Thiefs in Hua Hin

[ADW]

Has anyone every tried to arrange security guards for their village/community...

If so, any names, numbers anything....

[Sabai Jai]

I know this is getting to be quite a long thread but just thought i would add:-

I lived on Soi Rainoon shortly after it was built, late '80's with some Thai friends. They were always telling me to be careful and never to leave the door open eve n if you nipped away for a minute and that at night you had to bring everything inside, even you old flip flops and beach shoes.

They were right anything left out side got nicked and one day (i was out at the time) one of the Thais nipped to the loo and the Telly was nicked in an instant.

Any one who upgraded to posh gates and security bars got robbed the next day!

So it's not new..Hua Hin is bigger and lot's more people but it's always been going on

Regards SJ

[Big Boy]

I've had a worrying experience this afternoon.

My wife was out shopping, and my daughter's family decided to go to the music festival after all by motorbike. I was home alone tapping away on my laptop.

Within a minute of my daughter leaving the house (obviously didn't lock the gate), I heard the gate open. I looked up and there were 2 young lads aged about 16/18 coming into the house. I immediately stood up, and the sight of my Giant Haystacks figure was enough to dispatch them.

As they hurriedly left, our landlord spoke to them in Thai. I now he asked them what they thought they were doing, to which they said they had mistaken the entrance as the entrance to their house. However I watched them leave the Soi, and in the direction they left there are no similar houses.

My thoughts - they saw the family leave without securing the house properly and fancied their chances. They did not allow for the Ogre that was waiting inside. Will they return when they've changed their underwear? - I doubt it, but time will tell.
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[lindosfan1]

Thought you reminded more of big daddy giant haystacks had a beard.
Seriously I think if you are living round town you are far more open to the opportunist burglar,
I am lucky I live ib a quiet soi with 4 policeman in same soi so strangers stand out like a sore thumb,
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[frankbangkok]

When I was living in Bangkok several years ago it was common knowledge that once a house was targeted by kamoys they would return again and again. working for the UN at that time we all had a common practice of moving if our house had been the target of a burglery - successful or not.

It seemed that they would come back again and again robbing the place when subsequent tenants moved in or when the same tenant had replaced the previously stolen items. Everytime they needed more drugs they would strike the same places over and over again.

The advice I was given was to avoid the first attempt via good security, then move just after the attempt took place. Since then I have lived in condos.
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[lindosfan1]

Jennifer would you like to let us all know how you are getting on ,you stated in the opening that more in the next few days, I think that 7 weeks is a little more than a few days.

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[Super Joe]

Don't think it's improved any.

SJ