Vagabonds extort money from passersby at train stations in Ayutthaya Province

AYUTTHAYA, 11 June 2014 (NNT) - Ayutthaya Provincial Governor Witthaya Piewpong has ordered 30 police officers and soldiers to inspect areas around the Ayutthaya, the Bang Pa-In, and Baan Pa Chi train stations.

Locals have complained that several homeless people were found sleeping under these train stations and littering around the area. Some of them have also intimidated train passengers, school students, as well as tourists by impolitely asking money from them.

Police investigations reveal that there are three categories of homeless people residing in these train stations. The first category are those who wander from place to place without a home. Hence, the governor has asked the Provincial Social Development and Human Security Office to pick up these people and let them stay in emergency shelters.

The second category are the ones who have a permanent residence, but have chosen to leave their loved ones. Relatives are encouraged to take them home.

Lastly, the third category are vagabonds who are drunk and display aggressive behavior by impolitely asking money from people. Should anybody encounter them, they are advised to report to the police immediately so that arrests could be made.


-- NNT 2014-06-11

Let them eat cake.

Wow...I haven't heard the term "Vagabond" used since the folk music revival. It's right up there with "Tomboy". Perhaps the schools should stop teaching English from 1920 textbooks.

Excellent, they have put those vagabonds in different groups.

you give me money now ! Ok sir how much would you like? Yeah right, they would have more chance getting blood out of a stone than getting cash from me!!!

Having a quiet beer in Phrachaup the other night a perfectly able and reasonably well dressed Thai guy stopped and asked for money, Mrs poohy asked if him if both his legs and arms were working, they were and he said yes... her answer go and get a job and earn money like everyone else...he walked off!

On the other hand occasionally she gives 20 THB to an old guy who sleeps in the temple and collects rubbish condition is 5THB lao khao 15THB food ...he trots off to the shop opposite drinks Lao khao and brings the15 baht of food to show her.

Also swiftly arrest any ragamuffins, rascals and whippersnappers ASAP!!!

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Wow...I haven't heard the term "Vagabond" used since the folk music revival. It's right up there with "Tomboy". Perhaps the schools should stop teaching English from 1920 textbooks.

Hey! Vagabond is one of my favourites and I didn't go to school in the 1920s. We have seen a lot of vagabonds on the streets on Bangkok these past few months.

Wow...I haven't heard the term "Vagabond" used since the folk music revival. It's right up there with "Tomboy". Perhaps the schools should stop teaching English from 1920 textbooks.

Hey! Vagabond is one of my favourites and I didn't go to school in the 1920s. We have seen a lot of vagabonds on the streets on Bangkok these past few months.

dont go there.......

Also swiftly arrest any ragamuffins, rascals and whippersnappers ASAP!!!

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and rapscallions..

Ruddy heck. Those villainous rotters.

We have them in the US too. Stop at a red light and some scruffy dude wipes your windshield with a filthy rag- then demands $10

Much more descriptive than the western term "homeless"

In the UK there are zillions of this type, but they must be hi-so cos they actually travel on the trains to beg..................

In the UK there are zillions of this type, but they must be hi-so cos they actually travel on the trains to beg..................

No....they are commuters.....they have to beg to be able to pay the Virgin train fares.

Also swiftly arrest any ragamuffins, rascals and whippersnappers ASAP!!!

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What! And let all the scoundrels, ruffians and rogues get clean away?

Also swiftly arrest any ragamuffins, rascals and whippersnappers ASAP!!!

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What! And let all the scoundrels, ruffians and rogues get clean away?

They get asked to report

How sad. One day you're on top of the world, working for the big man in the government..... and the next no one, not even your family, wants to know you.

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and rapscallions..

Most of these itinerant, fly-by night, nomads spend their time wandering aimlessly around, foot loose and fancy-free because in many cases they are desperate, sometimes mentally unstable and often hungry. These transients can be found anywhere and everywhere, many are aimless, destitute and in many cases dangerous.

Hoboes, bums, down and outs can be found strolling around Bangkok or sauntering aimlessly through the countryside in most countries. Penniless mendicants, transients and drifters have existed since time immemorial and will continue to keep us company as time passes.

Songs and poems have been written about these peripatetic, perambulatory pilgrims.

Many have fallen between the cracks of society’s structure and many prefer the life rather than being tied to a desk. Governments endeavour to help those that ask others prefer to use their own methods to survive.

We have seen a lot of vagabonds on the streets on Bangkok these past few months.

They can be found in Khao San for more than the last 2 decades.

I recall reading in the Pattaya Mail a long time back a report about a couple of local wenches had been picked up for something or other. I gather they were not respectable.

I recall reading in the Pattaya Mail a long time back a report about a couple of local wenches had been picked up for something or other. I gather they were not respectable.

Most odd, perhaps they were picked up only for a short time.

Pattaya wenches are normally considered quite respectable thank you very much.

I recall reading in the Pattaya Mail a long time back a report about a couple of local wenches had been picked up for something or other. I gather they were not respectable.

Most odd, perhaps they were picked up only for a short time.

Pattaya wenches are normally considered quite respectable thank you very much.

Posibly not wenches either.

I recall reading in the Pattaya Mail a long time back a report about a couple of local wenches had been picked up for something or other. I gather they were not respectable.

Most odd, perhaps they were picked up only for a short time.

Pattaya wenches are normally considered quite respectable thank you very much.

Posibly not wenches either.

How about spanners then?

I await hearing a Thai pronounce slobberdegullion

My wife and I were sitting in an outdoor restaurant one evening when this little old lady, about 70 years old and dressed in rags approached our table with a bag of oranges. The fruit was past it's prime, and she was selling them for 5bt each. The wife bought a couple which I thought was ridiculous...

My initial reaction was to shoo her away, but later my wife explained that this was one of the richest old dears on Koh Phangan, just an eccentric old lady who did no harm. She owns a huge part of Koh Phangan!

You can still see her around, she gets old fruit from the local stores for selling

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What! And let all the scoundrels, ruffians and rogues get clean away?

But what about the ne'er-do-wells?

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And don't forget vagrants, drifters, hobos, tramps, bindlestiffs, strollers and other assorted riff-raff.

Once, I got arrested for vagabond wandering in the old Panama Canal Zone.

Still trying to figure out where the Extortion portion of the head line is? Someone asking you to give them doesn't constitute Extortion to my knowledge