Video: Tourist thieves set to net a little over 300 baht each!

[webfact]

Video: Tourist thieves set to net a little over 300 baht each!

 

 

PATTAYA: -- Sanook reported that the footage shown at the weekend that captured three apparent tourists stealing a woman's bag was recorded in Pattaya.

 

And there was just 1000 baht in the woman's bag meaning it will not be a great payday for the gang.

 

Although the name of the restaurant was not mentioned they said that the location was a place on Pattaya Sai 2 frequented by mostly foreigners, Sanook reported.

 

Some people had suggested earlier that the location was Bangkok.

 

Sanook said that the victim was a Thai woman and that she had reported the matter to Wuthipong Cheunchom at Pattaya police station who was in possession of the CCTV footage.

 

Subsequent efforts to trace the victim have failed, however.

 

Inside the bag was just 1,000 baht an ATM card and a few documents relating to the civil service.

 

The footage was recorded on Friday at 2.59 and many people have gone online to call for the arrest of the team of men.

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-03-28

 

[Pattaya28]

Shifty bunch.

Hope they get caught exiting Thailand.

[4MyEgo]

How low can one stoop, Arabs no doubt ?

[craigt3365]

Happened to my wife in Portugal.  Got hardly anything, but caused us great aggravation.

[pegman]

Where on 2nd road is this?

[dictater]

The reference to these guys being tourists, or foreign thieves gives the totally wrong impression. These guys are not here traveling, or even 'visiting' they are professional even if low level thieves. Giving this story the headline Tourist Thieves is very misleading. 

[dinsdale]

"CCTV footage captures the moment a gang of three foreigners are seen stealing the handbag of a woman in the food court believed to be at a popular Bangkok shopping mall." 27 March

4 hours ago, webfact said:

PATTAYA: -- Sanook reported that the footage shown at the weekend that captured three apparent tourists stealing a woman's bag was recorded in Pattaya.

Such quality.  They say it's in BKK (yesterday, 27 Mar), now they say, they said it was in Pattaya (yesterday, 27 Mar) and now they're saying it was in Pattaya (today, 28 Mar). Absolutely brilliant.

Look at yesterday's post. 7:07am. Nowhere does it mention Pattaya.

Edited March 28, 2017 by dinsdale

[pumpjack]

this place is called ( KISS FOOD )  located at junction  2nd road and soi diana pattaya.

but does it really matter what name of restaurant ? 

 

hope these  scumbags  are caught and given lengthy jail terms 

[Pui]

1 hour ago, dictater said:

The reference to these guys being tourists, or foreign thieves gives the totally wrong impression. These guys are not here traveling, or even 'visiting' they are professional even if low level thieves. Giving this story the headline Tourist Thieves is very misleading. 

The wording of the title is absolutely correct. They are foreign "tourist thieves" meaning they are not Thai and caught in the act of stealing. So "tourist thieves" works.  From the CCTV we cannot determine if they derive most of their income from stealing, which is what "professional" means. So your suggestion of the word "professional" would be less appropriate.

Professional - engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.

 

 

 

Edited March 28, 2017 by Pui

[Pui]

4 hours ago, pumpjack said:

this place is called ( KISS FOOD )  located at junction  2nd road and soi diana pattaya.

but does it really matter what name of restaurant ? 

 

hope these  scumbags  are caught and given lengthy jail terms 

Yes its useful to know,, I recognize it now. Thanks for sharing the picture!

[realenglish1]

This is an example of why I leave my bags strap around my neck even when I am sitting in a restaurant.

 

It never leaves my side and When I am mobile it sits in front of me not on my side

 

Thieves hate me I am sure of that 

[Golden Triangle]

4 hours ago, pumpjack said:

this place is called ( KISS FOOD )  located at junction  2nd road and soi diana pattaya.

but does it really matter what name of restaurant ? 

 

hope these arab scumbags  are caught and given lengthy jail terms 

Yeah, I know that place, eaten there a few times in the past, be interesting to see if any TVF sleuths living close by could finger these scum, I live on the Dark Side now, to far to go to play detective 

[Khon Kaen Dave]

It would appear that, now Thailand has become an international place of fun and sex, that in its aging and notoriety, the scum of the world are coming here to try their hands at thievery and robbery.

[rmacee]

As we are all called farang, we are lumped in with this filth who have no respect for the country they are visiting ..

[gdgbb]

6 hours ago, dinsdale said:

"CCTV footage captures the moment a gang of three foreigners are seen stealing the handbag of a woman in the food court believed to be at a popular Bangkok shopping mall." 27 March

Such quality.  They say it's in BKK (yesterday, 27 Mar), now they say, they said it was in Pattaya (yesterday, 27 Mar) and now they're saying it was in Pattaya (today, 28 Mar). Absolutely brilliant.

Look at yesterday's post. 7:07am. Nowhere does it mention Pattaya.

They didn't say it was in bangkok, they said that they thought it was.  Today's version confirms where it actually was.  Not much wrong with that quality.

[gdgbb]

45 minutes ago, rmacee said:

As we are all called farang, we are lumped in with this filth who have no respect for the country they are visiting ..

That's quite appropriate as most members here demonstrate their lack of respect for Thailand very clearly on a daily basis!

[metisdead]

A nonsense post about the topic has been removed, this is an updated version of the topic posted on Sunday.  

[Boycie]

Check out post #99 in the original post from Sunday and this thread has also been updated there.

 

Apologies for my nonense post but was thinking that the TV Mods could close one thread to save having to police 2 threads from all the racist comments to follow 

[Philthyphil]

1 hour ago, rmacee said:

As we are all called farang, we are lumped in with this filth who have no respect for the country they are visiting ..

 

Well, no.

 

you have a bit to learn. Show that video to a Thai, if you know any.

They won't call them Farang, they will call them "kairk" or kon kairk

They were not farangs.

[Rhys]

...for the thieves, they scored, they are happy with that...5555

[dinsdale]

48 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

They didn't say it was in bangkok, they said that they thought it was.  Today's version confirms where it actually was.  Not much wrong with that quality.

I think you miss the point once again. 

 

12 hours ago, webfact said:

PATTAYA: -- Sanook reported that the footage shown at the weekend that captured three apparent tourists stealing a woman's bag was recorded in Pattaya.

No they didn't. They reported, past tense, they thought it was in BKK as stated below. They did not report that it was recorded in Pattaya as stated above. 

 

CCTV footage captures the moment a gang of three foreigners are seen stealing the handbag of a woman in the food court believed to be at a popular Bangkok shopping mall.

 

For Sanook to say.. "Sanook reported that the footage shown at the weekend that captured three apparent tourists stealing a woman's bag was recorded in Pattaya"... is a completely erroneous. Their initial report doesn't even mention Pattaya. They've changed history in a space of 12 hrs.

 

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Some people had suggested earlier that the location was Bangkok.

This it what they ran with (hearsay), hence reporting they thought it was a popular BKK shopping mall,  without, it would seem, doing a bit of journalism, i.e. checking facts. If you think journalists reporting on hearsay instead of fact is quality, then I guess you must be a fan of British tabloids.

 

[gdgbb]

5 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

I think you miss the point once again. 

 

No they didn't. They reported, past tense, they thought it was in BKK as stated below. They did not report that it was recorded in Pattaya as stated above. 

 

CCTV footage captures the moment a gang of three foreigners are seen stealing the handbag of a woman in the food court believed to be at a popular Bangkok shopping mall.

 

For Sanook to say.. "Sanook reported that the footage shown at the weekend that captured three apparent tourists stealing a woman's bag was recorded in Pattaya"... is a completely erroneous.

 

 

No, the one missing the point is you.  All the reports referred to beliefs or thoughts about the location there were no specific statements that the theft definitely took place in Bangkok or Pattaya

To quote what you posted; "They reported, past tense, they thought it was in BKK..."

"...believed to be at a popular Bangkok shopping mall."

 

"Sanook reported that the footage shown at the weekend that captured three apparent tourists stealing a woman's bag was recorded in Pattaya"... is a completely erroneous.

It wasn't wrong, it was in Pattaya!

 

[dinsdale]

OK hows this. They said one thing now they're saying they said something else.  The initial thing they said (believed to be in BKK) was based on hearsay which is what they're saying today. They are also saying today that yesterday  [Sanook reported that the footage shown at the weekend that captured three apparent tourists stealing a woman's bag was recorded in Pattaya. ] Yesterday they did not report this. If I am wrong and yesterday they reported the footage was recorded in Pattaya, please be kind enough to post it. Maybe I missed the bit about Pattaya in yesterday's story.

 

Edited March 28, 2017 by dinsdale

[wakeupplease]

B300 a days pay for some so they will be happy right up to the immigration exit desk

Edited March 28, 2017 by wakeupplease

[jacko45k]

8 hours ago, gdgbb said:

That's quite appropriate as most members here demonstrate their lack of respect for Thailand very clearly on a daily basis!

I think that can be demonstrated to occur both ways.

Here we have a group of presumed tourists behaving in a way that shames many other tourists, and nearby some locals will be working to build their own bad reputation....  probably very close to where this occurred.

[Khon Kaen Dave]

rmacee

Scum like these people have no respect for any country, full stop.They will ply their miserable trade, where ever they go.Until they are caught. Lets hope they are caught in a country where the prison conditions and its inmates are, shall we say, less than hospitable?

Maybe here comes to mind, or some of the hotels in Mexico, or south America.I hear that Lapaz is quite pleasant this time of year.