Foreigner wanted for armed robbery at Central Pattaya Money Exchange Booth

[smotherb]

Their deductions skills are just outstanding!

The robber can speak English, wonder where he or she originates?

Edited February 9, 2015 by smotherb

[realenglish1]

My guess is its a Thai who has command of English and wants to throw off the Key Stone cops

[alocacoc]

And my guess is, he is a Thai who got the blades from Oscar to mimic a foreigner.

[FredNL]

QUOTE: "He was held at gunpoint for a time as the suspect, whose face was concealed by a safety helmet, entered the store and told everyone to “Sit Down” in English, which is when they knew the suspect was not Thai."

QUOTE: "whose face was concealed by a safety helmet," They don't have a footage of his motorcycle's numberplate??? He must have parked his motorcycle somewhere !!!

[rethaier]

This headline reads like a Help Wanted ad.

[taabot]

Looking at his trousers,he must be coming from Tirol

[joebrown]

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Amazing how many people will take an opportunity to bash Thais in general and the police in particular based on events described second-hand in a media report. The journalist simply explains why witnesses presumed the robber was not Thai (since his face was covered), and people make all sorts of sarcastic comments about the witnesses/police.

TVF is full of them. They come on here to Thai bash until their favourite 40thb a bottle of Chang bar opens. If the robber had entered the exchange and said sit down it Thai and the witnesses had said he was farang they'd likely self combust.

I'm not going to defend 'Thai Bashers' in this thread, but in fairness to the farang posters there is also a good selection of 'Farang bashing' farang on here, none more so than #16 by 'soalbundy'.

[jacknorman]

It's not his fault, if the Exchange Booth wasn't there it wouldn't happend

[Rimmer]

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[Nemesis7]

How stupid that man is? Where did he get the guns from?

[DaiHard]

I saw the headline and immediately thought 'what's the pay and where do I apply?'

[MiKT]

Has he got odd socks on?

brown socks, leather sandals, varicose veins, beer stained shorts and a beer gut, the well dressed hansum Pattaya farang.

I don't believe this is the case, no self-respecting hansum farang denizen of Pattaya would be seen dead in shorts, shoes (look again, not sandals) and dark coloured socks; although the beer gut does ring a bell.

Got to be a tourist.

Or a fiendishly cunning hansum Patterite.

[Benmart]

Amazing how many people will take an opportunity to bash Thais in general and the police in particular based on events described second-hand in a media report. The journalist simply explains why witnesses presumed the robber was not Thai (since his face was covered), and people make all sorts of sarcastic comments about the witnesses/police.

I agree. I wasn't there and know only what was told to a reporter, who also wasn't there at the time of the crime.

Some readers seem to have solved the suspects identity and details of the crime through some exceptional and mystical medium. The juvenile and crude comments seem to emanate from a bottle, containing an elixir of knowledge, wisdom and perhaps, alcohol.

Of course, this is sheer speculation since I know them only by what they post and the bizarre slant of the contents.

[cookee68]

Police are now looking for a Foreigner with a bike helmet on, Oh and can speak English

[guzzi850m2]

Has he got odd socks on?

brown socks, leather sandals, varicose veins, beer stained shorts and a beer gut, the well dressed hansum Pattaya farang.

Then they will never find him, must be 10.000 of those around.

[cookee68]

Why does it have to say Foreigner wanted, why couldn't it just say man wanted or person wanted, that just shows the real person or country, what if you said that in the UK or USA, or many other places, you would be accused of singling out certain people, who is to say he was not from Chang Rai, pretty white and good English up there, COULD BE ANY ONE AND ANY NATIONALITY.

[hanno]

Why does it have to say Foreigner wanted, why couldn't it just say man wanted or person wanted, that just shows the real person or country, what if you said that in the UK or USA, or many other places, you would be accused of singling out certain people, who is to say he was not from Chang Rai, pretty white and good English up there, COULD BE ANY ONE AND ANY NATIONALITY.

Right, in the USA they won't say if the suspect is Afro-American or Asian or Caucasian? I don't think so.

[Showbags]

They'll never catch me...i leave saturday for spain..

[green job]

Has he got odd socks on?

I thought the same thing = he MUST be Canadian

Not so. He would have said "Sit down, please" if he was Canadian.

He said GET DOWN so 100% Nigerian.

[chickenslegs]

Has he got odd socks on?

I'm guessing that the socks, long shorts, bandages (?) and long sleeves are covering tatoos.

Edited February 9, 2015 by chickenslegs

[Jaggg88]

Police are now looking for a Foreigner with a bike helmet on, Oh and can speak English

Who wears odd socks and is left handed - elementary Dr Watson.

[cookee68]

Why does it have to say Foreigner wanted, why couldn't it just say man wanted or person wanted, that just shows the real person or country, what if you said that in the UK or USA, or many other places, you would be accused of singling out certain people, who is to say he was not from Chang Rai, pretty white and good English up there, COULD BE ANY ONE AND ANY NATIONALITY.

Right, in the USA they won't say if the suspect is Afro-American or Asian or Caucasian? I don't think so.

That is stating a colour, why not say white man robs exchange booth instead, have you never seen a white Thai, so if I had robbed it and said sit down in Thai, would they have said Thai person robs booth, and how would you tell if someone was Afro American with out asking them first, They could just have been African, get my drift

[SickOfEm]

Another foreign criminal in Thailand looking for booze money . Hope he get caught and spends the rest of his days in a tiny Thai prison cell.

How do you know it was for booze money? Maybe he wanted a new pair of socks.

[balo]

My best guess would be this is a desperate Russian who suddenly realized the Ruble hit all time low so he cant afford the daily noodle soup.

[hanno]

Why does it have to say Foreigner wanted, why couldn't it just say man wanted or person wanted, that just shows the real person or country, what if you said that in the UK or USA, or many other places, you would be accused of singling out certain people, who is to say he was not from Chang Rai, pretty white and good English up there, COULD BE ANY ONE AND ANY NATIONALITY.

Right, in the USA they won't say if the suspect is Afro-American or Asian or Caucasian? I don't think so.

That is stating a colour, why not say white man robs exchange booth instead, have you never seen a white Thai, so if I had robbed it and said sit down in Thai, would they have said Thai person robs booth, and how would you tell if someone was Afro American with out asking them first, They could just have been African, get my drift

Nope;-)

[hanno]

Seems like all the Thai-bashers will be disappointed:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/799033-ukrainian-arrested-in-central-pattaya-money-exchange-armed-robbery-case/

[cookee68]

Seems like all the Thai-bashers will be disappointed:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/799033-ukrainian-arrested-in-central-pattaya-money-exchange-armed-robbery-case/

Why, if this is all they got, maybe he did do it, maybe he didn't, I would want more proof than clothes look the same, height looks the same, and a Yamaha bike