Swiss Expat Charged with Bodily and Mind Harm in Phuket Kicking Incident

[socabeat]

I hope the Bangkok Hospital Phuket will refuse treatment for him if ever needed.

[sambum]

"Mind harm"????

 

Can't find anything on Google about "mind harm" - "self harm" - yes!

 

Is that a Thai way of saying "psychological damage"? 

[transam]

4 minutes ago, sambum said:

"Mind harm"????

 

Can't find anything on Google about "mind harm" - "self harm" - yes!

 

Is that a Thai way of saying "psychological damage"? 

No doubt just a translation that 99.9% of farangy's understand...........🥴

[khunpeer]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Phuket –A Swiss Expat has been charged with bodily and mind harm after he allegedly kicked a female doctor near his rented villa in Thalang.

 

On Friday (March 1st) Mr. Urs Beat Fehr (Mr. David), 45, presented himself at the Thalang Police Station after being summoned over the legal situation involving the viral incident.

 

The Thalang Police Deputy Chief Colonel Anukun Nooket told the Phuket Express that David has been charged with bodily and mind harm. He is being accused of allegedly kicking a female doctor, Tandao Jandam, 26, who is a doctor at a private hospital in Phuket.

 

She had been sitting on the bottom of steps on a public beach leading to his villa when the incident happened.

 

The steps have since been deemed by Phuket officials public land and encroaching on the beach.

 

By Goongnang Suksawat

 

Full story: THE PHUKET EXPRESS 2024-03-02

 

 

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I thought all beaches in Thailand are public. so all people have access!

so why this Swiss clown bosses the two ladies away from the steps that lead to his (rented) villa? 

now I even read that those steps are 'encroaching' as well... 

this guy ànd his thai wife need a thorough lesson to be learned.

his elephant escapade sounds a bit weird as well. "sanctuary"? my a... , just another way to make money!

[charleskerins]

5 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

I have always questions, as the story is never complete and or investigated... Probably more than a woman sitting on  the stairs and being kicked.. And of course as a foreigner never touch a Thai.. these people are holy and never do the same with foreigners... 

Are you incapable of watching the video?

[sambum]

1 minute ago, transam said:

No doubt just a translation that 99.9% of farangy's understand...........🥴

So "mind harm" is something that 99.9% of "farangy's" understand - I must be the 0.1% that doesn't! 🙂 

[transam]

5 minutes ago, sambum said:

So "mind harm" is something that 99.9% of "farangy's" understand - I must be the 0.1% that doesn't! 🙂 

Indeed...................😉..............🤭

[michaellee]

4 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

I have always questions, as the story is never complete and or investigated... Probably more than a woman sitting on  the stairs and being kicked.. And of course as a foreigner never touch a Thai.. these people are holy and never do the same with foreigners... 

are you serious? What is wrong with you? It could have been you kicked by this moron. Stop your Thai bashing you dont like it here then LEAVE and I bet you couldnt find any better places to go thats why you here mongering  and has the same miserable attitude from the west. STFU!

[Clarkey611]

The photo on the first page and the TV coverage at the Police Station leads me to believe that this is some sort of marketing campaign for the Elephant Sanctuary.

[NanLaew]

He stated that his privacy had been invaded earlier by several Chinese and that was the reason he was so angry. He just made things worse in my opinion, as his actions suggest that he thought he was kicking another pair of Chinese off his steps. With the Thai government's love fest for Chinese, this guy is just digging a deeper hole.

[Kerryd]

" as she sat on steps leading from a million baht-a-month seaside residence"

A million baht a month ?!?!?

And he runs an "elephant sanctuary" ?

Methinks someone might want to take a peek at his finances. 

[Sydebolle]

This isolated case of bad behaviour seems to me more of a smoke screen. The whole world is excited over the apparent misbehaviour of a dirty farang but the story must have a flip side.

Let the Thai lady file a complaint with the police and get on with life; there is MUCH more newsworthy stuff going on than this. If he is guilty, then try to settle out of court and reprimand the culprit accordingly - everything else is ridiculous and certainly not beneficial to the "endeavours" of the local tourism boys in promoting quality tourism - me thinks ....... 

[ujayujay]

Another foreigner wannabe important person who has no manners and tramples on hospitality! I'm tired of being compared to such rabble here as a foreign pensioner! Please deport asap!

PS: I'm curious to see whether he, as a wealthy foreigner, will solve the "problem" here with a brown envelope... I'm afraid so!

Edited March 2 by ujayujay

[sqwakvfr]

If he is found guilty or even pleads guilty to assault does he get deported?  Can he settle with the victim and stay?  How much could it cost him to settle?  

[Cabradelmar]

TRD should do an audit of his tax returns too 😂 he deserves all the grieve and discomfort coming his way. 

[PJ71]

1 hour ago, brianthainess said:

He is only 46 probably only got married so he can stay here. I wonder if she lied to him also about having influential friends. In story photo she has blond hair, and yet here is a photo from another source. 

 

To dress like this in such a high profile situation tells me everything i need to know about this moron.

 

 

[Korat Kiwi]

After the initial report I thought this wouldn't end well for the Swiss national. 

 

I see it's playing out that way.  Self entitled idiot is gonna get his just desserts. 

[kwaussie]

I agree at least his wife had the brains to dress appropriately.

[connda]

If it was a Thai guy kicking a foreign doctor, it would be a wai, and apology, and a 500 THB fine.

[sirineou]

5 hours ago, tandor said:

..both he and his g/f assumed the complainant and friend were locals, hence the abuse, when they realised they weren't he feigned he tripped and his foot fell into the complainants back..or so the story goes!

Great defence, Because everyone knows that it's ok to abuse locals.  LOL

The man is an a-hole , I am sure this is not an isolated incident, this type pf behaviour does not exist in a vacuum.  

He makes us all look bad, make a public  example of him. 

[Dr B]

In an earlier post on this, the Thai Doctor said that she offered 3 solutions at the time:

1  Both apologise to each other and walk away.

2  Neither apologises to the other and walk away

3  Legal proceedings

It was stated that the Swiss aggressor declined to apologise, but still needed an apology from the Doctor.

Now he wants to say he tripped, so it was an accident. If he tripped, why was it such a problem to apologise? Only now that he finds out what a mess he has landed himself in he wants to apologise. I am happy to say "Too late. You had your chance to be decent. Now take the consequences".

[Guderian]

6 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

I have always questions, as the story is never complete and or investigated... Probably more than a woman sitting on  the stairs and being kicked.. And of course as a foreigner never touch a Thai.. these people are holy and never do the same with foreigners... 

 

Check the Thai government's list of reserved occupations - only Thais are allowed to kick foreigners. lol

[ikke1959]

1 hour ago, charleskerins said:

Are you incapable of watching the video?

You don't know what happened before... It could be the drop and the bucket understand?? I can't imagine that for sitting on the stairs somebody is kicked, but we don't know what happened it week before days before or how many times there were problems already. But Thai people only tell the story as it suits them

[brianthainess]

Probably slipped while holding his phone walking and giving her a Kick. Book him Dano. 

[ikke1959]

1 hour ago, michaellee said:

are you serious? What is wrong with you? It could have been you kicked by this moron. Stop your Thai bashing you dont like it here then LEAVE and I bet you couldnt find any better places to go thats why you here mongering  and has the same miserable attitude from the west. STFU!

I think you need to see a doctor..

[Dcheech]

Just now, connda said:

f it was a Thai guy kicking a foreign doctor, it would be a wai, and apology, and a 500 THB fine.

 

I beg to differ. No 500 baht fine, & the Thai guy could phone in the apology so no wai either.

 

That based on the Rimping Ping river store incident of a couple years back. Thai drop kicked an 80 plus y.o. farang into parked motorcycles. The perp phoned in an apology, & offered to cover medical expenses. Thai police gave the farang victim thirty days to press charges, as they did not.

Now, he was not a Doctor to my knowledge, but...

[newbee2022]

At the press conference he stated if he would have known she is Thai doctor he would have invited her for a drink. He thought she's Chinese!!!

Another racist.

Seems to me there are a lot of racists around. Not only in this forum.🙏

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, Spock said:

That's a lot of money to spend on rent - about $AU43,000 a month, over $10000 a week. You're right. An genuine elephant sanctuary is going to give you those returns.

Who said that his income or assets come from the sanctuary?

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, ryandb said:

or it's money laundering somewhere along the lines, large cash-based business taking around 3k a visit means a lot of notes could be cleaned. 

...or, more likely, he's simply a wealthy Swiss, not a money-launderer.

[josephbloggs]

29 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

You don't know what happened before... It could be the drop and the bucket understand?? I can't imagine that for sitting on the stairs somebody is kicked, but we don't know what happened it week before days before or how many times there were problems already. But Thai people only tell the story as it suits them

You just can't accept that a Thai woman might be innocent and the farang in the wrong can you.

Even the fat Swiss loser doesn't claim there was any history or anything else that happened before, only that he thought they might be Chinese. Get a grip.