Religions > Atheism > Missing Thai Woman Reappears 25 Years After Boarding Wrong Bus
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17 Mar 2007 02:52:01 PM |
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Missing Thai Woman Reappears 25 Years After Boarding Wrong Bus |
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780843/posts
Missing Thai Woman Reappears 25 Years After Boarding Wrong Bus
Fox News ^ | 2-7-07
Posted on 02/07/2007 11:55:09 AM PST by rawhide
It was just a normal shopping trip when Jaeyana Beuraheng bade farewell
to her eight children as she left to cross the border into Malaysia, but
it would be 25 years before she would find her way home.
Now, at the age of 76, she has been reunited with her family and has
finally told how her misfortune began when she boarded the wrong bus.
Jaeyana would almost certainly have made it home without mishap had it
not been that she speaks only Yawi, a dialect spoken by Muslims in
southern Thailand. But unable to write, read, or speak Thai or English
she boarded a bus for Bangkok, about 800 miles north, by mistake rather
than travelling back to her home in Narathiwat.
Bewildered by the noise and traffic of the capital she boarded another
bus hoping it would take her home...
This one took her to Chiang Mai, close to the border with Burma and
another 400 miles away. There she became lost and unable to explain her
predicament. In Chiang Mai she spent five years begging and with her
dark skin was taken to be a member of a hill tribe.
....Unable to determine where she came from, officials sent her to a
social services hostel where she has been ever since....
....Jaeyana would probably have spent the rest of her life at the hostel
had not three students from her home province who spoke her language
arrived at the centre for training last month. They struck up a
friendship and she was able to tell them how she became separated from
her family.
The students made inquiries and found her youngest son, Mamu... They
sent him her picture by mobile phone.
....“I remembered her face even though I have not seen her for 25 years,”
he said
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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| Title: Re: Missing Thai Woman Reappears 25 Years After Boarding Wrong Bus |
17 Mar 2007 03:29:39 PM |
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stoney wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780843/posts
...Unable to determine where she came from, officials sent her to a
social services hostel where she has been ever since....
How on Earth does a person spend 25 years in a Thai hospital without
learning to speak Thai, much less 50 years in Thailand without learning
at least the basics?
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L. Raymond
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Missing Thai Woman Reappears 25 Years After Boarding Wrong Bus |
30 Mar 2007 11:55:28 AM |
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:29:39 -0600, "L. Raymond"
<badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in alt.atheism
stoney wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780843/posts
...Unable to determine where she came from, officials sent her to a
social services hostel where she has been ever since....
How on Earth does a person spend 25 years in a Thai hospital without
learning to speak Thai, much less 50 years in Thailand without learning
at least the basics?
No idea.
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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