Chronically ill Sattahip senior dumped on roadside

 

SATTAHIP:-- Sattahip officials hospitalized an ill, elderly man twice put out on the street by family members.

 

The unidentified Thai man in his 60s was reported to authorities Jan. 14 after living on roadside outside Thepprasit Temple for a month. He was living in a handmade tent with only a mattress, pillow and old clothes.

Wanna Sampawapol, a Sattahip Subdistrict medical practitioner, and medics from the Sawang Rachana Thammasathan Foundation inspected his living quarters and found a water container, rotten food and bloody sputum among the garbage. He was transported to Sattahip Km. 10 Hospital for treatment.

 

Read more: https://www.pattayamail.com/news/chronically-ill-sattahip-senior-dumped-on-roadside-284597

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2020-01-16—

Family members are very callous.

Keep the bank accounts flush fellas...this is what the future holds, when the money runs dry.

8 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Family members are very callous.

Perhaps, but don't be too quick to judge.  He may himself have been a miserable SOB who made the lives of those around him miserable.

 

 

1 minute ago, dddave said:

Perhaps, but don't be too quick to judge.  He may himself have been a miserable SOB who made the lives of those around him miserable.

 

 

I am sure having someone slowly dying in your home is quite a stressful thing, but to dump them on the street is hard.

2 hours ago, dddave said:

Perhaps, but don't be too quick to judge.  He may himself have been a miserable SOB who made the lives of those around him miserable.

 

 

Maybe not. The village we lived in there were a few old and very, very poor people scraping a living and when I asked about them was told they used to be rich but gave their land to their children who promptly sold all the land and dumped their parents into poverty never to return. 

10 minutes ago, Scot123 said:

Maybe not. The village we lived in there were a few old and very, very poor people scraping a living and when I asked about them was told they used to be rich but gave their land to their children who promptly sold all the land and dumped their parents into poverty never to return. 

Yup. Heard lots of such stories when I was living in the UK. 

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Family members are very callous.

Family members can very callous, and many others are caring and loving.

3 hours ago, CanuckThai said:

Keep the bank accounts flush fellas...this is what the future holds, when the money runs dry.

What a load of bovine excretia. 

 

Do YOU know anyone that this has happened to?

13 minutes ago, billd766 said:

What a load of bovine excretia. 

 

Do YOU know anyone that this has happened to?

I don't know this guy personally, but same same.  Just dumped in the police station, and what did the caring Pattaya police do, leave him for 3 to 4 days, before the story hit the media, and they were forced into action. 

 

I agree with CanuckThai. 

 

Always have enough money to get back to your home country, because a farang is lower than a soi dog here.

 

 

 

6 minutes ago, Leaver said:

I don't know this guy personally, but same same.  Just dumped in the police station, and what did the caring Pattaya police do, leave him for 3 to 4 days, before the story hit the media, and they were forced into action. 

 

I agree with CanuckThai. 

 

Always have enough money to get back to your home country, because a farang is lower than a soi dog here.

 

 

 

Thanks. I had forgotten about that guy.

 

My bad, 

12 hours ago, billd766 said:

Family members can very callous, and many others are caring and loving.

I was being specific to the OP, your comment does not apply to this particular group of family members. 

11 hours ago, billd766 said:

Thanks. I had forgotten about that guy.

That story was reported incorrectly. He was brought there, as he requested, and it was claimed he thought he was in immigration. I also have it on good authority he was extremely difficult and combative when the police volunteers tried to help him. 

Death, where is your sting.

They do the same with their dogs and cats. 

18 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I am sure having someone slowly dying in your home is quite a stressful thing, but to dump them on the street is hard.

if they had proper Social Services this action would NOT be required.......

All you UK expats having a thai bash day will ignore the fact that at xmas time hospitals in the UK are to capacity because beds are blocked by seniors well enough to go home but nobody wants them until after the festivities are over.

15 hours ago, billd766 said:

Family members can very callous, and many others are caring and loving.

I'm happy to say, mine are the latter.

19 hours ago, CanuckThai said:

Keep the bank accounts flush fellas...this is what the future holds, when the money runs dry.

Just scum

6 hours ago, Gandtee said:

I'm happy to say, mine are the latter.

So are mine. My MIL lived with us for nearly 5 years before she died in a small house we had built. My FIL died a couple of years ago in BKK and he was looked after by my wife who used to go down for 2 weeks in 3 and her 2 brothers who shared the load with their families also.

6 hours ago, tomauasia said:

Just scum

Who are scum?

7 hours ago, mickey rat said:

They do the same with their dogs and cats. 

....which is really sad.

On 1/16/2020 at 2:54 PM, jacko45k said:

I am sure having someone slowly dying in your home is quite a stressful thing, but to dump them on the street is hard.

 

Been there, done that, twice. I still never considered dumping a family member on the street or in a hospice. It comes down to lack of moral fiber. 

In the USA, folks with a little bit of money can buy into a retirement home that will not kick them out.  Medicare or Medicaid then pays for their medical care.  Thailand seems to be transitioning from family care of elders to children who don't want to assume that responsibility.  It's time for the government to respond by setting up retirement homes for the indigent.

2 hours ago, NaamGin said:

It comes down to lack of moral fiber. 

In a 3rd World Country, it can come down to a lack on money. 

On 1/16/2020 at 5:47 PM, Scot123 said:

Maybe not. The village we lived in there were a few old and very, very poor people scraping a living and when I asked about them was told they used to be rich but gave their land to their children who promptly sold all the land and dumped their parents into poverty never to return.

 

Sounds like a story of a man who saw a man who saw a bear. Many people like to make up sob stories... maybe what they told you is true, then maybe again they are trying to get pity. In this world, one never knows heads from tails anymore. I have become an eternal skeptic, unfortunately.

Damn, life can be harsh...
 

Tons of sick people on the streets of 

San Francisco.

On 1/16/2020 at 2:50 PM, dddave said:

Perhaps, but don't be too quick to judge.  He may himself have been a miserable SOB who made the lives of those around him miserable.

 

 

So he deserves to be dumped by the side of the road?

On 1/16/2020 at 5:47 PM, Scot123 said:

Maybe not. The village we lived in there were a few old and very, very poor people scraping a living and when I asked about them was told they used to be rich but gave their land to their children who promptly sold all the land and dumped their parents into poverty never to return. 

Yeah, it's an old story, c.f. King Lear.