Posted on 02/09/2021 3:46:22 AM PST by Libloather
An impoverished fisherman who found a rare orange Melo pearl worth £250,000 in Thailand has been arrested after celebrating his new fortune by allegedly throwing a meth party for his pals.
Hatchai Niyomdecha, 37, invited friends over to his home in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, on Friday after being offered 10 million Baht (£250,000) for the rare pearl.
Police reportedly found thousands of oral methamphetamine tablets at the man's house after being contacted by his neighbours who complained about the loud music and claimed they could smell drugs.
The Thai fisherman made headlines around the world last week after he found a rare Melo pearl - one of the most expensive in the world - while picking up oysters on the shore near his house.
While armed officers raided Niyomdecha's property, three packages containing an unknown substance and thousands of tablets were allegedly discovered. Several meth pipes were also said to have been discovered inside the house.
The police seized the items - two boxes of the unknown substance and a box of oral methamphetamine tablets estimated to contain 16,000 pieces - which were hidden near the family's home.
Niyomdecha denied that the boxes were his but when the police ran a forensic test on the packages - they allegedly found his fingerprint all over the boxes.
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Could be the meth talking.
John Steinbeck could have turned this into a sequel.
Steinbeck wrote a little novel about a similar event and the trouble it caused the peasant man who found “the pearl of the world”.
Oh, My! GMTA
Sounds like he ran into Sam Elliott.
Maybe this man was using his windfall to start a new business.
16,000 drug tablets would bring charges of trafficking.
Trafficking carries the death penalty.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Another example that sudden wealth is not always a good thing.
Having a lot of money in of itself can destroy a person. Unless they are prepared for the problems money can bring they will end up worse off then before they gained the wealth.
Good examples are children that inherit wealth, or an athletic, or someone in entertainment. How many stories have there been of someone who has “earned” millions of dollars only to end up broke.
Which is the reason I don’t play the lottery, I am afraid I might win.
He spent 225k pounds on hookers and meth and blew the rest.
I’ve never heard it put that way before. I like it. It reminds me of this: Proverbs 30:8b-9 ...give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs. For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.
The key, in my opinion, is a relationship with Jesus.
Let this mind be in you which is in Christ Jesus.
Seems every time someone gets a windfall, instead of paying off their mortgage or buying a bigger fishing boat to boost their business, they head straight to their drug dealer.
The cops didn’t smell meth, they smelled money!
Yup spend your winnings on wine women and song then squander the rest.😏
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