by Edwardo » Sun Oct 15, 2017 7:57 pm
Chris K wrote:I've seen mob violence in Cambodia against a single person. This is possibly a scenario for a barang interfering right?
I get your anger and wanting to intervene, but do so at your own peril. I once made the mistake of stopping a man from throttling a woman outside a Subway sandwich shop in Florida. No one else around. I separated the two, with her screaming and crying for help and pushed him away, hoping she would run away or get help inside the shop or something/anything. In pushing him i dropped my car keys and bagged meal which were in my hands as I had been walking back to my car.
As my back was turned to the woman, facing the large, aggressive drunken male, she picked up my car keys off the ground, laced the keys between her fingers and swung at my face from behind and to the side of me, breaking and knocking new eyeglasses off my face. Nearly took my eye out. Distracted me enough for the man to run at me and get a few good punches and kicks in. She then threw my car keys into a swamp off to the side, kicked my bagged sandwich in there too, and then off they went, hand in hand...leaving me stranded far from my hotel in a tiny, nothing town on a late Sunday evening, with miles to walk, nearly blinded, through a mega swarm of Florida swamp mosquitoes at night.
Since then I mind my own business. Such things don't always work out as you planned, was my point there. You would quite probably become the target for all those Khmer men, while she has got to continue working and living there long after you're gone. If you're cool with that, then do as you will.
[quote="Chris K"]I've seen mob violence in Cambodia against a single person. This is possibly a scenario for a barang interfering right? [/quote]
I get your anger and wanting to intervene, but do so at your own peril. I once made the mistake of stopping a man from throttling a woman outside a Subway sandwich shop in Florida. No one else around. I separated the two, with her screaming and crying for help and pushed him away, hoping she would run away or get help inside the shop or something/anything. In pushing him i dropped my car keys and bagged meal which were in my hands as I had been walking back to my car.
As my back was turned to the woman, facing the large, aggressive drunken male, she picked up my car keys off the ground, laced the keys between her fingers and swung at my face from behind and to the side of me, breaking and knocking new eyeglasses off my face. Nearly took my eye out. Distracted me enough for the man to run at me and get a few good punches and kicks in. She then threw my car keys into a swamp off to the side, kicked my bagged sandwich in there too, and then off they went, hand in hand...leaving me stranded far from my hotel in a tiny, nothing town on a late Sunday evening, with miles to walk, nearly blinded, through a mega swarm of Florida swamp mosquitoes at night.
Since then I mind my own business. Such things don't always work out as you planned, was my point there. You would quite probably become the target for all those Khmer men, while she has got to continue working and living there long after you're gone. If you're cool with that, then do as you will.