A local woke up to an unpleasant surprise when an unidentified individual had vandalised his parked pickup with paint stripper, causing damage estimated around 50,000 baht.
The incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday, December 21, outside the Thai man’s rented residence in Wichit district, Phuket.
After the Phuket emergency centre 191 alerted the police, Theppitak Phuangmani, the Deputy Investigator of Wichit Police Station, along with the patrol team, rushed to the scene. They found a bronze Toyota Vigo with visible signs of paint stripper splattered all over the vehicle, causing the paint to peel off in patches on the roof, body, and the right side of the pickup, including the driver’s door and the rear door on the driver’s side.
The local, named Don (pseudonym), who was clueless about the perpetrator, reported the incident and recorded…
