Thai food vendor sparks debate after giving free food to foreign backpacker

[billd766]

25 minutes ago, Andre0720 said:

Perhaps just an unlucky girl. Perhaps having to get away from a family that made her an unlucky one, for many reasons.

Trying to find herself through travel. Trying to find some healthy experiences, learning experiences.

Quickly ran out of money. And the result for her might be better than to still be amongst her family.

 

I would buy her a meal. Just the way I am, the way I think, just the way that I find to pay it forward, because I do find that, unlike her, I ended up having some luck. And I will give for that sole reason, thinking that I was one of the lucky ones. Just have enough because of a regular pension, and enough to share.

Wishing that when I die, these are the thoughts that will come to my mind. The thought of having given, and having in return, many 'smiles'. 

Enough for me....

Thank you for your kind post. Welcome to the small minority of those people who care about other people.

 

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

That's what our world have become to be, you don't give, not good, you give, not good, I wish i could think of a brilliant

proverb to sums us this unreal situation but I'm afraid I'll be ridiculed...

Ignore the majority of the me, me, me mob who only care about themselves.

 

If they ridicule us, simply laugh at the and their mean spirited attitudes, but save a little pity for them as well. 

[Modern Coding]

43 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Very kind vendor... who are the ones to complain?? If I want to give a plate of food to someone it is my action nothing more. Can the ones who complain/comment about it not look at their own behaviour/attitude before saying something. 

 

 

Until now, from what I have seen, people have not pointed at the vendor's kindness, have they??

Comments were rather targeted towards the girl.

[Cereal]

There are other ways she could have earned a few dollars! 

[proton]

6 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Thank you for your kind post. Welcome to the small minority of those people who care about other people.

 

Ignore the majority of the me, me, me mob who only care about themselves.

 

If they ridicule us, simply laugh at the and their mean spirited attitudes, but save a little pity for them as well. 

 

Captain woke has spoken, anyone who does not give to anyone that asks is a hard hearted uncompassionate, selfish demon. The ones that are conned we call mugs. I don't care about beg packers, illegal immigrants, scam artists, overstayers or kiddie fiddlers, they all deserve the boot.

Edited January 31 by proton

[Modern Coding]

11 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

How about "judge not, lest ye be judged"? That's an old one. 

Christians are the very first people to constantly ignore that teaching.

[Geordieabroad]

I don't think it's got anything to do with backpackers. It's about being a decent human being.  Have the Thais forgotten about Farang businesses in Thailand donating free meals to hungry Thais during covid and the many millions of baht which were raised by farangs in Thailand to help the needy?

[billd766]

7 minutes ago, proton said:

 

Captain woke has spoken, anyone who does not give to anyone that asks is a hard hearted uncompassionate, selfish demon. The ones that are conned we call mugs. I don't care about beg packers, illegal immigrants, scam artists, overstayers or kiddie fiddlers, they all deserve the boot.

Please tell us all who was conned by action of the vendor and the customer,

 

Also please tell us all how much you lost on the "con".

[Kwaibill]

17 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

Interesting how all these commenters are revealing their own character flaws and lack of humanity while sanctimoniously judging something that is between two people and of no one else's concern. As if some compassion and generosity is somehow wrong depending on who and where it is. 

I have been given a “leg up” a few times in my life, and have no problem paying it on when I can.

Just wondering how many of the antis here are soi disant “ Christians”?

[spidermike007]

It sure doesn't take much to spark a debate these days, it seems many have too much time on their hands and just enjoy bickering about something. 

[renaissanc]

So much ignorance is being shown here and on Thai social media about this incident. I used to backpack a lot in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then it was much more difficult than nowadays if you had a problem. There were times when things beyond my control happened and I had little or no money for a (short) while. So many people helped me with kindness in different ways during my 13-month journey around the Caribbean, South, and Central America, for example. I typed out my diary about this particular journey about 6 months ago and I recalled what happened. Sometimes backpackers need help. I'd have helped this woman out if I had been in the restaurant because I know about (budget) backpacking. I hope that you will show some compassion if you meet a backpacker in need of a meal or two.

[Irish star]

Deport the Trashbackers , We becoming a Welfare State 

[baz69er]

Probably doesn't have any travel insurance either, nothing wrong if the food was going to waste, but it's embarrassing, if you go travelling you really need get your <deleted> in order & that means having enough money etc.....

[michaellee]

Disgusting. You come from a western country. You have the money to fly over here and travel all over the place and you dont have $2 to spare on the food. What a low life taking advantage of the Thai people. Will never give anything to these loser. 

[billd766]

17 minutes ago, proton said:

 

Captain woke has spoken, anyone who does not give to anyone that asks is a hard hearted uncompassionate, selfish demon. The ones that are conned we call mugs. I don't care about beg packers, illegal immigrants, scam artists, overstayers or kiddie fiddlers, they all deserve the boot.

If being a woke means being kindhearted and helping others worse off than me, then I am proud to be a woke.

 

I wonder what it really means.

 

If you think that being conned makes you a mug, then please explain who was being conned out of what here.

 

I don't see anybody being conned.

 

I do see somebody giving an act of kindness to another human being.

 

Perhaps that is where we differ.

[itsallmine68]

One human being helping another. Nothing wrong with that 

[billd766]

4 minutes ago, Irish star said:

Deport the Trashbackers , We becoming a Welfare State 

Really?  Are you Thai and a "concerned netizen".

[BritManToo]

2 hours ago, proton said:

Some of these backpacking kids are the lowest of the low, you see them begging for their travel expenses from poor Thais, and now begging from somebody trying to make a living selling food, - not giving it away. 

So much hate ..............

Young person loses or runs out of money, could have happened to anyone.

Edited January 31 by BritManToo

[Cory1848]

37 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

Interesting how all these commenters are revealing their own character flaws and lack of humanity while sanctimoniously judging something that is between two people and of no one else's concern. As if some compassion and generosity is somehow wrong depending on who and where it is. 

I’ve seen lots of criticism of backpackers on this forum, most of it from old men who are simply jealous of youth and the carefree spirit that comes with it. I spent six months backpacking through Europe with a friend in the early 1980s, and we often received favors from strangers; it was all good; I would encourage any young person with a bit of time and curiosity to just head out. The Thai food vendor giving a free meal to a farang is a small demonstration of international amity, which is sadly lacking among “adults” throughout much of the world. Plus, young people who have a good experience traveling in Thailand on a budget are likely to return later in life when they have more money to spend. People who find fault with this are just cantankerous old fools as far as I’m concerned.

[brianthainess]

Jeez is was left over food from the vendors son, seems some would prefer it chucked in the bin. 

[Cory1848]

34 minutes ago, proton said:

 

Captain woke has spoken, anyone who does not give to anyone that asks is a hard hearted uncompassionate, selfish demon. The ones that are conned we call mugs. I don't care about beg packers, illegal immigrants, scam artists, overstayers or kiddie fiddlers, they all deserve the boot.

Wow, did you eat some bad fish last night, or what?

[brianthainess]

Maybe she just didn't like to see left food going to waste. 

[Richard Hall]

Strange, what can spark a debate nowadays. 'Don't mention it' appears to have become obsolete.

 

[Wuvu2]

3 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

What a loser.....

How many of us remember backpacking across Asia in our youth? I was young once stretching my tiny budget to explore as much of the world as I could.  It changed me into a global thinker and inspired me to try to do good as an adult. 

 

This woman didn't steal anything and was probably really grateful for the kindness. It will be another 25 years before anyone can really judge if this woman was a loser - or a wandering saint 

 

 

[billd766]

53 minutes ago, proton said:

 

Captain woke has spoken, anyone who does not give to anyone that asks is a hard hearted uncompassionate, selfish demon. The ones that are conned we call mugs. I don't care about beg packers, illegal immigrants, scam artists, overstayers or kiddie fiddlers, they all deserve the boot.

I have been conned once, shame on me. This guy was very good. He stole my Face book account and  even diverted 2 or 3 of email accounts of my friends. It took me 5 months to find him out.

 

He wasn't that smart though because he tried it again a year later using the same name and account. He was himself, 2 of my friends, his boss, he was also a famous lawyer in the USA. What tripped him up was when he became a female FBI agent and gave me her email address as well.

 

Unluckily for him I spoke to some real FBI agents at the US embassy in Bangkok and they gave me some useful information.

 

Other than that he was very very good.

Edited January 31 by billd766

[HauptmannUK]

Not too many years ago my youngest daughter had to beg for food when backpacking in the USA.  She was attacked and robbed of money, phone etc whilst in Seattle. She went to the police but they weren't interested in helping and even declined to make a phonecall on her behalf.  After a day spent in some distress she went into a fastfood restaurant where one of the staff gave her a meal and let her use a phone to make calls and send some emails.  She's not a loser - now a doctor in a UK hospital.

[StayinThailand2much]

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Don't see the problem.

 

They wouldn't complain if a foreigner gave a Thai free food...

[Goat]

Over the years i have gorged myself on free food from the Thais. Weddings, funerals, parties, school doos, monks donations that they couldnt eat all of etc

But never at a restaurant I wasnt a regular at.

 

I will give it a try tomorrow. Dress up in my worst clothes and wont bother showering.

[tubby johnson]

No money for food has helped her shed those Farang Woman kilos.

Good.

[chippendale]

Thai temples and Buddhist shrines have lots of free food stalled out every day. A free all-you-can-eat buffet.

[Korat Kiwi]

Very nice of the street vendor and I wonder if  anything was edited from the video. 

 

Normally (Well at least from my perspective) I would have thought the backpacker would at least offer to clean up / do the dishes or offer some sort of help for the free meal. 

 

Only those that were there will know. 

 

But then maybe the immigration people will be hunting you  for working without a visa... 

 

Can't win either way.