Video shows foreign-looking man robbing Singaporean tourists
By The Nation

 

 

PHUKET: -- A Phuket restaurant owner has sought the help of Facebook users to help locate a foreign-looking thief seen on CCTV footage stealing a bag from a Singaporean couple inside his business.

 

The restaurant owner, identified on Facebook as Tanaphat Nuansakul, on Wednesday posted on Facebook that the theft happened inside his Tu Kub Khao restaurant on Phang Nga road in Tambon Talad Yai in Phuket’s Mueang district a t 6.40pm.

 

Tanaphat said in the post that anyone seeing a foreign-looking man wearing a light yellow T-shirt and shorts and carrying a black backpack should alert police.

 

Tanaphat also posted a 1.43-minute video clip.

 

The clip showed a man coming into the restaurant and waiting for waiters to clear a table. He placed his own bag on a table and when he saw a couple talking to a waiter as they were paying their bill, he grabbed their bag and his own and left the restaurant.

 

Tanaphat told Thai Rath Online that the couple were Singapore tourists. He helped them file a complaint with police at the Muang Phuket police station as they reported that they had lost cash, credit cards and their passports.

 

 

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Bloody hell. He's clearly done that before judging from the footage!

Never ever let your valuables out of your site, this sort of thing happens everywhere.

might want to clean the camera lense, close proximity but cannot even make out a face

good heads up

 

Looking at his big paunch, must be a regular on some bar stool.

15 hours ago, fasteddie said:

Never ever let your valuables out of your site, this sort of thing happens everywhere.

fasteddie you are right - particular care should be taken of the passports as these documents are vital for mobility in an out of the country.

 

So he walked out of there with 3 bags!

Silly as they look, fanny packs for the passport, wallet etc.

surely with his image so clearly captured the police should be able to hunt him down. you get scum all over the place waiting to pounce on innocent victims.

The answer to this is the cut proof, lockable LogTote bag. Live more, worry less.

Scum of the earth. Does happen in every country though except maybe not so often in countries where you get your hand chopped off. Now there's an idea!!!!!

 

Happened to us in Australia also. There are scumbags everywhere.

Lock up your wifes.

12 hours ago, Rhys said:

good heads up

 

I hope he gets caught!

13 hours ago, saakura said:

Looking at his big paunch, must be a regular on some bar stool.

Or preggers.

16 hours ago, webfact said:

anyone seeing a foreign-looking man wearing a light yellow T-shirt and shorts and carrying a black backpack

 

I am having coffee on beach road and so far I have spotted 43.

Yip, get yourself a lockable Fanny Pack. Works for me 

13 minutes ago, Dobredin Ghusputin said:

 

I am having coffee on beach road and so far I have spotted 43.

Huh?  Why are you looking at guys like that when you are on beach road?  

Sleeze bag. . Catch, 6 months in Thai Prison Deport for lifetime!!

Anybody traveling should have what is called a "tile" with you. It is a very small transmitter that will allow you to find anything. All cell phones will be tracking your item and letting you know exactly where it is...just like GPS map...go to Google and search "tile security" or "tile tracker"... 
 

17 hours ago, fasteddie said:

Never ever let your valuables out of your site, this sort of thing happens everywhere.

 

Agree it happens a lot and it does happen everywhere.

 

Years back I lost an expensive almost new camera from a compartment in a locked filing cabinet in my apartment in Bangkok and the key to the cabinet also missing.

 

I couldn't understand at all how it had happens until months later I bumped into a farang I thought was my best buddy from work with his Thai gf, he had been to my apartment many times.

 

We sat down to have a snack and his gf pulled an expensive camera out of her bag, my camera which I could prove because of a small scuff mark. Questions to the lady indicated it was a gift from bf and also indicated she knew nothing about it's origins.  

 

The lady went walking around and I accused the farang of stealing my camera and he admitted it, his excuse was that he wanted to make his gf happy.

 

He insisted he would reimburse me in several payments over the next few months. Never got one payment, end of friendship. And I became much more vigilant about my property.

 

 

17 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Bloody hell. He's clearly done that before judging from the footage!

Why? nothing out of the ordinary there.

Old, Beer belly, Baseball cap trying to look young.

Must be American  ??

41 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

Huh?  Why are you looking at guys like that when you are on beach road?  

Very difficult not to, especially when they're blocking the sun. ?

That appears to be 100% opportunistic, better to steal the bag than feed his fat face.

 

These people are everywhere so be careful out there and look after your valuables.

People don't leave your passport and cash etc in a backpack. I keep my pp in my front pocket.

 

Except for the paunch ( belly ) the face looks asian. 

17 hours ago, Tilacme said:

might want to clean the camera lense, close proximity but cannot even make out a face

Cameras are also always placed too high indoors. They should be just above eye level. Outdoors they need to be higher.

Well in mine country about 95% of the crimes are done by foreigners.Even in our top ten wanted list of criminals often being wanted for murder All are foreigners blacks arabs Chinese serbians.

14 hours ago, saakura said:

Looking at his big paunch, must be a regular on some bar stool.

yes spending someone elses money , do as they do in middle east chop his hands off !

Serves them right for being careless.