Thai police praised after helping to reunite sick old man with his son

[webfact]

Thai police praised after helping to reunite sick old man with his son

 

Picture: Sanook

 

The Thai police came in for praise from Thai media Sanook after they helped trace a sick old man's son. 

 

Rit Bunpetch, 83, needed a lift because he is suffering terribly from gallstones and gout.

 

And there was nothing better than being reunited with his son who disappeared 17 years ago after leaving the family home in Ban Mai Chaiphot, Buriram to go and work in another province.

 

The local cops and volunteer organizations managed to track down Rit's fourth son Sompong to Roi-Et also in Thailand's north eastern region. 

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sompong said he was tricked over his work and left destitute 17 years ago and started living the life of a vagrant.

 

Later he was indentured to a kamnan who let him stay in exchange for work done. 

 

He couldn't remember his way home and it was a great surprise when the police found him and told him about his father who was sick. 

 

Picture: Sanook

 

The cops helped him get back home. 

 

There was a happy picture as delighted family members looked on with the son respectfully "graaping" at the feet of the old man yesterday.

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-06-25

 

- Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you

- Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

[Foghorn]

Didn’t know his way home , my friend took a girl from pattaya back to her home ,she knew it was near Udon so when he got near she had to call her family to find out the name of the place and where it was near , clever girl but he didn’t choose her for her brains

[Almer]

There does seem to be a lack of spatial awareness,  my wife has a couple of shops and due to an illness asked a staff member to work in another shop in the same town, the request was met with fear and a reply that she wont be able to find it, even though the girl had traveled the route many times, but she would have been head down in her phone of coarse.