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Hunger leads to burglary

The hungry thief awaits his free meal from the police as they catalogue the stolen goods.

On December 12th, a Crime Suppression Division police officer was just leaving the police station after his daily duty when he saw a young man carrying a large cardboard box which appeared to contain something heavy. He asked to look in the box but the man fled from him, throwing the box down in the middle of the road as he ran up Soi 9. The officer gave chase and apprehended the man.
Upon examining the box, he found that it contained an Olympia electric typewriter, a Panasonic telephone, a calculator, a franking machine and other office equipment. He took the man to Pattaya police station for questioning.
Police interrogation revealed the man’s name was Sorn Prasomma, 24, that he was a Surin native who had indeed stolen all the contents of the box. He told police that he had come from Surin to look for work in Pattaya and had not eaten in many days. Suffering from hunger he saw that there was an unbarred window in the back of the Green hotel near the police station. Famished, he took the goods and walked directly in front of the Pattaya police station. Police gave him a hearty meal before they arrested him and told him that he should have gone to one of the many foundations which find work and give food to people in need.

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