Six-year-old in coma after being left in school pickup

By Samrit Chiamcharoenpornkul 
The Nation

 

 

A six-year-old boy has fallen into a coma after being left behind in a locked school pickup truck for several hours on Monday in Ayutthaya.

 

The youngster is now on a respirator, but showing no response to stimuli. 

 

The pickup driver, 57-year-old Boonlert Wattakee, surrendered to police on Tuesday. 

 

“I am so sorry for what happened. I will take responsibility and I will get ordained to dedicate merit to the boy,” he said. 

 

Chang Yai police station superintendent Pol Colonel Satit Sangprapai charged Boonlert with recklessness causing serious injury to a person and illegally operating a transport service. 

 

Boonlert is not the first driver of a school vehicle to have forgotten about a child and left them behind in a locked car, exposing them to critical or fatal injuries.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30322498

 

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“I am so sorry for what happened. I will take responsibility and I will get ordained to dedicate merit to the boy,” he said. 

 

Jail-time would be better.. make some people accountable for their actions. 

Even people with half a brain know not to leave a child or an animal in a locked car in hot conditions. Make merit for the boy? Sorry! Not that easy. How about jail for probable manslaughter? If the kid isn't responding he is probably never going to. And the big question is how and why did he end up there in the first place? No amount of Wai'ing will forgive this in my eyes. This complete ass probably just killed the child from stupidity or some perverse idea of punishment for a petty offence and he deserves the consequences.

Nobody noticed when the child didn't attend class?

2 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

Nobody noticed when the child didn't attend class?

That is also a good one.. 

3 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Even people with half a brain know not to leave a child or an animal in a locked car in hot conditions.

 

Not Thais with half a brain, apparently.

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

I will get ordained to dedicate merit to the boy,

 

And here in one sentence you learn everything you need to know about the Thai notion of responsibility.

Knows nothing, has no training to drive a school bus, no background checks, etc. but is allowed to park in front of a school and take a bus/pickup (worse again!) full of kids away. Leaves them locked up in the vehicle while he buggers off for a few hours... Un-be-liev-able!! Enough of these cowboys already! Howany kids have have already suffered/must suffer before these buses are regulated and the drivers trained?!

so the details are..?  He went off to drink and forgot about it?  He was drunk before he left?  It is not a big truck.  Something is missing here

It's not even a minibus! It's a pick-up... the kid was right behind him..... moron.


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"... I will get ordained to dedicate merit ..."

 

This is the Thai  version of the "Get out of jail free" card.

 

 

Edited August 1, 20178 yr by jaltsc

disgusting, but that's the Thai way. even the generals do it.

10 hours ago, robblok said:

 

“I am so sorry for what happened. I will take responsibility and I will get ordained to dedicate merit to the boy,” he said. 

 

Jail-time would be better.. make some people accountable for their actions. 

you beat me to it. good post

10 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Nobody noticed when the child didn't attend class?

This surprised me also, but seems that's how it works here.

 

When one of my kids is sick and stays home I used to want to contact the school to let them know, but wife said not to bother

 

With no check by teachers for students actually in class who knows where they are. 

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

I will take responsibility

Bravo

 

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

and I will get ordained to dedicate merit to the boy

 

Hope that's not his interpretation of "responsibility".

 

 

 

 

 

How about a lot less prime minister talking on tv , and a lot more educational clips ?

 

 

Edited August 2, 20178 yr by terminatorchiangmai

I'll ask the hard question. Why didn't the boy just get out of the truck?

 

This story reminds me of the lunacy of Korean mentality when 300 high school kids drowned on the Sewol Ferry because not one of them had the critical thinking abilities to figure out they had to leave or they were gonna die. 

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

I will take responsibility and I will get ordained to dedicate merit to the boy

Phew. For a minute there I thought he would get away without severe punishment. He's going to be pretty sorry by the end of his merit making.

OMG another one. The scool should be also held responsible, a teacher should be at the car or bus with a register with the names of children getting on the bus and be there when it returns and check the register. The drivers should also have this type of document.

A lot of these school teachers and heads are damb to lazy cannot be bothered with xtra work. 

Operates an illegal transport service, why the $%#$ was he at the school in the first place, let me guess,$$$$$ Even Helen Kellar would have been able to see the back seat was not empty, this is not a 40 seat bus we are talking about.  If he cannot see the back seat, what can he see when driving?

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

I will take responsibility and I will get ordained to dedicate merit to the boy,

At the risk of serious flamage by the high and mighty...

 

Not everyone who speaks of getting ordained is trying to avoid responsibility.

A deeply religious person could be quite sincere in wanting to make merit for the person harmed.

If his intent is to spend the time to make merit, then take responsibility by doing his time in jail, there is nothing wrong with that.

2 hours ago, Cereal said:

I'll ask the hard question. Why didn't the boy just get out of the truck?

I'll try a simple answer. Maybe he had fallen asleep? Some kids do morning or afternoon.

Just think about it you deliver the kids surly you look to see if any body is still in the pick up when you finish,they say Thailand is a third world country may be a lot more with morons like this.No dout money will be exchanged and the charge dropped.

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

and I will get ordained to dedicate merit to the boy,” he said. 

i see, then all is well

In other unrelated news: 3 beer- pretties have been arrested for promoting beer!

It's always good to see, if people get their priorities right!

This is by far not the first case, of a kid, being left behind in a school- van!

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Yes this is another Thailand story, and sadly this is how these drivers think they can self punish

them selves by being a monk for a few days and all will be better. Lock this piece of sh*t up in

his pickup for the same amount of time and let him see if he fares any better than the boy.

Geezer

I'm sure the driver feels absolutely terrible, it was an accident and locking him up won't help anyone. It's a case of lacking common sense and diligence, something that in Thailand isn't so easily fixed I'm afraid.


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