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Burglaries, police inactivity force Canadian/Thai couple out of Thailand - they had 1M baht at home "waiting for exchange rate to improve"


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4 hours ago, bimmerbob said:

....but who saw the burglar? Were the couple not in Pattaya at the time?

1) It is stupid to keep that much cash at home specially when you are away.

2) What relevance has burglary rates in canada got to do with anything? These are presumably 'reported' burglaries - given the apathy of Thai police, who reports all burglaries in Thailand?

3) One day, I may understand their mindset.

Where did the Money come from ? 

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5 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

A friend of mine returned home to Australia over exactly the same thing. His house was broken into, and while in there they found the keys to his SUV and took that too. The guard to their gated community mysteriously disappeared at the same time, giving the police a clue who to look for. They refused to do anything at all unless he paid them 100,000 baht. His wife was so upset they moved house, before deciding they had had enough of this s******e of a country and left.

Well go back home your self ..... A****E

 

Please let us know when you are robbed of your goods and car and the police refuse to investigate without a hefty donation. Let us know how good it makes you feel. Thanks. We'll be waiting.

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The very classy house opposite my Mothers place back in Australia was Burgled once, while the owner was away, .... Their alarm went off, it took a while for my Mother to notice it, and then I went over there ... no sign of any Crms, but well ... I DID keep pretty well clear !!! .... No point in getting stabbed for some one elseses problem right ! ..... The guys sister can around alerted by the Security company ..... it must have only been less than 10 Minuets. ....

 

The Cops eventually came, and well I and the sister had not gone up stairs ! Like Ditto, .... no point in being bashed for no good Reason ! Right .....  There was noting at all touched ..... Including the bottle of wine on the counter, .....

 

The Cops said that the office up stairs had been trashed .... the sister phoned her Brother, who said that "He had left it that way" ..... He was an Air Conditioning Contractor ? .... ??? .... Right. 

 

...  So well, was there Undeclared Cash up there hidden in his office, .... (Black Tax Free money ?) .... (As Contracting Tradies Like to do ??? ... Well maybe in days gone by ?) .... And the Crims knew this ! ???

 

I do reckon so. ... Like they were just there a few Minuets, while the alarm went off, they had kicked in the Patteo window .... and entered setting off the alarm, .... Run up the stairs, ... Found the cash, .... and then they were gone in less than 5 Minuets ! ? ...

 

Did they actually KNOW where the Undeclared money was ???

 

I think so.

 

(Smart criminals DO know this I am sure !!! ... )

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10 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Please let us know when you are robbed of your goods and car and the police refuse to investigate without a hefty donation. Let us know how good it makes you feel. Thanks. We'll be waiting.

If you call this country, just a S*** Hole country, well YES !!! ... Just go back home thanks. ... Like WHY are you staying here in the first Place !!! ... To just capitalize on poor people !!! ??? ...

 

...  You live with the Foxes !!! so then you can not run with the Hounds !!! ....

 

There would have been a reason, and probably a good one, why the Cops did not cooperate with this person. .... His Wife or Extended Family ? ...  or did he not have one, ? .... He was just Living high  here ? On the cheap !!! ???

 

NO LOSS for any one.

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13 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Apart from the odd 100bht my gf has lifted from my wallet at night, never had anything stolen from my home in Thailand.

If I kept cash at home, it would at least have been put in a small safe.

 

40k in a drawer ......... madness.

I would have suspected my gf/wife.

Yeah, or the house cleaning lady, any relative she ever mentioned keeping the cash around, or any of his friends he may have talked to where he mentioned he would keep the cash around while waiting.  Still silly to leave that much cash there.  $40,000 USD is not that big a pile of paper.  I happened to hit an 18,443 slot jackpot on Thanksgiving last year here in the states, and I took the cash.  three bundles of $5,000 each, plus the money I had, and the next night at another casino where I stayed for the weekend (Barona in san diego) I hit another jackpot for 1,400 so I had well over 20k on me before I could get to the bank.  Easily fit inside my little fanny pack double zippered with an interior pocket.  Can not imagine leaving that in my hotel room, or my house as these people claim and going away to Pattaya.

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25 minutes ago, Mark mark said:

If you call this country, just a S*** Hole country, well YES !!! ... Just go back home thanks. ... Like WHY are you staying here in the first Place !!! ... To just capitalize on poor people !!! ??? ...

 

...  You live with the Foxes !!! so then you can not run with the Hounds !!! ....

 

There would have been a reason, and probably a good one, why the Cops did not cooperate with this person. .... His Wife or Extended Family ? ...  or did he not have one, ? .... He was just Living high  here ? On the cheap !!! ???

 

NO LOSS for any one.

I got my Pickup stolen by the Boys of our own family once, who were just totally lost on Ya Ba back a Few Years ago, when the problem was a lot worse than it was now !!! (The little <Deleted> had stolen keys to my car, and many other peoples houses as well  !!!) ....

 

We reported it to the police, and you have to hand them the registration. We did. ... and then we got a message back from the cops, that ... "If we did not find the boys, and get our car back, before they did !!! ... Well then THEY might not be coming back" !!! ... And well the Mothers passed this on to them through Family, ... To the Boys. ... And then we got a message back, as to where we could pick up the car !!!! 

 

So we went there, and did ... had to push it to start it, as they had flattened the battery with their Mobile devices .... but I was so happy that I had a couple of beers !!!

 

... Then on the way Home !!! You would not believe this !!! .... I was stopped in a Police road Block, ... a bit drunk, and in a reported stolen car !!! .... But well I saluted them, and they saluted me back, and waved me through !!!

 

THIS is how you have to do things around here !!! and if you do not like it, ... like if you see this just a a Cheap way of avoiding what ever <deleted> that you are escaping from back at Home !!! ... And then call it a <Deleted> Place ! .... Well yes Please leave and go back to where you came from. .... We could do to loose probably at least 50% of the useless European Bluddgers here, as well as most of the Chinese and other Tourists !!! ... Time to get back to Basics ! ? ...

 

Thailand is a very liberal and GOOD Place !!! .... And if you do not like it !!! Yes .... Just Go Home ! ? ... Or oven on to Bluddge off of other poor people, some where else !!!

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14 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Much as I dislike keeping large chunks of money in Thai banks, they are a lot safer than having 1,000,000 in the house in cash. One has to ask who else knew the money was there? Many burglaries are the result of inside information after all.

I agree, and there is no reason they couldn't open a USD account. 

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my rental house was broken into via a 2nd floor window in Chiang Mai. the thief stole from my wife's coin jar and left small footprints .. we guessed the thief was just a child.

nearly every place I have lived in Australia have had break ins. cars,motorbikes, garden furniture stolen etc.

now I live high up in a condo, seems safe, the security guys are alert.

I therefore conclude Thailand is safer (have I now cursed myself?)

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I had my apartment broken into and robbed once here in the States.  On Wednesday, the grounds keeper/maintenance guy knocked on the door and said he had to check the radiator for leaks.  I let him in, he went in the spare room, came out and that was that.  That weekend I went up to New Hampshire for the weekend.  I know nobody in the complex, nobody knows my schedule, etc.  I left from work on Friday and came back late Sunday night.  Sure enough my door was knocked in.  I was in a brick apartment building, third floor.  Nobody else was burgled.  I looked around.  Saw my box of coins not worth too much but had some silver dollars not BNC, my stereo receiver was gone, my dual cassette tape deck was gone, my little TV was gone.  This was 1988 so not much fancy stuff around.  I also noticed my duffel bag was gone, so these guys left like a reverse Santa Claus.  They did not take my record turn table.  That turntable had a plastic cover on it that was a bit dusty, and you could plainly see ten finger prints on it from where they picked it up and moved it off of the top of the receiver!  I called the cops, they came over.  I had all the serial numbers of the devices because they were relatively new about two years old and I keep all the purchase and warranty stuff.  I found out that the ground crew was mowing grass and stuff that weekend.  Gee, this should be an easy investigation I thought.  I got serial numbers (go check pawn shops), I got beautiful pure finger prints, some obvious suspects.  Cops did nothing.  I called the apartment manager, got the number of the garden guy, he denied everything and of course got mad at me when I asked him some questions.  I reported all that in writing to the cops.  So obvious yet odd that no other units were broken into and mine was on the top floor where there are only 4 units total.  Cops did NOT knock on a single door or ask those neighbors if they heard anything.   Funny thing is, according to the one neighbor right next to me, they had gone out for the day and when they came back they saw the damage, so I probably had a good idea of the time of break in being about 4 PM that Sunday.  I was going to leave New hampshire and be home by noon, but decided to hang out and keep fishing a bit longer.   had I gotten home earlier, ...

 

  In retrospect, and today I would have gone right over to that maintenance guy's house, and knocked on the door and asked in person.  The thieves went down and out the only door that opens to the back where all the crew was working so of course the cops did not interview any of them.   Shifty seedy Ahole. 

 

Oh and when the cops came, one of the other neighbors from the next block stood and listened and said that 's why you should put your social security number on all the items. I just sighed.  I said lady, I have the serial numbers.  Putting your social number on items is not a good idea.  She just didn't get it.

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10 hours ago, lexilis said:
"Whether Canada would be safer than Thailand regarding burglary is a moot point, notes Thaivisa. Online statistics from the World Data Atlas suggest that in 2010 Canada had 578 burglaries per 100,000 people. In the same year knoema.com suggested the Thai rate was just 9.6 per 100,000.
 
And the Thai burglary rate had almost halved by 2016."
 
I am not Canadian but I don't believe these numbers at all.

Born and raised there, definitely some very rough areas in Edmonton, Vancouver and Montreal. 

 

East hastings in Vancouver is worse than ANY street I've seen in Thailand including the roughest ones in BKK. 

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1 hour ago, Nakmuay887 said:

Born and raised there, definitely some very rough areas in Edmonton, Vancouver and Montreal. 

 

East hastings in Vancouver is worse than ANY street I've seen in Thailand including the roughest ones in BKK. 

 

That's Vancouver of 20 years ago

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11 hours ago, genset said:

An alternative solution is the MK1 German Shepherd security system, who's always delighted to dance with the odd intruder (actual photo of my big beautiful boy)...

 

 

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That's a beautiful defense system. 

Just be careful, it's easy to disarm it with some poisoned meat. I have had some experience with this kind of attack. 2 of my dogs got poisoned. 

Now I am using an elephant fence system. This is more effective to prevent from unwanted visitors. 

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Well,  you can get burgled where every you live in the world, I got my house burgled in pattaya, the estate had 24hr security, I nipped out for an hour early in the evening but left my laptop on display, (my own fault) the burgers took about B400, 000 worth of items, TVs, jewellery, DVDs etc, but when it happens you have to up your game, I had an alarm, and cctv fitted, and never left laptops etc on display again. 

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8 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

 

Oh my.  They kept cash because they were concerned about the exchange rate (greed) and they vacation in Pattaya.

 

Tells me all I need to know about this fine Falang couple. ????

 

Note to self: Never live in a gated complex because thieves will think you have money in your house. ????

I think they live in Chon buri and may have gone to Pattaya on a shopping trip, only one

of the couple were falang, the wife is Thai.

 

That's not to detract from the fact that they were very foolish keeping the cash in their home

and that it's highly likely that it was an inside job as has been mentioned more than once.

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This couple do not deserve the free publicity they are receiving. A supposed professional business couple keeping large amounts of cash in the house 'under the bed'!!!! Astoundingly irresponsible and a sheer act of stupidy on there part. I have no doubt they mentioned to family and friends and associates that they were 'waiting for a better exchange rate' hence inviting curiosity from people looking to maybe make an easy buck!!

I have not an ounce of sympathy for this couple who obviously left whatever common sense they had behind in Canada when they entered this country!!

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22 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

She is 40, he is 59, hardly up there with the likes of Anna Nicole and Howard Marshall. 

 

A few years ago we had stuff going missing around the house. Petty cash that was not the amount I remembered and even a beer going missing from the fridge. We bought an alarm clock spycam from Pantip. It was incredible. There were 2 separate thieves, both who we knew very well. One one occasion they even came to steal at the same time and shocked each other, then got into an argument. We confronted them directly, and it stopped. Just shocking the brazen-ness of some people.

 

 Best of luck to this couple.

..why didn't you report this to the police, you had the evidence on video, let them go so they can have someone else rob you or worse; not very smart in my opinion..

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21 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

The good news is I have found a very secure hiding place in my house the bad news is there's nowt to put in it???? 

As my old dad said " Son if you ever find a robber in this house looking for money ask him if i can have half " :cheesy:

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On 2/20/2020 at 9:34 AM, darksidedog said:

Much as I dislike keeping large chunks of money in Thai banks, they are a lot safer than having 1,000,000 in the house in cash. One has to ask who else knew the money was there? Many burglaries are the result of inside information after all.

True. I have my retirement money in dollars at Bangkok Bank, waiting for a better rate to move it over to baht.

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23 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Apart from the odd 100bht my gf has lifted from my wallet at night, never had anything stolen from my home in Thailand.

If I kept cash at home, it would at least have been put in a small safe.

 

40k in a drawer ......... madness.

I would have suspected my gf/wife.

When I first met my wife 16 years ago I worked in Bangkok and rented a condo in Soi Ruamrudee. She seemed too good in every respect to be true so to secretly test her I 'hid' exact amounts of money in drawers such as 4850 baht. And let it lie for a while as if I had forgotten it. I let her have the run of the condo whilst I was out at work and did the same thing in a few different places over the next few weeks. Not one baht was touched - all part of the wifey due diligence which she  ended up passing with flying colours. 

 

Most probably got to be someone who knew that had a lot of money in the house. 

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