If you choose to wear expensive jewelry in public or even carry shoulder bags, please note that thefts of such items is on the increase. Just before daybreak on Sunday Morning another necklace snatch took place in front of a Snooker Hall at the south-end of Pattaya Third Road. The victim, Khun Nipaporn aged 22 was eating noodles next to the Snooker Hall and when she had finished she joined her Australian boyfriend on his motorbike. As he was trying to start the bike, a Thai Man approached on a further bike and snatched her 1 Baht weighted gold necklace worth around 17,000 Baht. Luckily the engine of the assailants motorbike cut-out and passers-by managed to apprehend the suspected thief, Khun Tawatshai aged 21 who later confessed to the theft and claimed he needed money to buy drugs and this was his fourth necklace snatch he had conducted in the Pattaya area. He is now behind bars and the victim has been reunited with her gold necklace.