Phuket: Tourist stabbed in the neck - it was something he said

[sahibji]

not again. this is not desirable - to viciously attack tourists. and you wonder why more and more tourists are staying away.

[sahibji]

8 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

Is this so NC...... ? When I lived there after arriving in LoS in 2005 I thought there were one or two very pretty ladies along Soi Bintabaht , this was after leaving my wife behing in England.  I did decide after a while that one has been in the LoS too long when ladyboys start looking prettier though.

this incident happened in phuket.

[wilailuk]

Roti? Probably muslim.. 

 

Egyptian? Probably muslim..

 

Where two or more muslims gather, there will be trouble.

Edited July 20, 2019 by wilailuk

[Moon6966]

Very strange story
For myself I always speak Thai try what ever I can
A try be polite as possible
I know what Thai people can be if they get upset...
I seen it
I don't know what realy happened there
Other then that also stabbing somebody with a knife is not going to. Lead to anything good either..
If being insulted by any way
As a Thai I'd think about another way to deal with the situation
Not make it worse
Whole thing is bizarre

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[Thaifriends]

1 hour ago, Barry343 said:

What do you think a low scum Arab tourist would say about any woman.

Same as a low scum farang would say. ????????

[Thaifriends]

10 minutes ago, wilailuk said:

Roti? Probably muslim.. 

 

Egyptian? Probably muslim..

 

Where two or more muslims gather, there will be trouble.

More Violence is within Thais in TH

[Thaifriends]

2 hours ago, ta158 said:

eh? you know incidents like this was way more common a few years ago and overall crime against tourists and crime in generall in whole thailand.

Its jeoulosy also and most of these stall or meal cart people dont know how hard the money is earned by most of the tourist and then spending a part of it. Some have more to spend and some less but the spending is visible.

[Walter Travolta]

Perhaps the Egyptian will have more respect next time, as he is lucky to be given a next time. The Thai was well within his rights IMO 

[soistalker]

1 hour ago, mogandave said:

 

It’s never happened to me or anyone I know.
 

 

But you do read the news and you are on thaivisa, so obviously you know this happens. Dont pretend it doesnt.

[mogandave]

In what non EU country is it acceptable to make a rude, sexual suggestion to any woman, much less a married woman in front of her husband and children?

[Olmate]

7 minutes ago, Thaifriends said:

Its jeoulosy also and most of these stall or meal cart people dont know how hard the money is earned by most of the tourist and then spending a part of it. Some have more to spend and some less but the spending is visible.

Are you serious, nought to do with money. I bought your food, now I can insult you and your wife! Best change your handle.

[Jane Dough]

I'm prepared to believe this was a terrible misunderstanding. The Egyptian was clearly talking about his own wife's camel's toe. 

 

It got lost in translation.

 

Rooster

[Thaifriends]

1 hour ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Interesting you say that.  I have a German friend, quite beautiful and charming.  Very upstanding liberal woman.  Posts all of the "immigrants make us better" type memes in Facebook.

Told her I was going to Cairo and she commented quite strongly that she detests Egyptian men based on her visit there.  It was a bit shocking to hear that from her based on her typical liberal viewpoints.

My suspician is wherever she lives and works in Germany is insulated from contacts with any of these "great" male Egyptian immigrants.  For her fellow countrywomen maybe not so much.

 

Astonishing point to add that the most polite people I have seen are in Russia. They are friendly and hospitable. We see in media a lot bad about them but its not true.

 

I dropped my phone Imate at the airport arrival belt and when I was outside in parking lot with my host,  a man brought my phone all the way looking for me.

 

So its all about politics & media income.

[digger70]

9 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I wonder how proficient the roti seller is in English? What one man says, quite possibly in jest, may have been misunderstood, though it still shows a very fragile ego to subsequently stab someone in the neck over something so minor, especially in front of his kids.

One Can't lose Face no matter what  ,   ????????

[Duck J Butters]

6 hours ago, Kenny202 said:

I feel for the guy in a way. I used to be embarrassed to be a foreigner in areas like Phuket and Pattaya where farangs eye up or think every woman is for sale. But you cant just go around stabbing people in the neck either. Egypt bloke probably made some rude comment thinking the vendor wouldnt understand. Yes the great publicity for Thailand tourism keeps coming. I see all the taxi drivers and touts still fighting each other at bali hai pier. The party is just about over I reckon

It gets old when people use Phuket and Pattaya in the same sentence. Phuket is not simply Patong. The average wealth of people living in Phuket is on par with that of Hawaii, USA. We have celebs, Olympians super elites living here in Phuket. We have feeder schools for our children that guarantee admission at  Stanford, Harvard,  an Yale in the USA: Phuket is much more than Patong Beach and not the dumpster that is Pattaya. I really wish people the can’t afford to travel to / live in Phuket would stop trashing on it.

[Uptooyoo]

Too many dumb, uneducated tourists come thinking all Thai women are for sale, not realizing this is a very conservative country outside the entertainment zones. 

Edited July 20, 2019 by Uptooyoo

[mogandave]

It gets old when people use Phuket and Pattaya in the same sentence. Phuket is not simply Patong. The average wealth of people living in Phuket is on par with that of Hawaii, USA.

Really?

[IAMHERE]

Egyptian had it coming. I feel sorry for the disruption to the Thai guy and his family, they didn't come to town to be sexualy assaulted by 3 egyptians, I am sure.

[amykat]

4 hours ago, oldrunner said:

Why not a good old fashioned punch up (as the brits would say) instead of a 'stab up'. What charge against the Egyptian..talk dirty language. Who spoke what language to whom when,

Because Thai culture is stab neck ....Brit culture is punch up.  Never understood why but you read it everyday, even women do it.

 

 

[amykat]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Has this very tiny man ever heard the expression "water off a ducks back"? I mean what can one say? Talk about thin skin. Where does such thin skin come from? I think a combination of not having any idea of who you are, not feeling like a man to begin with, ridiculously low self esteem, and no consciousness whatsoever. 

 

Hope he gets sent away for many, many, many years. Society does not need him, and my guess is that even his mother and family will not miss this reprobate. 

 Wow, glad you are not my husband!!!

[amykat]

Spidermike, sometimes you have to judge things based on the culture that it came out of and I don’t think this shows low self esteem and all this you have written.  Protecting your wife and children is a thing in every culture, doing it more violently is the way in most countries.

 

 

[Cuba]

10 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I wonder how proficient the roti seller is in English? What one man says, quite possibly in jest, may have been misunderstood, though it still shows a very fragile ego to subsequently stab someone in the neck over something so minor, especially in front of his kids.

He'd have lost face by not attempting to stab him in the neck.

Edited July 20, 2019 by Cuba
typo

[smew]

250 baht fine and release him.... yet the guy who hit a dog gets no bail and in jail until

trial +- 6 months 

[MeePeeMai]

I guess the stress of trying to survive and feed his family by selling roti for 10 baht each was more than he could bare, coupled with the possibility that it might not have been the 1st snide remark aimed at his wife or child that day.  A man can only take so much before he snaps.  

[wilailuk]

Ahhh! Osho!!

 

Need to find my Sanyasin gear, peace..

 

????

Edited July 20, 2019 by wilailuk

[mogandave]

250 baht fine and release him.... yet the guy who hit a dog gets no bail and in jail until
trial +- 6 months 

Did the dog provoke him?

[Yinn]

7 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Thainess at its best, and there I was thinking the "small dick syndrome" got eradicated, obviously I was wrong.

 

No doubt tourism will fall further, I hope ????

 

You hope. Why? 

 

You interest in the dick?

 

I hope this rude guy not return. What your dad do if this happen to your mum?

 

i hope you enjoy disappointing.

 

 

[OttoPollmann]

8 hours ago, soalbundy said:

He shouldn't have said it

you know what he has said?

Maybe, he just was friendly and said. Shukran Habibi.

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Exactly what was said in the encounter that led to the attack was not reported. 

[Ctkong]

12 hours ago, simon43 said:

I think he said to the man's wife "I like roti - yummy yummy!"

 

All a misunderstanding....

More like “I would dearly love to taste your roti “ 

[overherebc]

10 hours ago, Tarteso said:

Who knows what the egyptian tried to tell to the vendors!

 

Who really knows?

 

 

Your spelling is dreadful. As for your grammar, well, I'm lost for words.