14 WED

In Pattaya, a German is arrested for having sex with young teenage boys. Wolf Rudiger Engelke, 67, works as a special classes teacher in a Phitsanulok University. Following a tip-off, police catch him in the act of having sex with two boys, aged 13 and 15, at a guesthouse in Pattaya.

15 THU

In Pattaya, a man steals a fi re truck and rams it into a large tree to get some attention. Sithiphon Thongpic, 36, rants outside the Banglamung Police Station with a long wooden stick in hand. After being chased away by the police, Sithiphon enters the Pattaya Fire Department and steals a fi re truck. He drives it into other vehicles causing damage along the way before finally crashing into a tree 500 meters away from the police station, causing minor injuries to his face. He is mobbed by angry bystanders before police arrest him. Sithiphon says he only stole the fi re truck to make headlines.

In Songkhla, a monk stabs another to test his immortality. Adison Barua, a 30-year-old Bangladeshi monk asks Pharama Handa, a 35-year-old Indian monk, whether he has arcane secrets about immortality. The Indian monk replies in the positive and the Bangladeshi monk stabs him twice to verify his claims. A police report is fi led and the Bangladeshi monk agrees to pay B2,000 in compensation.

16 FRI

In Khon Kaen, a terminal cancer patient commits suicide by electrocuting himself. Dr. Chanchai Maleephan, a 52-year-old gynecologist at the Khon Kaen Hospital, has been suffering from brain cancer for 10 years and has undergone two surgeries with no positive results. He suffers from depression and wants to end his life. He tapes an open two-meter-long electrical wire to his chest and plugs the other end into the electric socket. Police find him on his deathbed 12 hours later.

17 SAT

In Pichit, a boy attempts to ride his bicycle 300km because he misses his mother. Ten-year-old Boonmee is living with his uncle and goes to Nuen Huaw Pad School. His mother lives and works in Bangkok. At the start of the new school term, Nong  Pe misses   is mother so much, he sets off on a 300km journey to Bangkok to meet her. With only B10 in hand, he asks strangers for directions and picks up B20 more on the way until a police offi cer stops him. Boonmee is returned to his grateful uncle’s care.