'Homeless man' stops suicide bid
published : 25 Dec 2019 at 06:17
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
A rescue worker disguised himself as a homeless man to save the life of a suicidal student in Chiang Mai on Sunday night.
Withawat Sinworasrithaweekhun, chief of the local rescue team, was told about a man threatening to jump from a bridge over the Chiang Mai-Phrao road in front of Maejo University.
He found the university student sitting on the bridge overlooking traffic below. The young man refused to talk despite police efforts to engage him for an hour.
Mr Withawat had a different idea. After changing into a dirty T-shirt and shorts, he walked barefoot to a rubbish bin near the suicidal man and pretended to search through the contents.
Meanwhile, police kept talking to the young man to distract him. Mr Withawat got close enough to grab him from behind and pull him away from the edge.
Police took the man to Maejo station to calm him down.
"I didn't mean to be a hero, I only wanted to save the young man. I succeeded because the police distracted him and onlookers stayed away to avoid pressuring him," Mr Withawat said.
Vocabulary
- barefoot (adj): not wearing shoes - เท้าเปล่า
- calm: to cause to be peaceful and quiet; without anxiety - ทำให้ใจเย็น,ทำให้ไม่ตื่นเต้น, ทำให้สงบ
- despite (prep): used to show that something happened or is true although something else might have happened to prevent it; used to show that somebody did not intend to do the thing mentioned - ถึงอย่างไรก็ตาม, ทั้ง ๆ ที่
- distract: to take your attention away from something - ทำให้ไขว้เขว เสียสมาธิ
- edge (noun): the outside limit of an object, a surface or an area; the part furthest from the centre - ริม, ขอบ
- engage: to cause to take part in a particular activity - ให้มีส่วนร่วมใน
- grab: to take or hold somebody/something with your hand suddenly, firmly or roughly - จับ,ฉวย,คว้า,แย่ง
- pressure: to try to make someone do something by forcing, threatening, or persuading them in a determined way - กดดัน
- pretend: to behave as if something is true when you know that it is not, especially in order to deceive people or as a game - แกล้งทำว่าเป็นจริง
- succeed (verb): to achieve the goals you wanted to achieve - มีผลสำเร็จ, ประสบผลสำเร็จ, ประสบชัยชนะ
- suicidal: people who are suicidal feel that they want to kill themselves -
- threaten: to say you might or will do something bad or harmful, especially in order to make someone do something - ขู่
- Keywords
- man
- young man
- police efforts
- rescue team
