Crime
Tourists in Phuket Charged After Begging for Donations
PHUKET – The Tourist Police in Phuket yesterday (Thursday) arrested two tourists at a Phuket market after begging for donations so they could continue their traveling.
The Phuket Tourist police and the Phuket City Police found the two tourists at the Boat Plaza Market in Samkong yesterday (August 23) – a 21 year old Ukrainian man and a 30 year old Russian man.
pair were fined 500 baht each
The two tourists were sitting on the ground with a message scribbled on cardboard stating that they have been traveling in Asia for 15 months.
“Now we’ve spent all our money.”
They want people to support them to make they dream come true. They were taken to the Phuket City Police Station where they have been charged with “committing trouble and annoying other people in public.”
They pair were fined 500 baht each.
