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2 foreigners arrested and confessed to robbing places in reports in lamai and Manam

Both men from Algeria

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Three people pointing? Guilty as hell !

Three people pointing? Guilty as hell !

and I thought that they were wanna-be ballet stars

Thanks for the info Big C - go catch some more.

I hate these people. There seems to be more and more of them popping up

If i caught them they would not have made is as far as the police station )

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Throw away the key!

Three people pointing? Guilty as hell !

Gotta be, Mr check shirt is pointing with both arms!

Is the straw hat and baseball cap part of the swag...definate Raffles in the making

More here in Samui News / samui Times.

http://www.samuitimes.com/good-old-fashioned-police-results-arrest-2-serial-thieves-maenam/

I believe the pointing is because the term for "identify culprit" in Thai language is ชี้ตัว [chi tua] which literally means "point at person". Hence when police needs to take photo as evidence to present court, they literally have point at the suspects.

There also seems to be a cultural thing. Often when I take photos with friends for example in a restaurant and sometimes they'd like to point their finger at a particular signature dish on the table or something. Or if for example taking a photo near some landmark, they'd have to point at the landmark in the background.

They can take pics with the pointing with their cameras, but I always insist on pics for myself without this awkward pointing.

That is some of the best pointing I've seen since a photo I saw of a dead elephant with several people pointing at it just in case you missed it in the shot. Excellent! Should be an Olympic sport.... (<deleted>?)

One of the men ‘admitted’ that he had entered the country illegally from Malaysia, after meeting a fellow Algerian who helped him cross into Thailand, without a valid passport, after paying Thai border guards 4,000 baht

I thought they had already cracked down on this?

He couldn't have done any better:)

(I can feel a James Bond song coming on!)

Three people pointing? Guilty as hell !

Gotta be, Mr check shirt is pointing with both arms!

True, Mr Checkers Shirt is truly a "gifted" pointer, particularly as a Westerner where this pose is not often practiced.

Notice the symmetry of both arms with elbows properly locked, palms down, wrists straight and all that accusatorial energy flawlessly focused at the fingertip.

Truly a breath taking execution of the Thai "Double" point.

I believe the pointing is because the term for "identify culprit" in Thai language is ชี้ตัว [chi tua] which literally means "point at person". Hence when police needs to take photo as evidence to present court, they literally have point at the suspects.

There also seems to be a cultural thing. Often when I take photos with friends for example in a restaurant and sometimes they'd like to point their finger at a particular signature dish on the table or something. Or if for example taking a photo near some landmark, they'd have to point at the landmark in the background.

They can take pics with the pointing with their cameras, but I always insist on pics for myself without this awkward pointing.

You got a good point there.

Nevermind

One of the men ‘admitted’ that he had entered the country illegally from Malaysia, after meeting a fellow Algerian who helped him cross into Thailand, without a valid passport, after paying Thai border guards 4,000 baht

I thought they had already cracked down on this?

He probably lied

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