Chumphon: A restaurant manager decided to resign after being shocked! He demanded only 45 baht from a customer but was threatened with a gun. He rushed to report to the police at Pathio Police Station, Chumphon Province, fearing for his safety.
According to Thai News Agency, the restaurant manager decided to resign after a customer threatened him with a gun. The reason was that the restaurant was closed and he had to pay the bill because he had to send the account to the owner. However, when he asked for the bill via Line, the customer became very angry and was also drunk.
A surveillance camera at a restaurant on Tung Wua Laen Beach in Tambon Sapli, Amphoe Pathio, Chumphon Province, captured Thanawat, or Lek, the boyfriend of a female employee at the restaurant, who was intoxicated and pulled out a handgun from his waistband to threaten Mr. Phansriphum, aged 53, the manager of the restaurant.
In the footage, Thanawat can be heard pulling out a handgun to threaten and curse with harsh words before a friend comes to help talk him out of it. Not long after, he walks out of the shop, gets on a motorcycle and rides away. Initially, the shop manager, who is the victim, filed a complaint at Pathio Police Station, Chumphon Province, requesting legal action against Thanawat.
The manager of the shop revealed that before the incident, Mr. Thanawat came to drink alcohol at the shop as a regular customer, who came to drink almost every night because he had to wait for the shop staff who was Mr. Thanawat's girlfriend. When the shop was about to close, around 11 p.m., he asked the shop staff to ask if Mr. Thanawat wanted anything else because the shop was about to close. If he didn't want anything else, he would ask for the bill because he had to clear the account and send it to the shop owner, which was 1 bottle of water for 20 baht and 1 bottle of soda for 25 baht, totaling 45 baht on the bill. But when the staff didn't find Mr. Thanawat at the table, he sent a message to Mr. Thanawat's girlfriend asking her to come back and pay for the food.
Thanawat contacted me and asked me to send him a QR code. When I sent it, I couldn't scan the money, so we chatted for a while until a friend sitting in the shop came to pay instead. I thought it was over, but Thanawat rode a motorcycle and parked in front of the shop before walking straight to me and started cursing me with harsh words, and pulled out a pistol to threaten me.
He wanted to apologise to Mr. Thanawat because after the incident, he told the owner of the shop and resigned to isolate himself because he felt that if he continued to work, it would be unsafe. Therefore, he decided to resign because he had children to raise and a mother who was blind to look after. If something happened to him, the family would be in trouble because he was the breadwinner.