Police Report- Bangkok
Date: Saturday, June 4, 2011
Time: approx. 8:30pm
The victim was walking on the sidewalk with friends towards their residence. From a distance on the same sidewalk, the group took note of several rats, which had been temporarily displaced from their hiding places by the monsoon rains. Suddenly and without provocation, the victim was attacked.
It happened extremely fast- victim stated that the event transpired “in a blur”. She first felt a mass of wet fur and claws on her foot, and when she looked down she was able to catch a quick glimpse of the attacker before he fled the scene. The victim provided the following description: approx. 11” long, (16’’ including tail), brownish-blackish fur, weighing approx. 4-5 lbs (“a chunker”). One friend was also present to bear witness, while the other was up ahead, about to enter a convenience store. Both the victim and the witness stood screaming, paralyzed by shock. The other could only hear the screams of the two women but could not decipher the reason as to their cause.
When the victim and witness had “snapped out of it”, they sprinted into the convenience store and devolved into hysterics. That was when the witness noticed blood on the victim’s foot. Upon processing this information, the victim started to cry. The manager of the convenience store quickly calmed her down by bringing her alcohol and iodine to clean the wound immediately. She was then able to see that the scratches were quite small.
Due to the traumatic nature of the event, the victim felt it appropriate to first have a drink and then worry about whether she should go to the hospital. (Let the record state that this is a fact related about the victim’s mindset and not a character judgment.) She admitted she was concerned that she may need medical treatment because of the risk of disease; “after all, rats do play in the sewer.” However, as the wound was not serious, and because she was aware that the worst pathogens could only be spread through saliva, she decided that she could wait and go to the hospital the next day.
In the morning, the victim went to the hospital near her home. Her doctor informed her that she would need to take an oral antibiotic… and also undergo a series of rabies shots! The treatment lasted a month, for a total of five injections. Luckily, most of the medical fees were covered by insurance. The victim has filed charges against the suspect, pending his capture.
*It has been rumored that the culprit was apprehended by authorities but was successful in paying them off. This can neither be confirmed nor denied. BPD declined to comment.
