Four Foreign Teenagers Arrested for Stealing and Destroying Street Lamps in Phuket, Claim It Was Just Horseplay
Four foreign teenagers were arrested in Phuket for removing and destroying street lamps in Old Town, claiming the vandalism was just horseplay. Police tracked down the 15-16-year-old tourists in Thalang district after social media images sh
Four foreign teenagers have been arrested for removing street lamps from Phuket's Old Town area and destroying them, claiming they were just having fun. Images shared on social media showed the group of foreign tourists engaged in inappropriate behavior in the Old Town district along Phangnga Road in Muang Phuket, where they removed lamps from in front of shops, played with them, and then discarded them, causing damage. On May 17, 2025, Police Captain Chatri Chukkaew, superintendent of Muang Phuket Police Station, coordinated with Phuket City Municipality to file a complaint against those responsible and ordered the investigation unit to track down the group. Officers located them in Thalang district and successfully apprehended all four teenagers, aged 15-16, who confessed they acted out of youthful recklessness before legal action was taken.
