SAKON NAKHON: A motorist travelling with his family, including two young children, was saved by their car as a beggar jumped on their vehicle and repeatedly hit it with a long knife on Sunday afternoon.
Suwan Lomduang on Sunday posted a video recording of the incident (see below) on his Facebook page, writing that his family was travelling on Highway 22 in tambon Khor Tai of Sawang Daen Din district when they saw a man running in the middle of the highway and trying to stop passing vehicles.
"Unfortunately he ran in front of my car and I had to stop... He suddenly jumped onto the bonnet, drew a long knife and tried to smash the windshield with it," Mr Suwan wrote.
He tried to swerve and brake to shake the man off, he wrote, but was constrained by other vehicles driving beside and behind him. He kept sounding the horn while the stranger held tightly onto the bonnet.
Finally he turned into the nearby compound of the Tambon Khor Tai administration organisation to seek help. Once in the compound, he accelerated and braked his car repeatedly to throw the man off the car -- and was eventally successful.
That was not the end of the ordeal, however, because the man got up and stabbed at the driver's door and window. As he was driving away, Mr Suwan wrote, he heard the man -- apparently intoxicated -- yellling "I didn't get money, so you deserve this."
Mr Suwan then phoned 191 to seek help from the police, but the man had fled into a roadside paddy field by the time they arrived.
His wife and children were shocked, Mr Suwan wrote, and his wife had developed a fever. He thanked his car for saving them.