webfact Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Englishman 'arrests' ladyboy pickpocket in PattayaPATTAYA:-- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torpedo1970 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzra Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phycokiller Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Im not sure that one should be categorized as a ladyboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermik Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 I don,t believe this story,ladyboy and pickpocketing in Pattaya...........nah doesn,t ring true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoiBiker Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Presumably he was born in England, so he's an Englishman. A pretty foolish one to be carrying that amount of cash around, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuestHouse Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Shouldn't the inverted commas in the title be on 'Englishman' rather than arrests?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoiBiker Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 So only white people can be English, and anyone brown is probably a terrorist? What a shameful bunch of racist claptrap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoiBiker Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 If the offspring of immigrants can't be English, then you lot are probably all French, Dutch, Scandinavian or Roman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitemouse Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Multiple off topic 'ethnic origins' posts removed, also quoted replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBike Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Yeah he doesn;t look very 'English'. I was expecting a photo of Hugh Grant.... and the other one looks like 'boy' not ladyboy .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiKneeTim Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxforddon Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampdonkey Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGImInPattaya Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaiduncankk Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Im not sure that one should be categorized as a ladyboy I presume his 'Irish Jig' fell off, when he was doing a runner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveller45 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 ...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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanferdi Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Shouldn't the inverted commas in the title be on 'Englishman' rather than arrests?? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooo Upto Me Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwct Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 An Englishman on Welfare, on holiday in Pattaya got pickpocketed!Sounds like the English people got pickpoketed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spermwhale Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycallahan Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Confusion all round: an alleged Brit, an alleged lady, and an alleged law enforcer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesterm Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 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?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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