American Tourist Robbed at ATM
by CityNews

CityNews:-- An American tourist was robbed at an ATM machine on July 9, with the thieves running off with 10,000 baht that was just withdrawn from the machine.

The robbery occurred on July 9, but it was only this week that the two thieves were identified and arrested. Two 19-year-old boys (names withheld) were arrested in Chiang Rai.

Full Story: http://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/news/american-tourist-robbed-atm/

-- Chiang City News 2016-07-25

They confessed to the robbery, saying that they wanted to find money to buy educational resources.

Is that a euphemism for mature hookers?

Edited July 25, 20169 yr by Chicog

Can they show "educational resources" for the 6,000 that vanished ?

Maybe meth,so they can stay up all night studying.

19-year old "boys"?

19-year old "boys"?

Taking a short cut around the road to success. Hard work.

19-year old "boys"?

Mentally babes in arms

Can they show "educational resources" for the 6,000 that vanished ?

..admin costs..planning etc. (sorry for the man who was robbed).

Those two boys should have new ID issued with pictures of them in green vests.

...protecting the criminals and the families that spawned them.....???

...jeez....

...and these excuses/explanations are too pathetic......

...a mockery....

Damn - my thinking has been compromised. I always thought that the farang male was the ATM not the machine?

But I hope the tourist gets his money back. A crime of opportunity that can happen in any country of the world, not just Thailand. These kids should thank their lucky stars (or amulets) they are not living in a devout Muslim country!

Years ago the son of my GF at the time was in Montreal. Used a ATM outside a bank,as soon as the money popped out he was knocked unconcious by someone and woke up in from of ATM money was gone. This crap happens every were. This was 2 pm in the afternoon in day light busy street.

Edited July 26, 20169 yr by lovelomsak

Yes, you are right, in Saudi they would cut your hand off

Yes, you are right, in Saudi they would cut your hand off

Who? The thieves or the authorities? If the latter, would that be for complaining?

Deerhunter, what did you do with the money? If it wasn't you,I would sue somebody..... The forum headline reads " American tourist robbed at ATM by the Deerhunter". ... and if you read something on TV , then you know it must be true .

Shariah law please: Chop their hands off !

Shariah law please: Chop their hands off !

Is that right ,no alcohol,women covered up from head to toe,have a think about it.Who would pick their nose.

I would have picked up the smaller one, and used him as a weapon to beat the less smaller one.

Stealing not good but folks here are really getting bent out of shape over US$285. Let's get real, plz. Chopping a hand off for cost of a 'good' bottle of wine seems 'out of shape' to me.

I'm sorry Jobin, but I find US$285 quite a lot of money, and I can buy a good few bottles for that amount, but I agree that cutting off hands is a bit extreme.

I can't get the full story, something wrong with the database.

Stealing not good but folks here are really getting bent out of shape over US$285. Let's get real, plz. Chopping a hand off for cost of a 'good' bottle of wine seems 'out of shape' to me.

Yeah, the cheap charlie should have pulled out another 10K for them.

They confessed to the robbery, saying that they wanted to find money to buy educational resources.

Ha ha ha ha ha....

Before coming to LoS in 2004 I had never used an ATM . Now I know ATM stands for After Thai Money.