1 hour ago, Swede65 said:

What strike me as odd is that when he got back up he found the camera and WALLET was missing... Hmmm... Did he have his wallet out taking pictures of it or? Or did he lose it tumbling down? 

No matter what happened a sad story, either because it really happened or the need to make something up...

From the article it seems that the wallet was in his bag, together with 2 lenses.

 

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

His camera, tripod, bad [bag] with two lenses and wallet were all missing. There was no sign of the assailant.

 

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I doubt a 'Swiss drug addict' would drive 15Km up a mountain, then hike down a 'Nature trail' on the chance of scoring a wallet and camera.

There's always a few eccentric Thai guys sleeping rough on the mountain.

In fact, very near that nature trail is a ranger camp where they all live in tents.

Where did the poster say it happened in the same place as the OP?

Did the attacker shout make Thailand great again and chuck som tam over him?

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Sanook made no mention of having contacted the police to confirm this story, notes Thaivisa.

Enough said.

 

Fake news writers at these "brochures" (because I don't want to call them newspapers), should be ashamed of themselves, getting paid money to publish government propaganda.

Oh dear, now farangs get used to Thai attitudes? 

Actually I have my doubts with his story. 

Possibly he was attacked by a Thai he owed money to, and invented the European to garner sympathy. Most Caucasians except drunks know attacking Thais on their home turf usually doesn't end well, either by virtue of the police or their Thai buddies.

1 hour ago, Redline said:

Do Europeans hit differently?

An Australian would use a lump of tree an Austrian a beer bottle , or is that the other way round.  Anyway they are both from western Europe.

1 hour ago, Redline said:

Do Europeans hit differently?

The French sure do

What are the current betting odds that this never happened or is some sort of scheme. This sounds exactly what someone would say if they wanted a new camera and whatever else. 

 

So full of holes this story is. 

Was the camera his camera or did he borrow it from someone ? 

Looked like a "...European.."    

 Could have just as easily been an Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, American, Russian or any other Caucasian that attacked him..

    How would he know the attacker was a European ? 

2 hours ago, legend49 said:

He turned to see that a man who looked like a European was attacking him with a heavy object, he was not sure exactly what.

 

He thinks he is European, what dose a European look like would be a good debrief question. He is not sure of the object either. Very much a BS story. Maybe he was taking pervy pictures like the Chaing Mai woman did in yesterdays TV. Is there a new Thai sport being developed here? 

Went there as a rent boy and got battered.

A rough game you play sonny boy

10 minutes ago, Catoni said:

Looked like a "...European.."    

 Could have just as easily been an Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, American, Russian or any other Caucasian that attacked him..

    How would he know the attacker was a European ? 

Could have been an Afghan, Argentine, Armenian or Azerbaijani... there's no such thing as "white people", and Caucasians are from the Caucasus - I guess it could have been a Circassian or a Georgian, I guess, or even a guy with green hair and white face paint. ????

16 minutes ago, Catoni said:

Looked like a "...European.."    

 Could have just as easily been an Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, American, Russian or any other Caucasian that attacked him..

    How would he know the attacker was a European ? 

The same way as you would have said Asian if it had happened to you.

4 hours ago, anterian said:

Did the farang attack him with a zimmer frame?

there was no farang at all.

Student trying to take a selfy with his phone(or just stumbled over his downed pants ....), lost his balance (and his face ) and tumbled down the path and hurt himself.

As he could not blame himself......it was a white thing.....

And the wallet, fell out of his pants hanging down .......,was probably empty after buying a tripot?

 

 

He wouldn’t be the first person blaming Europeans for something they didn’t do !

1 hour ago, thongdee said:

Low class people, the boy get attacked and you try to make a joke about it , hope your not going to be the next because ,Thailanc start to be s little crazy with people try to survive,  hope he heal fast , once a Swiss drugs addict did the same to me , hit me from behind, I kicked the <deleted> out off him anded us up at the Policeoffice where he payef for his aggression 

Fascinating story. Pray tell, did he hit you with his Swiss watch or a jumbo bar of Toblerone?

 

But you are right about Thailand getting crazy.

If it smells like S^&T it generally is......... There's more holes in this story than a French brass...... 

If he really was attacked by a white male based on his clain of where he was attacked at. Seems more the likely the attacker went out of their way to attack them. And why would someone do that unless provoked and did something to cause the attacker to do so. Normally i dont say this but under the circumstances im wandering what he did to case the attack. Maybe he cut him off or did some sort of action on the rd nearly causong him to have a serious or fatal wreck by driving with no regards to anyones life even his own. so he ended up getting his ass beat as a result. As the police would not have done anything and he took it into his own hands to teach a lesson. Just a possible theory of what happened. 

4 hours ago, BobBKK said:

Big Foot?

More like the dreaded Big BROWN Foot.

2 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

If he had his phone why was he not able to take a pic of his assailant?

Yes, I am sure when you are beaten hard from behind, your first thought is "let´s take out the phone from the pocket and take a photo". ????

Of course you have doubts with his story. Farang would never commit such crime.

29 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

The same way as you would have said Asian if it had happened to you.

Right. But he didn´t say farang, he said European. If I see a white guy and don´t hear him talking I usually can´t say if he is American, Australian or European. 

It was "Whitey Bulger".????????

Of course it was difficult to tell now that all 'farangs' have been frightened into wearing masks for fear of being slung out.. ???? 

I think it was a right handed European. 

Much more info needed on this before any meaningful opinion can be formed.

why is it always a race card here?

 

could simply be a crime of opportunity, or a deul between men.

That doesn't sound very credible if it really was a random attack and not a result of a prior altercation.

2 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Maybe, but the point is that the victim saw him.

Theeraphat told Sanook that what he thought was a white European man

 

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