Simple as that - how drug suspect used a small bit of wire to escape from police jail

[webfact]

Simple as that - how drug suspect used a small bit of wire to escape from police jail

 

Picture: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- A drug and theft suspect used a small piece of wire to escape from a police cell in Phangnga on Tuesday.

 

The escape has prompted a security review of all police cells nationwide to stop such a simple escape happening again.

 

The suspect who escaped from Takua Pa police station was rounded up yesterday after embarrassed police conducted a manhunt. Panom Sirikun, 36, being held previously on drug and theft charges, was found sleeping in a ten wheel truck in a palm plantation, reports Thairath.

 

He was taken back to the police station where he reenacted how her escaped. He said he used a three inch piece of wire that he had hidden in his clothes when he was arrested.

 

While a police guard was in the toilet he stretched his hand out of his cell and used the wire on the padlock. He said it took 30 minutes and while the cop was in the men's room he made good his escape.

 

He said he learnt the technique from a cellmate he met in prison before.

 

Following the escape the national police bureau acted quickly to ensure there is no repeat. New pieces of metal will be installed in all police station cells nationwide so that it is impossible for detainees to stretch out their hands.

 

Source Thairath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-01-12

 

[ratcatcher]

"He said it took 30 minutes and while the cop was in the men's room he made good his escape."

30 minutes for a toilet break?  Quite amazing.

[Thaiwrath]

Just now, ratcatcher said:

"He said it took 30 minutes and while the cop was in the men's room he made good his escape."

30 minutes for a toilet break?  Quite amazing.

 

Candy crush saga ?

[waldroj]

46 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

 

Candy crush saga ?

 

Either that, or bad Som Tam Talay !!! 

[honoluludave]

Harry Houdini would be proud. Ha Ha

[ezzra]

That'll teach those dufuses cops to frisk and search detainees before

sticking them in the slammer, if he had a metal wire, he could have

other harmful devices on him.... Live and learn....( not many people do 

though, some never learn )

[bluebluewater]

And after he picked the lock he sashayed down the hall and past the front desk with a wai or two along the way. as well.

[Sphere]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

a security review of all police cells nationwide

 

Hmmmm..reduce gap between the bars....budget of 6.3 trillion baht....change to Yale locks....budget of 4.3 trillion baht....new metal detectors......5.2 trillion baht......the possibilities are endless....

[jacko45k]

3 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

"He said it took 30 minutes and while the cop was in the men's room he made good his escape."

30 minutes for a toilet break?  Quite amazing.

And he only read half of it!

[DaveE13]

30 minutes in the bog with dirty mags 

[roo860]

Could to see Chuwit is there in the background, a man of many guises!

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[klauskunkel]

Jedi Mind Trick:

 

[wirat69]

4 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

 

Candy crush saga ?

Nah, according to other post regarding RTP they are a bunch if <deleted>!!!!

[The man from udon]

All cells to be upgraded 

[mcfish]

After the break out he did what Thais do best. Sleeping..

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[samsensam]

 

LOS; Land of Sleeping

[TheFishman1]

Another pay day for some body cost 1 million baht charge 2 million baht TIT

[Phuketboy]

Why the hell did he show them how he did it?  He should have simply said that the padlock wasn't locked properly.  Then he could have planned his next escape properly and got away for good over a border somewhere.  Stupid telling them and showing them how it was done.

[timendres]

Quote

 

New pieces of metal will be installed in all police station cells nationwide so that it is impossible for detainees to stretch out their hands.

 

 

Maybe better locks would be most cost effective?

[IAMHERE]

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

And he only read half of it!

or he only washed one hand ?

[webfact]

Escaped prisoner prompts jail security upgrade request

Phuket Gazette

 

          

Mr Panom demonstrates his lock-picking technique to police officers. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

PHANG NGA: Phang Nga Police officials are planning to request the Royal Thai Police to improve the standard of nationwide prison locks after a prisoner used a three-inch metal wire to escape from Takuapa Police Station on Tuesday. 

The runaway prisoner, named Panom Sirikul, 36, was recaptured yesterday, following which police made him demonstrate the lock-picking technique that reportedly took him less than 30 minutes to employ. 

Mr Panom, a suspect in a theft and drug case, was detained in the station prison cell and managed to pick the lock when police officers went on a toilet break. 

“We discovered that he disappeared from his cell about 5:30am. We immediately checked CCTV footage and followed his trail. The footage led us to Takuapa bus station, where we learnt that he had boarded a bus about 6:10am,” said Col Sarawuth Soongsanga of Takuapa Police. 

 

Full story: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Escaped-prisoner-prompts-jail-security-upgrade-request/66119?desktopversion#ad-image-0

 

-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2017-01-12

[jerojero]

Watch and be amazed RTP. You'd think decent law enforcement would have an inkling of such things? Oh what am I saying! Decent?

[wakeupplease]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Escaped prisoner prompts jail security upgrade request

Phuket Gazette

 

          

Mr Panom demonstrates his lock-picking technique to police officers. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

PHANG NGA: Phang Nga Police officials are planning to request the Royal Thai Police to improve the standard of nationwide prison locks after a prisoner used a three-inch metal wire to escape from Takuapa Police Station on Tuesday. 

The runaway prisoner, named Panom Sirikul, 36, was recaptured yesterday, following which police made him demonstrate the lock-picking technique that reportedly took him less than 30 minutes to employ. 

Mr Panom, a suspect in a theft and drug case, was detained in the station prison cell and managed to pick the lock when police officers went on a toilet break. 

“We discovered that he disappeared from his cell about 5:30am. We immediately checked CCTV footage and followed his trail. The footage led us to Takuapa bus station, where we learnt that he had boarded a bus about 6:10am,” said Col Sarawuth Soongsanga of Takuapa Police. 

 

Full story: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Escaped-prisoner-prompts-jail-security-upgrade-request/66119?desktopversion#ad-image-0

 

-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2017-01-12

Wow that is a great trick can you teach me how to do that as I might need it with the ongoing crackdown says the bib

[KBsinter]

I do this as a hobby, he would need 2 pieces of wire,and I have proper tools 

to open locks,I would have thought a prison cell would have decent locks 

apparently not................Chinese locks are easy peazy..........

Edited January 12, 2017 by KBsinter

[1duckyboy]

Took him 30 minutes while the policeman was on toilet break. Wonder how long the toilet break was.

[jollyhangmon]

1 hour ago, KBsinter said:

I do this as a hobby, he would need 2 pieces of wire,and I have proper tools 

to open locks,I would have thought a prison cell would have decent locks 

apparently not................Chinese locks are easy peazy..........

 

Yep, if really succeeded with just one piece of wire it was a 'lucky pick' so to speak ... or their padlocks are even worse than Chinese crap.

 

 

[phil2407]

You would have thought he would be inside the cell showing how he did it, not for photo op with the bumbling  BIB ?

[TPI]

On 12/01/2017 at 10:12 AM, Phuketboy said:

Why the hell did he show them how he did it?  He should have simply said that the padlock wasn't locked properly.  Then he could have planned his next escape properly and got away for good over a border somewhere.  Stupid telling them and showing them how it was done.

Now that makes too much sense, he could have said that someone came in and unlocked the lock with a key......that would've put the cat among the pigeons??

[KBsinter]

On 1/12/2017 at 5:02 PM, jollyhangmon said:

 

Yep, if really succeeded with just one piece of wire it was a 'lucky pick' so to speak ... or their padlocks are even worse than Chinese crap.

 

 

 

And that particular lock is possibly is the easist lock perhaps in the world.........lol

[dbrenn]

On 12/01/2017 at 8:08 AM, ratcatcher said:

"He said it took 30 minutes and while the cop was in the men's room he made good his escape."

30 minutes for a toilet break?  Quite amazing.

Extended lunch break, more like.