ThaiBankie

A couple of weeks ago I was going to bed on the Monday night about 1am and I had just gone through my usual routine of turning off all the lights, air conditioning, TV and UBC and went up to the bedroom.  Everything seemed normal and as I was getting undressed to go for a shower I heard something moving in the toilet.  I had a quick look at the bed and although it was dark in the room I could see Nok sleeping on the bed.  I thought maybe Megan had woke up and gone to the bathroom for a pee as maybe she was getting good at this "not peeing the bed" thing.  I thought that was unlikely though and started to realise that we had an intruder. 

Nok woke up and asked me what I was doing, I told her that I thought that someone was in the bathroom and she told me to go check.  I was still in my birthday suit and decided to go ahead and open the door.  The door was pushed back closed as soon as I tried to open it.  At this point I was sure that it was not Megan and I tried to open it again.  Again it was pushed back shut.  I needed to arm myself and had a quick look around the room, all I could find was Megan’s recorder and I thought that it was pretty much useless in this situation.  I was caught in two minds, I wanted to run downstairs and get a knife but didn’t want to leave Nok and Megan upstairs in case the guy came out of the toilet.  I decided that it was best to run downstairs anyway as hopefully the guy had taken the hint and climbed back out through the bathroom window.  Nok was calling the village security guards and I went back up to try the toilet door again but this time it was locked when the security guard appeared I took him upstairs to the bedroom and asked him to open the door, as it would be better for him to get the brunt of the intruder when the door was opened, if he was still there.  He was gone. 

The guard looked around the outside of the house while I checked and secured all of the inside of the house.  Nothing to be found anywhere so he had probably bolted as soon as he realised that I was not sleeping as he had thought we probably were. 

It took a few hours for me to settle back down and manage to get some sleep.  The next morning we found out that another house in the village that night got robbed and they had called the police, when the police heard that we also had an intruder they also came round to our place for a look.  They told Nok to go to the Police station to make a statement but that is the last I expect to here from the police on this.  No fingerprints were taken from the window where they came in.  I suspect that the person who did this was one of the labourers who stay at the house opposite our house, it is a house similar to ours and it has been getting renovated for a few months now.  Nok said that there has been quite a few houses in the village that have been robbed over the last couple of months so it would make sense that these guys are to blame.  The village have now kicked them out and told them that they are not allowed to stay overnight in the village so maybe things will get a bit safer in future.