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[old wanderer]

Some 18 years ago, I had a home and GF outside of Sukothai. One day I was riding my motorcycle down a rural dirt road and came across a young girl running from an older Thai man with a stick. As I came up on them, he hit her across the back and the side of the head...I skidded to a stop asker her if this was her father, and kicked his butt pretty good.

Took the girl home. Found out in talking that her family had accepted 15,000 baht for her to work as a maid for this man for a year. He tried to rape her as soon as they arrived at his home, and this is what started the running that I came across.

We offered to take her home, but she told us her family would have to give back the money, and would beat her, and make her go back to work. She was 16. She stayed and worked for us for almost a year, then ended up with a Thai BF and left.

I truly feel so sorry for young girls that find themselves sold by friends or family into these situations. I feel a little vigilante justice is warranted. I have gelded lots of horses in my life, and would not hesitate to do so to someone I was sure that was in this business.

[mark45y]

old wanderer, on 2010-08-10 13:12:30, said:

Some 18 years ago, I had a home and GF outside of Sukothai. One day I was riding my motorcycle down a rural dirt road and came across a young girl running from an older Thai man with a stick. As I came up on them, he hit her across the back and the side of the head...I skidded to a stop asker her if this was her father, and kicked his butt pretty good.

Took the girl home. Found out in talking that her family had accepted 15,000 baht for her to work as a maid for this man for a year. He tried to rape her as soon as they arrived at his home, and this is what started the running that I came across.

We offered to take her home, but she told us her family would have to give back the money, and would beat her, and make her go back to work. She was 16. She stayed and worked for us for almost a year, then ended up with a Thai BF and left.

I truly feel so sorry for young girls that find themselves sold by friends or family into these situations. I feel a little vigilante justice is warranted. I have gelded lots of horses in my life, and would not hesitate to do so to someone I was sure that was in this business.

OK, back to reality here.  You are saying every time you are out riding your bike and see a Thai guy beating a younger woman you should stop and ask him why.  

And if that is not what you are saying what is the point of your post?

[cup-O-coffee]

I sympathize with old wanderer. He was at a moment in time that prompted him, for whatever reason, to intervene. I cannot say I disagree with his method.
What I am thankful for is that there were no Thai men in the area to witness his gallantry, as I am sure that he would have been lucky to escape with his life.

If I may be so bold, it is my view that the point of his post is the thing that old wanderer did is what all good and decent humans wish they could do in times like this; and not suffer pain, damage, or death at the hands of the native onlookers. These same onlookers, who, in my opinion - and being witness to - would certainly descend upon the gallant farang and really put a number on him. I speak of these beasts, who are the inhabitants of this girl's village, and who are more than likely fully aware of the transaction that condemned this girl; yet they, too, went along with it, and did not intervene with a more compassionate and reasonable solution. Thais know the hearts of their neighbors, and experience tells me that they are remiss if they do not report every single thing about another perosn they know to all who will listen to them. I am certain they knew this man's intentions and motives. Yet they let it transpire without intervention!

I took personal joy in reading his retelling of what I would like to see more of, when circumstances of this nature occur. Namely, a man who abuses a woman because she willfully resists his advances, and then, because that man cannot control his behavior and acts like a feral animal, he gets his brains beat senseless by a decent and courageous fellow human being; a stranger who, perhaps in the memory of this girl will forever be an angel. That is only my view.

On the other hand, the fact that the same man spoke to the beasts who sold their daughter into this sort of behavior, and who more than likely understood the results of their actions, should also have been tied to a post and lashed until their backsides were raw.

I trust that the girl was not running in the direction of her mother and father, and that makes his story very sobering food for thought.

Posters here in TV frequently commend the efforts of human rights orgs that we all know cannot possibly solve the problems that they strive towards solving. Yet they get commended. I believe that what this old wanderer did is, in essence, more noble than these groups who could do more, yet do not, and instead treat the symptoms and spend a lot of their grants on frivolous gluttony.

Old wanderer demonstrated the cure. He did not treat the symptom. He could not have gone the distance and demonstrated justice to all who created this girl's hel_l. Yet still, I commend what little good he did.It is sad when a stranger's sense of morals compels him or her to intervene on behalf of a human who is faced with degradation and abuse at the hands of the ones she should be able to entreat for justice; and instead gets condemnation; all in the name of karma.