Two arrested in South Pattaya Russian Bag Snatch

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Two arrested in South Pattaya Russian Bag Snatch



PATTAYA: -- Two Thai men aged 21 and 27 were arrested in the early hours of Tuesday following a suspected bag snatch involving a 53 year old female Russian tourist.

Miss Nadezhda Nikulenkova was walking back to her Hotel in the Pratamnuk Hill area, close to the Pattaya Tourist Police Station, when the two suspects approached on a motorbike and the passenger on the bike leant over and snatched a shoulder bag which contained a mobile phone and US Dollar currency.

Due to the steepness of the hill, the bike driver lost control of his vehicle as he attempted to escape. The bike fell onto the road and the driver,

Full story: http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/133460/two-arrested-in-south-pattaya-russian-bag-snatch-2/


-- Pattaya One 2014-07-01

[kurnell]

Broken leg? That's funny. Genetically doomed to failure.

[lostsoul49]

Awesome.

He snatched the bag, fell off his bike, broke his leg and lost his face.

[chooka]

She is pointing so obviously no doubt he is guilty.

[klauskunkel]

But,...how could this have happened??? He is wearing an amulet!

[Albertosez]

Pity the bike didn't trap both of them long enough for a Cement Mixer to plough over both of them - which just happened to be coming down the hill in the opposite direction - leaving just enough body in tact to make an ID possible !

[Khun P]

Dumb and Dumber, what a couple of plums. I would loved for this to have be captured on CCTV and shown here....

Edited July 1, 2014 by Khun P

[cheeryble]

Broken leg? That's funny..

Not if you're the leg

[ClutchClark]

Good police work...again.

[ripper15]

This is just something wrong about a Russian being the one pointing the finger.

(before anyone gets on their high horse to accuse me of not having any empathy for the woman, I am being facetious.)

[Jimbolai]

That is a funny, hopefully truthful and surely educational story with a sad if not criminal beginning and a happy ending.

[wabothai]

Lack of tourists in Patthaya. The thugs have to make an easy living somehow.

Plenty of honest work in the country.

TAT, FARANGS READ THE NEWS....

[Chaiwallah]

She has a good point.

[belg]

"suspected bag snatch "

so does unsuspected bag snatch also excist in pattaya ?

[Doc Blake]

From the size of the Russian lady, I'd say she probably did a little Rusky tap dance on the drivers leg!
She might have also squeezed the location of the excaped perp out of him just as the police arrived.

[jacko45k]

Dear me, a person who has just robbed me lying on the floor in agony with a broken leg.

I might have a bit of fun before I called for assistance!

[bushwacker]

Is it possible she looked at the MC driver and he got scared and fell off the bike?

Just saying ....

[stephen terry]

It wouldn't surprise me if the woman has to pay for medical treatment and loss of earnings - hence the terminology -'suspected bag snatch'. The Thai man would say, if she hadn't waved her bag at me I wouldn't have lost control. But the other escapee rather spoiled that scenario - maybe you can think of his excuse -the lady was drunk and I ran for help?

[theduderule]

I believe they will get a 200 Baht fine.(and she would have to pay the medical cost for the leg- "due to heavy bag we fall..I hurt leg")

[NoshowJones]

Awesome.

He snatched the bag, fell off his bike, broke his leg and lost his face.

He should have broken both of them. Not enough Karma.

[NoshowJones]

Is it possible she looked at the MC driver and he got scared and fell off the bike?

Just saying ....

Yeah, he didn't have six others to back him up, one is not enough.

[Asiantravel]

Awesome.

He snatched the bag, fell off his bike, broke his leg and lost his face.

Karma

[haikurd]

Lots of folks laughing, but bag snatching from a moving vehicle should actually be classified as violent assault, several people I know (all women) have been seriously hurt by this in various countries, one dragged behind a car for several meters and her entire left side virtually skinned, one had her arm and shoulder wrenched - took a couple weeks for the bruising to go down, that jarred shoulder may give her problems for a long time. It is not like pickpocketing or just stealing a bag, the person who is targeted is often hurt. Women often wear their bags with the strap across their bodies rather than on one shoulder, exactly to make them less of a target for a bag-snatcher - but then if someone grabs it and pulls you cannot get out of it. Better to carry it in your hand and not have too much money, don't wrap the strap around your wrist either, and walk against traffic. Better to lose your bag then get hurt.

[bangon04]

But they are aged 21 and 27, so they are only "teenagers" in Thailand.....

[Pattaya28]

Mandatory fine 200 baht back on the streets tomorrow.

Broken leg guy will have to operate as passenger.

Nice looking lady. Wonder if she's single.

[Payboy]

Pattaya - hub of snatches.

[KittenKong]

I'm surprised that anyone would want to get involved with the snatch of a bag like that.

[scunner]

Pattaya - hub of snatches.

lol more ways than one

[Michaelaway]

Mandatory fine 200 baht back on the streets tomorrow.

Broken leg guy will have to operate as passenger.

Nice looking lady. Wonder if she's single.

The optometrist's office called... you missed your appointment.

[Tanlic]

Good police work...again.

Catching a guy with a broken leg and most likely using Sweeney tactics to get has partners name.

Excellent stuff where would the Pataya tourist be without them