{"id":152719,"date":"2025-06-02T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152719\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:08:09","slug":"thai-elephant-raids-convenience-store-eats-snacks-and-leaves-without-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152719\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai elephant raids convenience store, eats snacks and leaves without paying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A convenience store in northeastern <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/thailand?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Thailand<\/a> has had to contend with an unusual shoplifter \u2013 a large male elephant who scoffed down boxes of rice crackers before casually walking out.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The daylight robbery has gone viral in Thailand after the \u201cHere is Khao Yai\u201d Facebook page posted a video on Monday afternoon showing the giant creature \u2013 known locally as Plai Biang Lek \u2013 ambling into the shop, head brushing the ceiling, guzzling snacks, and then strolling out.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The local store, in Pak Chong district, about three hours northeast of Bangkok, is not far from Khao Yai National Park, where wild elephants are frequently seen leaving protected areas to forage for food.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Thais chuckled at the unexpected human-elephant interaction in a region where such encounters, while not uncommon, rarely play out in convenience stores.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWould you like some pork buns?\u201d one Facebook user quipped, while others teased the elephant for its apparent criminality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convenience store in northeastern Thailand has had to contend with an unusual shoplifter \u2013 a large male&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[47971,21625,600,65071,65068,65072,65069,65070,70,731,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-152719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bangkok","9":"tag-elephant","10":"tag-facebook","11":"tag-here-is-khao-yai","12":"tag-khao-yai-national-park","13":"tag-nakhon-ratchasima-province","14":"tag-pak-chong-district","15":"tag-plai-biang-lek","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-thailand","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}