LTO wrote:Generally agree, but...as you note, those of who have lived there may know this, but not necessarily the tourists like these people that fly in for a week or three to spend their money. And whatever slim sliver of slack we may have cut the attackers for the tourist's audacity to publicly defy or stand up to a Thai, that for me was lost when he put down a middle aged women with a sucker punch.
Sure, tourists generally are ignorant of local culture and norms and can therefore cross the line and get in trouble. Particularly if they don't do any research and are essentially just there to go drinking on the beach. But if you watch the video closely, you'll see that the son was clearly very drunk as I'm not at all sure that he didn't just fall by himself. That was what precipitated the entire incident. His parents stood up for him, which is a normal reaction, but the mother then started slapping the Thai guy on the face in public. The guy she slapped (tan shirt) was remarkably tolerant of this and didn't react to it. Then the father came back in and threw a punch and all hell broke loose. The tan shirt guy's buddy (black shirt) whom he had been previously arguing with was the puncher and the real villain of the piece, along with the two yobbos who joined in just for the fun of kicking and stomping unconscious Farang.
And she was an old woman, not middle-aged, which makes it worse.