British couple vows to return to Hua Hin despite brutal attack

[Jai Dee]

Several off-topic troll posts and subsequent replies have been removed from this thread.

[connda]

I love all the photos of Thais sucking up to these people. Flowers, flowers, flowers..... How about a proportional change in Thai 'culture', let say, TV broadcasts propagandizing to the Thai people how 'group beatdowns' of any citizen, but especially tourist is harmful to Thai society as a whole; and then put police on the streets to enforce compliance. <Lmao> BIB will be in the streets long enough to fine some farangs without shirts and to enforce 12 midnight bar closures: morality 'crimes', whilst leaving the hard crime untouched. I have no illusions about how the world really works.

[connda]

"The minister expressed regret for the incident. The couple said they love Hua Hin and vowed to return"....

with the VIP escort and associated red carpet treatment that will be afforded the couple and their son from this day onward as they are paraded as celebrities to Thai and foreigners alike in a blizt-TAT-atizment moment for all to see ad-infinitum....... Every one else? Fair game for beat-downs, cons, and scams.

[Aforek]

They loved Hua Hin they said,they've been going there for 20 years.I assume they like drinking which rules out a considerable part of Malaysia and for Singapore,are the beaches any good?

They come often to Thailand, but they don't know how to behave with Thai people ; Thai people finished the scene in the video - ( badly, I agree ) but the three tourists began the show; I don't understand why Thaipeople give them flowers

the only excuse they can have is that they were drunk

[connda]

Blame those crazy mean vicious old British couple for violently instigating this incident,

Is that not exactly what happened?

The British family got angry, attacked several Thai people and tried to use violence to settle a dispute with the locals in a foreign country....consequently they got their asses kicked in return.

Does your timeline of events differ from mine?

Simple cause and effect!

I can only assume that you have no problems beating a women to within inches of her life for 'slapping' you. I've been slapped by women before, laughed and walked away. But I understand I'm a man and I understand the physical power advantage I have over most women, especially 65 year old, fat, sedentary old women. I guess to the average Thai man and farang apologists, that would be a challenge.

I guess if I was slapped for no reason by a female MMA fighter I may change my tune; I can only assume that the Thai guy and his friend who cold-cocked grandma thought she was a MMA fighter. Perhaps you too? I've never gone into a punch-up with someone I knew I could easily beat, male or female - which sets me, and people like me, apart from the clones and men with really poor self-esteem issues. And if the shoe fits.....

Edited May 4, 2016 by connda

[Sawan Chan 7]

So now they will vow to come back to Thailand after enduring such a savage attack because the TAT and the prime minister's office were nice to them?

Come on, is Thailand the only country in the world open to tourism? Or the only country worth travelling to? These people must seriously be boring if they always do the same thing, always coming to Thailand. Their son lives in Singapore. How about they check that country out a little bit better? How about Malaysia, right next door? Or perhaps Indonesia, which is literally also just a stone's throw away? Or maybe Vietnam or Myanmar? Or the Philippines?

What's wrong with any of those countries? Why always Thailand?

Personally, I'm tired of hearing about this story. Blown out of proportion.

But good point, Thailand is the best , people love it here, the weather and the people and culture.

Only a few old sad misfits moan about things on this forum.

They live in the middle of nowhere and can't communicate with their neighbours.

[Jblood]

Let's imagine for a moment that their son tripped over his own foot and then you see this grannie and dad going after you cornering you, slapping you and then hitting you, and it looks like they have no intention of stopping their attack - what would you do in this situation? Do you have the right to defend yourself?

If this grannie is able to move around in this sweltering heat in Thailand, challenge people and throw punches around - i'd say she's a pretty fit woman... in which case I don't think that her age should be used as excuse for a definition of a "handicap" of any sort in her case... She's old, mature and quite mobile and capable of chasing and inflicting damage on people... For example I have never hit anybody in my whole life - but you can see that it didn't take much for that grannie to punch somebody - now tell me who is more dangerous?

I absolutely agree it's never right to hit a woman and that goes without saying. Can somebody explain to me then why some people assume it's ever OK to hit a man? Is there a new law out there I never heard of before? Should I be worried about going out now, because apparently there are some crazy people running around believing that it's perfectly fine to just come up to me and hit me?

[nontabury]

Let's imagine for a moment that their son tripped over his own foot and then you see this grannie and dad going after you cornering you, slapping you and then hitting you, and it looks like they have no intention of stopping their attack - what would you do in this situation? Do you have the right to defend yourself?

If this grannie is able to move around in this sweltering heat in Thailand, challenge people and throw punches around - i'd say she's a pretty fit woman... in which case I don't think that her age should be used as excuse for a definition of a "handicap" of any sort in her case... She's old, mature and quite mobile and capable of chasing and inflicting damage on people... For example I have never hit anybody in my whole life - but you can see that it didn't take much for that grannie to punch somebody - now tell me who is more dangerous?

I absolutely agree it's never right to hit a woman and that goes without saying. Can somebody explain to me then why some people assume it's ever OK to hit a man? Is there a new law out there I never heard of before? Should I be worried about going out now, because apparently there are some crazy people running around believing that it's perfectly fine to just come up to me and hit me?

"OH" so it's now gone from the old lady slapping someone to the granny actually PUNCHING someone. The receiver of the old ladies slap was in his 20/30's. By all accounts this particular Thai,to his credit din't retaliate, probably went off laughing at the whole event, maybe even knowing that some farangs would be airing their apologist views in the media within a few hours.

[seahorse]

Let's imagine for a moment that their son tripped over his own foot and then you see this grannie and dad going after you cornering you, slapping you and then hitting you, and it looks like they have no intention of stopping their attack - what would you do in this situation? Do you have the right to defend yourself?

If this grannie is able to move around in this sweltering heat in Thailand, challenge people and throw punches around - i'd say she's a pretty fit woman... in which case I don't think that her age should be used as excuse for a definition of a "handicap" of any sort in her case... She's old, mature and quite mobile and capable of chasing and inflicting damage on people... For example I have never hit anybody in my whole life - but you can see that it didn't take much for that grannie to punch somebody - now tell me who is more dangerous?

I absolutely agree it's never right to hit a woman and that goes without saying. Can somebody explain to me then why some people assume it's ever OK to hit a man? Is there a new law out there I never heard of before? Should I be worried about going out now, because apparently there are some crazy people running around believing that it's perfectly fine to just come up to me and hit me?

"OH" so it's now gone from the old lady slapping someone to the granny actually PUNCHING someone. The receiver of the old ladies slap was in his 20/30's. By all accounts this particular Thai,to his credit din't retaliate, probably went off laughing at the whole event, maybe even knowing that some farangs would be airing their apologist views in the media within a few hours.

Maybe you're right. Maybe, he thinks that getting pushed off balance by the son, then manhandled, slapped in the face and shoved in the chest by the mother and followed by being punched in the face by the father so hard that he was knocked to the ground, is absolutely hilarious. Though I'm not sure many people would, and find it strange that you should suggest this to be the case. Would you think it funny if it happened to you? I rather doubt it.

His mates didn't think it was all that funny. And neither, apparently, did he. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't have stomped on the son's face before he left.

So, on balance, I think that you are wrong.

[Jblood]

For all we know, the bystanders never even saw the original push and fall - all they could see was this grannie screaming at the top of her lungs, then slapping somebody, and then the man punching somebody - with the mounting evidence of this continuous unprovoked violent behavior, the bystanders actually had all the excuse to believe that they were all under attack from the members of some violent farang gang high on drugs who were out to beat up people...

As ridiculous as this may sound, but since it's the British couple who started the assault, it's only the other side that gets a chance to plead self-defense, because when you are under attack or under perceived attack with some obvious evidence that an attack is about to come - you have the right to defend yourself... Also try and prove to me that the assault by the British couple was not racially motivated - I personally have my doubts on that... they all look like a bunch of rednecks to me...

Plus there was another fairly large farang participating in this skirmish just a tad north of them - all the more signal to the Thais that Farangs were out to attack all of them, for all anybody could undertsand - it was an all out farang vs Thai skirmish which the British couple started, and we all saw what followed... A pretty ugly picture...

So was this an unprovoked attack? Plus you might take into consideration that that grannie may look a lot bigger and dangerous to the Thais than she does to us... Of course they should have taken her out of the equation completely - but that's not what happened - shame on them. They don't know much about farang people and have probably never seen anyone being attacked by farang before, so they may have acted out of fear or instinct... And that last guy who went around giving everybody the final knock out blows may very well be the only psycho out of all the Thais who simply took advantage of the situation... There was only one Thai guy going around beating people who were already on the ground... He alone pretty much did 80% of all the PR damage leading from this whole story. Plus when you have such a large number of Farangs attacking Thai on one of their religious holydays - don't you think they would do anything possible to hold their ground? For all they know the Farangs had no business to even be there.

[Johnniey]

For all we know, the bystanders never even saw the original push and fall - all they could see was this grannie screaming at the top of her lungs, then slapping somebody, and then the man punching somebody - with the mounting evidence of this continuous unprovoked violent behavior, the bystanders actually had all the excuse to believe that they were all under attack from the members of some violent farang gang high on drugs who were out to beat up people...

As ridiculous as this may sound, but since it's the British couple who started the assault, it's only the other side that gets a chance to plead self-defense, because when you are under attack or under perceived attack with some obvious evidence that an attack is about to come - you have the right to defend yourself... Also try and prove to me that the assault by the British couple was not racially motivated - I personally have my doubts on that... they all look like a bunch of rednecks to me...

Plus there was another fairly large farang participating in this skirmish just a tad north of them - all the more signal to the Thais that Farangs were out to attack all of them, for all anybody could undertsand - it was an all out farang vs Thai skirmish which the British couple started, and we all saw what followed... A pretty ugly picture...

So was this an unprovoked attack? Plus you might take into consideration that that grannie may look a lot bigger and dangerous to the Thais than she does to us... Of course they should have taken her out of the equation completely - but that's not what happened - shame on them. They don't know much about farang people and have probably never seen anyone being attacked by farang before, so they may have acted out of fear or instinct... And that last guy who went around giving everybody the final knock out blows may very well be the only psycho out of all the Thais who simply took advantage of the situation... There was only one Thai guy going around beating people who were already on the ground... He alone pretty much did 80% of all the PR damage leading from this whole story. Plus when you have such a large number of Farangs attacking Thai on one of their religious holydays - don't you think they would do anything possible to hold their ground? For all they know the Farangs had no business to even be there.

Trolls these days must be bored and have too much time on their hands. Good try buddy but all your efforts have not been bitten at.

[Jblood]

Well actually the Brits proceeded with beating the crap out of the Thai even after they could clearly see that their son wasn't even hurt. Plus one more Brit showed up to help them making it all appear more like a gang - what was that other Brit even doing there helping to restrain the Thai ( which by the way may qualify as an attempted kidnapping) - that Brit didn't even see what happened and there he was helping out "his own" in a foreign country during their key ethnic holiday - does it ever get more retarded than that - they are easily the most retarded farangs I ever heard of in this country... They had one of the Thais completely surrounded and they were beating the crap out of him before the other Thais decided to unleash their wrath on them... It's actually a very interesting video, maybe you should watch it again, it's all there.

It's just really disgusting how the Brits would twist the story trying to make their own thugs look innocent...

[JHolmesJr]

This entire story will be forgotten in about a month...given the extremely short frequency of the internet news cycle, no one will forward that video of the beating...or care....nothing will change....its the millennials world, we just live in it.

[wellred]

Well actually the Brits proceeded with beating the crap out of the Thai even after they could clearly see that their son wasn't even hurt. Plus one more Brit showed up to help them making it all appear more like a gang - what was that other Brit even doing there helping to restrain the Thai ( which by the way may qualify as an attempted kidnapping) - that Brit didn't even see what happened and there he was helping out "his own" in a foreign country during their key ethnic holiday - does it ever get more retarded than that - they are easily the most retarded farangs I ever heard of in this country... They had one of the Thais completely surrounded and they were beating the crap out of him before the other Thais decided to unleash their wrath on them... It's actually a very interesting video, maybe you should watch it again, it's all there.

It's just really disgusting how the Brits would twist the story trying to make their own thugs look innocent...

What's disgusting is how badly you want to be Thai that you'd talk like this. You'll always be a farang in their eyes so stop trying to hard.

The incident started with a Thai pushing someone to the ground over a spilled drink.

[Watchful]

Well actually the Brits proceeded with beating the crap out of the Thai even after they could clearly see that their son wasn't even hurt. Plus one more Brit showed up to help them making it all appear more like a gang - what was that other Brit even doing there helping to restrain the Thai ( which by the way may qualify as an attempted kidnapping) - that Brit didn't even see what happened and there he was helping out "his own" in a foreign country during their key ethnic holiday - does it ever get more retarded than that - they are easily the most retarded farangs I ever heard of in this country... They had one of the Thais completely surrounded and they were beating the crap out of him before the other Thais decided to unleash their wrath on them... It's actually a very interesting video, maybe you should watch it again, it's all there.

It's just really disgusting how the Brits would twist the story trying to make their own thugs look innocent...

What's disgusting is how badly you want to be Thai that you'd talk like this. You'll always be a farang in their eyes so stop trying to hard.

The incident started with a Thai pushing someone to the ground over a spilled drink.

Wellred, you have it almost correct. What you neglected to mention is the cowardly Thai pushed the guy from the back to the ground. That's right he didn't address him face to face. No, you can see it quite clearly at 1/2 speed. He pushed him from the back.

Now Jblood is more that happy to ascribe all kinds of nefarious intentions to the young frange, but Jblood what did the Thai thug say to the guy's mother? Maybe she slapped him, because he was abusive to her!! Notice, she slapped him face to face.

Nobody engaged in cowardly sucker punches, but the Thais. Then, of course, they followed that up with kicking people when they were down. Just shows what truly brave fighters the Thais are.

Edited May 4, 2016 by Watchful

[Jblood]

Well. He did push him, but not to the ground - that guy fell on his own... but anyway who cares - so push him back or throw some water at him and forget about it - what's the big deal? Are they all 5 years old or something starting a white lynchmob on a Thai over something so stupid...

The way it was going it literally started to look like a White Lynchmob who took one of the Thais captive and started to beat the crap out of him because this poor Native apparently dared to touch one the "Godly" farangs - lol is this a joke? Because that's exactly what I'm seeing in this video... How literally dumb do you have to be to try to pull this off while being completely surrounded by Thais in the middle of Songkran in Thailand??

And by the way the grannie and his dad threw their punches only after that additional big Brit showed up - so they were very much empowered by their White majority presense, so they were literally acting like a lynchmob - but then it quickly backfired on them - Are you really suprised by all this?? lol... All in all I don't see how the other Thais had any choice but to interfere... for all we know they saved one of their buddies from a possible public castration by a mad Brit Mob...

It's not about being Thai, just saying apparently Thank God I'm not British... lol

[BigBadGeordie]

It's not about being Thai, just saying apparently Thank God I'm not British... lol

I also thank God that you are not British.

Are you perhaps of Norse decent?

[nontabury]

Let's imagine for a moment that their son tripped over his own foot and then you see this grannie and dad going after you cornering you, slapping you and then hitting you, and it looks like they have no intention of stopping their attack - what would you do in this situation? Do you have the right to defend yourself?

If this grannie is able to move around in this sweltering heat in Thailand, challenge people and throw punches around - i'd say she's a pretty fit woman... in which case I don't think that her age should be used as excuse for a definition of a "handicap" of any sort in her case... She's old, mature and quite mobile and capable of chasing and inflicting damage on people... For example I have never hit anybody in my whole life - but you can see that it didn't take much for that grannie to punch somebody - now tell me who is more dangerous?

I absolutely agree it's never right to hit a woman and that goes without saying. Can somebody explain to me then why some people assume it's ever OK to hit a man? Is there a new law out there I never heard of before? Should I be worried about going out now, because apparently there are some crazy people running around believing that it's perfectly fine to just come up to me and hit me?

"OH" so it's now gone from the old lady slapping someone to the granny actually PUNCHING someone. The receiver of the old ladies slap was in his 20/30's. By all accounts this particular Thai,to his credit din't retaliate, probably went off laughing at the whole event, maybe even knowing that some farangs would be airing their apologist views in the media within a few hours.

Maybe you're right. Maybe, he thinks that getting pushed off balance by the son, then manhandled, slapped in the face and shoved in the chest by the mother and followed by being punched in the face by the father so hard that he was knocked to the ground, is absolutely hilarious. Though I'm not sure many people would, and find it strange that you should suggest this to be the case. Would you think it funny if it happened to you? I rather doubt it.

His mates didn't think it was all that funny. And neither, apparently, did he. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't have stomped on the son's face before he left.

So, on balance, I think that you are wrong.

Three quick points.1/ are you sure that he was hit so hard that he was knocked to the ground.2/ If not,probably would have laughed it off.3/ The actual scum,again are you sure they were friends/mates of the man who got slapped by the 65 yr old lady.

[SiSePuede419]

"The Thai man flattened the English son and the parents confronted him."

They wanted some of "this" and they got it.

[Andre0720]

The Minister could not give a toss about the couple lol.. He simply wants to save the media attack and the regime.... May i ask have you paid the family BAHT for crime compensation ? I already know the answer is NO

How the hell do you know what the minister thinks?

Experience sir, experience....

[sambum]

They loved Hua Hin they said,they've been going there for 20 years.I assume they like drinking which rules out a considerable part of Malaysia and for Singapore,are the beaches any good?

They come often to Thailand, but they don't know how to behave with Thai people ; Thai people finished the scene in the video - ( badly, I agree ) but the three tourists began the show; I don't understand why Thaipeople give them flowers

the only excuse they can have is that they were drunk

Is that not the excuse that the Thai men used for beating them up?

[nontabury]

"The Thai man flattened the English son and the parents confronted him."

They wanted some of "this" and they got it.

I'st point, the son is not English,he's Welsh.

They wanted some of this and they got it. Next you'll be telling us the cripple in BKK got what he deserved by speaking back.

Edited May 5, 2016 by nontabury

[Calover]

The real headline should read "British Family Beaten Unconsious After Starting Fight with Local Thai Men"

Most of you are jacked.

The Brit family started and antagonized the situation. How can non of you see what really happened?

Now I don't believe that the punishment(beating near death) fit the crime(pushing out of the way) but what did they expect to happen.

The son obviously started the whole thing and getting shoved after the fact should have never happened but they should have ended it right there.

But then the mother had to step in and defend her son who was in the wrong and proceeded to slap the man in the face. While it looked like the father and son plotted on how to antagonize the situation with a punch to the face of a man who wasn't involved and was a friend or whatever of the man who got pushed. There was a clear punch thrown by the father followed by the son trying to restrain him with a head lock and was to drunk to figure how to do it properly.

You can't say that any of you wouldn't have wanted to fight back with the person who hit you first which is exactly what he did. He knew who punched him and you can see him looking for the dad to get his retaliation.

Even the fourth large man stepped in started to get beaten with body dropping a poor girl who was just trying to stop the fight as well.

The son took off out of Thailand as fast as he could because he knew he started the whole thing. His vow never to return is due to the retribution that would be sought for his actions.

It is sad that the Thai government and police are more worried about a tourist image rather then punishing all individuals who instigated and started the assault first.

All they have done is perpetuate the feeling that some locals have about foreigners and their attitude of I am so entilted to be here and you should bow to me for my graciousness of spending money in your country.

Should the family have been beaten within an inch of their life?

NO!

Should they be punished for starting the assault?

YES!

The lives of the locals who are involved are now ruined. Instead of being punished mildly they are going to get the maximum the government can do to make an example of them.

The Brit family should be ashamed of their actions and make a formal apology to the men, Thailand, and their own country for starting this whole ordeal because their son couldn't take one step to the right and instead decided to push some guy out of the way.

I travel all around the world for work and leisure. I respect the countries I go to and the people, culture, and rules even if I don't agree with them.

It makes my blood boil to see the disrespect people have for foriegn countries as well as their own.

I would love for the Brit family to be interviewed about what they did with the tape playing in front of them and asked about their actions and why they think they can be bullies.

[BigBadGeordie]

The real headline should read "British Family Beaten Unconsious After Starting Fight with Local Thai Men"

Most of you are jacked.

The Brit family started and antagonized the situation. How can non of you see what really happened?

Now I don't believe that the punishment(beating near death) fit the crime(pushing out of the way) but what did they expect to happen.

The son obviously started the whole thing and getting shoved after the fact should have never happened but they should have ended it right there.

But then the mother had to step in and defend her son who was in the wrong and proceeded to slap the man in the face. While it looked like the father and son plotted on how to antagonize the situation with a punch to the face of a man who wasn't involved and was a friend or whatever of the man who got pushed. There was a clear punch thrown by the father followed by the son trying to restrain him with a head lock and was to drunk to figure how to do it properly.

You can't say that any of you wouldn't have wanted to fight back with the person who hit you first which is exactly what he did. He knew who punched him and you can see him looking for the dad to get his retaliation.

Even the fourth large man stepped in started to get beaten with body dropping a poor girl who was just trying to stop the fight as well.

The son took off out of Thailand as fast as he could because he knew he started the whole thing. His vow never to return is due to the retribution that would be sought for his actions.

It is sad that the Thai government and police are more worried about a tourist image rather then punishing all individuals who instigated and started the assault first.

All they have done is perpetuate the feeling that some locals have about foreigners and their attitude of I am so entilted to be here and you should bow to me for my graciousness of spending money in your country.

Should the family have been beaten within an inch of their life?

NO!

Should they be punished for starting the assault?

YES!

The lives of the locals who are involved are now ruined. Instead of being punished mildly they are going to get the maximum the government can do to make an example of them.

The Brit family should be ashamed of their actions and make a formal apology to the men, Thailand, and their own country for starting this whole ordeal because their son couldn't take one step to the right and instead decided to push some guy out of the way.

I travel all around the world for work and leisure. I respect the countries I go to and the people, culture, and rules even if I don't agree with them.

It makes my blood boil to see the disrespect people have for foriegn countries as well as their own.

I would love for the Brit family to be interviewed about what they did with the tape playing in front of them and asked about their actions and why they think they can be bullies.

First post, I think perhaps first post under this user name.

[dageurreotype]

British couple vows to return to Hua Hin despite brutal attack

Gosh. Never saw that one coming ..

[Scott]

Off-topic posts and replies removed.

Please stay on topic.

[EyesWideOpen]

I truly look forward to their return to England, when the true

story of how they feel will come out.... Plus am sure the Mirror

will pay handsomely for the story. Also am sure the part where

they tell how much the Thai government paid them to say they

would return to Thailand should be interesting....

[thaiduncankk]

I truly look forward to their return to England, when the true

story of how they feel will come out.... Plus am sure the Mirror

will pay handsomely for the story. Also am sure the part where

they tell how much the Thai government paid them to say they

would return to Thailand should be interesting....

They are Taffys, not English.

[antiscam]

Didn't I read that they vowed NEVER to return?

The article is written by PBS Thailand... I am not sure it's the most independent media in the country

[MRH1959]

Calover and Brizo, you are total skcid (work it out) and need to watch the whole 'uncut'CCTV footage.

Backing the Thai for this outragious attack just shows how biased and racist you are.

The Brits did get more than they deserved when confronting the so called drunk Thais ( I have never seen such control from a drunk person), although this was after the Thai dropped the Brit after he put his hand up to stop the Thai stumbling into him.

Put more competent police in place and better alcohol laws and stronger punishments for wrong doing that is not sweep under the table with a simple and stupid apology.

Edited May 6, 2016 by MRH1959