By Goong Nang(GN)

 

Si Racha – A fire has destroyed a house in Si Racha earlier this week after the homeowner accidentally left a burning cigarette in the house, according to Chao Phraya firefighters. His relatives and neighbors, upon hearing about the incident, physically attacked the owner, blaming him for the damage.

 

Firefighters from the Chao Phraya Surasak fire station were notified of the fire at 1:00 PM on Monday (October 4th) at a house in Surasak.

 

They and The Pattaya News reporters arrived at the scene to find the fire was heavily ablaze at a small wooden residential home. The burning house was closely surrounded by about seven other houses. Luckily, no other homes were enveloped by the flames.

 

It took about ten minutes for firefighters to control the fire. The house owner, Mr. Samart Janchiawchan, 38 had escaped injury. His home, however, was a total loss.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/10/06/fire-destroys-si-racha-home-after-homeowner-reportedly-leaves-burning-cigarette-inside-neighbors-attack-the-owner-in-anger/

 

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His relatives and neighbors, upon hearing about the incident, physically attacked the owner, blaming him for the damage.

 

just what you need when your house has burn down...

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

Luckily, no other homes were enveloped by the flames.

Yet these morons attacked him anyway.

 

This is like a garden shed buring down, put out in 10 minutes.

Likely by lifting it up and dumping it in the nearest klong ????

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

Yet these morons attacked him anyway.

Doesn't sound like he was too bright a spark himself. 

He could have killed any of the neighbours.

Something else happened not mentioned here to incite (not ignite) the neighbours. 

he was fed up with being forced to sleep in the garden shed ....   he wanted to move inside with the family

Not a samart move, leaving a burning cigarette on the go.

1 hour ago, Aussieroaming said:

Not a samart move, leaving a burning cigarette on the go.

More stupid is lighting one in the first place.  Thailand has enough carcinogenic air to go round without needing a cig.

As the "house" appears to have been a small shanty constructed from tree branches liberated from the adjacent jungle and a roof of purloined corrugated iron and advertising signage , I think we can comprehensively exclude insurance fraud from the list of motives.

He's dirt poor, and in Thailand that gives the Haves every right to treat him like an animal. It comes from the top down, through all the stages of society until it reaches those at the very bottom. The excuse would be that to be so poor he must have been evil in a previous life and so deserves it. They have the same attitude about the handicapped, therefore absolving themselves of all responsibility to assist in any way.

 

Does the Thai language have a word for empathy?

Edited October 6, 20214 yr by Bangkok Barry

Smoking was bad for his health.

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

More stupid is lighting one in the first place.  Thailand has enough carcinogenic air to go round without needing a cig.

So you are a non smoker I take it.

Now if E- cigs were not so supidly banned . It might have been a different story

So, the neighbour's houses were not affected, but they still attacked the occupant of the house that burned down. I am afraid this accurately reflects what I have seen over the years. No excuses needed to get <deleted> at any time of day, and there is always underlying violence, waiting for a hint of an excuse to break out.

It is reported it was a burning cigarette, but it could easily have been a gas cooker left on, or an open fire, or candle, as I have seen in some of these hovels. Fire traps, one and all. 

20 hours ago, marcho said:

So you are a non smoker I take it.

I smoked off & on most of my life in UK.  When I came to Thailand & saw the price of cigs was less than half I couldn't believe it.  As I grew older on a frozen pension, it made me more determined than ever to keep drawing it as long as possible.  A Thai hospital cured me in a week.

In the report it says that this house was closely surrounded by the other houses.

I would be upset by someone else being careless and causing a fire that could have

also burned down my house, wouldn't you?  Read the whole story, or at least that is

what I have been told many times, when I comment without doing so.

Geezer