Iman
Mahmoodi Barikarasfi (2nd left) reluctantly agrees to pay for damages he
caused by breaking into a house to use the bathroom.
Boonlua Chatree
A drunken Iranian man in need of a toilet definitely
picked the wrong house to break into.
Iman Mahmoodi Barikarasfi, 30, was arrested Nov. 24 in a
bathroom at the Koh Larn weekend home of Deputy Prime Minister Maj. Gen.
Sanan Kajornprasart, the Royal Thai Army’s chief of staff. In his haste to
urinate, Iman had apparently broken into the Samae Beach house, forced his
way into the bathroom and broke the door and a shower in the process.
Sanan was not at the house at the time, but housekeeper
Patchanan Thamniab quickly calculated the damage at 35,598 baht. Dressed in
shorts and a gray singlet, Iman offered only 15,000 baht, saying the
housekeeper’s estimate for replacement materials, service and transportation
to the island was too high. Police tossed the Iranian into a jail cell to
consider his options.
Twenty minutes later, Barikarasfi called back officers
and agreed to the housekeeper’s demands. The property damage charges were
dropped and the Iranian was released.
