An alert German tourist made a citizen’s arrest Tuesday night after he caught a ladyboy pickpocket red-handed on a Baht bus in Pattaya.
The elderly katoey had reportedly moved closer and closer on the Baht bus, slipped his/her hand into the foreigner’s pocket and nicked 1,220 Baht when the 59-year-old German noticed what was going on and restrained the culprit.
Tourist police in Pattaya arrested two ladyboys for stealing the wallet of an Australian tourist as he walked along Pattaya Beach Road in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
Mr Bruce Lauchie McCown, 34, was reportedly chatted up by the ladyboys and, let’s assume, invited to a session of short-time fun with the two of them just after 5 a.m.
It was apparently when they hugged the tourist as they usually do in crimes like these that one of the creatures slipped her/his hand into the victim’s trouser pocket and nicked his wallet containing 16,000 Baht in cash.
A 26-year-old ladyboy was arrested on Walking Street early Wednesday morning for being part of pickpocket team that stole the smartphone of a tourist from Jordania.
The 61-year-old tourist told police that he had been strolling along Walking Street on his way back to his hotel room when the ladyboy and a female accomplice chatted him up and started groping up, proposing the usual naughty kind of late-night fun.
Only when it was too late he noticed that his phone was missing from his trouser pocket and called the police to assist him.
We’ve only recently warned travellers and expats not to wear gold necklaces after dark in Pattaya or carry more cash than really necessary on them. Snatch-and-grab thefts and (ladyboy) pickpockets are by no means anything new in Pattaya but cases appear to have risen recently. Having said that, we should have added that you’re also… Continue Reading
Once and for all: Do NOT wear a thief gold necklace around your neck in Pattaya after dark or carry more cash on you than what you really need when you leave your hotel room for a night walk around town. Only two nights ago, a young Chinese tourist had a gold necklace worth over… Continue Reading
So now it’s not just ladyboy pickpockets on Beach Road or groups of women with kids and babies sitting next to you on a Baht bus that you may have to be aware of – there are also many foreign low-lives who may look like normal tourists but finance their stay in Pattaya by means… Continue Reading
A 34-year-old Indian tourist had his gold necklace snatched by two ladyboy pickpockets on Walking Street in the early hours of Wednesday.. The robbery followed the usual script: Ladyboys chat Indian tourist up and distract him by hugging him etc.; Indian tourist walks on and notices only minutes later that his necklace is no longer… Continue Reading
Not only unaware Asian tourists have gold necklaces snatched from around their neck. Ever-increasing numbers of Thais fall victim to snatch-and-grab thieves, too, in Pattaya. Now a 27-year-old bar girl on who was riding home from her workplace after the end of her shift had her gold necklace robbed on Pattaya Third Road. Fortunately, the… Continue Reading
A 45-year-old tourist from Hong Kong claims he had his wallet snatched by two Thai women on a motorcycle as he was walking back back to his hotel in Central Pattaya Sunday night. The possibility that they may have been so-called “women of the second category” a.k.a. ladyboys can obviously not be ruled out. Continue Reading
A 40-year-old Russian tourist crashed his rented motorcycle in heavy rain just after midnight on Sunday after he had his gold necklace snatched by two drive-by thieves and he gave chase to the two suspects. Luckily Mr Andrei Ananev and his wife, who was riding pillion, were both only slightly injured after they lost control… Continue Reading
Two Thai women, aged 27 and 35, were arrested and charged with theft Tuesday afternoon for pickpocketing an elderly Australian woman on a Baht bus. A third member of the pickpocket gang, reportedly a ladyboy, is still on the loose. The 69-year-old tourist had earlier on Tuesday taken a Baht bus in Pattaya and noticed… Continue Reading
Ladyboy pickpockets are a permanent menace for foreign tourists around Pattaya these days. Now two foreigners fell prey to two separate teams of ladyboy purse snatchers in two separate incidents occurring within just a few hours early on Tuesday (or at least these were the cases reported to the police during that time.) Continue Reading
