The end of civilization as we know it....In the most advanced country in Asia, how could this happen? Bangkok - Twenty foreign tourists were abandoned in a tour bus on a roadside after being robbed by the staff, police said Tuesday.    Police found the tourists at 6 am Monday sitting in a driverless bus on the side of the Asian Highway in Ayutthaya province, 90 kilometres north of Bangkok.    The tourists said they had forced the driver to pull over after finding their cash and belongings had been stolen by the bus's three male staff while some of the passengers slept on the overnight bus from the northern city of Chiang Mai to Bangkok.    'They wanted to check the pockets of the staff, but the driver and boys just fled the scene, leaving the tourists in the abandoned bus,' Senior Sergeant Apichart Phuanganthong said.    Three of the 20 tourists - who were mostly from France, Israel and the United States - said they had lost cash amounting to 100,000 baht (2,907 dollars) along with valuables that included cameras, laptops and iPods.    The tour operator agreed to compensate the passengers for half the stolen cash, Apichart said. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1444797.php/Thai_tour_bus_staff_robs_foreign_passengers_and_leaves_them_ 

More arseholes!

How can I bring my children home to Bangkok - the city of their birth - their home country - when c*nts like this infest the place?

On the other hand, my wallet fell out of my pocket about 5 times when I first got to Thailand.. Thai people always chased me and gave it back to me... in London it would be gone.

JayavII... it happens everywhere? Really? The staff on a bus rob their passengers?

They must be pretty dumb. Surely the police can trace them through their employer.

Looks like the credit crunch is affecting the transport workers.

Safer on the streets of bkk than on the streets of many western cities that's for sure (except for the traffic and the holes etc)

my experiences in Thailand have been much different, but as said before: happens everywhere...

I watched it from the news mai dee loei...song sarn farang

...and now Suvarnabhum is closed

don't tell me some pilots went off with all the luggage

100,000 from 20 tourists ... is considerably not much.. they could do much worse... but then again, these are kaosarn road tourists...

If anyone were to rob me, they would be left with about 36 baht, some old chewing gum, and perhaps a bottle opener.

<<but then again, these are kaosarn road tourists...>>

Different tourists should be treated different ways?

Do you mean that we should give talented people more money voluntarily Bobby like we did once?lol

Hey BJ, nope, not at all. I just don't know the difference in tourists. Maybe I'll learn something here.

This can happen anywhere................but how do you lose a wallet 5 times and get it back? Must be a Thai secret......lol..........I was checking out of my room and had left my precious ring in the bathroom, while they'd sent the staff to call back down with an inspection okay........the staff room cleaner brought my ring downstairs and returned it to me with a smile..........this was un-believable!

this kind of thing used to happen fairly frequently here in thailand. i guess it hasn't totally stopped.

I think the reason the cash amount was relatively small is because most people keep money in their pockets.

*sigh* saw the news too... dammit!