A Brain Snap, Isaan Thailand.

The crazy farang struck again. In Thailand I can put with a lot of things and just put it down to TIT (This is Thailand) but one thing that fuc#s me off beyond anything, are dogs that chase people or motorbikes. Thankfully near my house this doesn’t happen, well I thought.

Today Ben is having her motorbike serviced just around the corner at our local mechanic, maybe 200mtrs from our house. She asked me to drop her at her friend’s room while she waited. Her room is one street across from the mechanics and maybe 300mtrs from my home.

I never go down this street; it is full of student dormitories. So I dropped Ben at the dormitory block and then headed off. About two dormitory buildings down from where I had dropped Ben, I caught from the corner of my eye something coming out.

It was a big dog and it was going to chase me. It did scare the crap out of me at first. I never run from dogs. I always stop and confront them. I hit my brakes and then another two dogs came out, one small and a medium sized mutt, all barking. I got off my bike and started at them and then removed my shoe and said, “Lets rumble.”

The dogs took off with me after them. Well in this dormitory building there were no joke at least 8 dogs, so I retreated and the brave dogs followed. I got onto my bike and headed towards home, the bigger dog again wanted to chase me, so I stopped and it stopped. Then an old lady came out and called the dogs but they didn’t seem to listen.

I took off and arrived at home, opened my door and grabbed my aluminum baseball bat. I then headed back to the dormitory building and the gate was still wide open and went charging in with baseball bat in hand.

Well a couple of the dogs charged out from behind some pot plants and I was wide eyed with a big smile and screamed, “come on you cu#ts” like a madman. Well the dogs stopped dead and I charged at them. I was going to beat the living fu#k out of the big dog. If I could have got to it before it ran off like a cowardly piece of shit, I would have smashed its head in.

The old lady came running out from a small unit, she was “waiing” me, the way Thai people greet and also apologize to people. She must have thought what the hell was going on with an enraged foreigner screaming at some dogs with a baseball bat in their hand.

An old guy then emerged from the unit and also some girls from some of the rooms, they must have all been thinking, “what the fuc#!”

The old guy said to me, “Jai yen yen," this means have a cool heart and I replied that I will kill the dogs if they ever chase me again. Both of them were saying, “sorry.” Before I left I again told them that I will kill their dogs if one of them ever chases me again and added Jing Jing (true and that I was crazy.)

Well the faces on the girls looking on where wide eyed. I walked off and a few of the dogs again started to show their balls and move forward as if wanting to dance. So I thought, “let’s dance” and took a few quick steps after them and they ran off. The guy was trying to usher me off the property.

I got on my bike, and across and next to the building people were out the front looking on, I gave them a big smile as I headed off and they must have been thinking, “He is bonkers.”

I arrived home and was fired up and thought I would blog on it. Express my mind. I was home maybe 5 minutes and Ben turned up. She said, “You are crazy! You kill dog!” I said that I will kill the dogs, and she knows I will.

She said her friend came to her friend’s room and told them, they apparently know of me because of Ben, they all study at university together. The girl must have gone to tell the news of the mad foreigner.

I have no qualms about killing an animal, especially animals like this. I would actually like to beat the living shit out of their owners for being imbeciles, but they are old.

I have seen people chased by dogs many times, and the people where the dogs come from they do nothing. They stand at their gate calling the dog and when it returns do nothing, don’t give it a flogging. If my dog chased a bike, a person I would punish it, give it a flogging. But it won’t as it is trained. It knows it is wrong to chase bikes.

If I had a dog that chased a kid, I would kill it. No chances. I don’t blame the animals. It is the fools that own the animals. I wish I could euthanize them; I would love to be able to do this. They have failed the animals by not training them in what is right and wrong behavior.

So maybe I am a little crazy, the other week in peak hour traffic, a van cut off about four of us on motorbikes, right near Sunee Hotel here in Ubon Ratchathani. He just swerved out into the right hand lane where we were. I tooted my horn but was ignored.

I was back a bit but a girl in front of me had to hit her brakes hard. Well I saw red. It was peak hour traffic, I got beside the passenger side window and gave him a mouthful. I couldn’t see inside as the window was tinted. Suddenly the window came down and a young guy smiling at me gave me the middle finger.

Well I snapped. So I rode next to the van until the traffic stopped at Nong Bua lights. Traffic all around I reached for the passenger door and opened it, it wasn’t locked. All of a sudden the smiling little piece of shit didn’t have a grin. I put my stand down and hopped off my bike and told him to get out, I was speaking in Thai and screaming at him to get out. He could go nowhere as the traffic was stopped for the red light.

He said in Thai, I don’t understand you and I replied and asked him “if he was stupid.” I called him a piece of shit and told him to be very careful in Thai. I left his door wide open and rode off. Again people were looking on probably thinking I was mad.

I know and have warned people about being careful going off in public, or doing road rage as people get killed for it. People have been shot and killed for tooting horns, yelling, flipping the finger. I know this. But sometimes I cannot help it. If the person who does something wrong, gives an apology, a sorry wave to acknowledge they were wrong and an idiot, fine. Take the abuse you deserve and get on with it.

I have started to cool down, a little. But I am still pissed off. Was I stupid what I done. Yes! But sometimes you cannot help buy loose it and flip.

Brunty