Thai police in Loei province discovered this week that a "drunk dead person" who kept calling 50 times a day was in fact a 51-year-old mother who had graduated from university. She was driven to despair by the bureaucratic rules in her country.
Ms Waruni, 51, explained to police in Loei, when they came to investigate her 50 calls a day, that she was still using her "invalid" phone number from a "deceased" from 15 years ago.
It's one of those stories that can only happen in Thailand and luckily, it's not a story of a gruesome murder or love gone wrong, but getting involved in an indirect way with a past event.
The 191 police stations across the province reached the limit of their patience when a woman who sounded drunk kept calling the emergency number 191. When officers investigated the calls, they found that the calls came from a smartphone, with a number that had been used for 15 years. no longer existed! The police decided that the only option was to stop the nuisance, conduct a location poll to locate the user and confiscate the phone.
Finally, after so much time, the police came to listen to her story. Indeed, it appeared that Ms. Waruni had been declared dead by the Thai authorities 15 years ago. Her attempt to correct her name at the registry office followed an incident in Chonburi in 2005. A news report revealed that a woman bearing her name had been stabbed 11 times with a knife and died.
Her personal data was erased by mistake, so that without identification papers she no longer had any access to all kinds of authorities such as banks, hospitals and insurance companies.
Even the police officers were impressed by this story and action was finally taken after 15 years!
Source: Pattaya Mail