Farang assaulted during accident

[Hal65]

It was about 3:00 AM and I was heading to the local 7 eleven on foot. Suddenly I hear a crash and then a bunch of thais shouting. I look over and I see a truck stopped on the road with a motorcycle on the ground. The thais are angrily yelling at a white guy. It's hard to say who was at fault, 

 

One of the thais keeps punching the foreigner in the head. He punches once, waits 30 seconds or a minute, punches again. After about three rounds of this, the foreigner gets angry and squares up. A moto taxi driver mediating suddenly does a lunging punch, punching the white guy in the head. The foreigner realizes he's being attacked from two sides and covers his head. This prompts both of the Thais to stop.

 

My read was the moto taxi guy was enforcing violence one way and successfully forced the foreigner not to respond.

 

I watched for about three more minutes and then left. There was at least less Thai to foreigner punching in the next three minutes (I counted one more).

 

I didn't see the accident, but while they were trying to get police coming over, the Thai men were clearly in the wrong by punching the foreigner while he was simply asking the crowd "why does he keep punching me?" That was a scary situation to see one way enforcement by the moto taxi guys. 

 

I wanted to video it but man, that level of street justice... no thanks. Thai men seem to know they can get away with casual violence and use it unprovoked if they feel justified.

[EVENKEEL]

I hope Lewie is OK.

[scubascuba3]

It's a sport for the Thais, they just wade in at any opportunity

[jacko45k]

19 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

It's a sport for the Thais, they just wade in at any opportunity

Yes, although many get a job as security as there are more such opportunities. 

[SAFETY FIRST]

On 7/4/2025 at 6:45 AM, Hal65 said:

It was about 3:00 AM and I was heading to the local 7 eleven on foot. Suddenly I hear a crash and then a bunch of thais shouting. I look over and I see a truck stopped on the road with a motorcycle on the ground. The thais are angrily yelling at a white guy. It's hard to say who was at fault, 

 

One of the thais keeps punching the foreigner in the head. He punches once, waits 30 seconds or a minute, punches again. After about three rounds of this, the foreigner gets angry and squares up. A moto taxi driver mediating suddenly does a lunging punch, punching the white guy in the head. The foreigner realizes he's being attacked from two sides and covers his head. This prompts both of the Thais to stop.

 

My read was the moto taxi guy was enforcing violence one way and successfully forced the foreigner not to respond.

 

I watched for about three more minutes and then left. There was at least less Thai to foreigner punching in the next three minutes (I counted one more).

 

I didn't see the accident, but while they were trying to get police coming over, the Thai men were clearly in the wrong by punching the foreigner while he was simply asking the crowd "why does he keep punching me?" That was a scary situation to see one way enforcement by the moto taxi guys. 

 

I wanted to video it but man, that level of street justice... no thanks. Thai men seem to know they can get away with casual violence and use it unprovoked if they feel justified.

No surprise, this behaviour happens in most countries. 

 

Anyway, we can't make a serious comment because we weren't there, maybe you made up this story to promote hate, who knows. 

 

BTW, Hope the guy getting punched is OK, if your story is true. 

 

[Mark1969]

You left the guy helpless getting punched in the street?

 

I have no respect for you here as a man. Even as an older guy I would have created some sort of distraction. Could have been filming, yelling, anything, running in and dragging the guy away??  Did you even look for a cop or call the police at a 7-11?

[Hal65]

The distraction idea sounds out of a cartoon. "Hey, over here!" (waves arms frantically)

[Magictoad]

I saw something similar in the Pratumnak area, yesterday, but didn't bother to post about it. It was a Thai man in truck reversing but there were two vehicles behind him, the girl on the scooter shouted and the car peeped it's horn until the truck stopped...I carried on whatever..... Nobody was hurt; thankfully.