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HTML
<img src="http://site.com/some/category/thread_17.jpg" />
<img src="http://site.com/other/thread_17/test.jpg" />
JavaScript
var src = $('img').filter(function() {
return $(this).attr('src').match(/\/thread_[^\/]*$/)
}).last().attr('src');
alert(src);