A Thai man suspected of serial dine-and-dashing focused two local Pattaya eating places this month, leaving unsuspecting people to foot the invoice. Posing as a soldier from Naresuan Camp, the fraudster would arrange a pretend enterprise assembly at the restaurant, devour a meal, and then quietly disappear.
Yum Workshop, a extensively known eatery situated in Soi Khao Talo, Nongprue sub-district, Banglamung district, Chon Buri province was the primary to fall prey. On Quadruple , September 26, the person entered the restaurant and claimed to be meeting pals for a business-related discussion.
He ordered numerous dishes and three bottles of beer. Two hours later, three unsuspecting men joined him. However, the person vanished from the table within 30 minutes of their arrival, leaving the trio to cope with the restaurant workers.
Upon realising the man’s absence, the 41 12 months old restaurant manager, Wasna Kosaengrak, questioned the three males about their missing companion. To her surprise, they revealed that they weren’t friends with the person however have been his supposed prospects who had been there to discuss a curtain buy for his boss’s home.
After a suspicious phone call, he had excused himself from the table and never returned. The CCTV footage confirmed the person making his exit on a bike, leaving the restaurant with a lack of 1,065 baht.
While it’s not clear if Wasna intends to press costs, she urged fellow enterprise homeowners to be cautious of such deceitful patrons.
Dine and dashing part II
In an unfortunate turn of occasions, another local eatery, Glin Krok Glin Sak, situated in Soi Chaiyaphruek, Nongprue Sub-district, Banglamung district, Chon Buri province, shared an identical expertise earlier in September.
The restaurant took to Facebook to share their encounter with a person who bore an uncanny resemblance to the one from Yum Workshop, reported The Pattaya News.
After viewing the CCTV footage from Yum Workshop, Woraporn Michaya, a 32 yr outdated restaurant owner, confirmed that it was certainly the same man.
On September 1, he had claimed to be a soldier ready for his Korean associates, ordered a full table of food and a bottle of beer, and left beneath the pretext of choosing up his associates. The man never returned, leaving the restaurant with an unpaid bill of 800 baht, a major loss for the struggling eatery.
While refraining from revealing the suspect’s face due to an ongoing police investigation, has confirmed that the Pattaya police have the man’s images and CCTV footage.
On further investigation, it was found that the person had a history of similar offences. In August, he had left an 800 baht invoice unpaid at one other Pattaya restaurant after leaving an empty phone case and cigarette pack as a ruse. Moreover, a few months earlier, he had claimed to be an employee of a broadly known company, leaving a restaurant with an unpaid bill of 1,000 Baht.
As the Pattaya Police proceed their investigation, the city’s eating places remain on excessive alert, hoping to avoid changing into the following victims of the suspected serial dine-and-dasher.
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