery with violence. The common MO is to kick over the victim's bike at speed. This almost always leads to injury for the victim..

Seems to me many of us farang are so busy being guests of the Kingdom that we don't have the cojones to speak up and ask that more be done for a safer environment. Collectively we are worth a fortune to the City of Pattaya. Why don't the 2 Expat Clubs represent their members and pressure the new Mayor to put the heat on the Police? Why don't the farang media start beating the drum? Why doesn't someone make the Mayor and Police aware of websites like ThaiVisa with a worldwide audience that are reporting these viscious attacks?

And yes, I know in this case the victim was Thai.

[NotNew2You]

What I would like to know is this.... If Thai police are are supposedly "typical" of police in developing countries, why are they not hauling in the usual suspects and tuning them up in the back room of the police station?

So you are advocating criminal behavior on the part of those sworn to uphold the law...while at the same time condeming the criminal behavior of the snatchers in this case, who are certainly not sworn to uphold the law?

Seems to me many of us farang are so busy being guests of the Kingdom that we don't have the cojones to speak up and ask that more be done for a safer environment. Collectively we are worth a fortune to the City of Pattaya. Why don't the 2 Expat Clubs represent their members and pressure the new Mayor to put the heat on the Police?

I think they do, but in the end, it is up to the Thais to figure out how and to what extent to police their society.

Why don't the farang media start beating the drum?

Was not this story reported by Pattaya One News (one of the "farang media" in town)?

Basically, this crime is equilivent to a purse snatching or pick-pocketing. In everyone supposed to get all worked-up (Thai and farang) everytime someone gets their purse or wallet lifted? Put it in a little perspective please

[bobbin]

What I would like to know is this.... If Thai police are are supposedly "typical" of police in developing countries, why are they not hauling in the usual suspects and tuning them up in the back room of the police station?

So you are advocating criminal behavior on the part of those sworn to uphold the law...while at the same time condeming the criminal behavior of the snatchers in this case, who are certainly not sworn to uphold the law?

I'm pretty sure that I am more of a liberal than you are and yes that is exactly what I am suggesting.

Seems to me many of us farang are so busy being guests of the Kingdom that we don't have the cojones to speak up and ask that more be done for a safer environment. Collectively we are worth a fortune to the City of Pattaya. Why don't the 2 Expat Clubs represent their members and pressure the new Mayor to put the heat on the Police?

I think they do, but in the end, it is up to the Thais to figure out how and to what extent to police their society.

Why don't the farang media start beating the drum?

Was not this story reported by Pattaya One News (one of the "farang media" in town)?

Basically, this crime is equilivent to a purse snatching or pick-pocketing. In everyone supposed to get all worked-up (Thai and farang) everytime someone gets their purse or wallet lifted? Put it in a little perspective please

Did you even read the original article? The equivilent of purse-snatching or pick-pocketing??

How's that for perspective? Works for me.