Nice try Gran - but might we suggest some acting lessons for next time!

[webfact]

Nice try Gran - but might we suggest some acting lessons for next time!

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

BANGKOK: -- Video has emerged of an apparent scam attempted by a north eastern Thai grannie.

 

In the dash cam footage posted on Facebook the woman suddenly appears from the side of the country road and theatrically falls in a heap in front of the advancing car, reported Manager Online.

 

Fortunately the car brakes but it seems obvious that the woman is acting and hoping to extort money from motorists.

 

The woman driving is not fooled by the fraudulent fainting fit and drives off, as does another vehicle seen creeping up the inside.

 

Manager reported that this was probably an attempt to get compensation in some way. They said such scams had been filmed in China and Taiwan.

 

The footage was on the Facebook page of Pattanakitr Punkot who said that it was recorded in the Seka district of Bung Karn province on Friday morning when his wife was driving.

 

He commented that he had seen such a scam from China but didn't think it would be repeated in Thailand.

 

The video caused much comment from netizens on social media, most of it highly critical of the actions of the ham actor grannie.

 

Source: Manager Online

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-02-16

 

[Bluespunk]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

He commented that he had seen such a scam from China but didn't think it would be repeated in Thailand.

Why?

[oldgent]

something is not right here that car/pickup is travelling at quite a speed all of a sudden it stops

and the lady jumps out onto the road. is this a set up or has the driver got faster reactions than Lewis Hamilton

[ezzra]

As well there wasn't a ya ba infused truck driver behind and that scam would

have needed in real tragedy....

[colinneil]

That woman is a better actress than my ex-wife.

[Sphere]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He commented that he had seen such a scam from China but didn't think it would be repeated in Thailand.

 

It may be time to rewrite the Thainess handbook. 

[Thaiwrath]

A traffic related article where we have not been advised of 'brake failure' for a change.

[PatOngo]

So much for welfare!

[bluebluewater]

The dog appears concerned.  What more could she want?

[mok199]

i had a 70+ Russian woman shake me down a few weeks ago in pattaya at a bus stop...said she needed 100bt for the bus to bkk to visit her son.,we talked and she gave me a kiss(on the cheek).it seemed so out of place in thiland and she was so lovley .(an original ''bubbha''.I gave her 100bt...''for the effort''....but the  scam on a motorway is just plain dangerous..These happen everywhere..the rule is..don't give more than you can afford to lose..let them know your not fooled ,but are willing to listen.and mabey help...if its an addiction you are feeding .then its your call, personaly I still may help,depending on the person....compassion and humour..when they go low..go high...

[leeneeds]

Acting lessons off the Thai soaps,

[alien365]

3 hours ago, oldgent said:

something is not right here that car/pickup is travelling at quite a speed all of a sudden it stops

and the lady jumps out onto the road. is this a set up or has the driver got faster reactions than Lewis Hamilton

I'm sorry, but you can see her from a mile away wondering on the side of the road. He was travelling a decent speed but if you're a half decent driver, you would slow down and give room when seeing a pedestrian/cyclist at the side of the road anyway. It's the old ladies dramatics that are laughable.

[Daffy D]

Shame the driver didn't have a rear view Cam so we could see her get up and dust herself of and get ready for the next "victim" 

 

[Enoon]

 

How about this being a determined and impassioned demonstration against people speeding through her village?

 

 

[chuang]

She was lucky the car stopped on time....otherwise she may just be run over just for a few hundred bahts..

[manarak]

I already wanted to buy a dashcam... it just moved up in priority.

[JHolmesJr]

LOl….I would have rolled down my window and thrown some orange juice on grandma.

[worgeordie]

If she keeps that up its not going to end well for her,

just needs some driver on the phone,and she's a gonna.

regards worgeordie

[slapout]

She must be a real beginner at the attempted scam, or so it would appear. Those who make a living at it walk into/and contact the front fender of the vehicle and hit the ground, so it almost looks real. The dash mounted recorders will eliminate most of this type acting. Its looks like sometime in the not to distance future, drivers and home/business owners, pet owners, etc, will have spend more to protect themselves from liability to others than what they are protecting.

Its too bad about 75% of all the lawyers of the world could not be confined in a large temple like facility and only allowed out to take food that is offered to them by the people who contribute to the good of others, instead of their misfortune/misery.

[Puccini]

I think this driver should have called the police, then get out of the car and talk to the woman until the police arrived. This woman needs to get a warning from the police, perhaps also needs psychiatric care.

[dunroaming]

Not the first time I have had a granny fall for me.  Not quite in that way though.

[katana]

These kind of scams are quite common in China and you can see the clips on Youtube.

However the uploader of this clip, Pattanakitr Punkot, posted an update 6 hours ago below the clip stating that thaich8.com had reported the 73 year-old woman has mental problems (Alzheimer's?) and on the day in question her medication had run out leading her to go wandering.
Police from the local Seka Police Station are looking into the matter and reminding her relatives to keep an eye on her.

[mok199]

10 hours ago, Daffy D said:

Shame the driver didn't have a rear view Cam so we could see her get up and dust herself of and get ready for the next "victim" 

 

or....get up dust herself off and give the ''finger''....

[tifino]

 

pity the dog didn't bite her

 

- that would have had her put back into hospital , and off the road

 

 

Either that, or the dog catches rabies from her

[manarak]

On 16.2.2017 at 6:03 AM, manarak said:

I already wanted to buy a dashcam... it just moved up in priority.

done!

[wakeupplease]

Crime of the century extortion

 

Even old grannies try it on here, where do all of these fantastic ideas come from?  There must be a school of con tricks hidden somewhere within these borders

[DekDaeng]

On 2/16/2017 at 5:26 PM, katana said:

These kind of scams are quite common in China and you can see the clips on Youtube.

However the uploader of this clip, Pattanakitr Punkot, posted an update 6 hours ago below the clip stating that thaich8.com had reported the 73 year-old woman has mental problems (Alzheimer's?) and on the day in question her medication had run out leading her to go wandering.
Police from the local Seka Police Station are looking into the matter and reminding her relatives to keep an eye on her.

Suicide?