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Home » Remarkable » Thai gets eighteen months in prison for stealing shoes during flood
Thai gets eighteen months in prison for stealing shoes during flood
The Thai The court sentenced a 52-year-old man to eighteen months in prison on Thursday for stealing twenty pairs of shoes from a police officer's flooded apartment during the floods last month. That reports the local radio.
The criminal court in Bangkok initially sentenced Suphatpong Pothisakha to three years in prison for stealing the shoes with a total value of 6.000 baht (150 euros). But when the man pleaded guilty, the sentence was cut in half.
Shoes on shelf
Suphatpong had forced his way into the policeman's abandoned apartment in Bangkhen, the north of the capital Bangkok, on Nov. 8. When he saw the shoes on a shelf sticking out of the water, he decided to take them with him. The very next day he was arrested.
Many suburbs of Bangkok experienced flooding in October and November. Thousands of people had to leave their homes, many of those houses were subsequently attacked by burglars.
Source: Belga
I think this is correct, I have no words for looters. I've even seen on TV people like this robbing the cars of people trying to keep their things dry. What a shame.
You are absolutely right!!
But it is true that everyone has their own opinion, especially because the average Thai
it's not that wide, let's be honest!
Can the judges of the criminal court in Bangkok come and teach judges in the Netherlands?
Here the policeman had to prove that it was his shoes. Maybe he could have bought them back. And a good lawyer might argue, "that cop had twenty pairs of shoes, my client not a single pair, Your Honor, I don't see the problem." Judgment of the police judge; sorry, never do it again, and finally, polish twenty pairs of shoes as community service.
A good reader will understand that I am exaggerating something, but the core of my argument does apply. Where one country imposes (too) severe punishment, our country has a (very) mild form of punishment in similar situations.
Here I find Dick C.'s vision a bit strange! Why? I don't think the judge's decision is right anymore, because it's still that way KEEP YOUR PAWS OFF OTHER MAN'S STUFF!!! Forgetting that this is a police officer, maybe the judge has taken into consideration what kind of situation it happened in, then I think it is right that the sentence should weigh heavier.
You will always have people who will/want to take advantage of the situation.
And the punishment you propose is a verdict according to our standards (yes right!) You know very well that criminal law in Thailand can be very strict, also corrupt, but time and time again set an example.
If you still have the guts in the Netherlands to give a burglar in your own home a pair of free blue eyes, then that burglar will be back on the street before you are.
Just too ridiculous for words.
Dear Ron,
If you read carefully you will see that I am making a comparison between the Thai sentence and a possible comparable sentence in a Dutch situation.
I am generally in favor of a strict but fair penal policy. And it really doesn't matter in which country this applies. I am glad that others think this way.
He really shouldn't have stolen. But here again is class justice. Shoot 100 khon deng, no problem
Drive an unauthorized car and kill 9 people, too bad.
Split a girl in 2 pieces with your fat Porsche by driving too fast. Give a few thousand euros and you're done.
And then there's the question of whether the people who condemn him don't have very dirty hands themselves.