A brazen daylight heist unfolded at a traffic light when a black sedan pulled up, and its occupant, armed with a gun, struck a motorcyclist in the face and held him at gunpoint before fleeing with his motorcycle. The incident, part of a string of similar crimes, left 33 year old Tirakun without his new Yamaha XMAX, valued at 130,000 baht, which he had only paid off four months ago.
On the evening of February 3, as Tirakun rode his red Yamaha XMAX to visit his mother near Wat Lat Pla Khao, he stopped at a red light behind Rajabhat Nakhon Pathom University. A man, roughly 40 years old and dressed in black, approached him from a black Suzuki Swift parked behind.
The man, his face concealed with a cloth and wearing a cap, brandished a gun, struck Tirakun’s face with it, and demanded the motorcycle keys. Fearing for the safety of his son, who was with him, Tirakun complied and fled…
