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You get on the wrong bus and end up in the wrong city.
Do you:
-A) Go home and laugh about it? or...
-B) Live as a mute beggar for 25 years?
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Missing for 25 years after getting on wrong bus
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A 76-year-old Malay Muslim woman from southern Thailand who got on the wrong bus 25 years ago and ended up living at the other end of the country has been reunited with her family, officials and domestic media said on Tuesday.
Unable to speak, read or write Thai, Jaeyaena Beuraheng boarded a bus in Malaysia thinking it was bound for Narathiwat, one of three Muslim-majority provinces in Buddhist Thailand's far south.
Instead, she ended up 1,200 km (750 miles) to the north in Bangkok. Her predicament grew worse when she boarded a bus she thought was heading south only to end up in Chiang Mai, another 700 km to the north, the Nation newspaper reported.
She eked out a living as a beggar for five years before being arrested in 1987 and put into a center for homeless people in a nearby province, where she has remained ever since.
She was finally reunited with her eight children -- who were told she had been run over by a train -- after three students from Narathiwat came to work at the center and spoke to her.
"It was only when the students in Muslim clothes visited her and she started chatting to them that we realized she wasn't mute," center director Jintana Satjang told Reuters.
The woman had been known as "Mrs. Mon" because center staff thought her mutterings sounded like Mon, a tribal language in neighboring Myanmar, she added.
Thailand's three southernmost provinces were annexed by Bangkok a century ago and remain culturally distinct from the rest of the country. Eighty percent of the population are Muslim and speak Malay as a first language.
how would she be able to communicate to someone where she is from? 700 miles? Have somebody drive you across a few states, take a left, then drive across some more for that other 700. While you sleep half the time. Then get outta the car, then imagine not being able to read, write, or speak. Try to find your way back home... that would be easy compared to over there.
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If she couldn't speak, read, or write...how the fuck did she even manage to find the bus station in the first place??
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They also said she was mute... mute means a person can't speak at all, and she could. Just not Thai. A person would have to have the mind of a child to be lost like that. If she had any since at all, she could have hitch hiked or begged her way back home. Instead of staying "lost".
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They also said she was mute... mute means a person can't speak at all, and she could. Just not Thai. A person would have to have the mind of a child to be lost like that. If she had any since at all, she could have hitch hiked or begged her way back home. Instead of staying "lost".
It depends on what you thought would be the consequences of your actions once you found yourself "out of your element".
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"It was only when the students in Muslim clothes visited her and she started chatting to them that we realized she wasn't mute," center director Jintana Satjang told Reuters.
Here is what makes the story bullshit. Bangkok and Chiang Mai both have Muslims and Mosques. All she had to do is walk in to one and ask for some directions. The story is either completel fabricated or this woman is making an excuse for wanting to get away from her life for 25 years.
Sounds to me like she maybe wanted to get away from this:
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She was finally reunited with her eight children
and she made up the story after being found/caught to avoid the inevitably unfair and brutal muslim punishment for leaving her family.
Last edited by HighsideSV : 02-08-2007 at 12:11 AM.
woman takes wrong bus gets lost for 25yrs!!??
d'oh
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