News Forum - Thai gold necklace thief escapes arrest by swimming to Myanmar

[Thaiger]

A thief stole a gold necklace worth about 150,000 baht from a shop near a police station in Chiang Rai and then escaped arrest by embarking on a death-defying swim across a snake-infested river to Myanmar. Khaosod reported that the theft happened on Saturday, November 26, at a gold shop named Seri Phan in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai, which is located only 200 metres far from the Mae Sai Police Station. The shop’s manager informed the police that a male customer entered the shop and asked to see a 45.6-gram gold necklace, worth about 100,000 baht. The […]

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[HolyCowCm]

43 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

A thief stole a gold necklace worth about 150,000 baht from a shop near a police station in Chiang Rai and then escaped arrest by embarking on a death-defying swim across a snake-infested river to Myanmar.

Seriously? Snake infested river? Who writes this malarkey? More apt to have your weenie bitten by a fish or turtle rather than ever seeing one single snake. But biggest chance is you might getting a floating chocolate colored bar in your mouth just let loose from some building there. Let's stop the immaginatiuve writing here. I have been to Mai Sai oodles of times and know this is not true. Snakes are everywhere, but not like that unless the writer is talking about infested with thieves.