Fruit vendor arrested for cheating a customer by selling adulterated durian jam

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Fruit vendor arrested for cheating a customer by selling adulterated durian jam



CHANTABURI: -- A fruit vendor in Chanthaburi is facing a maximum 5-year jailterm and a fine of up to 10,000 baht after she was arrested on charge of selling adulterated durian jam to a tourist.

The suspect, 42-year old Ms Kalyarat Rampoengpuak, was arrested on Sunday after a police officer of Nayai-arm district police station, posed as a customer to buy a pack of durian jam from her at 100 baht. When the durian jam was sliced open, it was discovered that the jam inside was outdated which was different from the Mon Thong durian jam which was put on display.

Ms Klayarat’s arrest followed the complaint accompanied by a video clip posted in the social media by a tourist who claimed to have bought several packs of Mon Thong durian jam from her at 100 baht each. However, it was discovered later on that the packs were stuffed with outdated durian jam which is of lower quality.

The clip went viral in the social media prompting Chanthaburi governor Somsak Parisuttho Hemthanot to call a meeting on Monday with the provincial police, commerce and agriculture officials to discuss the problem.

It was agreed at the meeting that all about 240 fruit vendors in Chanthaburi would be summoned for a meeting at the provincial hall in order to be reminded of the need to practice fair trading and to refrain from cheating their customers by selling substandard fruits or preserved fruits especially durians to tourists.

Fruit vendor arrested for cheating a customer by selling adulterated durian jam http://goo.gl/j9733p A fruit vendor in Chanthaburi is facing a maximum 5-year jailterm and a fine of up to 10,000 baht after she was arrested on charge of selling adulterated durian jam to a tourist.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/157193

-- Thai PBS 2016-03-29

[jamesbrock]

5 years for selling dodgy jam? If only she was drunk, rich, and had killed someone with her car...

[DeepInTheForest]

"When the durian jam was sliced open, it was discovered that the jam inside was outdated which was different from the Mon Thong durian jam which was put on display."

How do you determine that the jam is outdated by slicing it open?

If it were simply a color difference, it should be obvious through the clear plastic. Not clear, as usual, what is meant here.

[ezzra]

Oh the horrors and the shame, how can a fruit vendor cheat people? unheard of practice, where can we

burry or faces now? yeah well, actually, I'm pleasantly surprise every time I buy something and I HAVEN'T

BEEN CHEATED.......

[colinneil]

Selling dodgy jam..... crime of the century 5 years in jail maybe.

Kill someone in Thailand get fined 1000 baht.

Yes the law is an ass.

[leeneeds]

Calculate the time selling x profit , triple the amount ,

then multiply by the weight of the durian she had on the stand,

you will get a fair fine for the nice lady.

[NongKhaiKid]

Will she now apologise to the nation for bringing shame on LoS' fruit and jam industry ?

[Thian]

Yesterday on the market i wanted to buy fresh coconutmilk. I noticed a huge large netbag with wide openings standing on the dirty marketfloor, it was filled with dehusked coconuts who were going into that machine to become milk

I ordered a kg of rambutans and noticed the lady filled the bag with rambutans she kept on the side, not on the pile. I grabbed one and it was rotting..

Then i wanted to walk around but noticed many electric cables laying around in puddles of water.

In the meantime i had to duck all the time to not get umbrellapins stucking my eyeballs out. (i'm tall).

Sometimes i put things on my kitchenscale to see if i really got a kg. Most of the time i got 900 gram.

But i like it that undercover policeagents test vendors for me, i've been waiting for this a long time! I hope it helps.

[Smiley Face]

Meanwhile, drugs are an epidemic, corruption is emptying the countries coffers, the roads are death traps but . . .

the country is now safe from the scourge of adulterated durian jam. It's good that this horrific activity is being policed so well.

[jacko45k]

Wot, no cheating, how does he expect them to make a living!

[phitsanulokjohn]

Confiscate the lot,create a bomb using the jam and drop it on ISIS.The smell will make them want to surrender.

[SOTIRIOS]

.....why not state the condition of the 'jam' accurately....

....spoiled.....rotten.....putrid....

....as for the disproportionate punishment....please tell us if she even spends a day....and pays anything more than a 500 baht fine....

[gandalf12]

I dont see any finger pointing? Is her crime too terrible to even get that?

[toybits]

She should go to Singapore and say that she is too ill to go to court. That worked for someone...

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

only in Thailand is food more precious than life.

Dodgy jam = 5 years + 10,000 baht fine

picking wild mushrooms = 15 years

murder or plundering billions of tax payer dollars = mai pen rai krab

[NickJ]

Bring a half kilo weight to almost any market here and there is a very good chance you wont make it to your car.....

[jerojero]

5 years jail for what amounts to be minor fraud? And people who kill others with their cars get a slap on wrist. Unbelievable justice.

Edited March 29, 2016 by jerojero

[Jonmarleesco]

''A fruit vendor in Chanthaburi is facing a maximum 5-year jail term and a fine of up to 10,000 baht after she was arrested on charge of selling adulterated durian jam to a tourist.' Not exactly adulterated, given it did, apparently, contain 100% jam. And the penalties go to show just how topsy-turvy the system is, when a scamming taxi driver will likely get away with 500 baht - if anything - any number of downright stupid and dangerous road rule infractions will result in a slap on the wrist, yet this potentially incurs 10,000 baht and five years.

'... a tourist who claimed to have bought several packs of Mon Thong durian jam from her at 100 baht each. However, it was discovered later on that the packs were stuffed with outdated durian jam which is of lower quality.' Presumably, any edible consumable past its sell-by date would be of lower quality - though the rules might be different with durian.

[keithathome]

Unfair comments about short weight. Here in Chiang Mai there is a spring weighscale AND a kilogram weight in the Sakorsan fresh fruit and veg market for use by the customers.

[Thian]

''A fruit vendor in Chanthaburi is facing a maximum 5-year jail term and a fine of up to 10,000 baht after she was arrested on charge of selling adulterated durian jam to a tourist.' Not exactly adulterated, given it did, apparently, contain 100% jam. And the penalties go to show just how topsy-turvy the system is, when a scamming taxi driver will likely get away with 500 baht - if anything - any number of downright stupid and dangerous road rule infractions will result in a slap on the wrist, yet this potentially incurs 10,000 baht and five years.

'... a tourist who claimed to have bought several packs of Mon Thong durian jam from her at 100 baht each. However, it was discovered later on that the packs were stuffed with outdated durian jam which is of lower quality.' Presumably, any edible consumable past its sell-by date would be of lower quality - though the rules might be different with durian.

A thai from Swiss bought many packets from her and brought it back to Swiss to share with friends there. Then they found out it was old and rotting, made a video about it which went viral. Then the police went to arrest her.