Thai man retrenched amid pandemic asks to be arrested so he can eat
PHUKET — A Thai man walked into a police station on a Phuket resort island on Saturday (April 11) with a single methamphetamine tablet, asking to be arrested so that he would have something to eat.
Chayaphol Addin is seen with a single "ya ba" pill at Wichit police station in Muang district of Phuket on Saturday (April 11). He asked to be arrested in order to get food. Police blurred his identity.
PHUKET — A Thai man walked into a police station on a Phuket resort island on Saturday (April 11) with a single methamphetamine tablet, asking to be arrested so that he would have something to eat.
Thammasant Boonsong, deputy chief of the Wichit police station in Muang district, said he and his colleagues were surprised when Chayaphol Addin, 20, turned up at the station, presented one "ya ba" pill and asked officers to apprehend him.
Chayaphol told them that he lost his job as an electrician after Covid-19 hit the island and could not leave the province to stay with his mother in Phatthalung due to the island lockdown, Mr Thammasant said.
The man said if he were imprisoned, he would at least be given regular meals, the deputy police station chief added.
Police charged him with possession of illicit drugs and were monitoring him closely due to concerns that he might be suffering mental problems and was at risk of harming himself. BANGKOK POST
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