'Polite' Phuket Snatcher Tormented Me: Victim Tells

[StrontiumDog]

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/polite-...m-tells-13034/


'Polite' Phuket Snatcher Tormented Me: Victim Tells

By Alan Morison
Thursday, September 30, 2010


AN EXPAT resident of Phuket has told how she was pulled from her bicycle and dragged along the road by a motorcycle attacker who returned again and again to try to snatch her bag.

The woman, dazed and bleeding, screaming hysterically for help, but the residents of nearby houses showed no sign of intervening in the daylight assault on Monday.

A teacher who lives on a boat, the victim now also wants to warn all yachties about security on Phuket. Just 10 days ago, raiders boarded her yacht off Chalong and stole 127,000 baht, as well as equipment.

''I had to borrow 5000 baht after the theft on the yacht to get by until payday, so I wasn't going to let my bag get stolen, even though the guy tried to take it three times,'' the woman, aged 58, told Phuketwan.

The woman, an Australian, prefers to remain anonymous, and is concerned because she believes the thief on the motorcycle probably monitored her movements before the attack.

About 8.15am on Monday, as she cycled to work at a local kindergarten in Rawai, the man rode up alongside her and said: ''Good morning, madam.'' Then he grabbed her bag in the basket on the bicycle, and accelerated.

''He didn't realise that I had wrapped the strap of the bag around the handlebars,'' she said. ''So he pulled the bicycle over, and dragged me with it, along the road.''

The pushbike became a pullbike. She said she was dragged over the gravelly road surface and had the bicycle on top of her when the would-be thief came to a halt after 25 metres.

''He came at me three times,'' she said. ''But because I had my passport in the bag, along with the money I'd borrowed, there was no way I was going to let go.''

She screamed repeatedly but nobody came to help from the nearby houses, which she says is the reason why the attacker was able to stop his motorcycle, dismount, then walk back to try to relieve her of the bag twice after the initial attack.

When the man eventually rode off, she hobbled to the front door of a nearby house. An expat man answered the door. When he saw her, she says, standing bleeding, he turned and went back inside.

''I headed down the road about half a kilometre to the house where I knew a tourist policeman lived. I teach his son. He raised the alarm.''

An ambulance came and the woman declined a trip to hospital, preferring to be patched up on the spot then going on to work, despite her bandages and weeping sores.

Police came to investigate but the woman is not confident of an arrest resulting from either theft. She and her retired husband have been at anchor off Phuket for two years.

''We had the large amount of money on the yacht because it is about to be refitted in a slipway,'' she said. ''Someone must have watched us leave the boat - we were babysitting that evening - and only when we got back at 1am did we discover we'd been raided.''

Later, additional bits of equipment were discovered missing, so she returned to Chalong Police Station and was carrying her passport because its details are required as part of the police reporting process.

''I've ridden my bicycle all over Thailand and we've never had this kind of problem before,'' she said. ''I guess it's just one of those things. I don't plan to let it interfere with the way I choose to live my life.

''Other yachties who are planning to come to Phuket need to know, though, that it pays to take precautions.''

The expat in the doorway later told the woman that he was intending to help, but he had turned back into the house to tell his wife he was going out.

All the victim was able to tell police was that the attacker wore jeans and a green top and a motorcycle helmet. His English was good enough for him to be able to say: ''Good morning, madam.''

[Poo and Pee]

Pretty sad that nobody came to help!

I know a few Japanese women who had the same thing done to them in Bangkok on sois 33, 53 & 55. Luckily they weren't hurt, but all in broad daylight.

There are organised gangs who target foreigners doing this.

[FarangRed]

That time of the morning is usually busy along the road how come nobody see it?

[kingwilly]

'We had the large amount of money on the yacht because it is about to be refitted in a slipway,'' she said.

That's smart of her to tell the media, no every cvnt will know and come looking...

[Poo and Pee]

^ the money has already been pinched.

To be fair to the residents, an angry 58 year old Aussie yachty women must have been a pretty scary sight. Those yachties are a scruffy bunch.....and Aussie women can be quite frightfull..

[Ripley]

That time of the morning is usually busy along the road how come nobody see it?

Plenty saw it and heard it.

" No make trouble for me.."

JHFC Call this civilization ?

[billy the kid]

Where's the Chairman?

[harrybarracuda]

Never occurred to the dumb bitch to go down Bangla and buy some mace then.

[Ripley]

^ 8

Which is illegal to own , even in your own home.

This country is fucked beyond belief, bunch of simpering cowards.

A woman was attacked at 8 AM in Nai Harn ( Phuket) and people drove by, looking while she was raped in the gutter.

[StrontiumDog]

Phuket Bag Snatchers Nabbed at Police Checkpoint - Phuket Wan


Phuket tourist Valeriya Verbitskaya, 23, remembered the numbers
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Phuket Bag Snatchers Nabbed at Police Checkpoint

By Phuketwan Reporter
Thursday, September 30, 2010


PHUKET police have arrested two young men they say snatched the bag of a young Russian tourist - and owned up to three similar offences.

Valeriya Verbitskaya, 23, became the bag-snatchers' latest victim on Monday when the pair pounced from their motorcycle as she walked along the beach road in Karon.

Chalong officers nabbed Kitdanai Boonsawat, 22, and Kananan Sawangwong, 21, at a checkpoint at Karon yesterday on their black and white Honda Click.

Miss Verbitskaya was sharp enough to remember part of the rear registration number, which is what brought her assailants to notice. Miss Verbitskaya was called in from her holiday at the Sugar Palm Resort in Kata-Karon and identified the pair.

A camera, though, and the 400 baht in cash in her bag have gone. The men told police they had sold the camera to a second-hand shop for 1300 baht.

The men said they were both unemployed and fathers, and had to steal to feed their children.

They admitted to other bag-snatchings in the past couple of weeks, two in Patong and a third in Kamala.

Yet to be solved is the unusual case involving an Australian woman whose assailant said ''Good morning, madam,'' before attempting to snatch her bag as she rode a pushbike in Rawai on Monday. The woman refused to give up her bag and was dragged along a roadway for 25 metres.

[kmart]

^ 8

Which is illegal to own , even in your own home.

This country is fucked beyond belief, bunch of simpering cowards.

A woman was attacked at 8 AM in Nai Harn ( Phuket) and people drove by, looking while she was raped in the gutter.

If you do nothing but read news headlines all day, it might appear that way.

[Itchy]

Who's the piece of shit that turned her down on the door step when she clearly needed help?

Fucking cowardly scum bag.