Video: Drink, drugs and mental health: Another appalling attack on a mother highlights Thailand's issues

[webfact]

Sanook Thai Caption: Mum attacked for money

 

It has been a bad week for attacks by children on their parents in Thailand, notes ASEAN NOW. 

 

And a video doing the rounds of social media is going to do nothing to allay fears that the country's issues of drinking, drug taking and mental health are abating.

 

This in a country that prides itself on family values and respect for elders.  

 

Earlier in the week a drug crazed son murdered his parents with a club and a hoe and put them in a charcoal oven. 

 

But it is not just the nations' sons that are out of control.

 

In this video an out of control DAUGHTER attacked her mum as she rode a motorcycle.

 

She wanted money for booze and Ya Ba and whacked her parent on the back repeatedly while locals tried to intervene.

 

In the end she made off with her mum's handbag containing a few hundred baht leaving her stricken parent wailing uncontrollably on the tarmac. 

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook followed up on the story and found out it involved a 62 year old woman and her 28 year old daughter. They used assumed names.

 

The daughter has had severe mental health problems in the last few years and has been treated at a psychiatric hospital in Korat.

 

But she won't consistently take her meds. 

 

She has become addicted to Ya Ba and is an alcoholic. 

 

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Both mother and daughter are in different hospitals now.

 

The mum said the bag contained a little less than 200 baht, money needed to feed four other mouths in the family.

 

She didn't have enough on this occasion to help her daughter out so resisted. 

 

This incident happened in Ban Phae in Buriram in the north east of Thailand. 

 

People in the north east in particular pride themselves on their friendliness and family values. 

 

Whether such incidents are really a modern phenomena or it is just that the prevalence of mobile phones means they are soon shown to the world, remains a moot point.

 

But there is little doubt that the scourge of cheap amphetamines and booze is having a dire effect on many in society. 

 

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[ezzra]

Drug's crazy most of the times, the drug problems in this country is out of control and the ease of getting it becomes easier and cheaper all the time...

[yang123]

What brave lookers-on.....

[Simple Jack]

You can turn your back on a person. Never turn your back on a drug.

 

It's amaizing how many foil wraps i see in Big C & 7/11 car parks these days. Significant rise in theft locally too. ????

[arick]

THE DAUGHTER will end off with a new ankle bracelet! Big black looking thing 

[Forrests Father]

Drug (ya baa) use is rampant in Northern and Northeastern Thailand. Cheap labs across the boarder to Myanmar and Laos, 50 THB a pop and then at the same time:

 

Daily News reported on the Royal Thai Police getting an international award for excellence in community policing. 

[edwinchester]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

Drug's crazy most of the times, the drug problems in this country is out of control and the ease of getting it becomes easier and cheaper all the time...

You're not wrong. Yaabaa was 300 bht a pop in our village over a decade ago, 100 bht or less now.

[jesimps]

Daughter???

[stephenterry]

And not helped by the government shutting down those businesses that employ the poorest, who must be desperate, and who turn to drugs instead just to relieve their mental pain. 

 

For once and for all, let people live with freaking Covid and let everyone be set free from these draconian laws. Or get out and let others bring back democracy.  

[Nicholas Paul KNIGHT]

I find the statement on the OP a little odd.

 

This in a country that prides itself on family values and respect for elders.  

 

From what I have noticed over the 20 odd years here, respect for parents goes oput the window once a child becomes a older TEENAGER, the Boys are let loose on society and the girls are far more strictly controlled .

The boys know they will inherit the girls know that they probably will not.

Respect ofr Parents and Grandparents lasts only as long as it benefits the child . 

This is of course a generalisation , there are many many good children but also the TRHAI attitude to ignore problems, not to complain , means ANY criticism of a child dents their egos and trouble follows. 

[Wagga]

Jeeez, all those people just standing there and watching that thing attack the lady on the bike, then just watching it walk away. I've never hit a female but I would have knocked that one out right there and got the lady's bag back.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

She has become addicted to Ya Ba and is an alcoholic. 

So she has the mental capacity to drink and understand Ya-ba but not the capacity to take medication?

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

Drug's crazy most of the times, the drug problems in this country is out of control and the ease of getting it becomes easier and cheaper all the time...

Drugs in this country are in control... and we know who has it?

how else do you think top RTP get their millions.

[PuaSai]

Video the event, but no one helps the mom during the event...  I don't understand that either...  

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, Forrests Father said:

Drug (ya baa) use is rampant in Northern and Northeastern Thailand. Cheap labs across the boarder to Myanmar and Laos, 50 THB a pop and then at the same time:

How do you think it gets across the border?

Uniformed cash-cow.

[Thai Visa Member 999999]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

And a video doing the rounds of social media is going to do nothing to allay fears that the country's issues of drinking, drug taking and mental health are abating.

Just who are the people with such fears? 

[Tropposurfer]

Another atypical family drug tragedy, known and acted out all over the world ever second of every day of every year.

Of course, like almost every nation on the planet (bar a very few) there is no national well funded drug education and rehabilitation system in this country, only punitive practices.

Why? Because those that have and control such things as the legal, policing, medical, and pharmaceutical industries need people to be sick so they can profit off the common persons misery.

 

[Chongalulu]

Nasty incident,but a bit melodramatic just lying prostrate on the road uninjured awaiting sympathetic "resurrection ".. ????‍♂️ 

[Knocker33]

More to do with ya ba than alcohol. But no keep throwing the demon alcohol in there.

[Moonlover]

20 minutes ago, nchuckle said:

Nasty incident,but a bit melodramatic just lying prostrate on the road uninjured awaiting sympathetic "resurrection ".. ????‍♂️ 

What a sick comment!

[JustAnotherFarang]

21 minutes ago, nchuckle said:

Nasty incident,but a bit melodramatic just lying prostrate on the road uninjured awaiting sympathetic "resurrection ".. ????‍♂️ 

I think thats a little harsh. The mother was thumped several times in her back, you could hear the thuds.  Poor girl was probably winded and needed to lie down to straighten out her muscles.

[WEBBYB808]

Perhaps  if they taught them consequences, manners, and real dicipline when they were young then they wouldn't have issues when they are older.  I mean dont most go off to work, mothers to support the children and their mother, as most men just disappear  and have nothing to do with female after child is born, is left to raise them.  I see alot of similar behavior  in certain Soi animals.   Male locks up get female pregnant  then has nothing to do with raising.  How can a child respect the mother when she was never there to raise them, and the grandmother is the one who , well feeds them sends them to school, thats about as far as most do.  It is what it is.  It's just a different  culture,  accept  it, or leave it, or skirt certain things. 

[WEBBYB808]

2 hours ago, PuaSai said:

Video the event, but no one helps the mom during the event...  I don't understand that either...  

I never will understand  that.  The whole country  even when a policeman  is attacked, stads and watches.

[Reigntax]

6 hours ago, jesimps said:

Daughter???

Yes. Looked very masculine to me too

[Mayhem11]

Oh I love Ferang oldies giving advice about child rearing.

[brianthainess]

7 hours ago, edwinchester said:

You're not wrong. Yaabaa was 300 bht a pop in our village over a decade ago, 100 bht or less now.

Mixed with Lao  Khao 10bht for a redbull bottle full, yikes ! I've just realized same price

[patman30]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Drugs in this country are in control... and we know who has it?

how else do you think top RTP get their millions.

the problem is its Ya-Ba and its cheap again
they clamped down on yaba years ago as those selling moved onto the more profitable ice/meth

[brianthainess]

Sorry to say this and not condoning what happened but there are plenty of mothers around here who are also alcoholics, the older ones chew something like beetle nut. 

[brianthainess]

3 hours ago, Knocker33 said:

More to do with ya ba than alcohol. But no keep throwing the demon alcohol in there.

Alcohol is a demon and one needs to moderate as with any drug, i have seen/known more  friends who have died here, when you see someone in a hospital bed thrashing around and hallucinating with the DTs you'll understand.  Never had a problem with ganga smokers though.

[mick220675]

Last year yaba was 60 baht in our village now its 50 baht, cheaper than a bottle of chang.

 

It's now not safe to leave the house at night. The knife fights have taken the lives of 3 teenagers in a village of less than 200 people.

 

The police don't see to do anything. 20 years our local drug dealer was shot dead outside our house by the police. At the time I was shocked but now they don't even <deleted> test anymore.