Crowded love nest, slap too far, granny lets rip in Honda

Love triangle collapses

Wasana, or Nam Peung

A young woman in Phetchaburi swears she will stick by her latest boyfriend and discard the other men in her life, after her two previous lovers stabbed her present admirer and herself in an attack at her home.

Wasana, or Nam Peung (no surname provided), 21, whose complicated love life hit the tabloid headlines last week following the attack, admits she has a problem ending relationships once they have run out of steam.

She found out the hard way that stringing along numerous lovers at once can carry a price when she was stabbed in the chest and left leg during the July 21 fight at her Cha-am district home.

Her two former boyfriends, neither of whom she had stopped seeing definitively, were drinking outside her house on the day of the attack. They knifed her current love and her in a fit of jealous pique after the love triangle she had painfully constructed over several years dramatically collapsed.

Police nabbed Dasakon “Mui” Monthong, 30, her first love, and Khanung “Neung” Prailahan, 32, her second. They were charged with attempting to kill, assault, and trespass.

Her present love, Dream (no surname provided), the object of their joint attack, was left with a minor injury to his left ear.

The bedroom where the stabbing occurred.

Nam Peung, who tried to break up the fight but was also drawn into the melee, also emerged worse for wear.  She was stabbed once in the chest with Mui’s knife, and when she tried to crawl out of the room, stabbed again in the left leg, though she doesn’t know who was responsible for that injury.

Someone kicked a light out of its socket during the fight, plunging the room into darkness. The fight ended when her elder sister came to her aid and plugged the light in again.

Mui and Neung fled on her brother-in-law’s motorcycle and circled back as if they might want to resume the attack. However, they fled when the victims called police.

Nam Peung said she came home from work that night to find her two former lovers drinking outside, which surprised her, as she hadn’t invited them.

The three men in her life all knew about the others, but while Dream had no problem with Neung, her second love, Dream and her first love, Mui, were not on such good terms.

Dream said he understood that Nam Peung may want to keep seeing Neung for the time being, as Dream and Nam Peung had been together only eight months. At one point, she, Neung and Dream were living together at her home.

However, Dream said he did not understand why Mui was trying to muscle back into his ex-girlfriend’s life, as she stopped seeing him years ago. He heard that Mui had broken up with his most recent love, after she was sent to jail, which may have rekindled his interest in Nam Peung.

Dream and Mui sent each other hostile messages before the attack, while Mui daring him to put down the phone and confront him like a man.

After Nam Peung came home that night, she glided past both men. She went inside and started “whispering messages of love” to Dream, as one news report put it, which was too much for the other two to bear.

Mui charged inside with a knife. Dream, who was lying on bed playing with his phone, pulled out a knife of his own.

When Neung saw that Mui was failing to hold his own, he came to his aid. Most of the battle took place, comically enough, on Nam Peung’s bed. In the aftermath of the fight, following their release from hospital, news clips showed Dream supporting Nam Peung, who still had trouble walking. The two also appeared on TV.

Explaining her complicated love life, Nam Peung said she saw Mui, a builder, for four years. She quit with him about a year ago when she discovered he was seeing someone else.

She was talking to Neung at the time, though the two were just “friends”. They drew closer after she left Mui, and the two have been together almost two years.

Later she started seeing Dream, even as she was seeing Neung. When she tried to quit with Neung, he asked if he could keep seeing her, and she agreed. She, Dream and Neung lived together, but when Mui tried to mount a return recently, things fell apart.

Nam Peung, who in the immediate aftermath of the knife fight told Dream to clear out, changed her mind later, saying she would like to keep him after all, as he took good care of her. However, she had learnt her lesson about two-timing men. She decided that Mui and Neung should go their separate ways once they had served time for the knife attack.

‘I did it for the child’s sake’

Monruedee, who slapped the teenage child

Two mothers in Samut Prakan have made up after a clip emerged on social media of one striking the other’s teenage daughter across the face, supposedly in a fight over kratom juice.

The child victim, 14, identified by the assumed name of Everin, was wearing her school uniform. She was slapped several times across the face by a neighbour, supposedly a relative of the family, on July 16. She asked a friend to film the encounter.

Her mother, who works in Chon Buri, was absent. The aggressor took advantage of the mother’s absence to remonstrate with the girl, who insisted on her innocence. An aunt of Everin’s was also present.

The aggressor, identified as Monruedee (no surname given), sent the clip to friends and family, humiliating the girl and her mother, said social media activist Guntouch Pongpaiboonwet, aka Gun Jompalang, who stepped in to the dispute on behalf of the girl.

The immediate trigger was the girl’s decision to “unfriend” Monruedee on Facebook, Mr Gun said. However, a bigger problem, as relayed by the girl’s aunt, was the mother’s refusal to help Monruedee sell kratom juice at her shop.

The mother initially agreed to help out, and was paid 300 baht a day. However, she had a change of mind later, saying she did not want the fuss should the police find out.

Monruedee, unhappy to be turned down, started abusing the mother via Everin’s social media account, so the girl deleted her. This angered Monruedee, who hit the child. She told Everin to tell her mother she had struck her, and apparently threatened to harm the family.

Mr Gun took the girl, her mother and aunt to Bang Phli police, where the girl’s father had earlier laid a complaint. Monruedee, the family said, had burst into their home twice before and hit Everin’s mother.

Mr Gun also went to see Monruedee. When he asked how she’d feel if Everin’s mother had hit her own child, she claimed she would have no problem, as the mother had struck her son previously.

Monruedee, who said she is related to the girl’s family, offered an apology, but claims she did it out of concern for the child’s welfare.

“She has been going out at night and mixing with boys. I did it to teach her a lesson,” she said. Everin, she said, had told her on FB to stop meddling in her life, and deleted her as a friend.

She denied selling kratom juice, saying reports attributing that as the cause of their dispute were incorrect. However, she would not meddle in their lives from now on.

Police invited both women in for talks, where they embraced in tears, with Monruedee saying she had been by the mother’s side since they were both kids. She often helped out Everin with petty expenses when she wasn’t around, she said.

Police decided not to pursue the matter any further, as both sides had agreed to make up.

Granny puts her foot down

The damage caused by Granny A's vehicle.

A Nonthaburi grandma gave the locals a fright when she climbed behind the wheel for the first time in 20 years and slammed into a nearby shop front and a house.

Granny “A”, 74, said her neighbours were hosing down their place in Bang Bua Thong district and some of the water splashed her car.

She hadn’t driven her Honda Civic, parked outside, in 20 years, after her children forbade it. However, when she saw the dirty water hitting the car, she decided to edge the vehicle forward just a little.

Her “just a little” turned into quite a stretch, as Granny A put her foot down hard, and failed to apply the brake. The Honda charged forward and hit two obstacles in its path.

A witness said she saw the car head onto the main road, and smash first into a grocery store about 200m away. Miraculously, no one was hurt, though the shop owner had to flee.

The vehicle then carried on, hitting the front of a house another 300m away before finally coming to rest. The occupant narrowly escaped injury.

Grandma Aon (no surname provided), 66, owner of the grocery store, said she was washing bottles in front of her shop when the Honda Civic hit a water dispensing machine and ice chest, and scattered plant pots about. “She didn’t brake. I’d like to ask relatives not to let their elderly folk drive, as it’s dangerous,” she said.

“M”, 26, owner of the house, said he heard a huge crashing sound and emerged to find the Honda had smashed into his fence. He urged vehicle owners who haven’t driven in a while to check the state of their vehicle first. “If they are getting on in years, perhaps they should avoid driving altogether,” he added. No word was to hand as to whether Granny A is paying for damages.