Stones dropped on vendor's car

General News - Thursday December 20, 2007

CITY / COPYCAT CRIME

Stones dropped on vendor's car

Someone dropped stones from a pedestrian flyover at the Ratchada-Lat Phrao intersection early yesterday, damaging a car belonging to a garment vendor.

Sampan Warong, 50, a garment vendor in Patpong, lodged a complaint with Phahon Yothin police yesterday.

He said he was on his way home in Chokechai Si area when the incident occurred about 3.30am.

When he stopped his car at the Ratchada-Lat Phrao intersection close to Lat Phrao subway station, it was hit by stones dropped from the flyover above. ''I found two chips in the back window. I believe someone dropped stones from the pedestrian flyover.

''I drove back to the intersection but found nobody,'' he said.

Pol Col Akom Chantanalat, chief of Phahon Yothin police station, said it was probably a prank.

Pol Lt-Gen Assawin Kwanmuang, chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, believed it was a copycat crime. On Tuesday, people on motorcycles threw rocks at four cars on Phahon Yothin road in Pathum Thani. No one was injured.

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