S’PORE GIRL STAYED IN THAILAND HOSTEL, UNDERWEAR STOLEN & THIEF RETURNS IT WITH “STAINS”

I’m a female 24, graduated from NUS about a year ago. To all the female solo travellers, I would like to know if this has ever happen to any of you before and how do ya’ll react to this.

As with the majority of the solo traveller, we tend to stay at a hostel due to its cheap rates. I have been solo travelling and staying in hostel most of the time. Often I do not faced any issue and find it to be very very safe.

However, recently while I was backpacking to Thailand and staying in a hostel, I found out that a few of my bra, panties and clothes were stolen. What’s worst was that some of my used bra and panties had “come” stains in them.

I was utterly shocked as this had never happened to me before. I tried to tell the hostel staff but they said they could not do anything about it as they have placed a disclaimer to remind the tenants to take care of their belongings.

They did offered to make a police report but that didn’t help much as I was about to head home in a few days. Looking through the CCTV also didn’t help as there were multiple people entering the room at different times, making it hard to tell who stole exactly.

What’s worst was that there’s this other female tenants whose lingerie was stolen and stain with come as well.

I just want to know if this is common or has every happen to other solo female traveller before. If so, how do ya’ll react to such situation? What are your next precautionary steps.

Netizens’ comments

1. Never encountered. You mean they actually return the stained undies to your hotel room after stealing them?
2. I say, don’t get mad, get even. Steal all the male underwears you can find and stain them all with your blood from your monthly period.
3. I also stay in hostel but there supposed to be separate rooms for males and females. In my opinion this issue cannot happen unless you choose to be in a mixed gender room.
4. There’s no such thing as totally safe. The more you experience life, the more creative you feel ppl can be.
   Reading people’s faces doesn’t mean what’s in their hearts.
   Better to do your own risk assessment before heading for backpacking trips. Some countries aren’t as safe as you think they are.