Once again, folks, I don't make these things up

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The following appears in the PATTAYA DAILY NEWS:

 

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PATTAYA – MYSTERY WOMAN GIVES BIRTH IN THE RAIN – CRIES FOR HELP IGNORED

 

On the 12th May a distressed Thai woman holding her new born baby cried for help outside the Sattahip police station from 2:00 in the morning.

 

Police on duty ignored her, believing her cries to be emanating from a nearby spirit house. Mother and baby were eventually discovered at 7:00 am and after several hours of persuasion, mother reluctantly agreed to release the new born to the care of the rescue team for treatment at hospital.

 

Sergeant Dumnern Insawat, the Sattahip police duty officer, said he was on duty during the night and the weather was bad with heavy rain, thunder and lightning. He heard the sound of a woman crying in front of the police station but he didn’t check it out because the sound actually came from the direction of a famous spirit house nearby.

 

It wasn’t until 7:00 am in the morning that a woman was discovered sitting on the ground outside the station holding on tightly to her newborn child. The mother looked distraught and exhausted and the baby appeared weak and obviously required medical attention.

 

Police provided a cloth to cover the baby and a rescue team from Sattahip was immediately summoned. On arrival they, in turn, requested the assistance of an ambulance and medical team from the Sirikit hospital. Meanwhile the mother had refused to hand over her child, and continued to hold on to the baby tightly.

 

After 4 hours trying to convince her to release the baby, officials eventually used force to make her let go. Mother and baby were both taken to hospital for treatment where doctors stated that both mother and baby would survive.

 

Witnesses told our reporter that the mystery woman had been around the area of the police station about 2 days before. She had also been seen walking about in the market and sometimes slept on the street.

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From among all the bizarre aspects of this story, to me the most bizarre is the fact that for five hours it never occurred to the police that the cries maybe, just maybe, are not coming from ghosts after all. This woman was just outside the police station, going through hell and crying for help all that time, and nobody gave a thought to at least having a look? It's a miracle both the mother and child survived.

 

This one gets high ranking on my "I Don't Get It" list.

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Believe me cops all over the world are the same.

Especialy if its a City Police Precinct.

 

They couldnt be bothered leaving the front desk to walk outside,and this happens in alls Western Cities too especially if the person outside is known to them to be homeless or mentally ill.

For some reason Cops hate dealing with homeles/ mentally ill people all around the World.

 

This one gets high ranking on my "I Don't Get It" list.

 

And the Police put it on their DILLIGAF list.,.............."Do I look like I give..a............list.

 

Probably the real story the cops didnt do anything is because she is known already to them,is probably a attention seeker,a possible drug addict and so they just ignore her and all the others sleeping outside.

It was also the nightshift AND raining.

The only difference is that Cops in New York,London or Sydney couldn't say they heard spirits.

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Believe me cops all over the world are the same.

Unfortunately, you're probably right about that. However, to my mind the incident is still quite bizarre for several reasons:

 

If the woman was already known to them, how could they have known it was the same woman without checking? It wasn't necessarily a woman at all. It could have been a man with a higher pitched voice. It could have been a child.

 

When asked why nobody checked, wouldn't it have made more sense to say they never heard her rather than saying they thought it was ghosts?

 

Apparently thinking they were hearing ghosts is considered an acceptable reason. The spirit houses you see just about everywhere are there for a reason. A great many Thais really do believe in ghosts and they're afraid of them. They consider the spirits to be malevolent. No Caspar the Friendly Ghosts. The spirit houses are there because the belief is the evil spirits will inhabit those spirit houses rather than haunt their own homes.

 

I remember one time when I had a young gentleman visiting. He refused to use my bathroom when the need arose. He was absolutely convinced ghosts were in there. Nothing I could say or do would convince him that it was perfectly safe to use the bathroom. I never did find out just why he thought my bathroom was haunted, but the rest of the house was perfectly safe, but that's a true story.