Originally Posted by
taxexile
one day we may be that age, alone, depressed, ill and impoverished. none of us can know what the future holds.
however it happened, either through bad luck, bad planning or maybe just it just all crept up on him, he found himself in a situation with no future and nowhere to go. if ever there was a case for feeling sympathy for someone, then it would be someone in a desperate situation like that.
thailand is a hard place for non-thais on their own with no resources and needing assistance.
as a matter of interest, what would the american embassy have done if he had contacted them asking for some kind of help?
i am pretty sure the british embassy would have told one of their citizens in a similar situation to fxck off.