Englishman 'arrests' ladyboy pickpocket in Pattaya

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Englishman 'arrests' ladyboy pickpocket in Pattaya



PATTAYA:-- An English tourist chased and arrested a ladyboy who picked his pocket and held on before Pattaya police arrived last night. The alert tourist foiled a 150,000 baht snatch.

The 35 year old man was out shopping with his Thai girlfriend and when he attempted to get off a baht bus he noticed a large sum of money was missing.

A fellow passenger attempted to flee but he chased the thief before he could get away on a motorbike then held onto him before police arrived.

The drama happened as Imran Muhammad Akhtar (transliteration), 35, and his Thai girlfriend reached their destination at the Thep Pradit market in South Pattaya on Sunday evening.

Imran rang the bell and as he got up he happened to glance down and saw English money on the floor of the song thaew. Checking his trousers he realised it was part of his £3,000 he had in his pocket.

A quick search of the bus revealed the remained under the leg of passenger Pongpipat Maneerat, 28, a ladyboy.

Realising the game was up the ladybody jumped out of the bus. Imran made chase and before the thief could escape on an accomplice’s motorbike managed to arrest him. The friend fled on the bike.

Imran phoned police who came to formally arrest the thief who admitted that he had picked the pocket of the Englishman as they were on the bus. He was taken away saying that he did it to pay a debt for household items.


-- 2016-04-25

[KhunBENQ]

Why does the Englishman wear a black scarf

Travelling with 3000 Pounds in the "pockets" in the Baht bus...

Smart traveller

Edited April 25, 2016 by KhunBENQ

[torpedo1970]

A "class A" Englishman Really looks like one too

who goes on a Baht bus trip with £3,000 in his pocket?

interesting to see that 80%+ of the crime in Pattaya is done by Lady-boys.....

[ezzra]

Imran Muhammad Akhtar "an English man", ( well, he is ok? ) walks around with 3,000 pounds

in his Pattaya trousers on a baht bus.... clearly, doesn't know much about Pattaya's perils

and dangers lurking everywhere......

[phycokiller]

Im not sure that one should be categorized as a ladyboy

[KhunBENQ]

Imran Muhammad Akhtar "an English man", ( well, he is ok? ) walks around with 3,000 pounds

in his Pattaya trousers on a baht bus.... clearly, doesn't know much about Pattaya's perils

and dangers lurking everywhere......

The muppets will never die off.

A constant influx of new victims to the beach resort.

[petermik]

I don,t believe this story,ladyboy and pickpocketing in Pattaya...........nah doesn,t ring true

[SoiBiker]

Presumably he was born in England, so he's an Englishman.

A pretty foolish one to be carrying that amount of cash around, though.

[impulse]

who goes on a Baht bus trip with £3,000 in his pocket?

Anyone who doesn't trust what is held out as a hotel safe, or hotel security. Myself included.

[GuestHouse]

I see the same people who rant about Thais being racist are denying this man is English because of his race and name.

Shunter's offering stands out as a particularly striking example of a bigoted diatribe.

[Rickster]

Shouldn't the inverted commas in the title be on 'Englishman' rather than arrests??

[SoiBiker]

So only white people can be English, and anyone brown is probably a terrorist?

What a shameful bunch of racist claptrap.

[SoiBiker]

If the offspring of immigrants can't be English, then you lot are probably all French, Dutch, Scandinavian or Roman.

[whitemouse]

Great news and a rare outcome, thieving ladyboys almost never get busted on the spot, no one wants to fight them. Pickpockets almost never get busted red handed, so this is double win. Well done, Englishman!

[Rimmer]

Multiple off topic 'ethnic origins' posts removed, also quoted replies

[iBike]

Yeah he doesn;t look very 'English'. I was expecting a photo of Hugh Grant.... and the other one looks like 'boy' not ladyboy ....

[ThaiKneeTim]

Place of birth is irrelevant, but place of registration of birth is!

Hundreds of 'English' children were born in Germany to forces families stationed there.

There is also that little thing known as 'dual nationality', you know, like Boris Johnson, and Pierce Brosnan, who portrayed the quintessential Englishman James Bond despite being Irish and holding US citizenship.

[oxforddon]

For the purpose of police reporting (and thus news) the passport is what counts and not ethnicity - if he carried a UK passport then reports would show British or English depending on what he himself stated.

[swampdonkey]

Presumably he was born in England, so he's an Englishman.

A pretty foolish one to be carrying that amount of cash around, though.

Not sure about England, but I know that in Ireland

Being born in Ireland does not make you Irish

If none of the parents are Irish.

The law was changed a few years ago to stop passport abuse.

[OMGImInPattaya]

Why is the name a transliteration...are't UK passports in English anymore...or have they switched over to Arabic? And what's ladyboyish about this fella or are all thieves presumed to to ladyboys now, rather than a straight or gay man?

Edited April 25, 2016 by OMGImInPattaya

[thaiduncankk]

Im not sure that one should be categorized as a ladyboy

I presume his 'Irish Jig' fell off, when he was doing a runner.

[Traveller45]

...I can only say WELL DONE. Posters will have to realise that there are UK Citizens with Arab origin. And the ladyboy, (s)he should go back to the hospital and have a second try...

[alanferdi]

Sorry your article should have read English resident, not English man.

Never in a million years is he an English man.

yes agree.... He may be a British subject or citizen but not an Englishman. This confusion is going to really be hard for Thais to digest... now that there will be soon syrian looking arabs with German passports or Swedish passports.... does not make them a German or a Swede.... they are just citizens naturalised into the system from a refugee status.

Another point. The title is really misleading.

First An Englishman or any nationality cannot arrest anybody in Thailand. English man tackles pickpocket and pegs him down till Police arrive... would be a colloquial equivalent of what is intended, I suppose...not an expert on edit...but I was really intrigued to find out how an Englishman could arrest a lady boy.

[Bluespunk]

Shouldn't the inverted commas in the title be on 'Englishman' rather than arrests??

No.

[Bluespunk]

For the purpose of police reporting (and thus news) the passport is what counts and not ethnicity - if he carried a UK passport then reports would show British or English depending on what he himself stated.

Ethnicity is not nationality.

[Sooo Upto Me]

Haha I don't know which one looks more believable the so called Englishman or the so called Ladyboy.

I do luv Pattaya Not, so glad I moved out of there.

[tomwct]

An Englishman on Welfare, on holiday in Pattaya got pickpocketed!Sounds like the English people got pickpoketed!

[spermwhale]

Sorry your article should have read English resident, not English man.

Never in a million years is he an English man.

Sorry Cranky Old Bugger, but if he is a British citizen he is in fact an English man. Sorry to you that your so racist to understand that England is no longer WHITE

[harrycallahan]

Confusion all round: an alleged Brit, an alleged lady, and an alleged law enforcer!

[mesterm]

Probably Thais as saying the same things as some of you are when they look at farangs claiming to be Thai after getting citizenship.

"This is what Thais look like now?"