Daily News Thai Caption: Facing hardship for love

 

Daily News featured a story about a Belgian man living in Thailand who left Europe and fell in love with a Thai man he met in Pattaya.

 

Now several years on he helps the Singburi based family by collecting roadside trash for recycling and leaves for making fertilizer.

 

He's never gone back to Belgium where he has a son and a tour company.

 

A reporter was going along the Asia Highway when he saw a foreign man collecting trash and eyed a story.

 

He stopped and spoke to Willy, 61, from Belgium who said he'd been in Thailand six years but couldn't speak Thai yet.

 

He said he didn't have a Thai wife but had a Thai male lover.

 

In fact the family were 200 meters away in the woods and he took the reporter there to meet them.

 

There was the Cheuasuwan family, mum and dad Ping and Pranorm and their son Chertsak, 32, loading a trolley with sacks of leaves used to make fertilizer. They are worth 35 baht a sack.

 

Chertsak said that he met Willy three years ago in Pattaya while he was working there.

 

They struck up a relationship and when Chertsak moved back to Bang Rachan sub-district of Khai Bang Rachan district Willy went too.

 

He said that Willy's family had put him under pressure to marry a woman and abandon a gay lifestyle.

 

He did and had a son who now manages the family's tour company business in Belgium.

 

Willy came to Thailand six years ago and never went back.

 

While they were talking - much of which was featured on a video now on YouTube - Willy had a minor accident hurting his face on a parked vehicle. It took a while to stem the flow of blood.

 

Father Ping said that Willy was a hard worker who loved cleanliness and order.

 

He would help out with all the household chores such as washing clothes, doing the dishes and sweeping up.

 

In addition he would help by collecting bottles dumped on the roadside and other trash to sell that would net about 1,000 baht a time.

 

Willy used that to pay the utilities at the house.

 

Everyone knows him in the village.

 

His son originally tried to stop him because of embarrassment but now he let's him get on with it. 

 

 

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What a story, what comments do you offer for such unusual tell? definitely unlike i ever heard or rad about in a long long time...

Yeah, I will start same, but add "What an insane story". Some people are just too much! Coming to Thailand, hooking up with a man and living as well as getting by picking garbage. Nice add-on to life!

Up to him..

I hope he has a work permit for that.

 

Or is collecting trash one of the jobs reserved only for Thais?

Weird is as weird does.

 

What is weird for some is banal for others. His prerogatives do not match mine.

Can understand the reporters human interest story, but he's probably landed the Belgian in deep Sh## with Immigration and the Labour Department

One man's rubbish is another man's salvation.

16 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

Can understand the reporters human interest story, but he's probably landed the Belgian in deep Sh## with Immigration and the Labour Department

Indeed.

 

I don't have a Crystal Ball but once this story dies down I can see a visit from immigration officials in this man's future. 

So the guys who lives a meagre life picking up garbage claims to have money in Belgium but family issues. Its all a bit too much of a story for me. 

Surely this is a new low for farang expats in Thailand.

1 hour ago, RandolphGB said:

I hope he has a work permit for that.

 

Or is collecting trash one of the jobs reserved only for Thais?

Yeah he's taking work away from thais... LOL

I guess that must be true love. 

Willy's wonker couldn't resist the Thai chocolate factory!

Bullied away from his own family and here used as cheap labor.
Nice job - poor lad.

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

What a story, what comments do you offer for such unusual tell? definitely unlike i ever heard or rad about in a long long time...

Each to their own... if he's happy, best of luck to him.

Just another expats success story here in the LOS.  

Each to their own comes to mind 

But it's a low if the Belgian guy has money in Belgian and is now picking up rubbish for a living in Thailand ???????? 

( probably not for long ) 

 

4 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Yeah, I will start same, but add "What an insane story". Some people are just too much! Coming to Thailand, hooking up with a man and living as well as getting by picking garbage. Nice add-on to life!

Lots of foreigners coming to Thailand and picking up rubbish.

Is this story really that different? 

2 hours ago, sidjameson said:

Willy's wonker couldn't resist the Thai chocolate factory!

Mr Willy loves willies.

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Lots of foreigners coming to Thailand and picking up rubbish.

Is this story really that different? 

Is that from experience....?    

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Indeed.

 

I don't have a Crystal Ball but once this story dies down I can see a visit from immigration officials in this man's future. 

Hmmmmm.....i think you're right. Can't have these pesky farangs doing work  Thais can do, can we ?

He's found his niche, he's doing something socially and environmentally useful - more strength to his elbow.

I knew a cat called Wayout Willy.

 

Willy had an accident. 

 

Ooops!

 

See Willy's blood flow!

 

Willy is a hard worker.

 

Willy helps out with all the household chores.

 

Willychores.

 

Willy collects bottles dumped on the roadside and other trash to sell.

 

Willy pays utilities with money!

 

Everyone in the village knows Willy.

 

Doing that crazy hand jive.

44 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Lots of foreigners coming to Thailand and picking up rubbish.

Is this story really that different? 

Yes, this one is litter-ally different.

4 hours ago, VillageIdiot said:

Surely this is a new low for farang expats in Thailand.

Would that be because he is with another male ?

 

As much as it's not my cup of tea, if the guy is happy and not hurting anyone, then kudos to him, regardless if he has no money.

 

I know a lot of farang here who get a pension, married their partners, the farangs are never home, you can find them at the bar drinking their pensions away.

 

Always two sides of the coin, and again, if the farangs are happy and not hurting anyone, who am I to judge them.

 

Not my cup of tea, I prefer to be financially secure and provide for my partner and still enjoy my drink when at the bar every now and again, and of course help out when and where I can around the house, like eat a good cooked meal that my partner makes for me, usually twice a day while I watch her cook and clean and all that jazz 

 

Can't call me a sexist if you like, I don't care ????

 

Kudos to you Willy.

 

5 hours ago, Pouatchee said:

Weird is as weird does.

 

What is weird for some is banal for others. His prerogatives do not match mine.

Don't need to match yours.

 

Everybody / everywhere is entitled to live their chosen lifestyle as long as they're not creating danger or problems for others. Life is diversity.

A nice story but I wonder if this is a protected occupation? I hope he doesn't go to jail for love. ????

7 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Yes, this one is litter-ally different.

A load of rubbish if you ask me.

13 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Would that be because he is with another male ?

 

As much as it's not my cup of tea, if the guy is happy and not hurting anyone, then kudos to him, regardless if he has no money.

Agree, lots of homophobes posting on threads.

I have nothing against gay guys, as long as they don't expect me to buy them drinks