Lesson - Use A Hotel Safe/deposit Box

[britmaveric]

Room burgled; electronic items stolen

Items stolen were a laptop computer, video camera, stills camera, and a bankbook

On March 10 around 11pm, Police Sub-Lieutenant Jamrat Tongindaa, inquiry sub-inspector at Pattaya Police Station, was called to Lina Lodge to investigate a break-in in one of the rooms.

At the scene, he met with the tenants Peter Hans Zielke, 70 from Germany, and his Thai wife, Somwang Eeamaa, 40. They explained that they left the room around ten that evening and came back around ten thirty after having a meal. It was at this moment they discovered that the padlock on their room had been smashed open and the room ransacked. Items stolen were a laptop computer, video camera, stills camera, and a bankbook. The total value of the electronic items was around 100,000 baht.

Police dusted the room for prints and made enquiries with other people staying in the premises, but so far nothing of relevance has turned up.

-Pattaya People

[Kerryd]

Is the Lina Lodge a hotel ? Or an apartment complex ? Hmm, 70 year old German, 40 y.o. Thai wife, living in a hotel ? Pretty expensive.

Even in an apartment, it would be a major pain to have to lock all your stuff up in a secure cabinet, just to go out to dinner.

Having seen a few hotel safes/lock boxes around Pattaya, I'm not sure I'd trust them that much.

[Pattaya_Fox]

...It`s got to be a good time for the budding entrepeneurs to be looking at going into the burglar alarm business in Pattaya....Even a battery operated alarm would scare the sh*it out of most would be thieves...

[Kerryd]

...It`s got to be a good time for the budding entrepeneurs to be looking at going into the burglar alarm business in Pattaya....Even a battery operated alarm would scare the sh*it out of most would be thieves...

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The new TukCom seems to have a whole floor dedicated to alarm and monitoring systems (3rd floor ? Between the floor dedicated to cell phones and the one for computers)

Didn't think there was enough demand for that kind of stuff, to dedicate a whole floor to it (though half the space there was empty last time I was there)