Dutchman Beaten By Thai Teens For No Apparent Reason

[webfact]

Dutchman beaten for no apparent reason in Pathum Thani
By Coconuts Bangkok


Dijk Nicolaas

PATHUM THANI: -- Late last night, a group of Thai teens attacked an intoxicated, 48-year-old Dutchman in front of an Internet café near Manhattan Hotel in Pathum Thani.

The teens, who launched their attack for no apparent reason, fled the scene soon afterwards.

Dijk Nicolaas was walking toward the other end of Soi Manhattan Hotel when six teens pulled up in front of him on motorcycles and began to beat him.

Khlong Luang police said that bruises and cuts were found all over Dijk’s body.

Full story: http://www.coconutsbangkok.com/news/dutchman-beaten-for-no-apparent-reason-in-pathum-thani/


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2013-03-18

[EyesWideOpen]

Are these types of attacks getting more common??? Maybe there is some sort of anti farang ground swell among Thai teens... :-(

He does look like a bit of a scrapper, am surprised that there was not one or two teens laying next to him when the police showed up. Or maybe he bought into the Thai brainwashing of never fighting back, and how important it is to have a cool heart in Thailand.

[yummypizza]

There's always a no apparent reason some where!

[balo]

There is more to this story , I dont believe teenagers just start beating a foreigner without a reason.

He must have done something wrong in the past....

[EyesWideOpen]

had a good friend of mine who served two tours in Vietnam. He told me if you are up against one guy, just stick to Queensberry rules for fighting.

If six guys are coming at you, you are now in a fight for your life. So act accordingly. Hint.....no rules,where teeth make a great weapon, and an eye gouge takes the fight right out of a attacker..

[laurentbkk]

Pathumtani is usually quiet I have been living here for 20 years .... Thai teens dont fight without reason , either he did or said something wrong as apparently he was intoxicated. sometime those teen group don't need much to start a fight.

[robblok]

He looks big for sure but if drunk your at a disadvantage, also many against one.. not good odds. I wonder what the reason is, if he says he did not provoce it and that is true then i really wonder why. Though we have random violence back home in the Netherlands.

As to Jurgen fun to see anti Dutch sentiment havent seen it before a new thing.

[cardholder]

There is more to this story , I dont believe teenagers just start beating a foreigner without a reason.

He must have done something wrong in the past....

You mean, like in a previous life, tam mai dee, dai mai dee ?

[dcutman]

Khlong Luang police said that bruises and cuts were found all over Dijk’s body.

Unless this guy was just to drunk to stand, I suspect the teens have a few bruises and cuts of there own.

[mamypoko]

One part of this story I don't question is the typical "many-to-one" ratio of combatants.

[laurentbkk]

He looks big for sure but if drunk your at a disadvantage, also many against one.. not good odds. I wonder what the reason is, if he says he did not provoce it and that is true then i really wonder why. Though we have random violence back home in the Netherlands.

As to Jurgen fun to see anti Dutch sentiment havent seen it before a new thing.

well it seems Jurgen beside of being anti dutch is also anti gay ..... unless he has a good sense of humor ...which I doubt

[chuang]

" For no apparent reason ".. ..why him, there are tons of farangs around....

[Stokakrishna]

one reason : a farang

[HeavyDrinker]

There is more to this story , I dont believe teenagers just start beating a foreigner without a reason.

He must have done something wrong in the past....

HeavyDrinker here it is !!!!! :-)

HeavyDrinker

I'm waiting for the usual suspects to say:

'well he looks like a..."

"He must be a..."

"He must have done...."

Etc...

It's hard being right all the time...

[webfact]

enough - stop that bickering and stay on topic or I stop you from posting!

The topic at hand is not about gays

Got it?

//Admin

[reiltin]

Some here as fast to bring that guy down as the young Thais were,don't assume nor speculate-be thankful it's not you at the end of a surgeons knife.

[richard_smith237]

Its not unheard of anywhere for bored teenagers to vandalise property, race bikes etc... its also not unheard of for bored teenagers to attack someone.

As such it could easily be a simple case of this guy being in the wrong place at the wrong time with a bunch of bored teenagers out on the prowl looking for a bit of trouble.

There were stories of something like this happening years ago where they rode past a westerner and hit him on the back of the head with a plank of wood...

Sometimes there simply is no reason regardless of how healthy the guy looks.

Just because someone doesn't have a beer gut, it doesn't mean he is a scrapper !! - Some of the comments so far defy intelligence !

[humbug]

there doesnt have to be a reason for a lone person/farang to be beaten up especailly in a poor/poverty stricken area like phatum thani where you have increases in teen gangs and drugs etc could be their way of having fun or initiation process for being in a gang etc,

these things dont need any provocation when just youre at the wrong place at the wrong time as richard smith237 above mentions

[EyesWideOpen]

I seem to recall another story where Thai teens attacked a farang with machetes. When interviewed by the police, they said they were simply out to attack a farang, so apparently in that case the farang was not a fault.

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[CobraSnakeNecktie]

They probably thought it was a fair fight.... 6 against 1.

[ExpatJ]

Frankly, judging by the way many farang act and behave in Thailand i am amazed these beatings don't happen more often.

[raro]

I deleted plenty of Dutch and gay (!) bashing posts and replies to it. Once back at the computer I will also remove some of the posters.

The forum rules apply also to this thread.

[FritsSikkink]

He looks big for sure but if drunk your at a disadvantage, also many against one.. not good odds. I wonder what the reason is, if he says he did not provoce it and that is true then i really wonder why. Though we have random violence back home in the Netherlands.

As to Jurgen fun to see anti Dutch sentiment havent seen it before a new thing.

On this picture he (Nicolaas Dijk) doen's look that big:

http://www.dailynews.co.th/crime/191188

The name is Nicolaas Dijk

[h90]

There is more to this story , I dont believe teenagers just start beating a foreigner without a reason.

He must have done something wrong in the past....

yes I have doubts on the "no reason". But who knows.....

[keestha]

Sloppy journalism, or maybe sloppy police. The guy's first name is stated as Dijk, well, nobody in the Netherlands is called Dijk. Dijk means dike in Dutch. Most likely his first name is Dick.

[robblok]

He looks big for sure but if drunk your at a disadvantage, also many against one.. not good odds. I wonder what the reason is, if he says he did not provoce it and that is true then i really wonder why. Though we have random violence back home in the Netherlands.

As to Jurgen fun to see anti Dutch sentiment havent seen it before a new thing.

On this picture he doen's look that big:

http://www.dailynews.co.th/crime/191188

I should have known better, the right light and angle can make a guy look big. Anyway might be a random act of violence unfortunately that happens all over the world also back in the Netherland. There were a few recent cases where the guys got caught because of CCTV. Hope they get the guys too.

[scorecard]

there doesnt have to be a reason for a lone person/farang to be beaten up especailly in a poor/poverty stricken area like phatum thani where you have increases in teen gangs and drugs etc could be their way of having fun or initiation process for being in a gang etc,

these things dont need any provocation when just youre at the wrong place at the wrong time as richard smith237 above mentions

And 'wrong place / wrong time' could be any country in the world.

There are dozens of cities in the so called 'fully developed first world' where there is the constant threat of bashing, mugging, bag snatching etc.

[FritsSikkink]

Sloppy journalism, or maybe sloppy police. The guy's first name is stated as Dijk, well, nobody in the Netherlands is called Dijk. Dijk means dike in Dutch. Most likely his first name is Dick.

His name is Nicolaas Dijk

[saltandpepper]

one reason : a farang

Would you care to elaborate a bit ?

Do you mean that being a farang is THE reason why this happened.

I have been here 14 years full time. I have never been beaten, or insulted.