Large crowds gathered in Nakhon Nayok when a man climed a 35 metre high telephone mast, carrying his four year-old daughter.
The man’s wife arrived to try to talk him down over the phone and after she went up in a maintenance bucket extension he decided to hand over the child and come down.
The crowd cheered as the husband and wife hugged.
Then it was straight off to rehab for the drug addict husband.
The drama began when Udorn, aged about thirty from Ongkharak district, went into a store run by a retired policeman to buy a telephone card. After making the purchase he shimmied up the mast with his daughter and placed a red cord round his and her necks.
He was threatening to jump.
Police arrived and foundation medics set up an air mattress below in case he carried out his threats. The wife called Jan arrived and after three hours in the high heat it was all resolved.
Udorn’s 75, year old father said that his son was on drugs. He had got upset after his wife, who works in a chicken processing plant, did not come home on time.
Udorn was immediately referred to drug rehabilitation.
(Source:Thai Rath)