Hero’ dives into filthy Bangkok canal to save stray dog

 

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An unidentified man is being praised on Facebook as a hero after jumping into Bangkok’s polluted Saen Saeb Canal on Wednesday evening to rescue an aged dog.

 

A Facebook user calling himself “Tibet Nimitput” posted photos and video of the man in a (formerly) yellow T-shirt shirt clinging to the bank of the canal near the Srinakharin Wiroj University pier.

 

By 11am Thursday, about 19 hours later, the post had drawn 21,000 reactions and 3,400 comments and been shared 11,000 times.

 

“Tibet” said he was aboard a passenger shuttle boat when he saw the man in the filthy, foul-smelling water, holding a dog in one arm.

 

The boat skipper steered near him and the ticket collector pulled the dog on board, but the man said he’d climb ashore on his own to avoid making a mess on the boat.

 

A university student took the dog to the school.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30345035

 

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Let's hope his immune system is in peak working order.

Alternative headline:

 

Soi dog saves man from toxic waste suicide attempt.

Meanwhile in a perhaps related story, rabid wet dog bites 15 passengers on canal boat ! 

Wonder if he still had all his skin on after that little dip?

chicks dig a guy with a ''lesion''..

  Even the dogs can't swim in Thailand? 

A dog!

8 hours ago, Cheops said:

  Even the dogs can't swim in Thailand? 

Whereas you are the proverbial fish. 

I suppose from the comfy armchair in the gated community house you live in where you read the internet news from 'good old back home' you have gleaned this first hand knowledge of the abilities of thai people

Wish I was you

Good on him, well done that man.

2 hours ago, Expatthailover said:

I suppose from the comfy armchair in the gated community house you live etc. etc. etc. 

You are beginning to sound like a broken record. You have used this one a number of times before to malign fellow contributors. Your insults are repetitive and of low quality. 

2 hours ago, Cadbury said:

You are beginning to sound like a broken record. You have used this one a number of times before to malign fellow contributors. Your insults are repetitive and of low quality. 

Sad thing is, he can only think very very slowly, his wife/ gf has got him on a short leash.

He has to spout off about this place being wonderful, all us other farangs are stupid, or he is refused his leg over.

13 hours ago, Cheops said:

  Even the dogs can't swim in Thailand? 

Obviously not an observant or experienced resident. Please explain how getting out of a concrete lined klong works for you next time you fall in.