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A woman facing legal action for impersonating a nurse and duping a series of men in uniform is now facing allegations of stealing a woman’s husband, though insists she herself has fallen victim to deception.
“Tarn” last week went before the media after exposing the latest antics of “Cartoon”, a former “cheer beer” girl (promoters for beer labels at nightspots) who made national headlines earlier this year. She was caught impersonating a nurse and allegedly duping men in uniform out of huge sums.
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| Tarn |
Tarn earlier posted to Facebook complaining her husband, a naval officer, had on Aug 4 asked her for a divorce, claiming they were incompatible. The couple have a three-month-old child whom she has been raising alone.
The young woman, whose full name was not given, said she did some digging and found out her husband, Max, had been seeing the infamous Cartoon, 24, who hails from Nakhon Ratchasima and now calls herself “Pla Nil”.
In a Facebook post dramatically exposing Cartoon as the “other woman” who had broken up her marriage, Tarn had some blunt words for her rival, whom she did not contact before going public.
“At a time when you already have court papers, you shouldn’t go lusting for more legal cases,” she said, referring to Cartoon’s earlier troubles, and adding the hashtags, We will leave it to the law to sort out; Welcome to hell; The saga of the naval officer and the fake nurse.
Tarn and her aunt Choo appeared on a TV news show on Monday to discuss the dispute, with Cartoon talking to the pair by phone link.
Tarn said Max had called her the day before, after seeing her FB post. “He said he did not realise the woman he was seeing was Cartoon and asked for a second chance. However, he failed to show up,” she said.
Cartoon, meanwhile, admitted seeing Max, but claimed she herself had been duped.
“He told me he had stopped seeing his wife, and that he worked as a car washer,” Cartoon told the host, Kanchai “Noom’’ Kamnerdploy.
She denied she had donned a nurse’s uniform again to win him over, and said even if he was thrown out of the navy as a result of the latest fuss, she would still be there for him.
Asked why she was not willing to quit seeing Max, given she now knew he has a wife and child, Cartoon said Max has to take responsibility for both sides.
“He should talk to his wife, but he also needs to take responsibility for me, as my period hasn’t arrived,” she said, suggesting she was pregnant by Max.
“Go and have a test then,” Tarn responded brusquely, unimpressed by her pleading.
Her aunt Choo insisted Cartoon knew Max was married and had a child, and claimed they had evidence.
Tarn agreed, adding: “She even knew what day he would send me money for the baby’s milk.”
The Cartoon saga began in June when the young woman posted a clip to TikTok of her dancing while in a nurse’s uniform. Nurses complained she brought the profession into disrepute and was a fake.
Rather than apologising, Cartoon dug in, insisting she was a graduate of class nine at Boromarajonani College of Nursing in Nonthaburi, and was working as a nurse at Phra Nang Klao Hospital.
Sceptics said she mispronounced the name of the college and in any event, if she was indeed a class nine graduate, would now be aged in her 40s.
As the saga unfolded, the Nurses Council said Cartoon’s name did not appear in their records and started legal action. The hospital where she claimed to work did likewise.
Meanwhile, pre-wedding pictures emerged of a woman identified as Cartoon, again in nurse’s uniform, with her husband-to-be, a policeman. Cartoon had sent the images to a FB site for the wives of men in uniform.
The policeman’s name was not given but as the Cartoon fake nurse saga broke, the young man stopped seeing her, reports said later.
Netizens revealed that in an earlier relationship last year, Cartoon, who evidently has a weak spot for uniforms, was seeing an army sergeant based in Lop Buri, called Noi (an assumed name).
Noi didn’t tell his family he was seeing her, and when he was moved to Bangkok Cartoon followed. Later his family found out Noi had borrowed 300,000 baht to buy a car for her, gold and various other goods. His family tried to make contact with Noi for five or six months, without success.
Noi eventually ended the relationship, after Cartoon pressured him to borrow more but Noi resisted. His brother did some digging and found Cartoon had previously married a soldier in the South and they had a child together.
Back to Tarn, she said Max would have to help pay for their child’s support. A celebrity lawyer invited on the show said if she wanted to sue Cartoon she would have to prove that Cartoon knew she was seeing a married man.
Tarn said she and Max had been together two years, though went through a rocky patch last November when she discovered he had been seeing another woman (not Cartoon). They had re-registered their marriage in June.
Cartoon, meanwhile, insisted Max had flirted with her, not the other way around. She told him she was out of work, and didn’t pretend to be a nurse.
“The past is the past, and I would beg society to let me make a new start,” she said. Cartoon also denied keeping Max away from his wife, and claimed he was prepared to talk to the media. As of publication day, he has yet to come forward.
Noom tires of wife’s debts
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Actor Sornram “Noom” Theppitak has asked debt collectors to stay away from his home in an unusual message accompanying his declaration that he and his wife, actress Kanissarin “Tik” Patcharapakdeechot, have divorced.
Noom posted a copy of their divorce agreement, signed on Jan 20, in which the couple declare they have no debts, have agreed privately on the fate of their assets, and where Noom says he will meet the expense of raising their young daughter alone.
He also urged debt collectors to contact Tik direct, as they no longer lived under the same roof and he knew nothing about her financial affairs.
“Over the past two or three weeks people have visited our home or called repeatedly,” he complained.
His post drew a brief response from Tik, who said she had now repaid a debt of 36,000 baht. She did not elaborate, and later took down the remark.
Speaking about the couple’s divorce, Tik in April said a monk had advised the step to ease bad luck. However, Noom on Thursday stressed the divorce was real, not a stunt, and posted the divorce agreement to prove it.
Earlier, Tik admitted she had run into financial problems as she was keen to get into business but lacked the experience or wiles to make it work.
“I was also unprepared for the reaction when I married Noom. For the two years we have been together it’s as though I can’t do anything right,” she said. Noom had helped her sort out problems as they arose.
Over the past 12 months, Noom has been involved in a couple of financial scrapes which have gone public. In June the couple narrowly dodged legal action after Tik agreed to sell to a city medical clinic imported sanitary face masks only to pull out of the deal after the government declared they were a price-controlled product.
The deal came under scrutiny after celebrity activist Atchariya Ruangrattanapong took the clinic owner, Yannitar Sarathit, to Hua Mak police to lay a complaint of fraud against Tik. Ms Yannitar, who is also a nurse, said she paid 900,000 baht for the imported masks but the other side failed to come up with the goods.
Earlier, in January, Noom complained to police after someone withdrew 450,000 baht from his bank account in five transactions without his consent.
Kasikorn Bank, with whom he has the account, later came out to declare that a person close to him had withdrawn the money at an ATM.
Noom declined to say who was involved. “I don’t want people thinking it was someone in my family,” he said, when asked about CCTV images which showed the person withdrawing the cash was a woman.
Throughout these dramas, Noom and Tik posted pictures of them and their daughter as if nothing had happened, to counter speculation their marriage was on the rocks.
By yesterday, gloves were off, with each trading barbs through social media.
Pothole takes unborn child
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| Linda |
A young man has complained about the state of the city’s roads after his motorcycle fell into a deep hole, resulting in his pregnant wife, who was travelling on the rear, falling off and suffering a miscarriage.
Company employee Thanakrit Suksiriyakorn, 22, said he and his wife, Linda Seetha, 31, a freelance MC, went out for a meal about 9pm on Aug 15 when he plunged into a hole which had opened in sub-soi 17 of soi Pueng Mee 50, in Bang Chak, Phra Khanong.
“I was riding the bike and use the road every day. I tried to keep to the left because my wife was pregnant. When we arrived at the crossing with soi 17, I fell into the hole. It was huge, about 12cm deep. I had no time to take evasive action,” he wrote on FB.
Shortly after, his wife complained of stomach pains and the next morning passed blood in her urine.
Mr Thanakrit said they visited a doctor, who said his wife, who was three to four months pregnant at the time, had suffered a miscarriage. They now wanted someone to take responsibility, but were having no luck.
Mr Thanakrit said he called the district authority, which sent someone to fill in the hole. He thought the waterworks department might be to blame, as the housing village nearby was having new water pipes laid.
“The waterworks people turned up with a bunch of flowers [as consolation]. But later they sent an insurance agent to talk to us. He insisted it didn’t come from them as the roadworks haven’t reached that point. So no one is willing to take responsibility,” Linda said.
She added the loss saddened the pair as they were looking forward to starting a family.
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