25 MON

In Phuket, an Australian woman is charged for stealing a bar mat from a local bar. Annice Smoel, 36, and her friends are leaving a bar when an undercover police officer stops and searches her. He discovers a bar mat hidden in her purse and arrests her. Police confiscate her passport and she is sent to jail. Smoel insists that her friend is the one who committed the crime as a joke. She pleads guilty at the trial and is fined B1,000 before being released.

26 TUE

In Pattalung, a signboard discourages the dumping of dead bodies. After several dead bodies are dumped in a deserted area in Ban Khuan Kong, Krachang Noondam, the village head, and villagers decide to erect a sign that declares the area “a dead-body free zone.” Krachang says that the location is thick with rubber trees, and it seems to attract a lot of illegal activities from rapes to the dismantling of stolen vehicles. Recently two dead bodies, killed elsewhere, were dumped into the area prompting locals to put up the sign.

27 WED

In Phitsanulok, a meteor-like rock hits a villager’s roof. Somsak Sukkawattana, 44, is looking after his nephew when he hears a loud crashing sound coming from the corrugated roof of his home. Thinking it’s a bomb, he runs outside but can’t see anything. Further investigation reveals a small piece of gray stone on the roof. Somsak shows the rock to fellow villagers, saying he thinks it fell from the sky. The villagers believe that it has healing powers and can bring good fortune. The Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Naresuan says that while it is possible that the rock might be a part of a meteor, he doubts it has healing powers. Further inspection of the rock is ongoing.

28 THU

In Roi-Et, it is discovered three brothers died on the same date but in different years. Nuploy Boonrat, 75, mother of eight children, explains that her three sons have all died on May 19, only in different years. The first son died from a car accident, the second was attacked by a burglar and the third, the youngest, Jakpong Boonrat, was killed this year by gunshot. Nuploy says the three brothers were also born on the same date, January 1.