Infamous Chiang Mai Ladyboy Gang Arrested

[julesdick]

[ThaiPauly]

Whatever it is if its on the front page of the CMM....it MUST be true.

Sort your link out

[davee58]

Infamous Chiang Mai ladyboy gang arrested

CMM Reporters

Revellers in the Chiang Mai late-night bars who sensibly decided not to drive home but sleep in their cars may have had an unpleasant shock recently, due to the activities of a rather unusual gang. The four person Gang katoey khwai, (Buffalo Ladyboy Gang), so named after one of their portlier members, would roam the city’s bar area looking for drunks resting in their cars after a heavy night out in order to rob them. The unpleasant shock would come when the gang, having removed any valuables from the car, would perform on the confused victim a certain service usually reserved for more private locations.

Until recently, possibly because of acute embarrassment on the part of said victims, police were unable to amass enough information to make arrests; however, all this changed on August 20, when a 34 year-old man walked into the local police station and blushingly admitted what had happened to him. Unfortunately for the gang, he had sobered up considerably by the time they found him, and was able not only to fight them off, but to identify his assailants from mug shots shown to him by police.

Breathing a collective sigh of relief, police arrested the entire crew, including the obese member who had given the gang its distinctive name. When questioned, the perpetrators admitted everything – yes, everything – including the fact that they had robbed and molested at least 40 victims. Stolen property and pawn tickets were found and seized as evidence and the fumbling four were charged with robbery. It is not known, however, whether they will also be charged with sexual assault.

[PhilHarries]

and there was me thinking this kind of story could only originate from Pattaya. Come on Chiang Mai, you've been hiding your light under a bushel for too long. What you need is a Libya115 of your very own to promote the real attractions of your fair city.

Bizarre, even by Pattaya standards.

[sceadugenga]

This type of story will no doubt cause several ThaiVisa members to start sleeping in their cars regularly in the hope the gang has other members still wandering the town.

[eek]

^ Bad man!

Couldnt quite believe that article when i read it too...and 40 victims at that! Well, stranger things have happened

[Ulysses G.]

This type of story will no doubt cause several ThaiVisa members to start sleeping in their cars regularly in the hope the gang has other members still wandering the town.

Thai Visa members are all here for the temples!

[PeaceBlondie]

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

And if you're lucky then the god's a she

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

[Rasseru]

Thai Visa members are all here for the temples!

That's how they may start, but once their temples get rubbed, matters change, and the temple rubbers often find it easy to move on to rubbing everything else, both of and from them.

[jfchandler]

At least they were leaving their victims with a smile on their (drunken) face.... Better than your ordinary run-of-the-mill robber....

[sylviex]

That's how they may start, but once their temples get rubbed, matters change, and the temple rubbers often find it easy to move on to rubbing everything else, both of and from them.

Only gold leaf, we trust.

In fact, I posted this story here in the CM forum several days ago (http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Beware-Buffa...nd-t210378.html).

Alert Chiang Mai Mail reporters must have spotted it when it appeared in the Phuket Gazette on September 3rd . They have been careful not to lose the characteristically twee style most of these English language papers seem to adopt.

Here's the Phuket Gazette version:

PHUKET GAZETTE

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Buffalo ladyboys' carjack capers

CHIANG MAI: If you happened to have been out drinking in Chiang Mai over the last few months and, after a few too many beers, decided to do the responsible thing and pull over in your car for a rest to sober up before weaving on home, then you may have come across the Buffalo Ladyboy Gang.

The gang has not only robbed more than 40 drunks, but also performed oral sex on their slumbering victims to boot.

Police at Muang Chiang Mai Police Station have this year been receiving a slew of reports of robberies from sheepish men who claim that while they were sleeping in their cars, a group of four rather camp crooks have broken in and made off with their possessions.

As all the attacks happened very late at night and the victims were often three sheets to the wind, police had been unable to bring enough evidence to apprehend the gang – despite having a good idea of who they were.

On August 20, however, this all changed when Sirichai Wutinansurasing, 34, walked into the station with a familiar tale of woe.

K. Sirichai told police that the night before he had been out on the town in Chiang Mai. Setting off home, he realised that he was in no condition to drive. Sensibly, he parked his car on the side of the Chiang Mai-Lampang road to sleep off the effects of all the alcohol he had consumed. Not so sensibly, he forgot to lock the car door.

The next thing he knew there were people in his car hunting for his valuables. Perhaps more worrying was the fact that one of the intruders was fumbling with his belt. Instantly sobering up, K. Sirichai fought off the intruders, who ran away while shrieking girlishly.

K. Sirichai noticed one of the four attackers was also morbidly obese, and thus had difficulty keeping up with his friends. K. Sirichai also got a good look at the man who tried to molest him.

On hearing these graphic descriptions, police instantly realised that this fitted all the hallmarks of an attack by the infamous Gang Kratoy Khwai, or the "Buffalo Ladyboy Gang", so named because of their portly member.

Shown the police black book of known criminal offenders who happened to be of the "third gender", K. Sirichai was soon able to pinpoint the perpetrators.

Chiang Mai Muang District Police Deputy Superintendent Bunyawat Kertklam then led a team of officers to the gang's known hideout – a dormitory in Saraphee District.

There police arrested Thanaphat "June" Thepawan, 38; Kritsada "Oh" Wichai, 25; Monchai "Mew" Lamnuan, 24, and Kritichai "Nong Nam Daeng" Kanthaya, 22, the Kratoy Khwai from whom the gang got its name. Police also seized 15 mobile phones, two laptop computers, a gold chain and a number of pawn shop tickets for mobile phones and jewelry.

Confronted with the evidence, the suspects admitted everything. They said that they had robbed at least 40 victims. Their modus operandi was to search for drunks sleeping in their cars who had forgotten to lock the doors. Finding one, they would post one man as a lookout while another took his valuables and the third restrained him. Mew told police he performed oral sex on the hapless drunk as a token of thanks for the stolen loot.

All four were charged with robbery, but it was not reported whether there were any charges of sexual assault.

Phuket, Thailand

Edited September 13, 2008 by sylviex

[FarangCravings]

We really must commend those guys that decided to pull over and take a nap in there cars since they were drunk I think thats very responsible of them and to be accosted like that is terrible.

If more people were so concientious then we would have a lot less accidents caused by drink driving

Now at least they can take a nap in there car without waking up to see some buffalo chomping on there tackle

[Lordfoul]

I think I will save my commendations for those that don't get into thier car when they are drunk.

We really must commend those guys that decided to pull over and take a nap in there cars since they were drunk I think thats very responsible of them and to be accosted like that is terrible.

If more people were so concientious then we would have a lot less accidents caused by drink driving

Now at least they can take a nap in there car without waking up to see some buffalo chomping on there tackle

[dingdongrb]

and there was me thinking this kind of story could only originate from Pattaya. Come on Chiang Mai, you've been hiding your light under a bushel for too long. What you need is a Libya115 of your very own to promote the real attractions of your fair city.

Bizarre, even by Pattaya standards.

But unlike Pattaya, here in CM all the victims were still alive....

[harrry]

But unlike Pattaya, here in CM all the victims were still alive....

and smiling.

[FarangCravings]

I think I will save my commendations for those that don't get into thier car when they are drunk.

We really must commend those guys that decided to pull over and take a nap in there cars since they were drunk I think thats very responsible of them and to be accosted like that is terrible.

If more people were so concientious then we would have a lot less accidents caused by drink driving

Now at least they can take a nap in there car without waking up to see some buffalo chomping on there tackle

Its a little bit of english sarcasm I guess it went over your head Do you really think 40 guys decided to take a Nap after drinking all night LOL I'll bet we have a few victims here on TV I'll buy the first member a Beer if he admits he woke up with a Buffalo attached to his own member

[Lordfoul]

Yep, right over my head.

Its a little bit of english sarcasm I guess it went over your head Do you really think 40 guys decided to take a Nap after drinking all night LOL I'll bet we have a few victims here on TV I'll buy the first member a Beer if he admits he woke up with a Buffalo attached to his own member

[vagabond48]

If I ever buy a car in CM, I will make sure that I get the optional feature of door locks which perhaps some of the 40 victims didn't get.

[FarangCravings]

If I ever buy a car in CM, I will make sure that I get the optional feature of door locks which perhaps some of the 40 victims didn't get.

Yes very good idea when I bought my Car I specifically wanted locks on the doors and when i found out they were actually automatic meaning after 2 minutes or so in the car they lock automatically I was even more happy knowing that when I pull over for a nap after a heavy night drinking I could sleep peacefully knowing my tackle is safe and sound while I sleep

[pumpuiman]

Could turn in to an attempted murder case, if one of these assailants has AIDS and is aware of it.

[FarangCravings]

Could turn in to an attempted murder case, if one of these assailants has AIDS and is aware of it.

It was only a BJ and from what I have read its almost impossible to catch Aids from a BJ although I do believe there have been cases reported but very very few in the world.

[bergen]

Bl@@dy h.......................

I brought my car last time I was in CM, but must have parked in the wrong area.

Where's this preferred P zone?

[mahtin]

Sick buffalo gets new twist

[mahtin]

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

And if you're lucky then the god's a she

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

Head kwai as opposed to Murray