News Forum - Thief steals Thai singer’s license plate to nick diesel in NE Thailand

[Thaiger]

A Thai singer took to social media to appeal to fans to help find a number plate stolen from his car after an inventive thief used it to steal diesel from a petrol station in northeast Thailand. Buriram Police are on the lookout for the light-fingered tealeaf who stole the license plate and attached it …

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5 hours ago, Thaiger said:

 

Although the station has no CCTV footage, the staff strongly believes that the vehicle spotted with the stolen license plate is the same one that fled without payment.

Police in Nang Rong have reached out to their counterparts in Nong Ki to collaborate and review CCTV footage from both locations in hopes of identifying any common vehicles and ultimately tracking down the perpetrator.

 

That very much amounts to a DIY manual to obtain expensive stuff for free and is bound to inspire some people if the audience is broad enough. That statement doesn't express criticism of the article, just a fascination with the cycle of events triggering news triggering events. Perhaps in the coming few months a few more incidents like this get reported and cross-linked; some people will think it's a rampantly growing phenomenon and wonder about the cause.
 

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A petrol station without CCTV... you can't fix stupid