Briton accused of stealing Thai tourist's bag from temple

[KenKadz]

And a bag, containing 100,000 baht worth of items, was left unattended in a temple full of strangers because?

BAIT?

[anotheruser]

2 minutes ago, KenKadz said:

And a bag, containing 100,000 baht worth of items, was left unattended in a temple full of strangers because?

BAIT?

 

Look we all know had it been left in a taxi it would have been returned, no questions asked. 

[ClutchClark]

3 minutes ago, KenKadz said:

And a bag, containing 100,000 baht worth of items, was left unattended in a temple full of strangers because?

BAIT?

 

Well they caught a big fatty tuna if so.

[dunroaming]

Jail him for an appropriate amount of time and then deport him and ban him from returning to Thailand forever.  Hopefully this will make the UK press and he will be exposed for what he is, a low life thief.

[ray richards]

This scunbag is not making life easy for us foreigners in Thailand.

[Hawk]

The police in Europe would simply not be interested in this case. If you leave your bag unattended then its your own fault if someone walks off with it.

 

Anyway, before bashing this guy think about the thousands upon thousands of Thai thieves wandering around stealing 24/7. This guy got caught, so, but remember he would never have stolen it if the owner had not left it unattended.

[lostinisaan]

4 hours ago, Rob13 said:

No word on how they knew who he was? Facial recognition software seems a little advanced for LOS, I don't see another way though., unless there was a sign-in book and he was stupid enough to use his real name.

 

 Don't you think that the Thai Immigration isn't using facial recognition software? Just saying.....

[Hawk]

1 minute ago, ray richards said:

This scunbag is not making life easy for us foreigners in Thailand.

 

Do you know how many foreign criminals are "working" in Thailand?  There are gangs here from South America stealing from cars, houses etc,  there are the Russian, Ukraine and similar types skimming and robbing ATMs, then there are the "boiler room" gangs, the foreign drug gangs, all kinds of other shady misfits etc. So this guy doesn't affect idiots like you. 

[anotheruser]

7 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

 

    + 1, what an incredible and dumb statement. Must be one of these "quality tourists."...

 

I am guessing you are directing that at my post. Here is a clue... it was posted in jest because there are some hang 'em high types that would say stuff this dumb. It was designed to invoke irony that castrating him wouldn't be a deterrent to thievery. 

 

Anybody with any level of cognizant thinking or reading ability would have figured this out.  This is why TV can pull off the most outlandish April fools jokes. Some people just love to swallow it whole, hook, line and sinker. 

 

Thank you for the lulz those two posts brought me though. 

Edited September 3, 2016 by anotheruser

[lostinisaan]

42 minutes ago, ray richards said:

This scunbag is not making life easy for us foreigners in Thailand.

 

 

 My wife just told me that many other Thais really start to dislike foreigners in general and it's sad that it happened. 

 

    If Thai people can't be safe when visiting a temple, which is pretty common for a Buddhist, then good night. 

 

      "<<<< Thai language edited out.  This is the English language part of the forum >>>>"? 

Edited September 3, 2016 by metisdead

[dunroaming]

Thailand does attract many criminals of one type or another, often career criminals, of all sizes and sexes probably because they can always buy their way out of trouble. There are also thousands of Thai opportunist thieves of all sexes and backgrounds.  Everyone is fair game for them.  But a tourist stealing from someone's bag in a temple somehow raises the hackles.

[ray richards]

10 minutes ago, Hawk said:

 

Do you know how many foreign criminals are "working" in Thailand?  There are gangs here from South America stealing from cars, houses etc,  there are the Russian, Ukraine and similar types skimming and robbing ATMs, then there are the "boiler room" gangs, the foreign drug gangs, all kinds of other shady misfits etc. So this guy doesn't affect idiots like you. 

I can only assume that you are in 1 of those gangs????

[lostinisaan]

2 minutes ago, anotheruser said:

 

I am guessing you are directing that at my post. Here is a clue... it was posted in jest because there are some hang 'em high types that would say stuff this dumb. It was designed to invoke irony that castrated him wouldn't be a deterrent to thievery. 

 

Anybody with any level of cognizant thinking or reading ability would have figured this out.  This is why TV can pull off the most ooutlandish April fools jokes. Some people just love to swallow it whole, hook, line and sinker. 

 

Thank you for the lulz those two posts brought me though. 

 

    Yep, I'm guessing some of these quality posters have a problem to cope with the Thais with an IQ of 70 and below, mentioned in a thread a while ago.I wish people would make such statements as too early April fools' jokes, but I doubt it. 

[anotheruser]

I don't have the slightest clue what you are even trying to say at this point. Joking around on TV is no laughing matter it seems...

[mrfill]

Nice to see the country's first reasonable quality - and actually working - CCTV camera doing a good job.

Guess it must have been installed that morning.

[metisdead]

An inflammatory post has been removed. Responding to objectionable messages is discouraged, please use the report button and report the objectionable post instead.

 

Some troll posts have been removed as well. 

[BangkokTony]

I am surprised no one has brought up the following point... a link to Stickboys site was given. The pic shows him as having a beard. In the video he is clean shaven. Could he grow a beard so profusely in 2 days?

Or did they look for an overweight male who would be close to the description?

Edited September 3, 2016 by BangkokTony
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[Thingamabob]

Scumbag. Yet another low life farang on the prowl in Thailand. 

[Aladdin]

1 hour ago, lostinisaan said:

 

 

 My wife just told me that many other Thais really start to dislike foreigners in general and it's sad that it happened. 

 

    If Thai people can't be safe when visiting a temple, which is pretty common for a Buddhist, then good night. 

 

      "<<<< Thai language edited out.  This is the English language part of the forum >>>>"? 

 

Seriously, where do you come up with this crap?

 

How can people come to live in a country with the “WE AND THEM” mentality?

 

I have more in common with many Thais than I have with you, a foreigner I suppose.

 

My wife said…. Many…. What does many means? 2 out of 4 at her work. 35% of the Thai population? And how many people do your wife know? 50? Have all of those 50 told her they don’t like foreigners? Or only 5 of them?

 

I understand that the word “many” and “many Thais don’t like foreigners” is a way of trying to put some weight to your post which I personally think is pure BS

 

A lot of people here criticise Thai’s ability of critical thinking and now I run in to this post written by what I suppose is a foreigner with excellent ability for critical thinking

 

I have never heard any Thai saying that they don’t like foreigners. Quite the opposite if I may add. But I have heard a lot of Thais saying that they don’t like thieves, foreigners or Thai.

 

I think the post says more about you and your wife than the general believe of what Thais think about foreigners.

[MissAndry]

3 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

My wife said…. Many…. What does many means?

 

 

A couple means 2, a few means 3, many is more than 3.

See, that was easy, now you can tell your wife what many means ....... more than 3.

[ClutchClark]

4 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

 

Seriously, where do you come up with this crap?

 

 

How can people come to live in a country with the “WE AND THEM” mentality?

 

 

 

I have more in common with many Thais than I have with you, a foreigner I suppose.

 

 

 

My wife said…. Many…. What does many means? 2 out of 4 at her work. 35% of the Thai population? And how many people do your wife know? 50? Have all of those 50 told her they don’t like foreigners? Or only 5 of them?

 

 

 

I understand that the word “many” and “many Thais don’t like foreigners” is a way of trying to put some weight to your post which I personally think is pure BS

 

 

 

A lot of people here criticise Thai’s ability of critical thinking and now I run in to this post written by what I suppose is a foreigner with excellent ability for critical thinking

 

 

 

I have never heard any Thai saying that they don’t like foreigners. Quite the opposite if I may add. But I have heard a lot of Thais saying that they don’t like thieves, foreigners or Thai.

 

 

 

I think the post says more about you and your wife than the general believe of what Thais think about foreigners.

 

 

It tells me that my wife and his wife think same same.

[MissAndry]

6 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

 

I have never heard any Thai saying that they don’t like foreigners.

 

 

Completely understandable, as you are a foreigner, Thais tend to tell you what they think you want to hear, and Thais are never that confrontational to your face, until the mass kicking starts.

[LUSHGOAT]

Most airports etc now have facial recognition technology probably fed his image into a computer its not rocket science. The whole story sounds fishy to me like the 100,000 baht etc. 

[Aladdin]

9 minutes ago, MissAndry said:

 

A couple means 2, a few means 3, many is more than 3.

See, that was easy, now you can tell your wife what many means ....... more than 3.

 

3 out of 4 is many

 

3 out of 60 million is not many

Edited September 3, 2016 by Aladdin

[Stardust314]

Another "quality" western tourist.  

[Apostate]

Why take the risk? He clearly has enough money to feed himself more than adequately. Maybe a needy Thai wife demanding too much? 

[KhaoNiaw]

It would be interesting to know exactly how he was identified. There was something on the radio when I was driving home the other day about immigration setting up a new hi-tech centre with lots of new hi-tech wizardry that wasn't just for use in the airports. Wonder if that was a result from there.

[Rob13]

3 hours ago, lostinisaan said:

 

 Don't you think that the Thai Immigration isn't using facial recognition software? Just saying.....

 

 

I don't know, I've never heard of anyone in the US being caught like this, not petty criminals anyway. Just seems like a lot of co-ordination between different govt offices  for it to work. I don't know how else they could have caught him though.

 

[mikosan]

On 9/2/2016 at 6:08 PM, richard_smith237 said:

The Video appears to leave little doubt...  

 

What charges would a Thai receive ? He should receive the same. 

 

 

The video certainly does leave little doubt, guilty as charged.  Theft is theft, regardless of who does the stealing, or what the reasons are and he's been caught bang to rights. Idiot. Lock him up for a few days, then send him home and don't allow him to return. 

[balo]

The good news is that the thief will lose a few pounds in prison ,  eating noodle soup all day will teach him .