Flashermac Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Woman on the wrong bus lost for 25 years BANGKOK, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. Jaeyana Beuraheng told her eight children she accidentally boarded a bus bound for Bangkok instead of Malaysia, and once there she boarded a second incorrect bus because she could not read or speak Thai or English, The Times of London reported Wednesday. Beuraheng, who speaks only the Yawi dialect used by Muslims in southern Thailand, said the noise and traffic of the big city confused and disoriented her, leading her to board the second wrong bus to Chiang Mai, near the border with Burma. The woman said she spent five years begging on the street in the city and was often mistaken for a member of a hill tribe because of her dark skin tone. She was arrested in 1987 on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant and was sent to a social services hostel when authorities were unable to determine her origins. However, last month, three students from her home village arrived at the hostel for training, and they were able to communicate with Beuraheng and help her find her way home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Yeah right indeed Faaaaaaaaark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 I don't understand how everyone there failed to recognize the dialect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 I got on the wrong train...didn't even get her name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Okay, so there's a bit of 'yeah right' - but pretty easy to imagine that no one in Chiang Mai would care to understand a Malay dialect (interesting also that a national of Thailand might speak no Thai... perhaps these separatists are right about the neglect of the South after all). There are two Thai movies that feature 'oops, wrong vehicle' plots in them, kind of a theme - something like "Isaan Special" and "Monrak Transistor" as well (when the guy gets on the farm workers' truck). Very Thai to make a little mistake and then just leave it uncorrected until the entire direction of your life has been altered, mai pen rai... though of course this woman is hardly Thai and wouldn't know the meaning of mai pen rai. Probably her family sent her off 20 years ago, and are just getting caught now. YimSiam YimSiam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 In 25 years you'd think she'd have picked up a fair amount of Thai. Hell, even the punters on this board know enough to keep from starving and tell folks where they are from. Which leaves two possibilities: 1. The woman is lying. 2. She is thicker than the thickest of bricks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Maybe she's got relatives in Cambodia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Stupid and dishonest = Khmen? Ah, too many years in Thailand, bust, you're thinking like them! YimSiam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pescator Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 8 Children? Mayby that was the reason for her disappearance. Now as she is getting older she may have thought it nice to be around the kids so they could repay her for the nurturing they have recieved during their childhood and display the traditional Kwarm ga dtanyuu à ¸?à ¸§à ¸²à ¸¡à ¸Âà ¸?à ¸±à ¸Âà ¸Âà ¸¹ Hi kids, mummy`s home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Stupid and dishonest = Khmen? Ah, too many years in Thailand, bust, you're thinking like them! YimSiam Feeble attempt to link it to the Cambodian Girl who reappeared after living in the jungle for what was it..........23 years or something. :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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