Last Week in Reality:24-26

July 9th, 2008

24 TUE

In Bangkok, a court sentences a woman to jail time for offering sexual services online. Khemjira Tanpaiboon, 27, attracts a client, Kitichai, to her condo through an online advert. When Kitichai arrives, he refuses to have sex with her because he says Khemjira is overweight and looks nothing like her online picture. As he tries to fl ee, she blocks the door and grabs his phone, threatening to call his wife. Kitichai manages to escape by arranging to meet her again but returns with the police. Khemjira is sentenced to a two-year suspended jail term and forced to do community service.

25 WED

In Nakhon Pathom, an exasperated wife chokes her sex-obsessed husband to death. Chaiwat Juprasert, 52, returns home from work intoxicated and wakes his sleeping wife Yuphin Juprasert, 42, so they can have sex. When Yuphin refuses, her husband forces himself on her. In an attempt to break free she grabs his throat and presses hard, killing him on the spot. Yuphin turns herself in and is charged with fi rst-degree murder. When authorities question her, she reveals that her husband expected to have sex with her at least 5-6 times a night, with each session lasting about 30 minutes.

In Sakaew, a decomposing body is found buried in a ditch close to the Cambodian border. Police dig up the body of an unidentifi ed 30-year-old man from a nearly 1-meter-deep hole. The body is surrounded by incense sticks and the hands are folded together over his chest and bound by holy thread—both signs of a ritual carried out to prevent the dead man’s spirit from contacting or harming the person responsible for the killing. Further inspection reveals a large wound behind the man’s left ear and a cracked skull, possibly the result of being hit by a hard object. Police suspect the man has been dead for at least a week.

26 THU

In Phuket, a pod of over 30 “killer whales,” are stranded on a beach on Racha Island. With the help of local residents, the Phuket Marine Biological Centre is able to help 20 of the psuedorca crassidens, actually a type of dolphin, back into the sea. The remaining ten are sent to a shelter where they are fed and treated. Out of the ten, nine survive. Authorities say the beaching could be the result of disorientation, heavy seas or a virus infection. Officials are conducting post mortem tests on the one dead whale. The incident is recorded as the country’s biggest mass stranding.

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