Foreigner threatens to throw kid from balcony (VIDEO)

[balo]

Obviously a mental case , another farang that should never have moved to Thailand in the first place.

And now with a family and kids he can not take care of. I hope they deport him and that the extended Thai family can let the kids grow up in peace,

Edited April 3, 2015 by balo

[lemonjelly]

Thanks Traveler '49.... until i read your post i thought that maybe the situation was mis-read by the Thais.....well done for calming him down.... kudos to the little guy that brought him down too.

[cookee68]

From what I see on the video, the child was on the other side of the Farang away from the balcony when that person attacked him, an argument with somebody and that's about it, from what I saw

[lemonjelly]

From what I see on the video, the child was on the other side of the Farang away from the balcony when that person attacked him, an argument with somebody and that's about it, from what I saw

read earlier posts on this page.

[cookee68]

From what I see on the video, the child was on the other side of the Farang away from the balcony when that person attacked him, an argument with somebody and that's about it, from what I saw

after reading the other posts of the person who was there it was more than it seemed, desperate people do the most desperate stupid things, he needs locking up, and helped at the same time, many Farang been hurt by a Thai woman, but that's a bit out of the norm. maybe the Thai government should go on a Thai women arrests spree for robbing Farangs, like they did with the arrest spree of coloureds for robbing the Thai women,

[cookee68]

Holy crap you guys have such small ego's that you think this shit heads action = a slight on your race or culture. It's pathetic how 90% of you louts on here disregard the bravery (yes wreckless but consider the situation) of the little Thai guy. You <deleted> should be grateful he did something before that idiot farang managed to kill the kid and bring even more shame to you people. One really dumb posters mentions blocking the kid from falling over the balcony, how the hell do you expect them to do that without angering the farang even more? Potentially causing him to throw the kid even sooner..To all those in denial about him not appearing guilty of trying to throw the kid look at the elevated height of the farang before he gets tackled, he's clearly standing on a platform to get higher ground. So stop the Thai bashing & pitifully trying to make your race appear incapable of any wrong doing, because to the rest of us that's impossible to perceive. You should be grateful you can even live here to complain & b*tch all day long.

wow , who wound up freddy . :-)

Who wound him up ? Quite possibly idiots posting annoying, anti-Thai comments. Just my guess.

Well the ones who live there are not their for your scenary and kindness ,and they bitch a lot like you are doing now, because they are copying your race, and don't be fooled, with out all the other races in your country you would still be fishermen, all races can do this, its how you deal with it after, and in your case not very good, so calm down pop a Thai pill, and go with the flow, if you want to preach become a monk, then you can preach, and bitch and scream all at the same time and it will be normal,

[Rashomon]

That second clip posted by Loaded gives a better view of what happened. The child he was holding was clearly in distress and if that 'father' was making threats to tip him off the balcony in my humble opinion they were right to respond to that threat. The actual intervention was well executed given the circumstances, that first person turns the child and father away from the balcony and he is then quickly overwhelmed. Fair play to them.

[Rashomon]

Respect to you sir, your cool head and calming words were instrumental in helping divert what may otherwise have been a tragedy.

I was there. I'm actually in that video, but hard to see. My girlfriend and I had left my motorcycle to be washed, then walked to Kad Suan Keaw mall to kill the hour and a half it was going to take to get the bike detailed. We had gone into Tops Market on the ground floor to get a few things, and when we came out, everyone was standing around looking up. The area right outside of Tops is where the escalators are, and it's an open atrium up to the fourth floor. I looked up but could only see a little kid looking over the railing on the top floor and crying. My girlfriend asked a Thai what was going on, and she was told that some farang had gotten into a huge fight with his Thai wife, then had grabbed both kids and gone to the top floor where he was threatening to throw the kids off, then jump himself. I looked up again and now I could see the guy standing at the edge of the railing holding another, smaller child in his arms and screaming incoherently. I looked around and no one was doing anything, so I told my girlfriend to stay put, then I ran up the escalators to the top floor. When i got up there the guy was screaming at everyone to stay away. Not many people were up there, so I eased up to where the guy was and tried to see if it looked like he was serious. He was. He was standing on a bench that was placed against the railing, with one foot on the bench and one on the railing, swaying back and forth. Twice he swung the kid in his arms toward the railing, like he was going to throw him, then brought him back. He started yelling at his wife about how she had taken everything from him and now he was going to take from her. It sounded to me like he was trying to work up the "courage" to jump. I was standing about fifteen feet from him and I called to him and just started telling him that he was right, that his wife was wrong, and that whatever she had done she had obviously wronged him. He looked at me and took a step back, started listening to me. He said that she had taken all his money and now wouldn't let him see his kids. He had nothing left and nothing to live for. Then he turned and started screaming down at her again. He said he was going to hurt her, at which point he swung the kid toward the railing again. I yelled at him that he need to let his kids grow up, that when they were older they would realize that he was right, that their mom had taken them away, and that he was a good dad, but that he needed to let them live to grow up. I told him that if she had stolen his money that he needed to tell the police. He said the cops wouldn't listen to him, that now they would just lock him up. I told him, no, they would listen, he just needed to talk to him. I just figured that if the guy thought that someone understood him, and sided with him, he might wind it down a notch.

I was totally winging it. I just wanted to keep the guy talking, to get his mind off of jumping. He was totally wired, and I was really afraid that he was going to shove those kids over. In the link below you can see a cop walking in front of him. I'm out of sight off to the left. I couldn't see the little dude in the red jacket because the farang was between me and him. I just tried to keep the guy talking, and then the guy in red came up and pulled him away from the railing. You can see me in the white t-shirt and white ball cap. The kids were whisked away to their mom. I later saw them downstairs with their mom, and she thanked me. Several posters have indicated that it was no big deal, that the kids weren't in danger. Trust me, it was a very big deal. And yeah, it took twenty people to hold him down. He may have been on something, but he was very strong. The cops finally got the cuffs on him and led him away. I was shaking like a leaf, lol. Took me several SangSoms to wind down.

Here's a better angle. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1414161595560173

Edited April 3, 2015 by Rashomon

[happy Joe]

Thank you Traveler, you give us a nice lesson of modest courage. Furthermore, your story is fun to read.

Samsung will be for me.

[Beng]

Video stinks. It does not show any evidence of such,

Yep. Nothing to see. Who put this up ??

[Fredward]

Holy crap you guys have such small ego's that you think this shit heads action = a slight on your race or culture. It's pathetic how 90% of you louts on here disregard the bravery (yes wreckless but consider the situation) of the little Thai guy. You <deleted> should be grateful he did something before that idiot farang managed to kill the kid and bring even more shame to you people. One really dumb posters mentions blocking the kid from falling over the balcony, how the hell do you expect them to do that without angering the farang even more? Potentially causing him to throw the kid even sooner..To all those in denial about him not appearing guilty of trying to throw the kid look at the elevated height of the farang before he gets tackled, he's clearly standing on a platform to get higher ground. So stop the Thai bashing & pitifully trying to make your race appear incapable of any wrong doing, because to the rest of us that's impossible to perceive. You should be grateful you can even live here to complain & b*tch all day long.

wow , who wound up freddy . :-)

Who wound him up ? Quite possibly idiots posting annoying, anti-Thai comments. Just my guess.

Well the ones who live there are not their for your scenary and kindness ,and they bitch a lot like you are doing now, because they are copying your race, and don't be fooled, with out all the other races in your country you would still be fishermen, all races can do this, its how you deal with it after, and in your case not very good, so calm down pop a Thai pill, and go with the flow, if you want to preach become a monk, then you can preach, and bitch and scream all at the same time and it will be normal,

Haha, you are pitiful. Fishermen? It's wearisome & frustrating coming across this typical colonialist mindset almost on the daily, you think we need the west? Asias got more than you and your kind could even fathom. Since you're on this site you must be living here, why don't you go live with your people & stay away from this beautiful place, stop exploiting it & defiling it with your presence, surely us fishermen can't be too interesting for someone of your intellect? Who's bitching? You see me complaining or explaining the scenario more clearly to idiot farangs about 'the' idiot farang? We have enough wealth locally to not require your meagre sex tourism money, even education in places like India is far superior to typical western education unless you're talking ivy league, yet even then who needs the pompousness associated with your kind. So please F off now.

[aboctok]

Not surprised!

I've seen this "tool" before at the Promenade Mall yelling at his wife.

He saw me starring at him and he actually called me out...LOL

I was there with the wife and I broke contact before things escalated...

But it's a cooked headline!

Isn't it? o_O

So disappointing. ;(

[aboctok]

Holy crap you guys have such small ego's that you think this shit heads action = a slight on your race or culture. It's pathetic how 90% of you louts on here disregard the bravery (yes wreckless but consider the situation) of the little Thai guy. You <deleted> should be grateful he did something before that idiot farang managed to kill the kid and bring even more shame to you people. One really dumb posters mentions blocking the kid from falling over the balcony, how the hell do you expect them to do that without angering the farang even more? Potentially causing him to throw the kid even sooner..To all those in denial about him not appearing guilty of trying to throw the kid look at the elevated height of the farang before he gets tackled, he's clearly standing on a platform to get higher ground. So stop the Thai bashing & pitifully trying to make your race appear incapable of any wrong doing, because to the rest of us that's impossible to perceive. You should be grateful you can even live here to complain & b*tch all day long.

wow , who wound up freddy . :-)

Who wound him up ? Quite possibly idiots posting annoying, anti-Thai comments. Just my guess.

Well the ones who live there are not their for your scenary and kindness ,and they bitch a lot like you are doing now, because they are copying your race, and don't be fooled, with out all the other races in your country you would still be fishermen, all races can do this, its how you deal with it after, and in your case not very good, so calm down pop a Thai pill, and go with the flow, if you want to preach become a monk, then you can preach, and bitch and scream all at the same time and it will be normal,

Nice sentence.

[Docno]

I agree a cooked headline to sway the public eye to the fullong after the Thai man beat to death a 3 year old.

Yeah, and the CIA flew the planes into the twin towers...

It's amazing the lengths some people here will go to blame things on Thais and paint all farangs as innocent victims. Ridiculous.

[onthedarkside]

A number of inflammatory posts have been removed.

[Mapguy]

Is everyone happy now with all the voyeuristic interest? Let this sad family be !!

[johnmcedinghburg]

You are very brave Well done traveler