Have fatigues, will travel
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| Piriya |
Piriya Liseeda, 21, from Chachoengsao, took the Nissan from the carpark of the Big C in Muang district on April 12.
The pair had met for the first time the day before after he fell enamoured with her profile on Facebook where she is wearing army camouflage gear. Ms Piriya told police later they were still “getting to know each other” when she decided to steal his car.
Shortly after they started their meal, she made an excuse to go back to the car park and stole his Nissan, embarking on a lengthy journey to Chachoengsao on Highway 304 via Nakhon Ratchasima.
Her solo trip included an overnight stop in the province’s Sanam Chai Khet district. Police flagged over her vehicle the next day about 8am, but Ms Piriya fled.
Shortly after that, she plunged into a roadside ditch after losing control of the vehicle. As police closed in, she was forced to abandon the car and head into a roadside forest on foot.
The young woman, who was arrested by a joint police team from both provinces, has at least four outstanding theft cases against her. She admitted conning male admirers out of their phones, valuables and in some cases their vehicles.
“I meet them on the internet and propose we have sex. When they are unawares I take their cash and valuables and take off. I do not intend stealing their vehicles but sometimes it is the only way I can flee the scene,” she told police.
Ms Piriya said her boyfriend and father to their young child left her, forcing her to fend for herself. She did not say in whose care she had left the child as she embarked on her multi-province offending spree.
In the lead-up to the 24-hour chase which would result in her arrest, Ms Piriya stole a motorcycle in Prachin Buri, a car in Nakhon Nayok, another vehicle in Rayong, and finally the Nissan in Si Sa Ket.
Ms Piriya claimed she had forgotten her phone in the man's car and asked for the car keys to retrieve it.
The victim, 48, from Rasi Salai district, obediently handed them over and realised he had been conned when she failed to return. He laid a complaint with Muang police, setting off the chase.
Police say they examined CCTV footage and realised she was heading for Chachoengsao. They contacted police in the province, who established her identity, obtained an arrest warrant, and handed out fliers to locals in the event they saw her.
Police also turned up at her family home, though by the time they visited, Ms Piriya had yet to arrive. When she was arrested outside the forest, she was about 5km away.
Having lost the use of her vehicle, an exhausted Ms Piriya tried hitching a ride back to Nakhon Nayok. Police, village elders and rescue workers in the pursuit team approached her by the side of the road as she tried to thumb down motorists. They took her to Sanam Chai Khet station for questioning, and later that night took her back to Si Sa Ket to start legal action.
Ms Piriya, who has a fondness for army gear, was arrested wearing a green army T-shirt and shorts as she tried to flag down a motorist outside Thung Hor Hong Sa village.
She had worked at a restaurant in Nakhon Nayok, she told police, but gave up the job with just 900 baht in her pocket. She contacted a group of volunteer rescue workers, claiming to be an army medic, and stole one of their vehicles. She took it to the local bus station before travelling to Si Sa Ket to keep her date with her FB admirer.
The case caught the attention of the media because of her army camouflage gear, with some assuming she was a soldier gone rogue. Ms Piriya said she had simply borrowed the clothes from a friend.
“I didn’t steal the gear, and am not a soldier," she said brusquely as a TV reporter, in the presence of police, questioned her. She owned many social media accounts, she said, because she keeps forgetting the password.
Many male news presenters reacted in shock when she was caught, as the young woman’s real life appearance — tired and drawn after her lengthy chase ordeal — did not match that of the attractive, pale-skinned woman on FB.
“Are the cops sure they have nabbed the right woman?” asked one exasperated presenter on Amarin TV.
Police say she employed the same modus operandi several times: she leaves her phone in her intended victim’s vehicle, and asks for the car keys so she can go back and retrieve it.
Garbage truck saviour
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| Supawan Yuensuk drove her car, right, into the back of the truck |
Supawan Yuensuk, 31, decided to hit the vehicle in front to distract the offender, who grabbed her as she was getting into her Nissan in front of a Kasikorn Bank branch in Wang Nam Yen district.
Ms Supawan had left home at 4.30am on Tuesday to visit a fresh market in front of the tambon office and had just deposited 500 baht via an ATM when the man, clad entirely in black and wearing a cap and sanitary mask, approached on foot.
CCTV vision shows him going past her first on his motorcycle, which he parked nearby before heading to his target.
Ms Supawan said the offender, thin, about 160cm tall and with a yellow complexion, held her in a headlock. He forced her into the vehicle at knifepoint and demanded she go to a local hotel.
The plucky motorist refused to enter the hotel soi, and carried on driving until she saw the tambon rubbish collectors. She drove her vehicle into the back of their truck and called out for help.
The startled knife man quickly fled her vehicle into a roadside forest, where a garbage collector, who realised what was going on, gave chase. However, the man threatened him with the knife so he withdrew.
Police are looking for the offender. The garbage collector who gave chase warned women to look after their own safety by ensuring they have friends if they go out in the dark.
Holy flying wee bag!
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| Flying urine bag has come to rest in tree |
Parichart Phumakleow, 48, aired her plight on an FB site for Pak Kret locals after tiring of dealing with the urine menace. She said she must retrieve the bags from the back of her place at Eua Arthorn village No 1 almost daily.
“My garden stinks because some of the bags break. I have found them in all kinds of places, in the branches of a tree, on water pipes, in the grass. I have to go around picking them up. This problem has gone on for six months,” she told reporters.
Her neighbours, who have also found the urine bags in their backyard, say the unrelenting urine deluge is making them stressed.
They know the culprit, an elderly man who sleeps on the veranda outside his place above them. Rather than visit the toilet inside he urinates into bags, ties them up and tosses them from the building fire escape into the neighbours’ place below.
“I have a moringa tree growing in the garden but I had to cut down the branches because the bags or urine would get stuck there,” Ms Parichart said.
“If someone has a bedroom of his own he won’t do such a thing, he will use the toilet,” she said obliquely, declining to identify the man responsible as she did not want any trouble.
“He should come down and put the bags out with the rubbish like anyone else,” she added.
Neighbour Sompop Thongprasong, 66, said he had also found bags of urine in his garden.
“We live in anxiety that one will burst. If one lands on my head I will go up there and kick the guy in his room, I don’t care,” he vowed.
Ms Parichart said she had spoken to the village’s manager, with no result. She had also tackled the old man, who denied tossing the urine bags.
After reporters paid a visit, the culprit’s daughter came forward complaining about the publicity and asking why Ms Parichart had not approached her directly. She lives at the place above along with her father and her husband, she said.
“If the neighbours have gone to the juristic entity running the village, it’s the first I have heard about it,” the woman complained, saying she is busy at work and not home much.
She denied her father was bed-ridden, saying he was able-bodied and able to use the toilet himself. However, he is allergic to the air con which she and her husband put on at night, and prefers to sleep outside on the balcony. If he needs to relieve himself out there, he goes into a bag.
“Nor have we argued with him and forced him to sleep outdoors,” she said, correcting media reports.
The woman said she had spoken to her father and would try to take better care of him.
Prasan Paenthongkam, manager of the juristic entity and chairman of the village, said he had received complaints about the urine menace, and warned the old man. “He denied it, but everyone knows it is him,” he said.
He had now spoken to the man’s daughter and told her the juristic entity had withdrawn permission for him to sleep on the balcony outside.
“If it occurs again we will throw him out and he will have to go somewhere else,” he said.
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