BANGKOK TEMPLE THIEF CAUGHT ON CCTV DESPITE CHANTING CONCEALMENT SPELL

khaosodenglish.com ^ | 4 June 2026,... อ่านข่าวต้นฉบับได้ที่ : https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2026/06/04/bangkok-templ

[BenLurkin]

Police in Bangkok have arrested a security guard accused of stealing cash from donation boxes at Wat Pho after he allegedly climbed over the temple wall, covered his head with a cloth and recited what he described as a spell to conceal himself before carrying out the theft.

Lt. Gen. Siam Boonsom, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, together with Maj. Gen. Pallop Aemla, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, and Maj. Gen. Chaikrit Pho-a, commander of Metropolitan Police Division 6, announced the arrest of Ratchathan, 43, on 4 June. He was apprehended at the entrance to Soi Lat Phrao 136 in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district at about 12:30 on 3 June.

The arrest followed a complaint filed on 30 May by representatives of Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimon Mangkhalaram, better known as Wat Pho, regarding a night-time theft inside the temple grounds.

Police said he claimed that before carrying out the theft he apologised to the temple’s sacred spirits and recited what he described as a concealment spell that he believed would prevent others from noticing him.

[BenLurkin]

Should have gone with the potion instead...

[dadfly]

must have strange gods in Bangkok.

[Gunslingr3]

[Allegra]

He obviously didn’t get his diploma from Hogwarts.

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

[Red Badger]

Thailand?............................

[Red Badger]

You’ll find a god in every golden cloister,

And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she.

I can feel an angel sliding up to me...............

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Somebody has watched too much Harry Potter. lol

[Lockbox]

Fool, that was the sneak in the house after you’ve been out carousing all night chant to protect you from your wife!

[MotorCityBuck]

I always cast The Runes before I rob a bank. So far. So good.
Thanks to the Gods.

[ConservativeMind]

One Night…

[Nateman]

The invisible man is here to see you sir !

‘Tell him I can’t see him’

[Paal Gulli]

[BenLurkin]

I cut and pasted the headline directly from the link, so not actually me using the caplock per se.

[going hot]

BOO!

[Gil4]

Not the Bee. I thought for sure it had to be.