why I do not take the bus in Dallas...
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.
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I figure I could get on a bus in Dallas and end up as some slave for a Mexican family in no time at all.....
~awesome sean
A.S. Really the bus system is just that bad down here!
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.
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I figure I could get on a bus in Dallas and end up as some slave for a Mexican family in no time at all.....
~awesome sean
A.S. Really the bus system is just that bad down here!
posted by Awesome Sean at
1:09 AM
3 Comments:
This woman seems REALLY retarded.
Why didn't she buy a map with money she begged for, take it to the consulate / police and point to where she was from? I'm sure someone would have been able to help her contact a native speaker of her dialect.
Messed up!...so what where her kids doing all this time?
Guys! We should really be concerned. This is the sort of thing that could happen to Sean! Sean, stay away from the bus!
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