British family knocked unconscious in Hua Hin (video)
A video circulated on the internet yesterday showing surveillance cameras showing a British family being cowardly abused by four Thai men during Songkran (April 13). The images were picked up by the international press and went all over the world, not the best advertisement for the 'Land of Smiles'.
The three Britons are a 68-year-old man, a 65-year-old woman and their 43-year-old son. Father and son suffered head injuries and had to be taken to hospital for stitches. The mother is still in hospital with a brain injury.
The abuse started when the son ran into a Thai man (32) at half past two in the morning. The perpetrator gave the Brit a big push and the man fell to the ground. Mother went to get a story from the Thai drunk (she shouldn't have done that). Then it escalated. The three other friends of the Thai intervened and soon the British family was kicked and beaten. A bystander (farang) is also beaten. Nauseating is the image in which the old woman first receives a punch in the face and falls to the ground. Then she sits on the ground for a moment, while another Thai kicks her full in the face.
The perpetrators then disappeared into the crowd and bystanders took care of the three. The four suspects (aged 20 and 32) have since been arrested, they have apologized and say they were drunk.
Video: British family knocked unconscious in Hua Hin
Watch the video here:
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Horrible images. I think (and hope) that the perpetrators get a big dew. Fortunately, incidents like this against tourists are a rarity in Thailand.
The most important lesson: Never argue with a (drunken) Thai on the street. Walk away. An altercation with a Thai often ends in a mating match. And they never fight in a normal way. Always with force majeure and continue even if someone is already on the ground.
A warned person counts for two.
I totally disagree with you; I have only lived in Thailand for 14 years and see this regularly everywhere; North South ; West East . I don't know where you live or if you have Facebook, but even there it happens very often and then things don't appear on Facebook.
A rarity except in Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok.
Last night in Soi Bangla, Patong in Phuket, a foreign man and woman were beaten up for nothing by the security of a nightclub. Bystanders who filmed it became their phone
packed and broken. A bystander who told them to stop was also briefly beaten up by some security guys outside on the street. Barmaids are threatened to keep their mouths shut against the police. Incidentally, the police were 50 meters away, but they consciously looked the other way.
Those Thais generally do not hate foreigners, but there is a percentage of 5-10% who can drink our blood. So you always have to be careful. Especially late at night and where there is a lot of drinking. Indeed, it is better to always walk away than to argue
Apologized? and use as an excuse: sorry we were drunk?
I hope it doesn't stop there.
What about compensation for the injury done?
And I assume that this will also result in severe penalties.
Sue that bunch of rude men.
If I had been a bystander I would certainly have interfered in the fight, I take it for granted that I may also receive blows. Kicking an old woman of 65 years old lying on the floor in the face; disgusting.
Words fall short here.
hans
Unfortunately, I have seen many fights in Thailand, but I have never seen a Thai fight man-to-man, except in the boxing ring. Always with an excess against a few. This certainly does not only happen under the influence of alcohol, but is apparently self-evident in Thai culture. Everyone can draw their own conclusions from that.
This violence is possible because of the contempt many Thais have for 'falang'.
This kind of images really makes me sick........everyone is watching and does not lift a leg for the British
help or protect family.
And what Khun Peter says that incidents like this against tourists are a rarity in Thailand, I refer to the realm of fables.
Have seen enough, both during my holidays in Thailand and on this blog!
No one lifts a leg, and I always try to help people, shame. Or were they all drunk it was just a foreigner after all.
If a foreigner does something to a Thai, the world is too small. Even for the police, the Thai is always right. And always the stupid answer “If you hadn't been here, nothing would have happened”;
I feel called upon again to reject at least one alleged statement, namely that this occurs regularly in Thailand!
I have never seen this or heard of such despicable behavior, and a simple inquiry to almost all people who have visited Thailand say the same thing…!!!
So using this unacceptable behavior to insult the people of this country by saying that this is not an exception is, in my opinion, not only typical, but not correct.
It's a big exception!
I would also like to note that my visits to Thailand since the 80s have not been in the jungle, or an unsightly village in Isaan, or a godforsaken island, which means that I always stand and go where the action is taking place and therefore This type of behavior should also occur most often...
Weird!
To Pat and Khun Peter,
I have been living in Thailand for 6 years and have seen such “heroic acts” in BKK, on Koh Chang, on Koh Pangang, in Burriram, Chiang Mai, Pai and Krabi more than 20 times and heard dozens of times. Don't be under any illusions, these types of acts occur frequently here and are certainly no exception. It is a kind of popular entertainment for drunken Thais and it is often even planned in advance. I don't know where you live or what you do in your spare time, but please stop talking to Thais. I read “have mercy” and I almost double over laughing. In the photo the family has been unconscious for many seconds…. Do you see someone who takes care of these people? Stop the fairy tales and wake up.
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sorry pat for saying it's not true because you haven't experienced it. I myself have seen worse several times! it's a real shame that no one is doing anything. that is the main reason why the police will close most pubs at 12 o'clock from now on! when they are drunk they do beastly things…
There is only 1 golden rule: If there is trouble of any kind and Thais are involved, GET AWAY. Well remembered !!!!
Indeed, they are cowards. If possible, they prefer to attack you in the back and, as has been said several times, not one against one (they are too cowardly for that) but you will get a whole mess on your body.
The assassination attempt in which an elderly English couple and their son were beaten up in an appallingly cowardly and terrible manner by 4 or 6 Thai psychopaths is not an isolated or coincidental case of extreme, completely senseless violence. The numbers don't lie about how violent Thai society is.
We must be fully aware that “over nothing” or “something trivial” can blow a fuse during a chance meeting with a Thai. This behavior or better psychiatric image is structurally present on a large scale in Thai society. As a result, it regularly erupts against Thai, but surprisingly often also against phalang.
As a regular road user, I see how disturbed many Thais are when they feel anonymous in their car. And that sick aggression also comes out with some alcohol or yaba at a party like Sonkran.
The Thai also feel anonymous in the crowd. It is incomprehensible that so many people still come to Thailand.
Totally agree with the comments that this is not an incident, but happens far too often. Only if you watch this video carefully is the British woman not only intervening, because at one point she hits the Thai man in the face first, and then you are not really smart ... Again without the rest justify violence. They are also cowards in mutual fights, you see this again.
The son was the first to push the Thai and the Mother would help him by slapping the Thai in the face. The son grabbed another Thai in the neck and the father punched this Thai 2 in the face, causing the Thais to go crazy. This is edited out from the video, which is being pointed out worldwide, but you can find the entire full video on you tube. Look at this carefully, several times. Drunken Brits vs. Drunken Thais! A drunken Brit loses all reasoning and his brain becomes fluid.
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It is in this case that it is absolutely impossible to avoid having to do something about this, too many foreigners witnessed this and the video was already on youtube. So a “manhunt” was set up, which was also widely reported in the press, and after arrests the obligatory photo in the newspaper with dozens of authorities in the background and so on. It is stated by the head of police that it was the alcohol, which was to be expected because it is never the Thai of course. He also thinks they should apologize and then there will be a twist to it. Those arrested were released on bail and will soon receive a 'mega' fine of at least 500 baht, I think so. Rarely, as noted here before, have I seen a Thai handle his affairs alone, in a group they are fierce and that is the norm and then rage like animals, and if directed at a foreigner you rarely hear anything about it.
and in the thai press it says 3 are detained and 1 released. the 3 is expected 10 years in prison. would it be true?
I call it a day in the land of the so-called smile.
The sadism radiates from their faces, and I will think a hundred times before I see one again
will set foot in the country of violence and corruption.
Goodbye
luo
Very bad business for Thailand! This is going to cost them tourists! You don't see this kind of senseless violence in neighboring countries.
What I hate, and I see that especially with Eastern peoples, is that people support each other without having an eye for what is really going on. Clique formation or behavior.
Today I came across a posting on Thaivisa, with Boycott HuaHin untill there is justice in large block letters.
I think it may be too strong a reaction, but there is more.
The police were nowhere to be found at that time , the ambulance even arrived earlier .
And where were the Hua Hinse Thai people to help or a few farangs , no one did anything .
I stood there and watched it , just as sometimes happens in Holland when someone falls into the water .
If it had continued for a while, they would have kicked that English woman completely to death.
And don't tell me this is an exception because it happens more than you think.
I also know such examples in my direct environment , but then mostly among the Thais themselves .
Yes, alcohol and jaba are often involved.
The youth in Thailand in particular, and I experience this together with my Thai husband, are becoming increasingly aggressive.
My spouse often warns me , Jan about a dangerous situation that sometimes happens in traffic with racing Thai boys .
Don't give any reaction, because in one or two days the whole club will be at your door.
You see more and more of that kind of unhinged youth moped gangs here.
And the police do NOTHING, they themselves are terrified of these clubs.
Take it from me , unless you want to keep believing in dreamland , Thailand is not Thailand anymore .
I have a lot of respect for the old Thai generation, they are always happy to help.
But today's Thai youth is completely screwed up.
Jan Beute.
Perhaps we assume too easily that we can always count on the Thai smile, even in crowds at 2 am. Corruption, feudal structures, the unconscious arrogance with which the Westerner throws money and drink all over the world will deliver us from that dream. It is good to read this story, but I continue to feel safe and welcome among ordinary Thais in the countryside, just during the time when the Thai is also awake. That feeling has never been ashamed in the roughly 30 weeks of vacation (also traveling alone) that I've been on for the past 5 years.
I've seen it more often the thai walking around eg Bangla (phuket) waiting for an excuse to hit the foreigner together.
Especially the jellyfish that walk ping pong show that group come with all the police uses it.
A while ago, two drunken big Australians were fighting and the police couldn't handle them.
So those guys were called in with about 20 men, the two were hospitalized and one had a broken leg.
So really don't expect them to punish those guys later.
Yes, now that everyone has seen it on TV, they should put on a show.
But don't do anything wrong yourself because you're hanging like this.
I have been instructed not to park my car on the street anymore, otherwise the police will have to take measures.
I live in a quiet neighbourhood. After 9 o'clock nothing runs.
I said and all those other cars then, yes they are not falang so they can just stay outside.
You are simply told that as if it were the most normal thing in the world .
I bought land and am building a house so leaving is not really easy.
But I wouldn't do it a second time.
My rose-colored glasses have fallen off my nose for a long time.
But people will talk about this again.
There are too many deaths so-called accidents, these Englishmen were lucky.
A month ago, a Frenchman in his early twenties was stabbed to death because he got angry when the perpetrator first hit him.
The Frenchman had given him some blows and then stabbed him twenty times with a knife .
And the perpetrator told the police yes, he was stronger and everyone could see that, so I grabbed my knife.
Yes, the Frenchman went on holiday to the land of smiles, he shouldn't have done that, that's the mindset of those scum.
Keep smiling huh.
Gr Rob
There is a lot of aggression in Thai people. Not only in the elderly or adults. Also with the young people. Keep track of the daily news: daily deaths due to domestic violence, quarrels among colleagues, feuds in family circles, one school against another, youth gangs among themselves, girls' clubs that have something to settle, etc.etc. There is also a lot of weaponry with the people. Read more about this on Thailand blog: https://www.thailandblog.nl/?s=wapens&x=30&y=6
The combination of aggression and weaponry, supplemented with alcohol and broken egos: the result can be seen in this video.
I could be wrong, but I think I really see one Thai woman (red shirt) who tries to intervene and is then roughly knocked to the ground by the man in the striped shirt. If it is correct, there was indeed a Thai who did something and a small female too. Class!
Huahin,
rather not anymore,
people who know 'normal life' there have long since ceased to visit
if this is not going to cost tourists, land of smiles….
The underlying hatred among some Thais towards farang is certainly there. You have to be aware of that in nightlife. Unconsciously arrogant behavior of Westerners, as Rob nicely puts it, can be a trigger for such hateful Thais (especially young people). With young people there is also a general problem with aggression: especially during festivities and concerts. Rival gangs…
My girlfriend always looks wide-eyed when I play a concert of a festival from Europe with pow-going people: "How come they don't fight?"
However, the cowardice here is not a Thai phenomenon. Look at the problems in Western Europe with the Eastern European newcomers. Russian children (11) who use knives, Chechens who always attack in groups and always have weapons in their pockets. Bulgarians. And these are examples from my own experience in Ghent. Most people feel untouchable when they are in a group (and have alcohol or drugs)
These last cases I find much worse that the Thai brutalize those falangs. In VL it is the newcomers who use violence. Here they are frustrated natives. Because they are poor, and falangs are "all rich" and some ladies prefer a falang to a Thai. And so forth.
On youtube there is a 2.25 minute video, it shows that the English family starts as well
verbally and physically. It is inexcusable that those Thais continue while those English on the ground
lie, but you must be stupid to try to get a story on a drunken group in another country.
I think she would have taken a few beatings in England or even in the Netherlands.
Doesn't Buddhism preach control of emotions? Or do they remain suppressed for too long…
In the past, I went to several of those sing-a-song parties in Isaan with my girlfriend at the time.
Every time she warned me about big fights that almost always broke out mainly because of drink.
I was also the only farang at such a large open-air party.. was not always pleasant.
Also think it matters that she was by my side..
For the rest stay wary of drunk people..Thai or foreigner..smile and move on.
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The Thais you meet in entertainment areas at two o'clock in the morning are not a reflection of the Thai population.
A while ago on Thailandblog there was a story about many police and soldiers on the street during Songkran in Hua Hin. That was against alcohol abuse and not because of a terrorist threat, the piece said. This force of black and green were not very close at the time is my tentative conclusion.