Meet the "Net Idol" with the motorbike cat in south Thailand


Image: Thairath

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: -- Reporters have caught up with a "celebrity" school caretaker in the southern Thai town of Nakorn Sri Thammarat after pictures of him with his cat as a pillion passenger wowed netizens.

Friends and fan page enthusiasts have been calling the man and his pet Net Idols.

Thai Rath reporters found Wisit Nuttaphon or Tom, 52, going to his job as usual and there was his two and a half year old cat "Talok" (Funny)holding on for dear life on the back, reported Thairath.

Tom who works as a caretaker at the Wat Sala Mechai School said that he found his friend a couple of years ago while tidying up and decided to look after her. He said that he didn't want to leave her home alone all day - he has a 70 kilometer round trip to work - so he decided to take her with him.

A string helps ensure that they can doesn't lose any of her nine lives on the journey.

Tom said it wasn't cruel to the cat - and he really had no other option than to take her with him as he would hate to lose her.

Tom, smiling like a Cheshire variety and Talok then got back on the bike which purred into life taking them for another day at work.

SourceL Thairath


-- 2016-07-27

Na rak na.

Nice to read and see some positive news.

Must be pretty uncomfortable for the cat after 35km.

Wouldn't she be better off in the front basket?

He could do with a cat in his exhaust too.

This man rocks and the Talok is cool.