Thief leaves an apology note in Chiang Mai, Thailand

A thief stole over 12,000 baht from an electrical appliances store in Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand on Sunday morning and left behind a note apologising for his crime.

CCTV footage captures a masked assailant, a man estimated to be around 30 years old, breaking into an electrical appliance store next to Wat Tha Mai-i Temple in Chiang Mai’s Mueang district at 1am.

The robber is pictured smashing the window and entering the shop armed with a flashlight. Then, he calmly removed the bolts of the cash register one by one.

He appeared to be in no rush at all, spending a leisurely 15 minutes in total in the shop before leaving out of the same smashed window with 12,213 baht.

Before leaving, the thief wrote a note on an A4 piece of paper and left it on the chair…

“Sorry, I cannot eat.”

The 36 year old shop owner Jatupol did not realise his shop had…