paquito Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 The small hotel where my friend stays was robbed yesterday afternoon. Small place, 5 rooms, three were occupied at the time but none of the guest were there at the moment. This is how it happend: Farang guy walks in and asks for a room but he wants to look at it first. Receptionist gives him the keys to the two empty rooms. He goes upstairs alone, brakes in all three occupied rooms and opens the safes, probably with a crowbar, ripping out the number locks. He only takes the cash. My friend lost 900 Euros, but his passport, flight ticket, credit card and even his laptop which was on the table are still there. Same in the other 2 rooms. The guy just took cash, nothing else. Best part: the owner's wife had switched off the surveillance camera system to save on her electricity bill ! So when the BiB showed up and the receptionist couldn't describe the farang burglar, they didn't even file a report on the incident. Nothing to be done about it. My friend wrote the cash off and is kinda happy that he still has all his other stuff. Could have been worse. So hotel owners beware. The scumbag is still on the loose. He'll try it again but I'm sure the BiB will get him fast once he tries that stunt in a place where they not only have a surveillance system but actually have it working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaParent Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 The only taken rooms just happened to be unoccupied? The surveillance system had been turned off? Lucky opportunist thief or an inside job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basjke Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Doesn't it look a bit suspicious when going to check out a hotel room while holding a crowbar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Explorer Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 in my experience checking in hotels, never i was alone to inspect a hotel room before checking in. the story just sound odd. Explorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses G. Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Seems awfully bold for a farang to pull a job like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothertorres Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 crowbar? farang? blindly gives the keys with no chaperon? uhh.... no, this is not how it happened. inside job, close the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilHarries Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 I agree with all the responses. I have never been in any hotel or guesthouse anywhere in the world where a potential guest is allowed to check the rooms out alone. How long did it take him to break into three rooms, break into three safes, rifle through them removing cash and wander out again. What about the noise? If not the doors the safes would have taken a bit of brute force and ignorance even if they were cheap ones. 100% inside job, and a very clumsy, inept attempt at a cover up. This is not to say it wasn't a farang but only that he didn't work alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surayu Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 I have never been in any hotel or guesthouse anywhere in the world where a potential guest is allowed to check the rooms out alone. I can confirm that a few places let you check the upstairs rooms on your own, as it happened to me several times, probably because of the "kikkiat-ness" of the staff, other local experiences includes checking in without providing any sort of ID and then in the morning find a full row of occupied rooms with the doors wide open, nobody inside and the lady wich supposed to make them up nowhere to be seen....great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Occam's razor... inside job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paquito Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 Guys, guys... I just related what happened. My friend had stayed at this place several years for his usual 3 week vacation. Doesn't look like an inside job at all to him or me. I don't know where you are staying, but when I sometimes ask to see a room before checking they simply hand me a key or two and let me go upstairs by myself. Not only in Thailand the receptionists are kikiat - or simply understaffed at the moment. For these little safes you don't need much of a crowbar, do you? Yes, the farang must be rather daring, desperate and bl@@dy stupid too. He was very lucky this time. I have no doubt that he won't get away with it more than a couple of times. Eventually, he'll end his days in BKK Hilton, I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gharknes Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 I actually agree with the skeptics, inside job and not falang but thai, things are tight in patters right now money is tight which promotes crime, there is no way a falang would break into a room not knowing if the occupants where in there, 3 rooms all with people out hmmmmmmm no brainer for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilHarries Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 I actually agree with the skeptics, inside job and not falang but thai, things are tight in patters right now money is tight which promotes crime, there is no way a falang would break into a room not knowing if the occupants where in there, 3 rooms all with people out hmmmmmmm no brainer for me and it just so happened that the CCTV was switched off at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Very convenient that..... the farang was not witnessed by any of the victims he was unaccompanied as he went on his robbing spree he knew all the guests were out he had the tools on him to open safes the CCTV was switched off the receptionist couldn't give a description the police decided it was not worth filing a report Rather too convenient. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, then in Thailand it always is a duck even when those locals who stand to gain swear blind it's a zebra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nariad Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 The small hotel where my friend stays was robbed yesterday afternoon. Small place, 5 rooms, three were occupied at the time but none of the guest were there at the moment.This is how it happend: Farang guy walks in and asks for a room but he wants to look at it first. Receptionist gives him the keys to the two empty rooms. He goes upstairs alone, brakes in all three occupied rooms and opens the safes, probably with a crowbar, ripping out the number locks. He only takes the cash. My friend lost 900 Euros, but his passport, flight ticket, credit card and even his laptop which was on the table are still there. Same in the other 2 rooms. The guy just took cash, nothing else. Best part: the owner's wife had switched off the surveillance camera system to save on her electricity bill ! So when the BiB showed up and the receptionist couldn't describe the farang burglar, they didn't even file a report on the incident. Nothing to be done about it. My friend wrote the cash off and is kinda happy that he still has all his other stuff. Could have been worse. So hotel owners beware. The scumbag is still on the loose. He'll try it again but I'm sure the BiB will get him fast once he tries that stunt in a place where they not only have a surveillance system but actually have it working The only thing missing apart from the money is the name of the establishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSJ Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 It sounds dodgy, and probably, is but the staff at hotels do sometimes just give you the key to check the room. It happen to me in Patong several years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokay Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 CCTV just happened to be turned off, to save on the electric bill? Inside job. FYI, we had something stolen from our bike at The Avenue. Once in the security room where they watch the CCTV footage AND record it, to their surprise, and it was the first time it ever happened, the footage stopped recording right after we got there, and picked up again not long before we got to the security office. According to them, the footage was damaged, and only during the time someone could have stolen something. Nice scam they have going on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barryofthailand Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Never ever leave anything valuable in a hotel room. Especially money. Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpolenz Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Farang my ass,inside job all the way done by a Thai man who knows the owners wife,offcourse the truth will never come to light because the lasy Bib wont even investigate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimsKnight Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Ditto that. Every time I've scoped out a place I've been accompanied, once even proposed too Crowbar-ing safes? I don't think so. You'd need a bloody big wrecking bar at the least and the space to wield it, plus it'd make a racket to wake the dead, CCTV etc. I call inside job too. Well OP what's the script are you gonna name and shame or what? As long as it's not a tv sponsor you should be ok to go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverdie Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Yes, I want to join the 'I smell a rat' team as well. Definately something a bit strange about this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballzafire Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Very convenient that..... the farang was not witnessed by any of the victims he was unaccompanied as he went on his robbing spree he knew all the guests were out he had the tools on him to open safes the CCTV was switched off the receptionist couldn't give a description the police decided it was not worth filing a report Rather too convenient. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, then in Thailand it always is a duck even when those locals who stand to gain swear blind it's a zebra. Yeah. It's a frikkin' laughing mallard...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballzafire Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Farang my ass,inside job all the way done by a Thai man who knows the owners wife,offcourse the truth will never come to light because the lasy Bib wont even investigate. No, because it was prolly the lazy BiB's brother-in-law........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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